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Fancy_Breakfast posted:It cannot be stopped. We're doomed to a dystopia worse than all those movie and video game dystopias like half life. Don't let your life go to waste. Try to take some capitalists with you.
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Yeah cyberpunk sold us this idea that we'd all have cool arm guns and data jacks that allow us to surf the net with our minds but it will just be the slow death of the earth.
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Jul 29, 2018 02:42
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Earth will be fine. It has survived worse. Humans are TURBO hosed.
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Jul 29, 2018 02:52
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Inzombiac posted:Earth will be fine. It has survived worse. remember how in ww2 they decided some of the methods used in the great war were too inhumane to be used against declared belligerents, but weren't too inhumane to use against colonized populations? my greatest fear is mankind deciding to do ww3 anyway but having the restraint to use nuclear weapons either not at all or only against certain populations
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Jul 29, 2018 03:23
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Former DILF posted:remember how in ww2 they decided some of the methods used in the great war were too inhumane to be used against declared belligerents, but weren't too inhumane to use against colonized populations? my greatest fear is mankind deciding to do ww3 anyway but having the restraint to use nuclear weapons either not at all or only against certain populations I mean I don't think you can really "selectively" use nukes like that, even a small exchange of them would put enough smoke and fire into the upper atmosphere to gently caress the climate up real bad for a while.
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Jul 29, 2018 03:34
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ate all the Oreos posted:I mean I don't think you can really "selectively" use nukes like that, even a small exchange of them would put enough smoke and fire into the upper atmosphere to gently caress the climate up real bad for a while. If I personally were ever in charge, I would only nuke canadians and finns.
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Jul 29, 2018 03:43
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IncredibleIgloo posted:That seemed like an odd bit in the article. I was in the military at that time, and we definitely all received medication for free, as did our dependents. Special Force folks would probably have no problem getting in to see the doctor either, I imagine their optempo allowed them to bump the list quite easily. The free medical was one of the best benefits of being in the military. In fact many military members are "trapped" in the military because they have a spouse or child with a costly or debilitating illness. It was even worse at that time because of pre-existing condition clauses, a lot of people got trapped doing a job they despise. The army was feeding you fish motrin
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Jul 29, 2018 03:47
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localized thermonuclear war
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ate all the Oreos posted:I mean I don't think you can really "selectively" use nukes like that, even a small exchange of them would put enough smoke and fire into the upper atmosphere to gently caress the climate up real bad for a while. Okay. Let's kick up enough dust to counteract global warming. I'm not a science guy but this is a good plan.
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Jul 29, 2018 04:02
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Senor Dog posted:If I personally were ever in charge, I would only nuke canadians and finns. So, like, 18 people?
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Jul 29, 2018 04:04
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Inzombiac posted:Okay. One counter greenhouse plan was basically 'Dump huge amounts of powdered iron into the southern ocean'. I forget the specifics but it was declared unfeasible for some reason. What I'm saying is nuclear de-greenhousing sounds fine. 'Southern ocean iron enrichment'
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Jul 29, 2018 04:23
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The best-chance plan I've heard is the "spray sulphur dioxide from airliners" because it can be done pretty cheaply and stopped if it turns out it fucks everything up. Also because chemtrail people latched on to it real hard and claim it's already secretly happening, and actually having it implemented at scale would make their heads explode which would be real funny
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Jul 29, 2018 04:28
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comedyblissoption posted:localized thermonuclear war locally sourced organic thermonuclear war
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Jul 29, 2018 04:30
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Anything that triggers the flat earth chem trail loonies is A-okay in my book.
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IncredibleIgloo posted:That seemed like an odd bit in the article. I was in the military at that time, and we definitely all received medication for free, as did our dependents. Special Force folks would probably have no problem getting in to see the doctor either, I imagine their optempo allowed them to bump the list quite easily. The free medical was one of the best benefits of being in the military. In fact many military members are "trapped" in the military because they have a spouse or child with a costly or debilitating illness. It was even worse at that time because of pre-existing condition clauses, a lot of people got trapped doing a job they despise. Yeah, I was dating/married to a Marine around that time, and it hit me as odd as well. But either way, if they're reporting it as a true thing, then why ignore the whole actual problem?
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Jul 29, 2018 04:42
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ate all the Oreos posted:I mean I don't think you can really "selectively" use nukes like that, even a small exchange of them would put enough smoke and fire into the upper atmosphere to gently caress the climate up real bad for a while. See thats why it makes so much sense, all that poo poo in the atmosphere just forces us to make space stations down here and make it "easier" for practical offworld settlement, in the same way that wearing a gasmask is easier than breathing Phosgene
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Len posted:She did goat yoga this morning. She is p dumb I dunno. If I had to do a yoga, that sounds like the one I'd choose. If it does not involve little goat kids jumping all over me while I do yoga poses, please do not correct my misunderstanding. e: VV Awesome! VV Wifi Toilet has issued a correction as of 05:01 on Jul 29, 2018 |
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Jul 29, 2018 04:53
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Wifi Toilet posted:I dunno. If I had to do a yoga, that sounds like the one I'd choose. Don't worry, you have a perfect understanding of the situation. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KFz9FJxMFjE&t=36s
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Jul 29, 2018 04:58
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Former DILF posted:See thats why it makes so much sense, all that poo poo in the atmosphere just forces us to make space stations down here and make it "easier" for practical offworld settlement, in the same way that wearing a gasmask is easier than breathing Phosgene The reason this is the hell timeline is that we won’t even get one of the cool badass dystopias where the remaining humans are all rugged, hardscrabble survivors who loot the ruins of civilization for spare parts to sustain their underground temple-cities Instead we’re all just going to get politely but firmly told to go gently caress ourselves by stupid monolithic corporations with dumb mascots.
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Jul 29, 2018 05:03
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otoh mankind might just be a bootloader for AI and we need to go through these conflicts to fulfill our unfortunate destiny
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Former DILF posted:otoh mankind might just be a bootloader for AI and we need to go through these conflicts to fulfill our unfortunate destiny The only kind of AI we will ever produce is AM from I Have No Mouth. I mean hell DARPA already has a set goal of "a drone that can identify targets and make kill decisions completely autonomously" by 2040
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Jul 29, 2018 07:06
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We're gonna make AI murder drones that can't escape their primary purpose and keep mankind alive just so they have something to kill because it's all they're capable of doing and once they run out they'll cease to function
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Jul 29, 2018 07:07
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ate all the Oreos posted:We're gonna make AI murder drones that can't escape their primary purpose and keep mankind alive just so they have something to kill because it's all they're capable of doing and once they run out they'll cease to function I liked Nier: Automata too!
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Screaming Idiot posted:I liked Nier: Automata too! Yeah I realized after the fact that it was pretty much just that lol
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Water Knife by Paolo Bacigalupi is a pretty realistic look at a corporate dystopia in a completely ecologically hosed up place (the US)
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Jul 29, 2018 09:56
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ate all the Oreos posted:The only kind of AI we will ever produce is AM from I Have No Mouth. I mean hell DARPA already has a set goal of "a drone that can identify targets and make kill decisions completely autonomously" by 2040 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SKYNET_(surveillance_program)
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Wifi Toilet posted:I dunno. If I had to do a yoga, that sounds like the one I'd choose. I honestly just thought it was a long running joke from John Tesh but nope apparently millennials really do pay $$$ to go to a farm and do yoga with livestock
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America is already the largest and one of the most productive economies on earth. Sometimes I shudder at night thinking about what would happen if it were to get the trash out of its gears and run at full potential by implementing a functioning healthcare system or reintroduce social mobility. The workforce becoming more competitive through preventive healthcare or meritocracy leading to more talented, capable and ambitious people in important positions. I'm shuddering right now. Better let sleeping giants lie.
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Jul 29, 2018 11:22
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youd probably start more wars tbh
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Raspberry Jam It In Me posted:America is already the largest and one of the most productive economies on earth. Sometimes I shudder at night thinking about what would happen if it were to get the trash out of its gears and run at full potential by implementing a functioning healthcare system or reintroduce social mobility. The workforce becoming more competitive through preventive healthcare or meritocracy leading to more talented, capable and ambitious people in important positions. I'm shuddering right now. Better let sleeping giants lie. Crisis of overproduction
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ate all the Oreos posted:I mean I don't think you can really "selectively" use nukes like that, even a small exchange of them would put enough smoke and fire into the upper atmosphere to gently caress the climate up real bad for a while. Airburst enhanced-radiation weapons wouldn't cause a nuclear winter and would mostly localise fallout in a small area. Or, as Jello Biafra proposed... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sgpa7wEAz7I quote:Efficiency and progress is ours once more
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ate all the Oreos posted:I mean I don't think you can really "selectively" use nukes like that, even a small exchange of them would put enough smoke and fire into the upper atmosphere to gently caress the climate up real bad for a while. It depends a lot on what we mean by “small” and “selective” here. Like, we’ve (all countries) set off hundreds of nuclear bombs in the atmosphere or at ground level just for testing purposes and most of the tests didn’t kill anybody.
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Jul 29, 2018 12:03
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nuclear winter isnt about nukes its about burning cities and its probably bullshit anyway
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Jul 29, 2018 12:40
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Mercrom posted:nuclear winter isnt about nukes its about burning cities and its probably bullshit anyway Maybe, maybe not. https://www.nature.com/scientificamerican/journal/v302/n1/full/scientificamerican0110-74.html Pirate Radar posted:It depends a lot on what we mean by “small” and “selective” here. Like, we’ve (all countries) set off hundreds of nuclear bombs in the atmosphere or at ground level just for testing purposes and most of the tests didn’t kill anybody. Under controlled circumstances when the bombs couldn't trigger the critical scenario.
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I guess an India-Pakistan fight would be small and selective compared to the “big one” of US-Russia, yeah.
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is pepsi ok posted:Don't let your life go to waste. Try to take some capitalists with you. I totally will. Deciding who is the hard part.
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Hallmark for rear end in a top hat bosses store?
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