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shame on an IGA posted:Rush Limbaugh Eats The Earth was a documentary Here’s the problem: lots and lots of people are going to die. We’re going to lose a significant portion of the population. The part that survives is going to be shifted into subsistence style life. Most of our knowledge is stored on some sort of digital media with no reason/method to preserve it. Yeah, for a period of time people are going to retain technology, but much is going to be lost and will continue to degrade over the next millennia. Without worldwide trade and our modern infrastructure to support it, things are going to collapse hard.
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orange juche posted:Don't forget that it's continuous authentication, which will be implemented as poorly as possible, with authentication boxes every 5 minutes to alert you that you need to re-authenticate to keep using the thing. Hell, we already have that.
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Feb 9, 2019 22:23
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Also as CO2 levels rise plants are going to grow in size. Plants in CO2 rich environments get huge. They also are significantly less nutritious to the point that some staples become inedible. Mother nature is at a tipping point and is taking away our food as a basic response. poo poo is going to go so loving sideways our way of life is going to be nothing but legends.
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Feb 9, 2019 22:25
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Eej posted:On the bright side higher global temperatures means the earth will get to see dragonflies with 2.5 feet wingspans again Nah, need a much richer oxygen atmosphere for that  Without a highly oxygen rich atmosphere, large insects cannot get enough air through their spiracles
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Feb 9, 2019 22:26
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shame on an IGA posted:Deus Ex is worth jumping through whatever hoops you gotta jump through to make it work. For all its flaws, PUBG.
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Feb 9, 2019 22:27
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PUBG is so... clunky? While it “invented” the modern BR genre fortnite is what made it truly blow up.
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Feb 9, 2019 22:30
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Apex Legends is gonna be the next big BG game probably. It's first person and less cartoony than fortnite but still has its charm, and the gunplay is so much nicer than PUBG. PUBG is played in a completely different style than apex or fortnite tho
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Feb 9, 2019 22:33
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CommieGIR posted:Nah, need a much richer oxygen atmosphere for that That happens after most people die and megaflora dominate the earth to soak up the excess CO2. The double shock will ultimately lead to another ice age and super oxygen rich atmosphere
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Feb 9, 2019 22:38
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Yeah, I just downloaded Apex Legends on my Xbox One X and it seems pretty fun so far.
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Feb 9, 2019 22:39
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Dangit I just wanted a pet pill bug that doubles as a foot stool. The main thing about Apex is that it's less aggressively solitary than other BRs. There's no solo queue, all the characters talk all the time in supportive ways, the contextual ping system is revolutionary to the point you can actually have a conversation with your teammates by just pointing at things and clicking on them and the majority of skills work better in a team. Also if you die people can grab your dog tag and run to a respawn point so that's more incentive to work together.
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It seems possible that capital-dense societies are going to be able to engineer their way out of total ecosystem collapse, or at least stay juuust barely sort of ahead of the problem. Total-war level mobilization to build vertical indoor farming setups on an absolutely staggering scale, then seamlessly go on to make sealed habitats as CO2 levels become an acute health concern, something like that. As long as they manage to stay out of any nuclear wars with the less fortunate that is.
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Feb 9, 2019 22:51
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Nostalgia4Infinity posted:I struggle with this, but on the other hand I sometimes think our generation can make a difference. Claw us back from the brink. I refuse to give in to despair. If you haven't read the Three Body Problem series you should. There’s a character in the second and third books that embodies the spirit of "advance at all costs" and he's ALWAYS right
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Feb 9, 2019 23:00
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I just picked up a job working with coral reef restoration, seems like as good a time as any to start back on the antidepressants My video logs of my dives are starting to feel like they’ll be historical too, for species that will be extinct by the time I’m old. I’ll still fight the good fight and try to preserve some of what we’ve got, but barring some kind of miracle I think we’re grossly underestimating exactly how hosed we are.
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Feb 9, 2019 23:08
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When I was scuba diving off Roatan a few weeks ago I kept noticing bleeched coral. Not nearly as bad as the great barrier reef, but it was definitely present. There was a couple stormy days while I was there and I couldn't believe the amount for garbage that washed in. I don't think there's a good trash system in place for the regular folks that live there so some people just throw their garbage in the ocean and stuff.
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Feb 9, 2019 23:19
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The luckier ones among us will basically end up living in Arcologies ala sim city 2000. The less lucky will build them and get some really funny cancers while they slowly starve to death.
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Feb 9, 2019 23:25
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Soulex posted:I had to and climate change did it. Had a really really bad panic attack about loving up and bringing kids into this hosed up world. I am on a normal dose of venlafaxine and it made my overwhelming anxiety go away. For days I couldnt sleep or eat. When I could sleep, Id shoot back awake with "ah poo poo, acidification of our oceans," immediately. I basically had to stop smoking pot because it would send me into overdrive. lol
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Feb 9, 2019 23:26
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hobbesmaster posted:PUBG is so... clunky? While it “invented” the modern BR genre fortnite is what made it truly blow up. Check it out if you haven't played it recently. They fixed a lot of (but not all of) the issues with it and the newest map is really fun.
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Feb 9, 2019 23:36
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the problem with consumer-level consumption change is that the damage is largely already done giving up beef should have been done in the 1970s and the deforestation of the amazon to make room for pastures avoided leaded gas, CFCs, etc. already did their damage we're just too stupid to realize it, or more specifically science has reached the point where it can't be suppressed any further you can bury some fossil fuel reports, you can say 'who gives a poo poo' when the red-winged tittyfucker goes extinct, but when you start having swings of 60 degrees in a week or back to back "thousand year" floods it's too late
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Feb 9, 2019 23:41
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I work in infectious disease and lol at poo poo like dengue and zika showing up in Florida and having people still try to argue that climate change isn't real. Motherfucker people will die from poo poo that does not normally exist here I don't care if you think "well scientific consensus isn't complete and this guy on my friends facebook is a climate scientist and doesn't agree with the data ergo scientific consensus is invalid". Argue with a corpse motherfucker. Sorry wanting to vent, I work with a lot of climate scientists and ecologists and it's just been all "yeah we're turbofucked and no one wants to listen to us" for the last decade for me.
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Feb 9, 2019 23:44
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The Chagas bugs are working their way north, too. Used to be it was too cool for them to survive in NC, but guess what changed 
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Mr. Nice! posted:Here’s the problem: lots and lots of people are going to die. We’re going to lose a significant portion of the population. The part that survives is going to be shifted into subsistence style life. Most of our knowledge is stored on some sort of digital media with no reason/method to preserve it. Warhammer 3k
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Fister Roboto posted:You know what the worst part about all this is? When the effects of this start directly impacting the average idiot in the first world (and that will still probably take a very long time), they're not going to say "oh, we were wrong all along, let's do everything we can to mitigate this". They'll just come up with some new bullshit way to deny reality, and things will get progressively worse. "Actually, it was the liberals" will 100% be the mainstream conservative take.
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Best Friends posted:"Actually, it was the liberals" will 100% be the mainstream conservative take. The fundies will 100% blame the gays.
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Nostalgia4Infinity posted:The fundies will 100% blame the gays. Their last thought as their entire country starves/burns/dehydrates to death will be, "We should keep having quarter pounders with cheese, Jesus is gonna be here any day now to fix it all up."
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Icon Of Sin posted:The Chagas bugs are working their way north, too. Used to be it was too cool for them to survive in NC, but guess what changed Hell, armadillos are popping up here in NC too now. When I was a kid you only heard of them in Texas and Louisiana, but they've been expanding northwards for the last couple decades. They're a vector for leprosy. All the nasty old poo poo's coming back. Nostalgia4Infinity posted:The fundies will 100% blame the gays. "God said he wasn't going to flood the earth again, so he'll set fire to it instead."
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As Nero Danced posted:Hell, armadillos are popping up here in NC too now. When I was a kid you only heard of them in Texas and Louisiana, but they've been expanding northwards for the last couple decades. They're a vector for leprosy. All the nasty old poo poo's coming back. My dad has been trying to catch one thats been digging up his backyard....so far all hes caught is a adolescent raccoon...He's been using peanut butter and I don't think that dillos like it.
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humans are a virus and you trying to talk sense into someone is like an aids molecule trying to talk sense into another aids molecule. the planet isn't magic.
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Vasudus posted:Seawalls are most likely what we're going to do instead of move cities away from the coast. They're already talking about doing one in NYC, since these things will take decades to do. Better to spend 20-30 billion over 10-15 years than try and relocate ~13 million people and radically change the east coast transport network. The Dutch seem to have managed pretty well for the last few decades, but countries that are less ... conscientious ... about their infrastructure are going to have some monumental disasters once a significant part of the population is living below will now be sea level.
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That Works posted:I work in infectious disease and lol at poo poo like dengue and zika showing up in Florida and having people still try to argue that climate change isn't real. I lived in midtown Miami, next to wynwood while the Zika virus was happening. Wynwood is alot of outdoor bars and artsy hipster places very much the hot area of miami and during the like 2 months Zika was a thing the place was a ghost town and a bunch of smaller bars straight went out of business
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Feb 10, 2019 00:58
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Before the invention of the compressor air conditioner most people who lived in Miami year-round did so to escape the law. That's what I've decided.
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a nice tasteful trump tweet about warren joining the 2020 circus https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1094368870415110145
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Nostalgia4Infinity posted:The fundies will 100% blame the gays. It isn’t my fault this time. My dad is heavily involved in atmospheric modelling so I’ve been hearing how hosed we are since I was a kid in the 80s. It’s worse than you think, and no, there is no way to practically engineer our way out of it.
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Hexyflexy posted:It isn’t my fault this time. My dad is heavily involved in atmospheric modelling so I’ve been hearing how hosed we are since I was a kid in the 80s. It’s worse than you think, and no, there is no way to practically engineer our way out of it. That’s what I’m saying. We’re hosed and there’s no recovery. Humanity will never again reach it’s current pinnacle.
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Feb 10, 2019 01:22
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Hell yeah baby play the loving fiddle then!!!
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feigning nihilism to absolve myself of any responsibility to own the libs.
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Doc Hawkins posted:Before the invention of the compressor air conditioner most people who lived in Miami year-round did so to escape the law. I mean that's just historically true
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And if our infrastructure is so bad why am I have such great luck selling bridges to chuds
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Feb 10, 2019 01:54
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yes yes yes this is all bad but have you considered how it will affect other people's 401ks?
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