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alexandriao posted:You can see that by how the number continued to go up and larger than each increment before alexandriao posted:No, because things aren't actually getting worse. There's literally no downward spiral. ???
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I'm not trying to be anything I'm just being a thing, christmas boots posted:You understand this is just space magic nonsense, right? So is all of thought. You just pick a flavor of magic.
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Mar 12, 2022 23:46
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Yeah, Climate change is a thing that will make things more difficult Societally speaking, on the millenia scale, things are more or less as they have always been. Maybe in 50 years we'll have people displaced from places due to sea levels and so on, but we also saw that around the time of the ice age, and several times in between for various reasons, war, disease, famine. How many people fled Europe around the time of the black death? Like yeah, sure, the ocean will probably be dead by the time I (if I live until I) am 90 years old. As an asthmatic with lung injuries from ventilation as a newborn, I am likely to need a breathing apparatus (actually, I kind of already need one due to covid and the general city pollution bullshit) Things are going to get worse in like 25 years, but right now they are not drastically more worse than they were 100 years ago, 200 years ago, 500 years ago, or 1500 years ago, when my people were being slaughtered and ran out by the englisc ængli population.
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Mar 12, 2022 23:52
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Manager Hoyden posted:I think people in the West (correctly) feel that something is wrong and try to find something scary out there to justify that feeling. It doesn't matter than this is the safest and most secure place and time ever. I can of course only speak for my household, but we're way less "something under capitalism is scary, must answer" and more "woops uncle vova really did it." It was pretty nice getting uninterrupted phone contact on the phone with family in Rubtovsk was sure nice, it's a shame capitalism killed it. And by capitalism I don't mean modern capitalism I mean Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin.
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Mar 12, 2022 23:53
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I'm doing great. Just stop being sad and be happy instead.
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Mar 12, 2022 23:57
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doverhog posted:I'm not trying to be anything I'm just being a thing, This is less profound than you are imagining it to be
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Mar 13, 2022 00:07
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:I can of course only speak for my household, but we're way less "something under capitalism is scary, must answer" and more "woops uncle vova really did it." It was pretty nice getting uninterrupted phone contact on the phone with family in Rubtovsk was sure nice, it's a shame capitalism killed it. And by capitalism I don't mean modern capitalism I mean Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin. Lol I don't mean that real, grounded fears are all actually dissatisfaction under capitalism. There's some scary poo poo out there for real, and I hope your family is safe and happy I was speaking mainly about a generalized unease at the population level that turns into various forms of fear and hate
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Mar 13, 2022 00:09
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doverhog posted:No, because if we assume a species will not self-annihilate, they have a billion years to survey the galaxy. They will transfer their consciousness to self replicating machines and transcend any need for planets. The idea of faster than light spaceships that actually have biological beings inside them is very naive. Ok but here's the thing. 1. They recently re-ran the Drake equation with some adjustments and modern numbers and found out the original result was crap and the new equation describes more or less what we see 2. Issac Arthur, who is a trained physicist, has a video where he goes over the numbers and essentially our solar system can sustain and keep life in O'Neil cylinders until we reach around a googleplex humans, probably more with better space savings and hollowing out planets and expanding into the oort cloud. And even then there would be a fuckload of space. The thing about this popsci bullshit is that when you actually run the numbers it is all just a lot of conjecture that turns out to be nonsensical in context of our actual, factual knowledge.
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Mar 13, 2022 00:13
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UPHO: Futurists suck rear end because it's all conjecture ad reasonable supposition but literally almost none of the futurists throughout human history have been at all close to being correct, even the more pessimistic. One of the reasons is because as a fact of life, any new technology has an amazing downside that hinders its ability to act in the way that we thought it could before we had it. So all of this AI, space flight, etc. bullshit by self-proclaimed pop sci futurists not only mostly doesn't hold when you run the numbers, but just doesn't stand up on closer inspection when looking at how people thought technology would work in the past. Examples:
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Mar 13, 2022 00:17
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alexandriao posted:2. Issac Arthur, who is a trained physicist, has a video where he goes over the numbers and essentially our solar system can sustain and keep life in O'Neil cylinders until we reach around a googleplex humans, probably more with better space savings and hollowing out planets and expanding into the oort cloud. And even then there would be a fuckload of space. Having 10(10100) of anything, let alone humans, is pretty impressive considering there are only 1080 or so particles in the entire universe...
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Mar 13, 2022 00:23
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christmas boots posted:This is less profound than you are imagining it to be It's a shortcut answer because I'm about to pass out don't think I'll back to this soon. *maybe tomorrow
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Mar 13, 2022 00:23
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No we should go to space more
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Mar 13, 2022 00:24
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Gripweed posted:It's really stupid because it's built on the assumption that long distance space travel will inevitably cheap and easy, therefore every intelligent species will eventually inevitably be zipping around all over the place. But that is an extremely unsound assumption. everything anyone's ever said about "alien civilizations" is incredibly stupid beep boop stuff
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Mar 13, 2022 00:28
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Launch me into space, you don't even need to bring me back.
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Mar 13, 2022 00:28
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These are fun pages. Takes about three seconds to scroll past. There are quite a few very popular opinions being shared that happen to be at odds with other popular opinions focusing on different aspects of the same problem. People need to chill and go for a walk or something. Clearly brains are failing to function as the winter weather wanes. (Southern hemisphereists excepted.) At least that's my opinion.
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Mar 13, 2022 00:34
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Winter is the best season.
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Mar 13, 2022 00:35
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It's Fall for sure. Beautiful out, crunchy leaves, not too hot, not too cold.
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Mar 13, 2022 00:37
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I read the scientific paper “Project Hail Mary” and it makes a very convincing case that alien life is not only possible but we can probably communicate clearly with them within 3 weeks of first contact
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Mar 13, 2022 00:37
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Futurism is absolutely a joke profession and when scrutinised breaks down into either a) Well applying common sense to modern tech it would sorta look like... b) Absurdly generalistic number crunching based on things like estimated total kgs of water ice in the solar system In summary: 
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Mar 13, 2022 02:33
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My favorite failed futurism is all the media that thought people in the future would need violent spectacles to be distracted and entertained. Like Running Man or Death Race or Roller Ball. Turns out we just want cheap rear end drama like dancing shows or cooking shows. Or just regular people locked up in a house. Less silly though, is that we may be heading into a post antibiotic era as bug resistances to existing antibiotics rise and fewer new antibiotics are found. Antibiotic custodianship is becoming important and the thought of people dying from 'minor' infections again is scary.
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Mar 13, 2022 02:51
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The internet was a mistake.
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Mar 13, 2022 03:02
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Corporate internet was a mistake. The old wild west days were amazing.
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Mar 13, 2022 03:06
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Maybe, but at that point we’re just splitting hairs and maybe it’s time to just shut it all down.
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Mar 13, 2022 03:10
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Okay tracer tong
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Mar 13, 2022 03:12
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Tracer Tong was right.
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Mar 13, 2022 03:12
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Alternative: we rip apart Amazon, Facebook, Google, Baba and let the internet be fun again
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Mar 13, 2022 03:13
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And run the risk of letting it get to this point again? I think not !!
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Mar 13, 2022 03:14
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The path you choose leads only to invisible war. Is that the path you want to go down
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Mar 13, 2022 03:15
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But it also leads to the human revolution so who’s to say if it’s good or bad?
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Mar 13, 2022 03:17
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Well I certainly didn't ask for it
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Mar 13, 2022 03:18
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Gaius Marius posted:The path you choose leads only to invisible war. Is that the path you want to go down
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Mar 13, 2022 03:23
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The True Crime phenomenon is deeply disturbing.
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Mar 13, 2022 04:45
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Elissimpark posted:My favorite failed futurism is all the media that thought people in the future would need violent spectacles to be distracted and entertained. If you watch zero of these things on YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, then you're a happy exception, but honestly I'd say people are stuffing all of this into their drama-hungry eyes every day... and laughing at most of it, and cheering for more of it. Our reptilian brains are still active.
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Mar 13, 2022 05:02
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Violent crime has been going down for years.
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Mar 13, 2022 05:04
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In all seriousness, I agree the problem isn't the internet, but the corporations who control most of it, but the wild west internet is never coming back, it's capitalism hellworld forever, and I'd better just get used to it before I become yet another old man yelling at clouds. My other spicy hot take is that magic isn't real, it's 2022, come on this should not be a controversial statement.
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We have passed into Bullshit Time, so it is once again time to say: Daylight Savings Time is complete poo poo just use regular rear end time forever please. RIP to the people who die in car crashes today because an hour of sleep has been arbitrarily cancelled. 9-5 computer touchers will say "I like the sun being out when I get off" while ignoring it's down when I get off and up when I need to sleep, as is traditional. Edgar Allen Ho has a new favorite as of 13:20 on Mar 13, 2022 |
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:We have passed into Bullshit Time, so it is once again time to say: Daylight Savings Time is complete poo poo just use regular rear end time forever please. RIP to the people who die in car crashes today because an hour of sleep has been arbitrarily cancelled. I'm a 9-5 computer toucher and I hate stupid bullshit daylight savings time. Let's face it, I'm a computer toucher, I wouldn't be doing anything outdoors with that extra hour of daylight anyway.
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Mar 13, 2022 13:43
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People die because they lose an hour of sleep is the dumbest poo poo I've seen today. If you are swerving into traffic from lack of sleep an hour don't gonna help you
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Gaius Marius posted:People die because they lose an hour of sleep is the dumbest poo poo I've seen today. If you are swerving into traffic from lack of sleep an hour don't gonna help you It's a recorded fact that the week after the time skip has more traffic accidents I think it's less the hour of sleep and more that people's circadian rhythm is a thing, and we societally give it the middle finger once a year. Edgar Allen Ho has a new favorite as of 16:13 on Mar 13, 2022 |
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The Witcher TV show is bad. The writing is on the level of a generic YA novel. The visual effects are lovely. The voice Henry Cavill puts on sounds dumb as gently caress. The action scenes are boring and pointless. The episodes are way too long and the narrative is unnecessarily drawn out, seemingly to fill time. Scenes are often very poorly lit so you can't see anything (probably to disguise how bad it looks). It's far from the worst thing I've watched. I watched three episodes and I feel like I could watch all the rest or not and it would make absolutely no difference to me. I wouldn't object to seeing more of it, but there's no reason for me ever to seek it out. Nothing about it is offensively bad. It's just completely unremarkable in every way and does nothing to justify its own existence.
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