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spankmeister: Jun 15, 2008

We're kinda late in the Star Trek timeline, the eugenics wars were 92-96, and WWIII is supposed to start 2022 ( could easily happen)

So who knows, maybe WW3 will start soon, most of us will die, and in about 40 years some drunk will invent faster than light travel and things will start improving after that.

Kind of sucks that we have to live through WW3 and our grandkids and great grandkids will get to go to the stars. Better destroy everything before they get a chance

# ? Oct 31, 2018 22:38

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# ? Jun 8, 2024 01:11

Moridin920: Nov 15, 2007; by FactsAreUseless

spankmeister posted:

We're kinda late in the Star Trek timeline, the eugenics wars were 92-96, and WWIII is supposed to start 2022 ( could easily happen)

So who knows, maybe WW3 will start soon, most of us will die, and in about 40 years some drunk will invent faster than light travel and things will start improving after that.

Kind of sucks that we have to live through WW3 and our grandkids and great grandkids will get to go to the stars. Better destroy everything before they get a chance

Idk we're pretty much right on track for this:

quote:

Sanctuary districts were created by the American government in response to serious social and economic problems that had resulted in an increased rate of poverty and social destitution during the early 21st century. By the early 2020s, every major city in the United States had a sanctuary district.

And WW3 is 2026 unless the wiki is wrong.

Then we're in for "Post Atomic Horror" until about 2150 should be good.

Moridin920 has issued a correction as of 22:47 on Oct 31, 2018

# ? Oct 31, 2018 22:45

1994 Toyota Celica: Sep 11, 2008; by Nyc_Tattoo

poo poo i need to rewatch the 'sisko & co get sent back to the early 21st century' episode

# ? Oct 31, 2018 22:47

Marijuana: May 8, 2011; Go lick a dog's ass til it bleeds.

i just finished watching all of ds9. my review:

it owns

# ? Oct 31, 2018 22:50

Moridin920: Nov 15, 2007; by FactsAreUseless

1994 Toyota Celica posted:

poo poo i need to rewatch the 'sisko & co get sent back to the early 21st century' episode

quote:

Sometime prior to 2024, the Federal Employment Act of 1946 was repealed, which had stated, at least in theory, that the United States government bore the responsibility for ensuring economic stability in the country. Symbolically, this meant that society had washed its hands of responsibility for combating the endemic poverty resulting from a global economic depression.

Sanctuary districts were originally established as places of sanctuary for those without jobs or homes. People with a criminal record were not allowed. In the beginning many people entered the districts voluntarily because of the promise that the administration would help them get jobs so they can find a way out of their destitution. Despite the benevolent intent, however, conditions inside the camps quickly degenerated to the point where by 2024 overcrowding was a pervasive problem throughout the Districts. More people were taken to Sanctuaries than buildings could accommodate, so many of them were sleeping on the streets, often on sidewalks or in tents or cardboard boxes. The government had also begun to forcefully locate people there, including people with mental health problems, or "dims", who could not afford health care services as well as the financially destitute. Laws prohibiting sleeping on the streets were further used to justify the forceful relocation of residents to the Sanctuaries.

Internment in the Sanctuaries amounted to nothing less than imprisonment, as Sanctuary inhabitants were legally forbidden to leave "for their own protection". Sanctuaries also did not provide any meaningful job placement services so that people could find a way out. By 2024, with a bad economy and employment levels at record lows with no end in sight, residents rarely, if ever, obtained the employment opportunities they needed to leave the Sanctuaries, de facto guaranteeing that the "residents" of the Sanctuary Districts remained life-long inhabitants, detained without due process. These inhabitants were often derogatorily referred to as "gimmies" � as in "give me food, shelter, a job, etc." � even by Sanctuary case workers and employees.

someone touched a ~~orb~~ Bajoran relic before writing this episode

# ? Oct 31, 2018 22:51

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lol and 'gibmedat' is modern day racial slur for poor black people so ds9 was pretty prescient

# ? Oct 31, 2018 23:39

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Marijuana posted:

i told my dad at lunch on monday that i think we've lived through the golden age of a society which is rapidly declining, it's lucky that he's gonna be dead before poo poo gets really bad, and that i don't have hope for a good future anymore.

he agreed with me and thinks i'm right lol

I had this discussion with my dad only he started getting super upset because my sister has children and the thought that they're going to come into adulthood in some sort of dystopian hellscape scares the poo poo out of him. He wants me to have hope for their sake.

We dropped the subject and don't talk about the future anymore.

Which is good because my nephew's are soft as gently caress and they're definitely going to die early on in the first climate changed war that's bad enough that the Canadian government instates mandatory enlistment.

# ? Oct 31, 2018 23:54

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EvilJoven posted:

Which is good because my nephew's are soft as gently caress and they're definitely going to die early on in the first climate changed war that's bad enough that the Canadian government instates mandatory enlistment.

Start training them now. Don't let the Americans annex the Great Lakes coastal region!

# ? Nov 1, 2018 00:19

EvilJoven: Mar 18, 2005; NOBODY,IN THE HISTORY OF EVER, HAS ASKED OR CARED WHAT CANADA THINKS. YOU ARE NOT A COUNTRY. YOUR MONEY HAS THE QUEEN OF ENGLAND ON IT. IF YOU DIG AROUND IN YOUR BACKYARD, NATIVE SKELETONS WOULD EXPLODE OUT OF YOUR LAWN LIKE THE END OF POLTERGEIST. CANADA IS SO POLITE, EH?; Fun Shoe

Haha those lakes are hosed the second California agriculture starts shutting down. I'm surprised they haven't started digging the canal already.

I would try to toughen those kids up a bit if I lived anywhere near them.

# ? Nov 1, 2018 01:17

Not Very Metal: Aug 3, 2007; Shit Fuck Shit Fuck!

I have a quick request: I think it was this thread where someone posted a facemask that muffles the screams of office workers. anyone have that image?

# ? Nov 1, 2018 01:28

Platystemon: Feb 13, 2012; BREADS

Shame Boy posted:

There was a story on the radio the other day about a few studies finding kids are not developing fine motor skills like, at all, because they don't handle pencils or color or do crafts anywhere near as much as they used to. It was in the context of "all these people are coming to med school to be surgeons and they can't do delicate poo poo with their hands" so look forward to that the next time you need major surgery

Medical schools used to have mandatory classes to help surgeons develop their fine motor skills.

Then women started to be allowed in to the profession.

Women, it turns out, already had satisfactory fine motor control. Men didn�t want to be embarrassed, so the classes were quietly discontinued.

# ? Nov 1, 2018 02:01

Powershift: Nov 23, 2009

Spotted this in my local liquor store flyer

# ? Nov 1, 2018 02:25

Raldikuk: Apr 7, 2006; I'm bad with money and I want that meatball!

EvilJoven posted:

Haha those lakes are hosed the second California agriculture starts shutting down. I'm surprised they haven't started digging the canal already.

I would try to toughen those kids up a bit if I lived anywhere near them.

It's certainly possible, but in order to do so they'll have to get around the Great Lakes Compact; and well, not too many people in the Great Lakes states want to allow California to drain them.

California probably will be ok though overall because they have very generous water rights. They also have a giant ocean next to them and conceivably they can go all out on desalination projects to get plenty of fresh water. It is basically every other state in the southwest that will be hosed.

# ? Nov 1, 2018 02:26

spacetoaster: Feb 10, 2014

Platystemon posted:

Medical schools used to have mandatory classes to help surgeons develop their fine motor skills.

Then women started to be allowed in to the profession.

Women, it turns out, already had satisfactory fine motor control. Men didn�t want to be embarrassed, so the classes were quietly discontinued.

"....and then everyone stood up and clapped."

# ? Nov 1, 2018 02:28

Platystemon: Feb 13, 2012; BREADS

I said �quietly�.

# ? Nov 1, 2018 02:40

starkebn: May 18, 2004; "Oooh, got a little too serious. You okay there, little buddy?"

We've basically got the possibility for unlimited fresh water through desalination if we just have lots of unfucked energy right? Pretty much all of our problems could be mitigated with a huge output of clean energy? We can crack water for hydrogen as a storage method. Come on fusion, baby we need you.

# ? Nov 1, 2018 02:57

Powershift: Nov 23, 2009

starkebn posted:

We've basically got the possibility for unlimited fresh water through desalination if we just have lots of unfucked energy right? Pretty much all of our problems could be mitigated with a huge output of clean energy? We can crack water for hydrogen as a storage method. Come on fusion, baby we need you.

When it comes down to it, the majority of the cost of anything is the cost of the energy in producing/transforming it.

# ? Nov 1, 2018 02:58

Outrail: Jan 4, 2009; www.sapphicrobotica.com

Platystemon posted:

Medical schools used to have mandatory classes to help surgeons develop their fine motor skills.

Then women started to be allowed in to the profession.

Women, it turns out, already had satisfactory fine motor control. Men didn’t want to be embarrassed, so the classes were quietly discontinued.

Well of course a woman can sew something up.

# ? Nov 1, 2018 03:00

SniperWoreConverse: Mar 20, 2010; Gun Saliva

starkebn posted:

We've basically got the possibility for unlimited fresh water through desalination if we just have lots of unfucked energy right? Pretty much all of our problems could be mitigated with a huge output of clean energy? We can crack water for hydrogen as a storage method. Come on fusion, baby we need you.

probably sane fission policies would work

# ? Nov 1, 2018 03:18

spacetoaster: Feb 10, 2014

starkebn posted:

We've basically got the possibility for unlimited fresh water through desalination if we just have lots of unfucked energy right? Pretty much all of our problems could be mitigated with a huge output of clean energy? We can crack water for hydrogen as a storage method. Come on fusion, baby we need you.

I wonder how the world would change if we could get solar panels with around 30% efficiency (they're around 16% right now)?

# ? Nov 1, 2018 03:23

bob dobbs is dead: Oct 8, 2017; I love peeps; Nap Ghost

spacetoaster posted:

I wonder how the world would change if we could get solar panels with around 30% efficiency (they're around 16% right now)?

research poo poo is at 48%

wait 15 years, they'll get there

(or they'll go down the "cheap as gently caress" route they've been previously going over

it's lovely moore's law)

campaign of extermination almost over for coal poo poo. replaced by natgas mostly, tho, although the campaign of extermination midway for natgas

# ? Nov 1, 2018 03:50

Tashilicious: Jul 17, 2016; by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

bob dobbs is dead posted:

research poo poo is at 48%

wait 15 years, they'll get there

(or they'll go down the "cheap as gently caress" route they've been previously going over

it's lovely moore's law)

campaign of extermination almost over for coal poo poo. replaced by natgas mostly, tho, although the campaign of extermination midway for natgas

hahahahaha 15 years.

We'll be deep in resource wars and mass migration then.

# ? Nov 1, 2018 03:55

spacetoaster: Feb 10, 2014

Tashilicious posted:

hahahahaha 15 years.

We'll be deep in resource wars and mass migration then.

Idiots have said that every decade.

"But this time, it's true!" - Al Gore

# ? Nov 1, 2018 04:02

Tashilicious: Jul 17, 2016; by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

spacetoaster posted:

Idiots have said that every decade.

"But this time, it's true!" - Al Gore

We have hard evidence that even if we immediately entirely reverse the entire system the world over, we are already in the over 2 degree C global warming range.
People have been saying that for decades because it is true. It will be gradual until that sudden breaking point where it is not gradual anymore and it becomes a failure cascade.

# ? Nov 1, 2018 04:07

Platystemon: Feb 13, 2012; BREADS

�I�m not owned! I�m not owned!� I say as I slowly sink into an acidifying sea.

# ? Nov 1, 2018 04:09

spacetoaster: Feb 10, 2014

Tashilicious posted:

We have hard evidence that even if we immediately entirely reverse the entire system the world over, we are already in the over 2 degree C global warming range.
People have been saying that for decades because it is true. It will be gradual until that sudden breaking point where it is not gradual anymore and it becomes a failure cascade.

Cool.

I still want some solar cells on my roof.

# ? Nov 1, 2018 04:11

KiteAuraan: Aug 5, 2014; JER GEDDA FERDA RADDA ARA!

Shima Honnou posted:

If you want your kids to be ready for the future get them a sawn-off shotgun and a leather outfit.

Teach them Hokuto Shinken, or, if they are fuckups, Nanto Seiken.

# ? Nov 1, 2018 04:12

Shima Honnou: Dec 1, 2010; The Once And Future King Of Dicetroit; College Slice

The latest cool climate news is that it turns out global warming is like twice as bad as we thought, currently, it's just that the oceans suck up the heat (which is killing the oceans even faster than expected also)

KiteAuraan posted:

Teach them Hokuto Shinken, or, if they are fuckups, Nanto Seiken.

This also works but also requires leather so get at it while there's still mammals.

# ? Nov 1, 2018 04:13

H.P. Hovercraft: Jan 12, 2004; one thing a computer can do that most humans can't is be sealed up in a cardboard box and sit in a warehouse; Slippery Tilde

https://twitter.com/ikasperr/status/1057828640904294400

# ? Nov 1, 2018 04:16

Red Dad Redemption: Sep 29, 2007

Shima Honnou posted:

The latest cool climate news is that it turns out global warming is like twice as bad as we thought, currently, it's just that the oceans suck up the heat (which is killing the oceans even faster than expected also)

This also works but also requires leather so get at it while there's still mammals.

how long till the clathrate guns start firing

# ? Nov 1, 2018 04:17

bob dobbs is dead: Oct 8, 2017; I love peeps; Nap Ghost

Tashilicious posted:

hahahahaha 15 years.

We'll be deep in resource wars and mass migration then.

we're already deep in resource wars and mass migration friendo

doesn't stop the research much

there's also no such thing as a failure which doesn't cascade, it's just that the cascades are small and short

# ? Nov 1, 2018 04:19

starkebn: May 18, 2004; "Oooh, got a little too serious. You okay there, little buddy?"

We're past the point of no return already in my non-scientific opinion. Now any effort is just to mitigate how poo poo hosed it's going to get.

# ? Nov 1, 2018 04:20

SniperWoreConverse: Mar 20, 2010; Gun Saliva

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4U9B244Z3go

# ? Nov 1, 2018 04:20

Tashilicious: Jul 17, 2016; by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

bob dobbs is dead posted:

we're already deep in resource wars and mass migration friendo

doesn't stop the research much

This is barely the start of it. The resources warring over right now is oil.
We're not even really started the water wars or food wars.

# ? Nov 1, 2018 04:21

bob dobbs is dead: Oct 8, 2017; I love peeps; Nap Ghost

Tashilicious posted:

This is barely the start of it. The resources warring over right now is oil.
We're not even really started the water wars or food wars.

and there will be bits of earth still unaffected by the water wars, just like lots of the earth is still unaffected by the oil wars, and the researchers, being part of the comparatively-rich first world, will gently caress off over there and continue researching

at no point in the last 4000 years has society not been in a state of at least partial breakdown. if the romans poo poo themselves the arabs will keep the memory of socrates alive, you know?

# ? Nov 1, 2018 04:23

Doggles: Apr 22, 2007

https://twitter.com/HumansOfLate/status/1057625027858833409

# ? Nov 1, 2018 05:53

EvilJoven: Mar 18, 2005; NOBODY,IN THE HISTORY OF EVER, HAS ASKED OR CARED WHAT CANADA THINKS. YOU ARE NOT A COUNTRY. YOUR MONEY HAS THE QUEEN OF ENGLAND ON IT. IF YOU DIG AROUND IN YOUR BACKYARD, NATIVE SKELETONS WOULD EXPLODE OUT OF YOUR LAWN LIKE THE END OF POLTERGEIST. CANADA IS SO POLITE, EH?; Fun Shoe

rip venice, sorry rich people you'll now have to find another rich person disneyland

# ? Nov 1, 2018 06:21

Moridin920: Nov 15, 2007; by FactsAreUseless

bob dobbs is dead posted:

and there will be bits of earth still unaffected by the water wars, just like lots of the earth is still unaffected by the oil wars, and the researchers, being part of the comparatively-rich first world, will gently caress off over there and continue researching

at no point in the last 4000 years has society not been in a state of at least partial breakdown. if the romans poo poo themselves the arabs will keep the memory of socrates alive, you know?

Lol

# ? Nov 1, 2018 07:03

The Protagonist: Jun 29, 2009; The average is 5.5? I thought it was 4. This is very unsettling.

intrinsic historical societal issues : a lot like catastrophic climate change

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Pirate Radar: Apr 18, 2008; You're not my Ruthie!
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it�s all going down the tubes. the only thing for it is to walk around with a clipboard asking people if they believe in anthropogenic ligma

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