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Funky See Funky Do posted:Don't worry. You'll die of thirst weeks before you die of starvation. do i really have to wait multiple weeks before i get to die again
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Sep 20, 2021 19:26
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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. Hahaha yesssss join me in the final ping, where it is our moral responsibility, our duty above all other things to initiate the complete annihilation of civilization as rapidly as possible. Hopefully some jungle rodents will survive this millennium that way.
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Sep 20, 2021 19:26
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mawarannahr posted:where do you draw the line for individual responsibility? what if you work for an oil company? obviously being a clerk or pump attendant has no degree of responsibility. how about a regional manager? a marketing executive at international headquarters? the children of executives who have benefited disproportionately from said system? Its honestly a tricky issue because factually, yes, by simply existing in a western society I have consumption habits that make me a problem, I just like to tell myself that my individual contribution is meaningless in the face of the bigger polluters out there. So I am also guilty, just non meaningfully guilty - i dont know what else to say.
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Sep 20, 2021 19:30
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Conspiratiorist posted:Out of curiosity, how old are you and what do you consider "most of the worst effects"? I am 36 so I will most definetly see some poo poo before the end. I am just selfishly hoping it will be "bad poo poo that happens on the other side of the world in the news" and not a local version of thunderdome
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Sep 20, 2021 19:33
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Man Musk posted:https://twitter.com/ezequieleg968/status/1439699669899255814 that’s bad but it’s horrible a mega tsunami didn’t take out the eastern seaboard
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Sep 20, 2021 19:33
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Captain Gordon posted:So I am also guilty, just non meaningfully guilty I'm so guilty I literally exhale co2
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Sep 20, 2021 19:34
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Captain Gordon posted:I am 36 so I will most definetly see some poo poo before the end. I am just selfishly hoping it will be "bad poo poo that happens on the other side of the world in the news" and not a local version of thunderdome If you're a wealthy computer toucher you might get away with it! But expect an irrecoverable economic depression and supply chain disruptions on basic goods in your area starting this decade. Wealth means you get to still live relatively comfortably while you watch the poors around you die on the streets.
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Sep 20, 2021 19:39
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mawarannahr posted:where do you draw the line for individual responsibility? what if you work for an oil company? obviously being a clerk or pump attendant has no degree of responsibility. how about a regional manager? a marketing executive at international headquarters? the children of executives who have benefited disproportionately from said system? there is no individual responsibility, it's just more cope
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Sep 20, 2021 19:39
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Rah! posted:do i really have to wait multiple weeks before i get to die again u have to wait at least a full season before u get to die again and be replaced with whatever actor the studio thinks will rate better with target demographics im on to your tomfoolery, time lord
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Sep 20, 2021 19:41
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500 good dogs posted:there is no individual responsibility, it's just more cope I prefer the term 'collective responsibility' when I advocate climate justice targeting specific groups.
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Sep 20, 2021 19:41
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the most disappointing thing about all this is that all of my personal sacrifices* were in vain *meatless mondays once a month
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Sep 20, 2021 19:44
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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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Captain Gordon posted:I am 36 so I will most definetly see some poo poo before the end. I am just selfishly hoping it will be "bad poo poo that happens on the other side of the world in the news" and not a local version of thunderdome Man, I wish I could roll the clock back five years to before I started reading the papers on how rapidly things are going to unravel. What an innocent time.  E: I'm not being snarky, it really was a nice time. It's really hard for me to enjoy hiking or anything anymore. 
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Sep 20, 2021 20:10
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Doom thread playlist submissions: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwMtfS0Tqr8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lg6goayNUNc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=duPQ87JLO8s
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Sep 20, 2021 20:15
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Rime posted:Man, I wish I could roll the clock back five years to before I started reading the papers on how rapidly things are going to unravel. What an innocent time. This is the soul-splitter for me. I grew up nearly unsupervised running around in the woods and now no matter where I go I am stunned be the stillness and emptiness of "nature." There is no nature. It's gone. If you think you see some brave creature surviving in its own way you are wrong, what you see is a lonely ghost, a lost remnant of a world that is long faded in the rearview mirror.
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Sep 20, 2021 20:30
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mandatory lesbian posted:Someone remake the dome video but only 5 minutes so it can actually hold my attention Only takes 4! thanks for having me. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6CXRaTnKDXA&t Summarized into 6 seconds: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0EBBqbeqIM LionArcher posted:I posted something there and somebody asked what happened to me being crack pinged and dissing Biden and I said c spam and Delta.  mad at you, poster (your avatar is quite memorable), while reading the other thread in like 2019 and maybe early 2020. gently caress yea   tiberion02 has issued a correction as of 20:36 on Sep 20, 2021 |
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Sep 20, 2021 20:33
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Rime posted:E: I'm not being snarky, it really was a nice time. It's really hard for me to enjoy hiking or anything anymore.
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Sep 20, 2021 20:41
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Car Hater posted:This is the soul-splitter for me. I grew up nearly unsupervised running around in the woods and now no matter where I go I am stunned be the stillness and emptiness of "nature." There is no nature. It's gone. If you think you see some brave creature surviving in its own way you are wrong, what you see is a lonely ghost, a lost remnant of a world that is long faded in the rearview mirror. same it's not that bad, yet (in canada) but there are a lot fewer bugs and stuff than there used to be
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Sep 20, 2021 20:50
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LionArcher posted:feels like we’re all the musicians on the titanic towards the end.  I want to confess as best I can, but my heart is void. The void is a mirror. I see my face and feel loathing and horror. My indifference to men has shut me out. I live now in a world of lols, a prisoner in my lmaos.
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Sep 20, 2021 20:55
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i remember we used to have to wash the car after driving more than 10 minutes outside of town because so many bugs would be splattered on it. i think it's been years since I heard a large bug SPLAT on the windshield.
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Sep 20, 2021 20:55
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My failed attempts at hedonism leave me in awe of the belief that one can simply have fun or be happy after having looked into the abyss. Crack-pinging over and over until my brain looks like it has one of those nice crackle finishes has left me in the opposite camp. Humans deserve to suffer proportional to their consumption, and the only good those of us in the first world can do is pass that suffering upwards.
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Sep 20, 2021 20:56
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Car Hater posted:My failed attempts at hedonism leave me in awe of the belief that one can simply have fun or be happy after having looked into the abyss. Crack-pinging over and over until my brain looks like it has one of those nice crackle finishes has left me in the opposite camp. Humans deserve to suffer proportional to their consumption, and the only good those of us in the first world can do is pass that suffering upwards. 
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Sep 20, 2021 21:02
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Spergin Morlock posted:i remember we used to have to wash the car after driving more than 10 minutes outside of town because so many bugs would be splattered on it. i think it's been years since I heard a large bug SPLAT on the windshield. i havent cleaned a single bug off my windshield in like 6+ years lol now tree sperm on the other hand... gently caress trees.
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Sep 20, 2021 21:03
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https://twitter.com/sawyerhackett/status/1439976012188692496?s=21 https://twitter.com/SawyerHackett/status/1439989195871825921 https://twitter.com/johnholman100/status/1439948289680363527 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTFnKJqcPks maybe not strictly climate news but remember that last month Haiti suffered a bunch of disasters (tropical storm, flooding, earthquake, slides) on top of political/economic stuff happening. feels like one of those more and worse things happening.
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Sep 20, 2021 21:07
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Xaris posted:Even if you didn't, it's very noticeable for even the most innocent rube. like forests and hills are just completely dead and silent now, and dry as a bone. maybe you'll hear a bird or two, and probably some ants. actually leaving the 'burbs/city and going out into nature is the most starkest contrast to how bad things are. It's really really bad now. It used to be that I had to cross into the high-alpine, above the treeline, and on a wind less day to get that "Deafening Silence" effect - where the lack of any sound other than your own is so profound that it becomes its own sensory effect and spreads to your other senses. You can feel it pressing in on you when you're particular high up. Last trip, last week, we got that effect while sitting at a sub-alpine lake at noon. The blue and huckle berry bushes were full to bursting, pounds and pounds of berries. Mushrooms where everywhere, but we heard no birds and saw no scat from any smaller animals. Nothing was being eaten. There were no mosquitos or blackflies to taunt us, and there should have been. In the boulder fields where marmots should have been playing and making alarm calls as we got close, there was nothing. It was deeply unsettling. This was an area I've visited several times since 2013, on roughly the same week each time, I know what it should be like up there. Rime has issued a correction as of 21:29 on Sep 20, 2021 |
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Sep 20, 2021 21:27
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Erghh posted:https://twitter.com/sawyerhackett/status/1439976012188692496?s=21 This is definitely climate related because this is how our "Most Progressive President" is handling increased flows of migrants when climate refugees are going to make these numbers look like nothing.
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Sep 20, 2021 21:54
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Car Hater posted:This is the soul-splitter for me. I grew up nearly unsupervised running around in the woods and now no matter where I go I am stunned be the stillness and emptiness of "nature." There is no nature. It's gone. If you think you see some brave creature surviving in its own way you are wrong, what you see is a lonely ghost, a lost remnant of a world that is long faded in the rearview mirror.
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Sep 20, 2021 22:17
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Rime posted:The blue and huckle berry bushes were full to bursting, pounds and pounds of berries. Mushrooms where everywhere Hunting may be hampered by that whole "4% of mammal biomass is wild" stat but gathering is back on bay-bee
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Sep 20, 2021 22:39
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Cascade Failure posted:I, as well, already regret bookmarking this thread. Watched the dome video and found myself just kinda going "Yep, sounds about right". lot of lols to be had in this but I liked this at the very end  attention all problem solvers, innovators, thinkfluencers, and hot take artists: we need YOU to design a magic energy source that's more efficient than oil and doesn't need an asteroid belt's worth of lithium as an energy buffer.
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Sep 20, 2021 22:46
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Zohar posted:lot of lols to be had in this but I liked this at the very end so you're saying there's a chance 
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Sep 20, 2021 22:47
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Cold on a Cob posted:
Congratulations on your discovery of absurdist philosophy. quote:How then to remain consistent with absurd reasoning and avoid falling victim to the “spirit of nostalgia”? The Myth of Sisyphus finds the answer by abandoning the terrain of philosophy altogether. Camus describes a number of absurdist fictional characters and activities, including Don Juan and Dostoevsky’s Kirolov (The Possessed), theater, and literary creation. And then he concludes with the story of Sisyphus, who fully incarnates a sense of life’s absurdity, its “futility and hopeless labor”. Camus sees Sisyphus’s endless effort and intense consciousness of futility as a triumph. “His scorn of the gods, his hatred of death, and his passion for life won him that unspeakable penalty in which the whole being is exerted toward accomplishing nothing”. After the dense and highly self-conscious earlier chapters, these pages condense the entire line of thought into a vivid image. Sisyphus demonstrates that we can live with “the certainty of a crushing fate, without the resignation that ought to accompany it”. For Camus, Sisyphus reminds us that we cannot help seeking to understand the reality that transcends our intelligence, striving to grasp more than our limited and practical scientific understanding allows, and wishing to live without dying. Like Sisyphus, we are our fate, and our frustration is our very life: we can never escape it. Lol. Lmao.
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Sep 20, 2021 22:49
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Rectal Death Adept posted:This is definitely climate related because this is how our "Most Progressive President" is handling increased flows of migrants when climate refugees are going to make these numbers look like nothing. they’ll start mowing them down in the next administration
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Sep 20, 2021 22:52
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mawarannahr posted:where do you draw the line for individual responsibility? what if you work for an oil company? obviously being a clerk or pump attendant has no degree of responsibility. how about a regional manager? a marketing executive at international headquarters? the children of executives who have benefited disproportionately from said system? everyone who interacts with commodity dynamics shares some responsibility. liberals are responsible cuz capitalism is their project, but they're also stupid babies who haven't had any real agency for generations. they don't know any better and are just blindly following systemic incentives into a mass grave. ultimate responsibility falls to the revleft that failed to get its poo poo together. communism is the only thing that could ever have saved the world, and our inability to make it happen in the face of its obvious objective necessity is also the failure of the human species to justify its continued existence. and all of that is just fine. retroactively, from the point of view of the MEE that had already happened, humans were always an evolutionary dead end. if you can't rationally regulate your metabolism with nature, you don't have a long term future as a species, the end.
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Sep 20, 2021 23:37
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splifyphus posted:everyone who interacts with commodity dynamics shares some responsibility. I think communism being undercut by countless people who knew what was up regarding human- nature metabolism and still undermined revolution out of personal cowardice/desire to gain has to be given its due as well. Solidarity is reciprocal and to say any single political actor could’ve gone it alone to fix things had they just done better isn’t fair. Sincere communists were left holding the bag by people who knew better (alongside their own unfortunate if understandable failures) I do think apportioning blame still matters so there’s a historical record that a specific subset of humanity knowingly hosed up and didn’t give a drat. Even if the only significance it ends up having is aliens advanced enough to come across it just go “lmao” and move on. Bathtub Cheese has issued a correction as of 00:03 on Sep 21, 2021 |
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Sep 20, 2021 23:49
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Bathtub Cheese posted:Even if the only significance it ends up having is aliens advanced enough to come across it just go “lmao” and move on. Cope: Joking about aliens discovering our remains as a way of assigning some kind of relevance to our actions. A modern day "remember me" rattled from the throat of a dying race. Woke: Realizing there may never be another intelligence which is aware of and contextualizes our existence once we are gone, rendering us so totally absent from the universe that it will be as if we never existed at all.
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Sep 21, 2021 00:09
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Rime posted:Cope: Joking about aliens discovering our remains as a way of assigning some kind of relevance to our actions. A modern day "remember me" rattled from the throat of a dying race. I'm petty enough to play the blame game for the infinitesimal chance that it does get contextualized. Plus it's funny.
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Sep 21, 2021 00:15
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Frankly we were hosed when Caveman X told Caveman Y about how he found this flammable black mud in a hollow
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Sep 21, 2021 00:15
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Mameluke posted:Frankly we were hosed when Caveman X told Caveman Y about how he found this flammable black mud in a hollow yeah well gently caress that guy
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Sep 21, 2021 00:17
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Mameluke posted:Frankly we were hosed when Caveman X told Caveman Y about how he found this flammable black mud in a hollow 
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Sep 21, 2021 00:20
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If I were, the most intelligent species in my ecosystem, I would simply not exceed its carrying capacity
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Sep 21, 2021 00:21
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