It is easy to think that, but it was mostly his father who controlled the wealth. Osama himself had dozens of siblings:

Bin Laden was one of more than 50 children of Muhammad bin Laden, a self-made billionaire who, after immigrating to Saudi Arabia from Yemen as a labourer, rose to direct major construction projects for the Saudi royal family.

Where do you bring your stroller and where do you put your bikes?

Libs are all about the marketplace of ideas until they're outnumbered in it.

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There's nothing to indicate that the empire will not just continue on in another form following the collapse of its american iteration

I am not so convinced of that. Will there be imperial actions and thus imperial cores?

Very likely. However the hegemony that the USA could project onto the globe after WWII is a singular event for the US. The situation is very different now and while I do think that the climate catastrophe can change quite a few things the power ratio between the imperial core and the rest of the world will not be as such.

The blocks that are relevant in economic power after the USA's decline are the EU, Nigeria, India/Pakistan, China, maybe some South American coalition. Of those no one is uncontested in its economic resource extraction outside its borders.

There might be a future government which changes how China operates and turns imperialist as the USA was (currently that looks unlikely), but even then it has a few more hurdles on one hand and then there is the competition in the multi polar world that restricts projecting power, too.

Maybe I am more of a , but think contradictions do enough to fundamentally reduce the strength of empires in the next 50 years.

Oh no your choice of words is a nono, that is a ban for not being civil!

Meanwhile: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Dk7hFNfU0AAyO-p?format=jpg&name=large

My fellow chap, I would feel most splendid if you might be so good as to genocide this group that I don't relate to currently. You are such a nice conversationalist.

report denied, reporting user shadow banned. Such is life in the :liberal republic.

Haha, your comment is taken as example by a poster with many upvotes to why it is good to not federate with us. Since it shows people obvious dunking (so people being uncivil) aren't allowed liberal rights of the marketplace of ideas. They feel it is unfair to label them "full of pedos" (for taking to long to ban the stuff, unfair to be labeled transphobes (though there is still plenty to be found on the site, unless hexbear), unfair to be labeled being more friendly to fascists than socialists.

Funny that the unfair labeling of hexbear's userbase doesn't seem to be as unfair.

Night trains from everywhere to everywhere would be neat. Including neat sleeping cabins so that the population of the world can migrate by climate phases and joy.

But since I played openttd make it river canals and ships that are trolley boats.

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So as undergrad I did take an elective in which we modeled some basic algae growth in a moving body of water, a river bed. Temperature was one ingredient (and "sunlight", co2, "nutritions" etc., flow speed). Besides that Navier Stokes is really annoying. Small changes in temperature had a huge impact on static weight of algae and amount of dispersed algae.

In other words can anyone tell me what the effects will be for the coastal ecology with such huge and lasting high temperatures?

I would like to mention though, that I was critiqued by (western) MLs and (Western/Southern American) Trotzkists for advocating for kitchens for all and social programs which ensure food security esp. for kids and some parts of the working class. Why? Cause "Marxism is revolutionary and revolution doesn't happen by creating food kitchens and food donation places."