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Yeah, I am sure they did it to spice it up.

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Fuck that! An auto-play, no-volume adjustment, Old Spice advert...BoOOOOOOO! liked it when it finally played, grrrrr!

That article you linked closes with a near-future scenario of the earth as a, "barely habitable scene of desolation"- Pause if you all will to consider how fortunate we all are to have had this incarnation when we did, in these the best and worst of times-Thank god for indoor plumbing, climate control, and access to way more spice than our smelly, culinarily-challenged forefathers, until it all implodes.

I broadly agree with what he's saying but he's wrong about Africa. Africa is different because the west's supply chains and the gimping of local resistance to this is already very strong and much more well established (also Somalia was in Africa last time I checked Wes).

The global supply of Gold, Diamonds, Cocoa and Coltan (used to make micro electronics) amongst others are all heavily based in African countries.
Were their supply to be jeopardised (especially Coltan) by local politics you can be assured that the relevant African country would swiftly become a scorching political hot potato.
Unfortunately such a good job as been done over the last 100 or so years of suppressing African development that such problems (with a little encouragement) tend to take care of themselves before they become a big deal. Then western interests can just back whichever co-operative warlord/corrupt regime comes out on top, quietly and without fuss.

The spice must flow!

Simply put, Africa has been beaten around by the west for that bit longer and harder than the middle east. The exploitation of Africa goes back 100's of years and around 100 years ago when western powers began to cede their direct control they made sure to fuck up the local cultural politics so badly that most countries have still yet to recover from the fallout.

The middle east only became a candy store about 60-100 years ago with the oil boom. Before that western attempts to control the middle east were largely religious in nature (though no less brutal I suppose).

I assume the "powers that shouldn't be" are well aware of this and as such the plan to which Mr. Clarke is referring represents a scheme to try and break the back of the middle east financially, politically and culturally while they still can.

That said old ideologies die hard and I suspect the old western religious motivation is still not to be downplayed. The Christian ideologues and Jewish Zionists may not use words like "Kafir" but in some way their beliefs demand that they think of outsiders in the same way.

If the God of Abraham does really exist I'm sure he finds this whole arrangement greatly amusing (I imagine nothing pleases an ego maniac more than watching sycophants fighting and killing each other for your affection).

God must die. God must remain dead. And we must kill him.

Yes, and completing a spice run in the least distance possible is the actual legit challenge, as the area is strewn with radiation and asteroid fields that usually require circumnavigation, thus, making the run longer than if you could go in a straight line.

If you know the spots where there are no asteroids, or the ship can survive the radiation.....you can do it in a much shorter distance

I do in fact grow my own tomatoes, its a fun hobby on the porch I have 10 tomato bushes on my porch, I grow them in bushes, since they can take a bit of abuse and still produce a ton of tomatoes, I get around 10-15 tomatoes per bush and as long as I keep them up they last forever, I bring them indoors to storage room in winter and they still produce about a 1/4th of their normal spring/summer batch. Anyhow main reason I started growing tomatoes is at the grocery store where I live we have only 1 store in a 50 mile radius so there is no competition and we get price gouged 4 tomatoes at store is 5.99. 1 gallon of milk is 5.49 which is funny 1 gallon of milk is 50 cents cheaper than 4 tomatoes... it's pathetic though. So a lot of people in town have started "porch" gardens. It saves a lot of money on herbs, spices, and some vegetables.

Probably the standard herbs and spices for Indian cooking, similar to this recipe - http://www.sailusfood.com/2012/11/18/masala-omelette-recipe-breakfast-india/

I would guess at a minimum salt, pepper, coriander leaves, chopped green chilli, maybe some spices, and maybe some shallots.

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spice is nice

I'd actually go to Taco Bel, their food looks yummy. But every time I do go there, I'm reminded that I can't eat their food because of the salt content. I don't have any diet restrictions or anything, they just use TOO MUCH salt.

I don't think I've ever finished anything I've ordered there.
The salt, it burns's us... We can't eat such foods, stupid hobbits's

Edit: on the flip side, I'm a sucker for the spicy stuff. So why all the salt when you can have the spice?

Or maybe a platter of delicious cumin spiced lamb chops. MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM