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Mayor Dave posted:lmao which one of you bought this banner ad: It is Ragnarök, my dudes
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Sep 16, 2021 21:28
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Crusader posted:
I've had a couple little sartorial moments about music lately, and about its commodification. Not that it's extremely relevant but everything about music, the way we make it, appreciate it, it's all shaped by the vicissitudes of capital. We've already had the technological singularity but we're too dumb to realize it. Capital is a distributed mind, humans are its many, many hands. It will use us until it has better ones. Gibson was right, we couldn't create artificial intelligence, but it could and has come in spite of us.
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Sep 17, 2021 02:42
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Oxxidation posted:steinbeck figured it out earlier than that Grapeses of Wrath? In Dubious Battle? Great books. But people think it's metaphor, a unique way of summing it up. I'm saying it's literal. There are distributed consciousnesses using individuals to their own ends.
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Sep 17, 2021 03:12
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Hubbert posted:hey guys Thank you. Nearly every time I've heard Malthus mentioned in the spam it's been derogatory, typical kneejerk stuff.
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Sep 17, 2021 03:22
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Perry Mason Jar posted:Goddammit no no loving Malthusian chat it's page four of the thread omg please Hey as they say, it's on the tin. But I don't see any need to delve into it RN. I'm just sick of hearing peeps go on about how there's no such thing as overpopulation and probably that the concept of overpopulation is racist in its origins, bla bla blah. Actually the bro in Nature Hates a Dome covered that pretty succinctly as far as I'm concerned.
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Sep 17, 2021 03:47
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Horizon Burning posted:fox blocked this outside the US, i think lmao Fox blockers
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Sep 17, 2021 04:03
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Hubbert posted:I truly wonder what 2051 will look like. That's pretty optimistic LOL
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Sep 17, 2021 04:36
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wolfs posted:tunes to entertain Malthusian realities to o/~ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dgTmosuidH8
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Sep 17, 2021 14:18
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tiberion02 posted:Reading the Climate Change thread over the past couple years, coming to the correct conclusion. The pile of rags at the end of the hall that we've been defecating into has always worked in the past and will always continue to.
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Sep 17, 2021 17:55
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gently caress You And Diebold posted:
Yeah, I bought this by accident a long time ago, having gotten recs for "The End of Nature" and I got this instead. Turned out to be one of the most realistic futuristic sci fi books on the subject I've encountered. And of course if you want the other best one, look up "The Sheep Look Up" which has hit the nail on the head numerous times.
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Sep 19, 2021 14:54
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Bathtub Cheese posted:my big takeaway was that the process of capitalist industrialization had so much path dependence built into it (and IMO after communism was successfully contained by the capitalist powers) this outcome was already locked in barring a miraculous level of foresight and universal solidarity That is a pretty good assessment
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Sep 19, 2021 14:55
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Captain Gordon posted:You guys missed the point of the video. Humanity literally doomed itself and there is nothing we can do, so focus on personal happiness instead of doomerism. Nothing will save us save except for for a tiny chance of benevolent aliens showing or a sci-fi tech breakthrough. I think the only point of the video is to face facts for once instead of buying into the MIC's lies. Just for its own sake. There is no happy ending and there's no personal happiness when you know that all your works and even your progeny will be snuffed out due to a world view that you take part in and benefit from.
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Sep 19, 2021 15:00
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CODChimera posted:
Same. Not very encouraging to think you're stuck working a cash register at the end of the loving world.
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Sep 20, 2021 14:01
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Funky See Funky Do posted:I think the far more terrifying thought is that it's not the end of the world. It's just the start of a much worse one. Until recently I believed that the inevitable nuclear war would put us out of our misery for good but it seems that nuclear winter isn't likely at all. I imagine people will still be clinging on for (possibly) hundreds more years in the irradiated deserts of the future. Who knows, maybe they find a sustainable niche in hell and humanity is doomed to survive for thousands or even hundreds of thousands more years. That's pretty optimistic. But when I say "the end of the loving world" that would probably include humanity being reduced to a few bands of scavengers. And I wasn't even talking about nukes. petit choux has issued a correction as of 14:57 on Sep 20, 2021 |
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Sep 20, 2021 14:53
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Octavia Butler probably hit the nail on the head. Whoever's best at denying reality will get the keys to the kingdom, they'll make it illegal to speak ill of government or big industry in any way.
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Sep 20, 2021 15:08
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Buffer posted:The thing that hit me recently is the realization that thermonuclear war is one of the softer landings for the species at this point - if it happens soon enough to effectively de-industrialize and end emissions anyway. Except lol, no, even that wouldn't be enough w/o some magical carbon capture tech after the exchange. Yeah, for everything there is a season. Unless for some reason there are no seasons.
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Sep 20, 2021 18:11
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Captain Gordon posted:I really dont understand this point of view. There is plenty I still want to do for myself in this life, climate change or not. If I am lucky, most of the worst effects wont happen till after I am dead. There is also absolutely nothing I can do about any of this and I am not directly responsible for decades of bad neglectful climate policy, so I can sleep easy at night. I dont have kids and am not planning to have any, so that is someone elses problem to be honest. And if you are having kids fully knowing whats around the corner, lol, lmao - I guess your children will truly know what its like to be owned. I'm sorry, I just ran out of antidepressants for a little while there, getting caught up.
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Sep 20, 2021 19:57
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Evil_Greven posted:why go for something so exotic when the more familiar will do Is this the thing that killed Lot's wife? I was pretty blown away when I realized that story had a basis in historical fact.
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Sep 21, 2021 09:04
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Car Hater posted:Critical mass imo, habitats are too fractured and monoculture is too pervasive to maintain breeding populations in the face of all the chemicals etc, and so we've hit the Seneca cliff for bugs. I've been hearing this for the past couple years but I must have been living in one of the places this hasn't occurred yet, the general vicinity of the Great Dismal Swamp. I'm no longer there and don't drive around the countryside as much but when I lived in eastern NC my car was always a Jackson Pollock of bugs by the end of every long drive.
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Sep 21, 2021 19:10
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Lenin Stimpy posted:isn't this blowing the actual science out of proportion? quote:also: quote:and finally: Oh well then never mind. I guess that wraps it up for environmental catastrophes.
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Sep 21, 2021 22:13
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And all these forest fires all over the planet are just the result of not properly raking the forests. 
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Sep 21, 2021 22:21
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Lostconfused posted:I can't decide which one of these is my favorite. Wow, coal mining companies work the same way here!
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Sep 21, 2021 23:08
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Cup Runneth Over posted:Frankly the most amazing thing on that graph is the assertion that all marine life and fish will be dead before 2050. Our oceans will be barren, acidic graveyards. That's just an incredible premise. The potential for content is literally unbelievable, I'm not jokerfied enough to truly envision it. Can we drink acid water? Yeah, I was ranting about this one a few years ago in this thread's predecessor before Trump got elected and my mind went. The dead spots will start growing and spreading in the oceans. It's going to smell bad too, BTW. Mola Yam posted:ocean dies, belches up 200 years of excess carbon it's been sucking down I know, right?
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Oct 15, 2021 11:50
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Rectal Death Adept posted:Technology exists right? Then there is a solution. Give money to technology and it's only a matter of time until we solve the problem of the global ocean's final withering after we have already killed it. Clearly the solution is war.
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Oct 15, 2021 12:09
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things are gonna get all loosey-goosey, IYKWIM
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Oct 15, 2021 12:12
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Occasion of much hugger-mugger
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Oct 15, 2021 12:13
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Cup Runneth Over posted:The yellow line is the bacteria that causes the toxicity and its presence in the ocean we may not get FIOS where we're going.
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Oct 15, 2021 12:26
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bobmarleysghost posted:90% of the ocean dying in 25 years is truly amazing Anaerobes will figure a lot more heavily in the overall
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Oct 15, 2021 19:39
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Trabisnikof posted:honestly that GOES paper shows that if anything, this thread needs to get off its lazy rear end, and get some doomerism published in a predatory open access journal somewhere. I'd like to assist by doing some graphs and charts. Bring it on.
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Oct 15, 2021 20:38
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The Protagonist posted:perhaps we can just dump lots of very basey liquids into the ocean to counteract the acidity, like several gigatons of oven cleaner?? Just bazillions of boxes of baking soda
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Oct 16, 2021 18:32
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kater posted:I love all these scientists that presumably work their asses off to create poo poo that boils down to graphs used to teach econ 101. truly the more advanced science. I will not only do this for our team but I will wear a lab coat too.
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Oct 16, 2021 18:39
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hobbesmaster posted:Yes gentlemen, they are on their way in, and nobody can bring them back. For the sake of our country, and our way of life, I suggest you get the rest of SAC in after them. Otherwise, we will be totally destroyed by Red retaliation. My boys will give you the best kind of start, 1400 megatons worth, and you sure as hell won't stop them now. So let's get going, there's no other choice. God willing, we will prevail, in peace and freedom from fear, and in true health, through the purity and essence of our natural... fluids. God bless you all. LOL 1400 megatons
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Oct 20, 2021 14:25
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Jokerpilled Drudge posted:okay so we just need to grow things in the ocean that can survive acid. What can survive acid? I was watching a docu about the black sea and how there's no oxygen below about 125 meters or whatever and how nothing decays on the sea floor, but there's life forms that survive on the edge of the oxygen cutoff zone like a plant thing that produces sulfuric acid to dissolve poo poo for nutrition. I was thinking to myself, now there's a good candidate.
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Oct 20, 2021 14:34
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Trabisnikof posted:and anything less than complete transformation of society won't even get us close to preparing for what is coming. So war, right?
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Oct 20, 2021 14:36
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Raine posted:you know ive been giving the whole "if it's that bad aren't you morally obligated to do such and such" some thought and reached some of my own conclusions: The pic of Billy Butcher just adds a tiny extra umph to this I'm just like martyr for what? For whom would I be martyring myself? Now watch me go martyring myself just because I jinxed it.
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Oct 20, 2021 15:26
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Car Hater posted:Lol fine, don't call it martyrdom. I'm just too impatient for this stupid poo poo anymore My cinnabuns exactly, these little monkeys don't deserve martyrs.
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Oct 20, 2021 16:32
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Cold on a Cob posted:if you're a doomer and you do what you think needs to be done you're a piece of poo poo martyr criminal scumbag and if you do nothing you're an inactivist which is actually now worse than being a fossil fuel company executive. both of those points are being promoted by many climate activists and posters in this very forum. Holy cow!
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Oct 20, 2021 17:57
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tiberion02 posted:someone already said the Fifth Element, but that movie seriously and completely owns and 100% holds up. Watch Milla in a 5mm bandeau tube top for no drat good reason? I'm on it.
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Oct 20, 2021 23:56
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Wakko posted:the most backward take. humanity stands at the cusp of realizing its grand destiny. tens of thousands of years of consumption have brought us here, and you whine? imagine a tuberculosis bacterium mewling like this as the host's lungs start to fill with fluid. generations have stood on the shoulders of one another, all working together to bring us here. its is only now, at the great dying, that we realize true meaning. Plastics.
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Nov 19, 2021 03:28
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Steely Dad posted:Realizing that
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Nov 19, 2021 03:56
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