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Has anyone calculated the potential thickness of the plastic layer we're leaving behind in the geological record? Is it going to be a few millimeters thick? I just want to make sure it's potentially detectable for whatever ape-people might come long after us.
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Jul 11, 2023 17:12
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this video game i used to play had plastic ore in it that you could make plastic weapons out of and i still remember this excited post about how "plastic ore" exists irl plastic ore would make a good minecraft mod
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Jul 11, 2023 17:23
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BRJurgis posted:I know some people, some with land, some with food, some with guns. I would probably spend most of my day laboring outside just like now, except instead of edging mulching pruning and planting, I'd be straight up farming (however desperate an endeavor) or digging latrine ditches. Ask for a cigar and a bottle of nitrogen for the optimal cook way to go out.
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Jul 11, 2023 17:28
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A Bad King posted:Has anyone calculated the potential thickness of the plastic layer we're leaving behind in the geological record? Is it going to be a few millimeters thick? I just want to make sure it's potentially detectable for whatever ape-people might come long after us. the bird people will learn about you at the egg center there will be rides and stuff; your very corpse will power one of the animitrons
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Jul 11, 2023 17:34
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A Bad King posted:Has anyone calculated the potential thickness of the plastic layer we're leaving behind in the geological record? Is it going to be a few millimeters thick? I just want to make sure it's potentially detectable for whatever ape-people might come long after us. estimates are 135 billion tons oil have been dug up, thats 150B cubic meters, total surface earth 500M km2 (150M km2 land area). thats 500(150)T m2, so .3mm(1mm) deep, if every drop of oil had been converted into plastic and evenly spaced.
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Jul 11, 2023 17:35
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I did immune therapy for my severe allergies. They figure out what you're allergic to and then inject you with tiny amounts of it. Every month they increase the amount a little bit and after about 3 years your body doesn't react to it anymore. Over a typical summer I don't take any allergy meds and I used to not be able to even go outside some days. The effect should last the rest of my life, as my immune system has been forcibly trained to stop making GBS threads itself over pollen. Highly recommend it if you can. Also Lasix for your lovely vision.
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Jul 11, 2023 17:49
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how about if I just die instead?!
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Jul 11, 2023 17:51
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I wish I could implement some kind of alien technology that would immediately vaporize anyone who makes a comment like that, just poof gone
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Jul 11, 2023 17:56
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*patient coughs violently in front of my desk* That's just breathing, lung cancer is a bit more complicated.
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Jul 11, 2023 18:04
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Fell Mood posted:I did immune therapy for my severe allergies. They figure out what you're allergic to and then inject you with tiny amounts of it. Every month they increase the amount a little bit and after about 3 years your body doesn't react to it anymore. Over a typical summer I don't take any allergy meds and I used to not be able to even go outside some days. The effect should last the rest of my life, as my immune system has been forcibly trained to stop making GBS threads itself over pollen. Highly recommend it if you can. Also Lasix for your lovely vision.  except I still have allergies just not completely uncontrollably debilitating. At least I learned young not to be afraid of shots, I remember when I'd show up I'd get three at a time.What's wrong with my vision?!?!?
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Jul 11, 2023 18:09
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Just saw this AMA from our friends over at r/futurology 😊😊 Looks like it's gonna be all right https://www.reddit.com/r/Futurology...1&utm_content=2
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Jul 11, 2023 18:25
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I honestly thought this was satire until I clicked the account and saw all the Crowder retweets. I should know better by now
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Jul 11, 2023 18:29
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Bharatrocity posted:Just saw this AMA from our friends over at r/futurology 😊😊 Looks like it's gonna be all right Oh we just need to invent technology that gives us full control over the environment. Well that's a relief
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Jul 11, 2023 18:33
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I used to be a doomer and degrowther. That was how we were trained in the environmental disciplines during my MS at Michigan and my PhD at UCLA. But once I started to learn about technology and disruption, which virtually none of my colleagues had any understanding of at all, my view of the future changed completely.
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Jul 11, 2023 18:37
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Bharatrocity posted:Just saw this AMA from our friends over at r/futurology 😊😊 Looks like it's gonna be all right read this as r/futaology
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Jul 11, 2023 18:43
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Bharatrocity posted:Just saw this AMA from our friends over at r/futurology 😊😊 Looks like it's gonna be all right You know what, I don't think I do have any questions about optimism
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Jul 11, 2023 18:47
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Ok domer
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Jul 11, 2023 18:51
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Wheeee posted:I used to be a doomer and degrowther. That was how we were trained in the environmental disciplines during my MS at Michigan and my PhD at UCLA. But once I started to learn about technology and disruption, which virtually none of my colleagues had any understanding of at all, my view of the future changed completely. I used to think things were bad when I was receiving training from scientists, but then I started listening to people who wanted to sell me stuff and they told a whole different story. I didn't think about why, and neither should you
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Jul 11, 2023 18:52
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reddit posted:Don't let climate change affect your decision to have children. We can and will solve climate change. There are other more important factors to consider in your life, but all the catastrophism about climate change is misguided nonsense based on technological ignorance. phew we don’t need this thread anymore
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Jul 11, 2023 18:54
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maybe he’s not actually stupid, maybe he realized this was how to get paid and just started lying
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Jul 11, 2023 18:54
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Brain Curry posted:phew we don’t need this thread anymore There's technology that you're ignorant of that will fix everything, and I won't be telling you what it is
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Jul 11, 2023 18:58
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Bharatrocity posted:Just saw this AMA from our friends over at r/futurology 😊😊 Looks like it's gonna be all right Op for anyone who doesn't wanna click a reddit link quote:
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Jul 11, 2023 19:00
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I too was trained to be a doomer, at Harvard. Haven’t learned about technology yet think that’s next semester
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Jul 11, 2023 19:01
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Wheeee posted:I used to be a doomer and degrowther. That was how we were trained in the environmental disciplines during my MS at Michigan and my PhD at UCLA. But once I started to learn about technology and disruption, which virtually none of my colleagues had any understanding of at all, my view of the future changed completely. 
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Jul 11, 2023 19:01
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~ D I S R U P T I O N ~
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Jul 11, 2023 19:01
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just disrupt the climate
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Jul 11, 2023 19:03
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wait, poo poo
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Jul 11, 2023 19:03
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quote:Because we are headed into a world of clean energy superabundance, the solution to freshwater availability is part of the package. It's one of the many reasons why superbundant, ultra-cheap, clean energy from solar and wind is such a great deal for humanity and the planet! Yup, we'll be getting that super abundant, ultra-cheap, clean energy aaaannnnnnnyyyy day now
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Jul 11, 2023 19:04
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Do NOT disrupt the climate
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Jul 11, 2023 19:05
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this one made me lol but it's too big to quote so i'm gonna screenshot it
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Jul 11, 2023 19:07
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When you were doom-mongering, I studied disruption. When you were shitposting, I mastered innovation. While you wasted your days in pursuit of degrowth, I cultivated optimism. And now that the world is on fire and the barbarians are at the gate you have the audacity to come to ask me anything?
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Jul 11, 2023 19:08
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Cold on a Cob posted:this one made me lol but it's too big to quote so i'm gonna screenshot it I'm not sure I understand this post - care to elaborate??
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Jul 11, 2023 19:08
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what are you gonna do? disrupt me? - climate disrupted by man
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Jul 11, 2023 19:08
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ELTON JOHN posted:what are you gonna do? disrupt me? lol
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Jul 11, 2023 19:09
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Cold on a Cob posted:this one made me lol but it's too big to quote so i'm gonna screenshot it hope that question asker is dismissed as a doomer and degrowther
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Jul 11, 2023 19:09
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https://www.reddit.com/user/NintenZX/ Pretty sure this is the dudes sock puppet account. He uses this to ask himself questions in the AMA and also pretends to be some climate anxious person but probably just mining Reddit answers on various subs, no doubt for use in his think tank and to gauge public. Same esoteric use of certain words and grammar Soggy Muffin has issued a correction as of 19:23 on Jul 11, 2023 |
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Jul 11, 2023 19:20
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move fast and burn things
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Jul 11, 2023 19:35
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Wheeee posted:I used to be a doomer and degrowther. That was how we were trained in the environmental disciplines during my MS at Michigan and my PhD at UCLA. But once I started to learn about technology and disruption, which virtually none of my colleagues had any understanding of at all, my view of the future changed completely. Microplastics posted:When you were doom-mongering, I studied disruption. When you were shitposting, I mastered innovation. While you wasted your days in pursuit of degrowth, I cultivated optimism. Dr. Pangloss or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Doom
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Jul 11, 2023 19:54
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celadon posted:estimates are 135 billion tons oil have been dug up, thats 150B cubic meters, total surface earth 500M km2 (150M km2 land area). thats 500(150)T m2, so .3mm(1mm) deep, if every drop of oil had been converted into plastic and evenly spaced. This is extremely disappointing and my hopes for some sort of remnant to our insanity have taken a massive dive. Maybe the short-lived isotopes in the atmosphere from nuclear testing will have to do? Twigand Berries posted:the bird people will learn about you at the egg center there will be rides and stuff; your very corpse will power one of the animitrons I wish it were to be true, but I don't live in a region where fossilization happens in this geological epoch.
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Jul 11, 2023 20:00
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"I'm more optimistic than most, because I lived in Oman for over 10 years. Oman is one of the hottest countries in the world, and Muscat is (I believe) the hottest capital city in the world. Life in Oman is fantasic! But you really do need good air conditioning. Otherwise it is pretty tough for a sizable part of the year." lmao
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