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F) Move to a dreamy Mediterranean island in middle of nowhere and worry about nothing. :)
- How many islands do you think there are in the mediterranean?
- How many of those are uninhabited? (And why?)
- Do you realise how close you are to bigger nations there? It’s not that isolated there.
Arrest pedophiles and all our problems would be solved instantly.
por que no los all of the above?
Me, a procrastinator: eh, it can wait
Don’t forget climate collapse!
The forgotten stove backburner is still on, but we left the house
Nuclear winter will undo global warming. Global warming can be seen as a merciful preparation for a global nuclear war.
Nah, global warming is on much larger scales than nuclear winter. Well get a few years or decades of winter and then a quick rebound to warming. Even worse than just the warming, because at least that happens gradually and gives nature and people time to adapt.
Compared to climate change for the past millennium, even the smallest exchange modeled would plunge the planet into temperatures colder than the Little Ice Age (the period of history between approximately 1600 and 1850 AD). This would take effect instantly, and agriculture would be severely threatened.
In the 150 Tg case they found that:
A global average surface cooling of −7 °C to −8 °C persists for years, and after a decade the cooling is still −4 °C (Fig. 2). Considering that the global average cooling at the depth of the last ice age 18,000 yr ago was about −5 °C, this would be a climate change unprecedented in speed and amplitude
Yes, for a few decades. And then we’d go straight into warming again.
The only solution: a new nuclear war every 50 or so years. Solar radiation management is for suckers, real men use nukes!
True, but it would still revert to global warming after that. Probably even way worse because a lot of the vegetation cover would be dead, so think desert weather : very cold nights and very hot days.
And whatever nature managed to adapt and survive the winter would probably be killed off by the warming afterwards. Yeah.
E ) All of the above.
But they were, all of them, deceived, for another Ring was made
No-one was prepared for the Starlink re-entry events. Humanity had been so busy looking outwards, but had failed to look upwards. From 2035, they had to learn to accept the regular and devastating reentry of this fleet of miniature satellites. Molten fire would rain from the sky, multiple times per day at any time or place. Many cities were destroyed during this period, with too many deaths to count.
2026 Q4 robotic AI push
A ring called ‘irreversible and catastrophic environmental damage’.
(Not just climate change, either – though that’s a big part of it. Also everything from microplastics to overfishing.)
“Global Ecological Collapse” was the phrase used when I was studying biology 15 years ago.
PFAS is gonna fuck us, but simultaneously is super useful. Not much modern indoor plumbing works without ptfe paste/tape somewhere.
I wonder if it’s one of the great filters.
Oh fook, has Peter Thiel launched another company!?
Yup, the rubber tree shortage. The ENTIRE modern world relies on this one renewable resource, and its in critical decline. We harvest them faster than we can plant to grow :)
At this point I’m just trying to enjoy what I can in my immediate surroundings. When I am outside tending to my critters, I often wonder if today will be the day the sky is filled with a blinding light from the south then a very chaotic and consequential minute or two after that.
But deep down that is probably a fantasy. The world is not that exciting. Instead we get to slowly watch how many people the billionaires can starve as long as we still have a working internet.
I’m so fucking tired, bros.
Stop paying attention so much. Like, don’t stick your head in the sand, but take a break from news for a while.
I went on a cruise last year and the news detox was absolutely amazing for my mental health. Someone read a headline about Trump doing something stupid and I was like, who cares? There’s literally nothing we can do about it, especially from the middle of the Mediterranean.
And when I got home, I realized it’s the same here. I feel like I need to know what’s going on in the world, but if I can’t make a difference, why would I bring more stress into my life? I just come out feeling worse, for humanity, for my own inaction, for the futility of goodness.
You don’t need to know the intricacies of geopolitics, the price of oil, if the Strait is open, or even who the president is to have a positive effect on your community.
Go for a walk and meet your neighbors. Some might be shitheads but you’ll be a better person for getting to know them.
Volunteer work can also reignite your pilot light of hope. I worked at a shelter and the other volunteers showed me the goodness in humanity.
There’s still a lot of good out there. Don’t let the news convince you it’s a lost cause.
This is solid advice. New owners recently banned earbuds at work, which really sucks, but something curious happened as a result. I stopped listening to political shit on YouTube five days per week and I’ve never felt more calm. Now when I occasionally do pop in to Kyle Kulinski or something I see the world is still on fucking fire, but I got five good days of peace and my attention to the matter made no difference to anyone else.
It’s not just the news. Every fucking thing is a grift scam. Can’t go buy some bread without wondering if the company sold out and cut corners since the last time you bought that exact brand. Can’t trust cvs won’t replace the doctors with some idiots who will tell you to drink water to clear an infection because they don’t believe in antibiotics. Every fucking time i walk out of my house some fucking American grifting piece of shit is trying to ruin my day and rip me the fuck off.
And I carry that suspicion now with everyone I meet to protect myself. Because 70% of this fucking country is nothing but loser cheating pieces of shit who learned to lie cheat and steal from the “leader” they vote and work for.
Oh and every fucking thing is made from the cheapest shittiest Chinese supplier these grifting losers can find. Just replacing our country with cheap shitty plastic that doesn’t even fulfill its intended purpose. I hate everyone!
You are going to die no matter what. There was never any outcome where you live forever. It doesn’t set you back, it sets you free.
its not the dying i fear, it is the suffering along the way
Life IS suffering.
You’re doing it wrong
life is a detour to death. you know what they say, the most beautiful flowers grow besides the road, not on it.
The most beautiful flowers grow beside the road, but the best drugs are found on the streets. - Jesus H. Christ
Did you know that the “H” stands for Howard? It was a custom in the Christ family for middle names of all the boys to be Howard.
Anyone who says otherwise is selling something
The people down voting me disagree. They are privileged.
Dying would be a relief at this point. I’m not afraid of dying. I’m afraid for the 5 lives that depend on me to make it through every dumbass decision this administration makes to line their own pockets while taking from mine. These fluctuations occur every Sunday to manipulate money markets and give some white dude a huge boner.
Your nihilistic views may sound cool in your head, but caring for a family in this economy is far more detailed than just waiting to die.
If you’re too cowardly for a revolution you’re voting for this risk death or assure it or just hope everyone else is better than you and you’re just uniquely a piece of shit is that really better edit I’m not saying you are I’m saying you’re betting on being and in that case I kind of hope you are but I don’t think so
I’d like to buy a period, Mr Sajak
That sounds painful why
Which administration?
So you choose to be a doomer and worry about things you can’t control. Got it. I’ve got kids. I choose not to worry about things I can’t control and do what I can about the things I can control.
Your nihilistic views may sound cool in your head
An entire religion that has lasted over 2500 years was based of the concept, but I guess you got it all figured out. Honestly, your hostility speaks louder than your words. Sounds like you have a lot going on, and I hope you find your way.
I hope we all find our way.
Amen, brother.
Here’s my philosophy:
If it’s something I can’t control then it’s not worth worrying about.
If it’s something I can control then it’s not worth worrying about.
In the past, despite death, you could look forward to leaving a legacy and a better world for future generations.
Nobody has such hope anymore. It’s almost universally agreed that our children’s lives will be worse than ours.
It’s not universally agreed. You’re just terminally online. Lemmy is full of despair. There’s hope outside of the Internet.
With any luck, a new pandemic will throw a wrench into WWIII.
AI will fight WWIII while causing the economic collapse and giving you really bad medical advice that creates the next and last pandemic. The final frontier. Just as God intended.
only “ai takeover” that is going to happen is mass surveillance so billionaires can control us better, if we let them.
My profession has already largely disappeared thanks to AI. I’m not alone, either. Thousands of people are getting laid off each week. The surveillance is a fringe benefit compared to the savings that billionaires can achieve by replacing humans with machines.
It should be our savings, btw. Workers built every last bit of tech that is enabling this, billionaires just stole it.
Personally, I think the real target is ownership of cyberspace/ computing as a whole, with the workforce cuts and the surveillance as fringe benefits/ part of the world domination plan.
Buy out all the processors and memory for a couple years, and all the retail market will be left with is net books and phones that are essentially e-readers. No more saving your files on your computer or downloading programs, everything becomes cloud/ web based and they have access to it all.
Just as important as AI tracking our every move physically, it will be tracking everything we see and do digitally.
Middle manager? Yes-man?
No, I’m definitely not management material. If I was, I wouldn’t have been one of the people getting laid off.
we’re gonna let them
I miss the good old days when people were worried because some long dead calendar maker, didn’t bother to prepare the calendar a few hundred years in advance.
They were pretty accurate about when the world would end. It’s just been a slow, gradual end since then.
So you mean it was the beginning of the end of the world?
Maybe that calendar wasn’t the end of the world, just when the end started.
Environmental collapse laughs.
Just wait until we hit the ocean acidification tipping point where it becomes chemically impossible for certain tiny creatures at the base of the food chain to form calcium-based hard shells.
The whole ocean won’t hit that point all at the same time, but once we get close, it will happen very rapidly, affecting most of the oceans in the world within a few years. Entire ocean ecosystems will rapidly collapse when the bottom of the food chain falls out from under them. Already-strained fisheries will suddenly run completely out of fish, quickly driving the last few populations to extinction. But that’s only the tip of the iceberg for our problems. Those tiny organisms have a profound impact on the entire world’s climate and weather patterns, as well as being a huge part of the carbon cycle. When the oceans die, the effects felt on land will be extreme. And it will drastically accelerate carbon accumulation and climate change – those calcium-based hard shells are calcium carbonate, which incorporate carbon and often end up sequestering it on the sea floor when the creature dies, where it could stay locked away for millions to billions of years. Without them removing carbon from circulation, climate change will get far worse and accelerate much faster (which, in turn, makes ocean acidification worse, so there’s no going back once we hit that tipping point).
Uh-Oh
How about and environmental and economic collapse caused by ai, while fighting WW3, leaving us helpless to combat the next pandemic.
Polycrisis! I CHOOSE YOU!!
