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Can't believe people haven't beheld the splendor of the Mall of America
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Jun 21, 2022 14:13
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Mayor Dave posted:To quote from the OP:  endlessmonotony posted:Gradually, then suddenly. Fly Molo posted:there’s always a bigger doomer Iron Crowned posted:I've been to 9 of those places the only american landmarks i've seen in the usa are the big prayer hands in tulsa, ok and the ghostbusters firehouse in nyc, unless you count visiting the finger lakes i guess? oh and times square if that counts seen niagara falls since i live nearby, but from the superior side  i wanna go see glaciers again before they're gone but driving to see them feels gross as gently caress so i probably won't
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Jun 21, 2022 14:26
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Cold on a Cob posted:seen niagara falls since i live nearby, but from the superior side the difference between the two is insane. Niagara falls, Ontario is like if an entire city were a theme park. Niagara Falls, NY is like if an entire city were a theme park and that theme was impoverished.
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Jun 21, 2022 14:29
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https://twitter.com/DrEliDavid/status/1538991341191020545
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Jun 21, 2022 14:31
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If you so much as lightly criticize car culture or suburban sprawl, you hate the poor and are a bad leftist because some of them need cars to get to work.
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Jun 21, 2022 14:38
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T-Paine posted:If you so much as lightly criticize car culture or suburban sprawl, you hate the poor and are a bad leftist because some of them need cars to get to work. People can't conceptualize the idea that poor people needing cars to get to work is a very specific and intentional kind of violence inflicted on the poor.
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Jun 21, 2022 14:42
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love being in the Midwest, seeing a 120 car train packed to the gills with 15,000 tons of coal rumble past, and knowing that a single plant will burn that entire train in a single day. Also every ton of coal produces 3.7 tons of CO2 lol.
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Jun 21, 2022 14:47
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Fly Molo posted:there’s always a bigger doomer nature is the biggest doomer
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Jun 21, 2022 15:07
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Fly Molo posted:there’s always a bigger doomer I have decided to believe the gospel of bo burnham and his 2021 utterance "seven more to go", meaning I think it will all be completely over by 2028. So far it's been holding up
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Jun 21, 2022 15:18
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Coworkers watching that lake Mead video on YouTube and starting to understand the gravity of the situation now. Lol lmao etc Very cool that a random dudes YouTube video is doing more than years of mainstream media and research to show people how hosed we are.
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Jun 21, 2022 15:28
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net work error posted:Coworkers watching that lake Mead video on YouTube and starting to understand the gravity of the situation now. Lol lmao etc Modern infrastructure is basically designed in a way to make you think that everything is absolutely fine right up until the moment it fails entirely. Water is funny because there's no one in the US that's prepared for a legitimate and ongoing water shortage or even real scarcity. Water problems mean "you can only water your lawn once per week" and not "you can't take showers and may have to wait in a line for drinking water."
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Jun 21, 2022 15:42
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CODChimera posted:i think "slightly more poo poo every year" was the thread consensus a few years ago but now? uhhh things appear to be declining much faster than even the biggest doomers here had predicted My personal timeline is still lining right up. I've given it in iterations of this thread, if not this thread, previously: all humans dead or wishing for death by 2035. Well it's either that one or my real personal timeline that I I don't tell anyone to maintain some credibility
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Jun 21, 2022 16:00
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kyojin posted:I have decided to believe the gospel of bo burnham and his 2021 utterance "seven more to go", meaning I think it will all be completely over by 2028. So far it's been holding up He wrote the special in 2020, so actually it’s more like 2027.
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Jun 21, 2022 16:08
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I selfishly wish my age and my general bodily decline matches up with the decline of the worlds. But I'll be 55 in the year 2050 and if your right 40 in the year 2035. It's certainly seems like its going to be a time whatever happens.
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Jun 21, 2022 16:11
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Haha yeah for sure. Apropos of nothing can everyone in this thread under 30 PM me their height, weight, fitness level, locations, languages known, and special skills please?
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Jun 21, 2022 16:16
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i'll be motoring passed all your chalk-dusted graves in 2074 to get my free democrat gas vouchers
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Jun 21, 2022 16:19
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also not optimistic about all this making it to 2030. even without bc you've got political and economic stuff happening to wreck poo poo too. Most people are probably going to slowly bake/disease/starve to death under an increasingly fascist apparatus till some cataclysm (natural or otherwise) comes for their corner of the world. Each year, month, week, day getting more stressful, harder and generally worse. We're not "lucky" enough for a proper apocalypse I think, just a steady increasing grind. the true tao of doomering is that things get worse, they do not end 
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Jun 21, 2022 16:21
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Erghh posted:also not optimistic about all this making it to 2030. even without bc you've got political and economic stuff happening to wreck poo poo too. I've been thinking about it lately, and it'll just be the first Mad Max for a long time without ever really getting to The Road Warrior in our lifetimes.
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Jun 21, 2022 16:24
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the most annoying part of all this is being pretty confident in my personal expected poo poo-really-hits-the-fan date (sometime in the mid 2030s to mid 2040s, i'm an optimist) but not confident enough to just say gently caress it and blast through my savings
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Jun 21, 2022 16:25
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Cold on a Cob posted:the most annoying part of all this is being pretty confident in my personal expected poo poo-really-hits-the-fan date (sometime in the mid 2030s to mid 2040s, i'm an optimist) but not confident enough to just say gently caress it and blast through my savings the trick is timing everything to convert cash/etc to useful things before cash becomes useless I read this thread and believe it but we still had kids and I still put tax deferred money into college funds for them as well as funding a (matched) 401(k). Notably the college money can also be used for tradeschool, so in some of the "pretty bad but not yet End Times" scenarios there's a world where maybe they learn how to do some useful poo poo to maintain all the electric/water/etc infrastructure that's going to be increasingly prone to failure at a national level. Or we cash it all out and pay the penalties and just buy a pile of
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Jun 21, 2022 16:31
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the government hasnt made you a baby just to let you grow up and take care of yourself at the end
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Jun 21, 2022 16:37
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Iron Crowned posted:I've been thinking about it lately, and it'll just be the first Mad Max for a long time without ever really getting to The Road Warrior in our lifetimes. Goose, gone but not forgotten https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-IFUnihXto0
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Jun 21, 2022 16:37
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Living on a relatively small island nation if I become a refugee please don't put me into a cage America or wherever I end up.
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Jun 21, 2022 16:49
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CODChimera posted:how's that grain situation going? solved or are we down to 9 weeks supply? No links to fancy papers in Nature or Bloomburg articles just feed store chatter, but it's probably a good time to explore vegetarian cooking. Price of grain and fuel is going nuts, farmers aren't rebuilding their herds after selling most of their animals off last fall. Fall 2022 is going to be interesting if you're a meat counter regular. Price of layer mash (=chicken food = eggs) in some areas has increased 4x since winter. Don't even ask about hay.  The cold wet weather here has been good for spring mushrooms. If you leave Angel Wings too long before harvesting they become infested with little white worms about 1.5 cm. long. Perfectly edible (and tasty), you just have to turn off the part of your brain that objects to vermicelli fragments having eyeballs. Might help to put on some Anthony Bourdain for inspiration.  Leroy Diplowski posted:snip... That's right up there with ActionJackson's story of dating in the Covid's Over Age posted in the Covid thread. Thank you both for sharing and making me lol over morning coffee. jetz0r posted:hm, i remember this from somewhere else. only using the most optimistic climate models as predictions, because anything worse than best case that is cataclysmic. Basic economic modelling. Model says taxing the rich + feeding the poor = good? Throw in some variables to get the answer the rich people want. Wish I could remember what they called these factors because yes, they have a name and its not "cooking your results".
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Jun 21, 2022 16:52
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I'll take the cage over living in the US tbh
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Jun 21, 2022 16:52
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Perry Mason Jar posted:Haha yeah for sure. Apropos of nothing can everyone in this thread under 30 PM me their height, weight, fitness level, locations, languages known, and special skills please? A/s/l/survival skills?
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Jun 21, 2022 16:56
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Cold on a Cob posted:the most annoying part of all this is being pretty confident in my personal expected poo poo-really-hits-the-fan date (sometime in the mid 2030s to mid 2040s, i'm an optimist) but not confident enough to just say gently caress it and blast through my savings you hedge like I do, still invest some but also spend more on things you really enjoy now, hence me just putting in the 403b minimum needed to get a full match, and spending money redoing my little home
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Jun 21, 2022 17:06
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Comatoast posted:He wrote the special in 2020, so actually it’s more like 2027. The first of the burnhamite schisms
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Jun 21, 2022 17:06
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actionjackson posted:you hedge like I do, still invest some but also spend more on things you really enjoy now, hence me just putting in the 403b minimum needed to get a full match, and spending money redoing my little home yeah that's pretty much what i'm doing these days except i can't afford a home because _waves at the greater toronto area_
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Jun 21, 2022 17:11
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I wish it would all be over by 2028, but you fuckers are gonna have to live with this decaying, dying empire for well over a decade after that... because collapses are fast, but still pretty slow. e: like, "Doom Year = X" is just the year that poo poo gets very real and extra frosty
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Jun 21, 2022 17:25
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Zerg Mans posted:love being in the Midwest, seeing a 120 car train packed to the gills with 15,000 tons of coal rumble past, and knowing that a single plant will burn that entire train in a single day. Also every ton of coal produces 3.7 tons of CO2 lol. 
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Jun 21, 2022 17:41
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I was thinking today about how depressing it is that we generate so much waste, and then I realized, it all came from the Earth anyway so really we’re just putting it back and it’s ok! It’s ok everyone! We’re all gonna be ok!
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Jun 21, 2022 17:43
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Pepe Silvia Browne posted:the difference between the two is insane. Niagara falls, Ontario is like if an entire city were a theme park. Niagara Falls, NY is like if an entire city were a theme park and that theme was impoverished. Ontario side is also poor as poo poo (3 of my friends have been stabbed there lol)
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Jun 21, 2022 17:47
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oxygen weights a lot
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Jun 21, 2022 17:50
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Ruggan posted:I was thinking today about how depressing it is that we generate so much waste, and then I realized, it all came from the Earth anyway so really we’re just putting it back and it’s ok! It’s ok everyone! We’re all gonna be ok! 
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Jun 21, 2022 17:51
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Iron Crowned posted:I've been to 9 of those places I’ve been to ten of them and I’m not even American.
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Jun 21, 2022 18:03
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Puppy Burner posted:Ontario side is also poor as poo poo (3 of my friends have been stabbed there lol) oh yeah for sure, but they do a much better job of papering over it by having actual attractions for Tourists to visit while they're there, looking at the falls. the US side has A casino.
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Jun 21, 2022 18:06
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Puppy Burner posted:Ontario side is also poor as poo poo (3 of my friends have been stabbed there lol) yeah poo poo is rough down there until you get past hamilton on your way to toronto
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Jun 21, 2022 18:26
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dang that's beautiful and yeah, i just have a small flock and was shocked when the price of feed doubled in between bags and it has likely increased again
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Jun 21, 2022 18:39
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Hubbert posted:We may not be able to change the course of industrial civilization, or prevent the continuation of the Holocene Extinction, or avoid the ultimate transformation of Gaia into a polluted and depleted shadow of herself, but at least we had a chance to post with pals and alleviate suffering along the way. i love this thread. the last honest thread in the galaxy! Tony Tone posted:It's just difficult for me to feel content anymore. I dont know how to do that without being drunk or high literally the first 10 minutes I wake up every goddamned day. Tony tone tonman my brother sit your rear end down and read you some heavy theory. nothing beats being able to rotate your perspective across the eons at the end of all things. yeah so you're losing your humanity. we're all post-human now, but so what? humanity was a sham the entire time. everybody was wrong about everything, and then we died. we - alone at the end of all things - we get to know the bitter truth, to know it all. we get to be right! we the undead after the end of history get have the perspective of gods, if we want it. ...ya I'm not exactly in demand at parties either. my point being there's just no reason to despair after the point that anything could have mattered. so ya. meditation, psychedelics, heavy theory'll bust you out of the despair loop. shout outs to my homies hegel, nagarjuna, deleuze, and laruelle. it worked for me, and I'm only a tiny bit insane. brb gonna smoke one out for ya.
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