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i like it being 90 degrees the whole year so i never had a big problem. bring it on
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Apr 26, 2023 10:11
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TehSaurus posted:This thread either possesses a unique clarity about the end of the world, or is completely insane.
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Apr 26, 2023 10:48
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christ, that Decarb Bro story. I know it was touched on a few pages ago but surprised it didn't get more attentionquote:While she does not consider herself a decarb bro, she has noticed the impact of the decarb bro philosophy, and its message of economic opportunity, on her peers. These guys just get dollar signs for eyes at random, don't they.
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Apr 26, 2023 11:34
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While reading The forgotten 20th Century 'Sun engine' (BBC Future) I came across this quote that made me think of this threadquote:In 2013, two Swiss artists – Christina Hemauer and Roman Keller – recreated part of Shuman's far-reaching design as part of an art installation in Egypt. Along with parts of the 1913 solar engine was this quote from Shuman, written in 1914: "One thing I feel sure of, and that is that the human race must finally utilise direct Sun power or revert to barbarism."
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Apr 26, 2023 11:34
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brakeless posted:hell yeah I want this job, it would be so loving funny I'm not sure about that the typical way this goes is some regulatory agency like the EPA says this stuff is safe or the company finds a loophole where they don't even need to notify any regulatory agency or undergo any inspections by legally classifying their product as some kind of already established lawn care products then when the deadly heat makes watered lawns impossible the entire southwest moves to more and more realistic painted yards. Maybe even some that mimic real grass so it can be mowed then there is a lawsuit because the main ingredient is ultracancer and you the installer are the first casualty.
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Apr 26, 2023 12:05
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Microplastics posted:christ, that Decarb Bro story. I know it was touched on a few pages ago but surprised it didn't get more attention Thanks for calling attention to this. I saw the term but I think I glossed over it. If capitalism could solve the crisis, this is how it would start, I think. Of course capitalism can’t solve it, because it is fundamentally incompatible with a finite universe. Anyone who tries to place limits on growth will be excluded from the process and everyone else will fail. TACD posted:it’s both it’s easy to be glib here but I think it is one or the other. yes there’s a lot of manic joker laughing going on in here but that is a sane response to the end of everything
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Apr 26, 2023 12:10
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Rectal Death Adept posted:then there is a lawsuit because the main ingredient is ultracancer and you the installer are the first casualty. also you know this ahead of time but aren’t allowed to provide your own ppe because it would damage the product’s image so you are knowingly rawdogging the cancer and there is nothing you can do about it because it’s that starve
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Apr 26, 2023 12:14
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TehSaurus posted:yes there’s a lot of manic joker laughing going on in here but that is a sane response to the end of everything 
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Apr 26, 2023 13:35
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FlapYoJacks posted:So what’s up with the biosphere? Has it collapsed yet? Can it hurry up? It’s my climate change and I want it now! You need to thwaite
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Apr 26, 2023 14:02
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Homeless Friend posted:i like it being 90 degrees the whole year so i never had a big problem. bring it on Celsius?
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Apr 26, 2023 14:05
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Rectal Death Adept posted:I'm not sure about that uhh they said it was organic so I'm sure it's totally safe and I'll be perfectly fine after I paint my butthole with it for St. Patrick's
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Apr 26, 2023 14:13
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TehSaurus posted:Also enjoying people learning about the great filter itt. It is very likely that if we were not alone in the universe we would know about it.What that says about our future is an exercise left for the reader… The universe is unfathomably vast. There could be thousands of other civilizations spread throughout and we'd never know.
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Apr 26, 2023 14:27
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Homeless Friend posted:i like it being 90 degrees the whole year so i never had a big problem. bring it on It's always good to look at the world from the right angle. 
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Apr 26, 2023 14:49
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Dystopia Barbarian posted:Not to be contrarian, but if FTL travel is impossible (and I believe it is), this is simply untrue. The Milky Way has had the elements necessary for life for billions of years. You don't need FTL to colonise a galaxy if you have billions of years.
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Apr 26, 2023 15:03
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RC Cola posted:Same. This thread helps my mental health somehow I had a climatology professor in college who was so doomer that he'd repeatedly get in trouble with the school. At least he was doomer by the standards of 15 years ago, today the things he was saying would be on the optimistic side of the mainstream. Anyway, I look at it like this: the damage to my mental health was done when I took that class, and it was irreversible. I'd have to go cause a ton of brain damage to unlearn those insights. Reading about this stuff keeps me sane because it's not like I'm going to be able to pretend it's not happening if I ignore it, so at least I can keep my doom grounded with actual information.
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Apr 26, 2023 15:31
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You have to be terminally sci-fi brained to entertain poo poo like extraterrestrial life Life on earth is a series of incredibly lucky and extremely low-probability events all chained together up to this point. Which just makes the crack tragedy of climate change all the more ping. In a universe where 99% of objects are barren unlivable rock shitholes the possibility of anywhere else replicating the same chain of events is just not gonna happen. The truth is going to be depressing and underwhelming to so many people if we ever manage to confirm this Tony Tone has issued a correction as of 15:38 on Apr 26, 2023 |
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Apr 26, 2023 15:35
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Hubbert posted:Look at it this way. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31pjSAZzUz8
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Apr 26, 2023 15:35
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Apr 26, 2023 15:42
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i think this thread is way too doomer from a climate science perspective, but still winds up being muuuuuch closer to the truth than any other topical info&discussion source. let me put it this way, if you get your climate science from real reports, and your understanding of all the tech/econ stuff from business news sources (not the marketing stuff, the quarterly financial reports stuff), and your deeper thinking from a bunch of good books... then this is an excellent place to hang out and share black humor about how insanely mind-bogglingly hosed everything is. but if you get your news *from this thread*. or worse, from the seo garbage "article" infotainment system, then you are going to be functionally insane. just gibbering. I've had to put a handful of regulars here on ignore because it really is just incoherent wailing. but then someone will photoshop a bdelle on a pitbull eating a suburban toddler and it'll all be worth scrolling through.
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Apr 26, 2023 15:43
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Tony Tone posted:You have to be terminally sci-fi brained to entertain poo poo like extraterrestrial life We also live in a universe where there are an unfathomable number of objects and 1% of a gigantic number is still a gigantic number. The idea that we will ever see or hear from an alient is a bit too optimistic, but what happened here on earth really is really unlikely to be unique.
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Apr 26, 2023 15:51
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Tony Tone posted:Which just makes the crack tragedy of climate change all the more ping.
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Apr 26, 2023 15:58
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I don't know how healthy that serotonin hit I'm starting to feel when I see a certain type of article or tweet that generally appears here but i feel like I've jumped over a line that I will never return from and it feels good. Is it acceptance? Who knows! but atleast I'm not alone in this feeling. 
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Apr 26, 2023 16:05
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You should avoid going completely insane for a few more years at least. We have such sights to see
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Apr 26, 2023 16:06
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Weembles posted:We also live in a universe where there are an unfathomable number of objects and 1% of a gigantic number is still a gigantic number. Aliens in terms of climate change are usually mentioned in an optimistic "Well we aren't killing all life in the universe at least" or a pessimistic "we are so evil and gross we are it and we are loving all of existence up because we suck" I get the depressive tendencies but when there are untold quadrillions of other planets out there its a stretch to argue Earth is unique, mathematically at least. We may never know it but the universe is so large we can't even really conceptualize it. Imagine how many planets are in the galaxy. A million galaxies. A trillion galaxies. My theory is that the great filter could be currency and the federation is waiting to do the space cash test on us from south park
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Apr 26, 2023 16:07
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Puppy Burner posted:You should avoid going completely insane for a few more years at least. We have such sights to see We should all endeavor to be the dude on the top of the building at the end of Miracle Mile.
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Apr 26, 2023 16:15
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BIG HEADLINE posted:We should all endeavor to be the dude on the top of the building in Miracle Mile. that’s been me since dubya, or I guess Obama term 2 great movie, everyone should watch it
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Apr 26, 2023 16:16
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its not aliens its other humans from other timelines and they laugh at us
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Apr 26, 2023 17:14
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TehSaurus posted:Also enjoying people learning about the great filter itt. It is very likely that if we were not alone in the universe we would know about it. What that says about our future is an exercise left for the reader… oh look an angry swarming hornets' nest, better go out of my way to establish contact and make myself known to them
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Apr 26, 2023 17:18
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MightyBigMinus posted:i think this thread is way too doomer from a climate science perspective, but still winds up being muuuuuch closer to the truth than any other topical info&discussion source. lol you were rabidly defending hydrogen fuel cells in the D&D thread just yesterday and had a huge meltdown when people gave calmly provided actual sources to show how misguided you are methinks it's you who should be put on ignore
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Apr 26, 2023 17:19
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MightyBigMinus posted:i think this thread is way too doomer from a climate science perspective, but still winds up being muuuuuch closer to the truth than any other topical info&discussion source. hang on please explain "green hydrogen" for the class
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Apr 26, 2023 17:24
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Thorn Wishes Talon posted:lol you were rabidly defending hydrogen fuel cells in the D&D thread just yesterday and had a huge meltdown when people gave calmly provided actual sources to show how misguided you are did you watch the videos?
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Apr 26, 2023 17:25
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if you put green in front of something its automatically good like how the garbage trucks are painted green and use natural gas now. it's Good to use them.
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Apr 26, 2023 17:29
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double plus green
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Apr 26, 2023 17:29
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Minera posted:if you put green in front of something its automatically good Green... Hitler
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Apr 26, 2023 17:32
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ben shapino posted:Green... Hitler joe biden
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Apr 26, 2023 17:32
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Thorn Wishes Talon posted:lol you were rabidly defending hydrogen fuel cells in the D&D thread just yesterday and had a huge meltdown when people gave calmly provided actual sources to show how misguided you are HUGE MELTDOWN i bet you're well into your thirties, why do you talk like a 24 year old writing for buzzfeed Minera posted:hang on please explain "green hydrogen" for the class there's nothing to explain, you know how it works, you just chose to believe it wont
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Apr 26, 2023 17:34
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MightyBigMinus posted:HUGE MELTDOWN it won't
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Apr 26, 2023 17:35
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ben shapino posted:it won't it'll probably "not work" in the same sense that ethanol doesnt work. which is to say every know it all on the internet can poo poo talk it up and down, but you're still going to put some in your tank this week.
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Apr 26, 2023 17:40
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climate change is just a really big meltdown when you think about it
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Apr 26, 2023 17:41
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MightyBigMinus posted:HUGE MELTDOWN you're in the right place to have a nice meltdown
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Apr 26, 2023 17:42
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