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I leave for basic tomorrow and need something to distract me. Tell me about how your school song was accidentally Erika because it’s funny as fuck

Story time!

So, from 2000 to 2007 I studied in a private catholic school in Cúcuta, Colombia, called Instituto Salesiano San Juan Bosco.

Private schools have always been cheap in smaller cities, and mom and dad felt like I’d learn more there than in a public school, specially since those use to go on strikes all the time.

Anyhow, the school had this anthem we would sing every time there was a special occasion, from out monthly school-wide mass, to national holiday events, and so on, and I remember really loving singing it, as it had a lot of force behind it, encouraging us to be a “juvenile battalion”, and since I have always had an affinity toward militaria, it just felt awesome to sing it.

That’s the anthem, as sung by the school’s band, which used to have a kickass prussian uniform, similar to this one.

So, years after graduating, I came across this white supremacist post here on Tumblr, which, among the usual bullshit, had a “thread song”, and out of curiosity I opened it up to hear it, and as soon as it started, the truth hit me like a literal ton of brinks!

My catholic high school anthem, allegedly composed 20 years ago by a local hired by the school principal, a catholic priest himself, TURNED OUT TO BE A RIPOFF OF A NAZI GERMANY MARCHING SONG, AND WE ALL SANG IT WITH ALL OF OUR HEARTS BECAUSE WE FOUND IT AWESOME, NO ONE KNOWING THE FUCKING TRUTH!!!

AND IT WAS PLAYED BY KIDS WEARING PRUSSIAN UNIFORMS AND BRONZE PICKELHAUBES!

So, that’s the story of how Enrique was secretly being groomed to join the Hitler Young, because in South America, people just don’t give a FUCK. 

Shiho Yoshimura  吉村志穂

“The world is overpopulated.”

Nope.

“Well, that’s just carbon emissions. What about places for all those people to live?”

If the world’s population all lived in one city that was as densely populated as Manhattan, that city would be the size of Ecuador. The space taken up by ourselves and our toys is actually rather insignificant next to that taken up by our farmland.

“Ah-hah! Farmland! We’re not producing enough food for all those people!”

The problem here is we are insanely wasteful with our food.

Firstly, half of all food grown in the US goes straight into the dumpster.

Secondly, we grow it very inefficiently. We could very easily increase the food yield of a given area of land by building a greenhouse on it (which also reduces water loss) and using poly-cultures instead of mono-cultures; the reason our preferred method is open-air mono-culture farms, which are susceptible to erosion and blight and requires a god-awful amount of water to stay hydrated, is that labor is expensive and land is cheap.

In fact, if we took it even further–growing our food in carbon dioxide-rich environments lit with artificial lighting 24 hours a day (or at least at night)–you only need 1-2000 square feet of farmland per person. Admittedly, you pretty much have to have fusion power for this to be an environmentally and economically viable option, but still; the point is, we could easily condense our environmental footprint by a shit-ton (and even more options will be available in the future) without decreasing our population one iota.

“There is still a maximum carrying capacity the planet has.”

Indeed there is. And do you know what that carrying capacity is? It’s ten trillion. And the cut off isn’t space or resources–it’s waste heat. The things we’d have to do to get there aren’t exactly the sort of things we could do overnight–hell, we don’t actually know how to fusion yet–but they’re all well within the realm of the physically possible.