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JeremoudCorbynejad posted:I bet they get attacked by the bees, too No it's usually fine.
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# ? Apr 3, 2022 13:50 |
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# ? May 25, 2024 13:48 |
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Sure we live in the midst of an escalatingly catastrophic manmade mass extinction event but have you considered being ok with that?
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# ? Apr 3, 2022 15:31 |
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evangelion is a documentary when you realize the giant monsters are covid variants
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# ? Apr 3, 2022 15:34 |
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T-Paine posted:https://twitter.com/dwallacewells/status/1510585158935752707 I've said this a million times before, but being an alien archeologist trying to piece together what happened to humanity would be a fascinating job
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# ? Apr 3, 2022 15:38 |
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maybe a benthic microbe starved for hydrocarbons will evolve to start breaking it down and accelerate global warming.
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# ? Apr 3, 2022 15:44 |
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Last night I had a dream that that ancient parasite turned into a Kaiju and was just loving everything up because Godzilla isn't real.
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# ? Apr 3, 2022 17:22 |
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Everyone knows that that is its butt, right?? I mean, it's an incredible face-butt but I feel like some posters might have missed this amazing fact in the shuffle
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# ? Apr 3, 2022 17:24 |
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# ? Apr 3, 2022 17:45 |
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TeenageArchipelago posted:I've said this a million times before, but being an alien archeologist trying to piece together what happened to humanity would be a fascinating job Alright Zorblax, here's what we think went down, these guys pumped out the oil and turned it into plastic and blanketed the planet in it because they were dumbfucks.
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# ? Apr 3, 2022 19:00 |
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T-Paine posted:Rachel Carson spinning with enough force to burrow to the center of the dying earth https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/60-years-after-silent-spring-warned-us-birds-and-humanity-are-still-in-trouble/ (biosphere collapse) we haven’t been very successful, and neither have birds
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# ? Apr 3, 2022 19:31 |
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The Protagonist posted:Everyone knows that that is its butt, right?? I mean, it's an incredible face-butt but I feel like some posters might have missed this amazing fact in the shuffle
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# ? Apr 3, 2022 19:42 |
You know fellas I've been thinking a lot lately, people have been saying the world's gonna end any day now for as long as I can remember. And yet here we are,still here. Not the birds tho lmao
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# ? Apr 3, 2022 19:43 |
gently caress them birds
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# ? Apr 3, 2022 19:43 |
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one day we'll be the birds
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# ? Apr 3, 2022 19:47 |
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IAMKOREA posted:gently caress them birds what did birds do to you
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# ? Apr 3, 2022 19:49 |
Stevie Lee posted:what did birds do to you *Shrugs* gotta extinct something
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# ? Apr 3, 2022 20:03 |
Gotta
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# ? Apr 3, 2022 20:05 |
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Everyone's afraid to say it but birds poop on us
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# ? Apr 3, 2022 20:10 |
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Crazypoops posted:Everyone's afraid to say it but birds poop on us Username/post combo
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# ? Apr 3, 2022 20:14 |
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Egg Moron posted:Alright Zorblax, here's what we think went down, these guys pumped out the oil and turned it into plastic and blanketed the planet in it because they were dumbfucks. we're just another microbe that learned to metabolize oil and then drowned in our own excrement
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# ? Apr 3, 2022 20:15 |
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Mayor Dave posted:Username/post combo
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# ? Apr 3, 2022 20:35 |
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JAY ZERO SUM GAME posted:one day we'll be the birds That's what the dinosaurs said and look what happened to them
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# ? Apr 3, 2022 21:29 |
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JeremoudCorbynejad posted:That's what the dinosaurs said and look what happened to them They were clever and skipped a step
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# ? Apr 3, 2022 22:11 |
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Egg Moron posted:Alright Zorblax, here's what we think went down, these guys pumped out the oil and turned it into plastic and blanketed the planet in it because they were dumbfucks.
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# ? Apr 3, 2022 22:26 |
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aliens will set up a quarantine around earth to keep researchers from bringing back
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# ? Apr 3, 2022 23:09 |
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unless fossil fuel overuse and subsequent climate disaster is the great filter then youd end up with aliens who excitedly keep discovering new planets capable of supporting life, only to approach them closer and realize its yet another failed peer species that burned itself out of existence which would probably get you pretty depressed, if you were these aliens
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# ? Apr 4, 2022 00:24 |
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Shima Honnou posted:aliens will set up a quarantine around earth to keep researchers from bringing back https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRl9D_agLbU
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# ? Apr 4, 2022 02:28 |
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wondering if a collective consciousness/hive mind type species, or even one that's not burdened with sentience, would run into the same problems as us
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# ? Apr 4, 2022 02:55 |
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IAMKOREA posted:gently caress them birds it's a real coinky-dink that we're getting tears about disappearing birds now in the middle of a global supply chain crisis penetrating the manufacturing of microelectronics almost like precise spare parts are about to run out birds aren't real
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# ? Apr 4, 2022 03:01 |
oh man i had at one point downloaded a ton of weird radio drama things sorta like this i wonder if i still have any God Hole posted:wondering if a collective consciousness/hive mind type species, or even one that's not burdened with sentience, would run into the same problems as us do any species actually operate like that? I mean in the way it's usually depicted. What's the largest creature which is eusocial? hm Wikipedia posted:Eusociality exists in certain insects, crustaceans and mammals. It is mostly observed and studied in the Hymenoptera (ants, bees, and wasps) and in Isoptera (termites). A colony has caste differences: queens and reproductive males take the roles of the sole reproducers, while soldiers and workers work together to create a living situation favorable for the brood. In addition to Hymenoptera and Isoptera, there are two known eusocial vertebrates among rodents: the naked mole-rat and the Damaraland mole-rat. Some shrimp, such as Synalpheus regalis, are also eusocial. E. O. Wilson and others[1][2] have claimed that humans have evolved a weak form of eusociality, but these arguments have been disputed.[3] So looking some more it seems like there isn't really an example of any kind of hive mind, and hivelike animals are all pretty small. It's a pretty big jump to say that a hive of critters constitutes an organism that has thoughts or experiences in a gestalt way but as far as i can tell there's not really a way to prove or disprove such a thing has a mind because we don't know what minds are. Like dogs clearly have some kinda mind in there, even if it's a "little" or "weak" one. Imo i think it would be extremely unlikely that any creature would have something like a culture or technology without being sapient. I was reading some bullshit of how even plants & clams may have a weak form of sentience, and all kinds of stuff like bugs have a limited amount of sapience. There's a lot of really weird poo poo though, like animals that are smaller than some germs and poo poo like that, i don't think you can really be sapient if you have exactly 20 neurons in your whole bod. if a hive can have a mind wouldn't that mean a ton of systems might have minds? Does a corporation have a mind? Is Gaia the biosphere? What's different between my mind, which i experience as a real thing, and what uncle sam experiences?
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# ? Apr 4, 2022 03:26 |
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God Hole posted:wondering if a collective consciousness/hive mind type species, or even one that's not burdened with sentience, would run into the same problems as us i'm not convinced we're burdened with sentience so probably personally i've got about as much free will as a chat bot
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# ? Apr 4, 2022 03:31 |
gently caress i dunno what thread i'm even in half the time but i can tell i got some kind of mind and basically gotta assume most living things probably do
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# ? Apr 4, 2022 03:36 |
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sorry I been reading too much Peter Watts
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# ? Apr 4, 2022 03:42 |
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SniperWoreConverse posted:if a hive can have a mind wouldn't that mean a ton of systems might have minds? Does a corporation have a mind? Is Gaia the biosphere? What's different between my mind, which i experience as a real thing, and what uncle sam experiences? This is sort of heading in the direction of panexperientialism, an idea that might be of interest to you. ubachung has issued a correction as of 04:25 on Apr 4, 2022 |
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hekaton posted:unless fossil fuel overuse and subsequent climate disaster is the great filter Star's Reach, John M. Greer posted:“If you wish.” She looked at him, and then at the rest of us. “The Cetans aren’t the reason all of this is here. They were the one species who answered the radio messages we sent, because they’re at about the same level of technology we are, and they haven’t been contacted yet by the Others.” The way she said that last word, you could tell she would have written it with the capital letter. “The Others are the reason Star’s Reach was built.” Hubbert has issued a correction as of 04:41 on Apr 4, 2022 |
# ? Apr 4, 2022 04:35 |
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JeremoudCorbynejad posted:That might actually be better for the ocean that it's all sinking to the bottom hell yea. in a few hundred million years a lot of it will be recycled into the lithosphere
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# ? Apr 4, 2022 06:59 |
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there really arent any hivemind creatures that we know of. in fact, bees are little winged liberals who vote for what the hive does.
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# ? Apr 4, 2022 07:26 |
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Spergin Morlock posted:hell yea. in a few hundred million years a lot of it will be recycled into the lithosphere Does the plastic cycle follow the same pattern as the water cycle then? It's raining microplastics? gently caress I think I did read something about microplastic rain.
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# ? Apr 4, 2022 07:32 |
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Hubbert posted:“I think,” I said then, “we need to run the program, and find out what it is.” lol
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# ? Apr 4, 2022 07:54 |
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# ? May 25, 2024 13:48 |
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SniperWoreConverse posted:gently caress i dunno what thread i'm even in half the time but i can tell i got some kind of mind and basically gotta assume most living things probably do I think therfore most living things am - SniperWoreConverse, 2022
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