The Indian rice export ban, the war in Ukraine and El Niño are combining to create a “doom loop” for the world’s poorest people, as staple food prices soar.

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Started the food wars have

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Been prepping for years just in case this happens. Scary to see its possible.

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There’s no prepping for a food war. Prepping is for a temporary situation. Food supplies must be constantly restocked.

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The survivors will be those able to adapt. There’s plenty of nourishing fauna, but how many are ready to eat bugs? Rats?

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2 points

It’s sad to just watch it all unfold the way we’ve been warned for decades.

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-8 points

Can we please not have silly jokes on a serious topic like global hunger?

This is one thing I don’t want from reddit

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187 points

If I don’t laugh about the world I’ll just start crying. It’s sadly the defense mechanism I’ve developed. I use humor to avoid uncomfortable moments in all aspects of my life.

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91 points

I agree, humor is a valid coping mechanism. It’s not like a serious conversation on Lemmy is going to solve world hunger, your joke was fine in my opinion.

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39 points

It was a fine dark humor joke, don’t sweat it.

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It’s not sadly the defence mechanism you developed, but luckily.

Because face it some defence mechanism is needed, and the vast majority of them are absolutely harmful. Fuck the ruffled feathers those are the exact kind of people who say “I’d rather ignore it”, “I’d rather deny it’s happening”, “I’d rather say that it’s bad everywhere”, “I’d rather say it’s because of the Jews”, “I’d rather sit here and unproductively wallow in pity”, or whatever. You are a human, and as such you have the birth right to be bright-eyed and bushy-tailed.

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90 points

It may sound silly but it’s put succinctly and there’s an element of grim truth to it.

Additionally, do we have to compare everything to Reddit? It’s the Internet, people are going to cope how they cope.

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I just want to filter out the words Reddit, Elon and Trump. I’m just so tired.

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Yeah but it’s in bad taste.

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49 points

Can we please not banning silly jokes on a serious topic? That is one thing I don’t want from real life

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You don’t make silly jokes on serious topics in real life?

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I’m sorry if this disturbs you but free humour is one of the extremely important aspects of the internet that Lemmy needs to support. When you know who you are talking to you can avoid subjects that may hurt the other person but on the public internet this is not possible. The alternative to never dare making any joke because of the risk to hurt someone is dystopian.
Top comment isn’t even a joke, it’s a movie reference that supports the idea that this is a serious topic.

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A huge percentage of us probably only exist today because our ancestors could laugh in the face of adversity and just carry on

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No

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Some of us can only deal with existential horror by laughing and the absurdity of it all.

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You must be fun at parties…

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No!

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