Education.

[skywalker]

Running out of green to wear? Check out other places in the world where people are killed by their governments/slaughtered by militants/exploded by terrorists/have no free speech/starve to death/are impoverished while a couple of rich people profit from their backbreaking labor/generally have awful lives!

Really, I've seen a lot of people say that they wished they knew more about situations in the rest of the world. If you're serious about that, Foreign Policy's Failed States Index is an excellent crash course in human tragedy.

Comments

[loquacious]

We might have? But not substantially...

I encourage anyone to watch Basquash... so long as you realize you're getting into a big ol' barrel of crazy if you do.

[skywalker]

... oh, then what did we do in Laos?

It's okay, I watched Macross Zero!

[loquacious]

Virtually nothing? It was a colony... I want to say of England but I'm not sure, and I'm too lazy to try and look it up when my internet is as slow as it is on this computer.

Is that where your Mochi!Mao icons come from?

[skywalker]

France, IIRC.

My what?

[loquacious]

The little... guy with the Mao hat... who appears to be eating something. From the comment you made before this one.

[skywalker]

OH. NO. That's Imo from Sora Kake Girl.

Macross Zero is a weird (think Kingdom of the Crystal Skull with robots) OVA by the creator of Basquatch; Sora Kake Girl is a goofy Sunrise show.

[loquacious]

Ah... Potato Mao.

[skywalker]

... I'm glad someone else thinks she looks like a little Communist in that, though.

[loquacious]

I think it might be the green hat with the red star...

[skywalker]

Poor baked potato. :|

[loquacious]

The means of production should belong to all the potatoes.