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[–] 126 points 5 months ago (4 children)

But they were, all of them, deceived, for another Ring was made

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago

    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.

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  • [–] 79 points 5 months ago (18 children)

    I’m so fucking tired, bros.

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  • [–] 17 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 7 points 5 months ago

    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!

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  • [–] 5 points 5 months ago

    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.

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  • [+] -11 points 5 months ago (14 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 51 points 5 months ago (4 children)

    its not the dying i fear, it is the suffering along the way

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  • [+] -16 points 5 months ago (3 children)
  • [–] 33 points 5 months ago* (8 children)

    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.

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  • [+] -8 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (3 children)

    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/philosophy that has lasted over 2500 years was based on 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.

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  • [–] 8 points 5 months ago (2 children)
  • [+] -9 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

    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

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  • [–] 43 points 5 months ago

    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.

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  • [–] 40 points 5 months ago (5 children)

    only "ai takeover" that is going to happen is mass surveillance so billionaires can control us better, if we let them.

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  • [–] 10 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 6 points 5 months ago

    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.

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  • [–] 39 points 5 months ago (5 children)

    Oh, you can forget all of those things. Just get up now and go outside. Take everything in. Because soon it will never be like that ever again. Climate change is going to destroy so much.

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  • [–] 26 points 5 months ago* (4 children)

    Yup. If the infinite growth machine can't make a profit fixing climate change, it simply won't be fixed.

    No amount of home recycling, power saving, water reduction, etc. you can do will offset the pollution generated by companies in the pursuit of money.

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  • [–] 5 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    It’s honestly too late to fix most of it. The environment will continue to get worse for at least a few hundred years due to the damage already caused. Even if we stopped all emissions, pollution, habitat destruction, and overexploitation of natural resources today, we will still see catastrophic changes to the ecosphere we evolved in.

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  • [–] 4 points 5 months ago

    90% insect population decline. It's right there in our faces, and (not) on our windshields. I drive a lot for work and there's just so few bug splatters compared to 10 years ago or especially compared to 20 or more. I remember 20 years ago a three hour trip this time of year would have your car absolutely plastered with bug guts. Last Friday I drove 10 hours and cleaned my windshield at the end, but it wasn't because I couldn't see.

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  • [–] 31 points 5 months ago

    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.

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  • [–] 26 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    Don't forget climate collapse!

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  • [–] 21 points 5 months ago* (6 children)

    Never hurts to have extra food and water...and toilet paper

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  • [–] 8 points 5 months ago (4 children)

    Don't need to worry about toilet paper when you have bidet.

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  • [–] 18 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    You seem awefully sure about your water supply

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago

    The water supply issue is super location specific, which is why it will likely be one of the triggers of WWIII. Certain parts of Canada, for example, are basically a fractal of freshwater lakes and not among the areas likely to suffer desertification.

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  • [–] 20 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    How about and environmental and economic collapse caused by ai, while fighting WW3, leaving us helpless to combat the next pandemic.

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    Environmental collapse laughs.

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  • [–] 15 points 5 months ago (5 children)

    Old mate: I mean just look at it.

    Me: What?

    Old mate: This. All of it. A billion miles of sterile space and billion dead years either side of our miraculous existence and here you are bitching about your little problems. The sun will wipe this lot clean soon enough. Get over yourself.

    Me: Um, sorry mate. You OK?

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago

    Simmons: You ever wonder why we’re here?

    Grif: It's one of life's great mysteries isn't it? Why are we here? I mean, are we the product of some cosmic coincidence, or is there really a God watching everything? You know, with a plan for us and stuff. I don't know, man, but it keeps me up at night.

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  • [–] 0 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (3 children)

    And some say the end is near.
    Some say we'll see Armageddon soon.
    Certainly hope we will
    I sure could use a vacation from this
    stupid shit, silly shit, stupid shit.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago (2 children)

    I kind of think the opposite.

    If the gift of existence is so rare, then don't we have a responsibility to make the most of it? The big question is to which end.

    I'm not a fan of accelerationists.

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  • [–] 14 points 5 months ago

    All of the above unfortunately

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    And the Yellowstone super volcano.

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  • [–] 9 points 5 months ago

    This is why I cry all the time.

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  • [–] 8 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    in trek, over 600million people died in a nuclear holcaust of ww3.

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  • 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.

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  • [–] 8 points 5 months ago

    Ever since 2022 the jack-in-a-box music has been playing and Jack sure is taking his sweet fucking time.

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  • [–] 6 points 5 months ago

    None of the above. Living in ignorance of things you can't fix anyway is comfy

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  • [–] 6 points 5 months ago

    E ) All of the above.

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  • [–] 6 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

    Arrest pedophiles and all our problems would be solved instantly.

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  • [–] 10 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    I'm not worried about a pandemic. If scientific experts with no connections to the Republican party say the Hanta virus is low risk to spread, then I trust them.

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  • [–] 5 points 5 months ago

    The preparations for all of them are similar. Get off grid and self sustained

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    There's going to be a lot of starvation in the near future.

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    WW3 will be fought between AI and a combination of COVID and Hantavirus that have mutated together into a super diesease that causes an economic collapse.

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  • [–] 6 points 5 months ago (5 children)

    Do what I do. Stockpile stuff to get through the first 2-4 weeks. But have your house sabotaged in such a way that anything useful to anyone is destroyed, eat a fistful of sleeping pills and a deadmans switch to burn the whole thing down.

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago

    This resonates with me

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago

    Yes. Put nice furniture in your bunker

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago

    With any luck, a new pandemic will throw a wrench into WWIII.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago

    Me, a procrastinator: eh, it can wait

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago

    Yeah... In situations like these, you kinda just have to do whatever you can do.

    Unless you're someone with the power to actually influence policy of the country you live in - in which case what the fuck are you doing reading this, fix your shit - then you realistically can't do jack about these issues.

    If you try to fight every battle that's coming our way, rally behind every issue, you'll get burnt out - and that's exactly what those sending them to you want to happen.

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