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Cup Runneth Over
Aug 8, 2009

She said life's
Too short to worry
Life's too long to wait
It's too short
Not to love everybody
Life's too long to hate


hello future historians. I have two words for ya: suck it!!!!

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Cup Runneth Over
Aug 8, 2009

She said life's
Too short to worry
Life's too long to wait
It's too short
Not to love everybody
Life's too long to hate


Deep Dish Fuckfest posted:

someone replace the skull with the earth

Cold on a Cob posted:

ok i gotta get back to work so :effort: i'm done i guess



wtf gently caress you guys I did this months ago

Cup Runneth Over
Aug 8, 2009

She said life's
Too short to worry
Life's too long to wait
It's too short
Not to love everybody
Life's too long to hate


Cold on a Cob posted:

drat, yours is way better you should make the earth less of a dead husk and more of a red hot dead husk :shobon:

the skull isn't like that in the original but fine

Cup Runneth Over
Aug 8, 2009

She said life's
Too short to worry
Life's too long to wait
It's too short
Not to love everybody
Life's too long to hate


lol why is my edit CommieGIR's avatar now

Cup Runneth Over
Aug 8, 2009

She said life's
Too short to worry
Life's too long to wait
It's too short
Not to love everybody
Life's too long to hate


The Fourteenth Book is entitled, "What can a Thoughtful Man Hope for Mankind on Earth, Given the Experience of the Past Million Years?"

It doesn't take long to read The Fourteenth Book. It consists of one word and a period.

This is it: "Nothing."

Cup Runneth Over
Aug 8, 2009

She said life's
Too short to worry
Life's too long to wait
It's too short
Not to love everybody
Life's too long to hate


Tzen posted:

lmao we're (my kids and their kids) are so hosed

Lol you think your kids will have kids

Cup Runneth Over
Aug 8, 2009

She said life's
Too short to worry
Life's too long to wait
It's too short
Not to love everybody
Life's too long to hate


SKULL.GIF posted:

Also lol gently caress, suddenly realizing the destruction of fall peak color season is up there with "Hey remember how you used to have to scrape bugs off your windshield?"

I don't really miss the bug thing that much

Cup Runneth Over
Aug 8, 2009

She said life's
Too short to worry
Life's too long to wait
It's too short
Not to love everybody
Life's too long to hate



*taps old thread title*

Cup Runneth Over
Aug 8, 2009

She said life's
Too short to worry
Life's too long to wait
It's too short
Not to love everybody
Life's too long to hate


You guys spend so much time thinking about how to shoot our trash into space when we have so much trash and it takes so much rocket fuel. Well, you're not thinking like an engineer. If gravity is an obstacle the answer is obviously to cool our planet's core and reduce the gravitational pull so we can more easily shoot trash rockets into the sun. I don't know why it takes me to come up with the solutions for this stuff.

e: If that's not enough we could try fracturing it into multiple pieces for good measure. I don't think we really need much of that eastern hemisphere or whatever.

Cup Runneth Over has issued a correction as of 03:39 on Oct 13, 2021

Cup Runneth Over
Aug 8, 2009

She said life's
Too short to worry
Life's too long to wait
It's too short
Not to love everybody
Life's too long to hate


hey doomers, here's some normie hope

https://twitter.com/jam_etc/status/1448380548288634887
https://www.science.org/content/article/huge-step-forward-mutant-enzyme-could-vastly-improve-recycling-plastic-bottles

Cup Runneth Over
Aug 8, 2009

She said life's
Too short to worry
Life's too long to wait
It's too short
Not to love everybody
Life's too long to hate


we did it!! we cleaned up the Patch and got rid of recycled the plastic!

what do you mean we're still dead

Cup Runneth Over
Aug 8, 2009

She said life's
Too short to worry
Life's too long to wait
It's too short
Not to love everybody
Life's too long to hate


SKULL.GIF posted:

lol, so they've managed to figure out recycling plastic back into its original form. while we're still producing massive amounts of plastic daily. also these recycled plastics are going back into circulation where small bits of them get shaved/rubbed/worn/etc off and go into the environment.

this is literally making the problem worse.

I don't think they even know about the microplastics, they're just upset about the dolphins swimming in trash. They're not even thinking about how the water is also itself trash now

Basic Poster posted:

Lmao Florida




incredible, Florida is so lovely that it eclipsed my state entirely

but also lmao NYC

Cup Runneth Over
Aug 8, 2009

She said life's
Too short to worry
Life's too long to wait
It's too short
Not to love everybody
Life's too long to hate


Marenghi posted:

Great they're getting the plastic out of the ocean garbage patch. But what's the plan with it next. Just ship it to the nearest land based dump?

use Science Enzyme to turn it into more plastic containers, forever

Cup Runneth Over
Aug 8, 2009

She said life's
Too short to worry
Life's too long to wait
It's too short
Not to love everybody
Life's too long to hate


Deep Dish Fuckfest posted:

uh the combine had our best interests at heart; they were trying to stamp out superstition like blind optimism and religion, and understood that malthusianism was correct, thus the reproduction inhibition fields

it's not their fault our dipshit scientists breached a random dimension and brought headcrabs and barnacles to earth, thus making most of the planet a hostile hellhole

hla even shows the combine trying to clean them up! they are trying to fix our mess for us

Cup Runneth Over
Aug 8, 2009

She said life's
Too short to worry
Life's too long to wait
It's too short
Not to love everybody
Life's too long to hate


Ramrod Hotshot posted:

Can someone explain why the yellow line goes up after going down and what "atmosphere starts to become toxic due to dinoflagellate toxins" means? https://twitter.com/_ppmv/status/1448725571215708163/photo/1

The yellow line is the bacteria that causes the toxicity and its presence in the ocean

Basically plankton eating whales and whatnot are holding in check a type of toxin producing bacteria that would make the atmosphere unbreathable if it took over the oceans due to its predators dying off from ocean acidity

Cup Runneth Over has issued a correction as of 06:32 on Oct 15, 2021

Cup Runneth Over
Aug 8, 2009

She said life's
Too short to worry
Life's too long to wait
It's too short
Not to love everybody
Life's too long to hate


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?

Cup Runneth Over
Aug 8, 2009

She said life's
Too short to worry
Life's too long to wait
It's too short
Not to love everybody
Life's too long to hate


Can't wait to be an old gently caress in the climate apocalypse, brains melted to goo by repeated covid infections

Cup Runneth Over
Aug 8, 2009

She said life's
Too short to worry
Life's too long to wait
It's too short
Not to love everybody
Life's too long to hate


Cup Runneth Over
Aug 8, 2009

She said life's
Too short to worry
Life's too long to wait
It's too short
Not to love everybody
Life's too long to hate


mediaphage posted:

the real issue is whether you can drink salt water! the ocean can get acidic enough to kill everything (it doesn't take much) before it becomes acidic enough to bother a person

Thank God. Everything is going to be alright

Cup Runneth Over
Aug 8, 2009

She said life's
Too short to worry
Life's too long to wait
It's too short
Not to love everybody
Life's too long to hate


bane mask golem posted:

:suspense:

It means buy a gun now, before supply chains really start breaking down. Who knows, maybe things will miraculously turn around because a nuclear war breaks out... but worst-case, that'll be less painful than spending days or weeks starving to death or dying of thirst when the biosphere goes from dying to "completely dead, gigatons of corpses rotting."

gently caress.

agreed. your suffocated corpse will make for great environmental storytelling when scavengers are looting your home, and the gun will be an excellent loot drop

Cup Runneth Over
Aug 8, 2009

She said life's
Too short to worry
Life's too long to wait
It's too short
Not to love everybody
Life's too long to hate


fanfic insert posted:

"I heard they ate the last fish last week, it was a dolphin they'd kept alive on the Faroe islands"

"what's a dolfin?"

"I assume it's a fish"

Cup Runneth Over
Aug 8, 2009

She said life's
Too short to worry
Life's too long to wait
It's too short
Not to love everybody
Life's too long to hate


Hexigrammus posted:

Drought in the Canadian Prairies has hit the barley crop, which is going to impact beer brewing. We're hosed, everyone panic.

Local onion crop has been good though. I was going to simplify my life by adopting the ancient Sumerian commoner's diet of onions, beer, and wild rear end. Unfortunately this barley shortage is going to screw that up.

Also a lack of wild rear end.

Tinder should still have a pretty good supply of wild rear end for years to come, but I'm sure that will dry up eventually too

Cup Runneth Over
Aug 8, 2009

She said life's
Too short to worry
Life's too long to wait
It's too short
Not to love everybody
Life's too long to hate


Raine posted:

2. it wouldn't matter if i did anyways (even jesus christ himself made the world worse)

lol i never thought about this but its totally true

Cup Runneth Over
Aug 8, 2009

She said life's
Too short to worry
Life's too long to wait
It's too short
Not to love everybody
Life's too long to hate


actionjackson posted:

what's the best response to "people have said peak oil is coming for 20 years and we are still producing more each year?"

Cup Runneth Over
Aug 8, 2009

She said life's
Too short to worry
Life's too long to wait
It's too short
Not to love everybody
Life's too long to hate


So... does it ruin your metabolism or something? What does having your endocrine system hosed with actually do to you?

Cup Runneth Over
Aug 8, 2009

She said life's
Too short to worry
Life's too long to wait
It's too short
Not to love everybody
Life's too long to hate


hobbesmaster posted:

Well, for one thing the signals that tell you you've had enough to eat are gone.

glad I count calories lol

I ate so much of that microwave popcorn poo poo as a kid. I would lick the bags. I am not living to 60.

Cup Runneth Over
Aug 8, 2009

She said life's
Too short to worry
Life's too long to wait
It's too short
Not to love everybody
Life's too long to hate


Deep Dish Fuckfest posted:

oh thank god there's another person out there who's done that as a kid. it wasn't just me!

lmao right. our tiny developing brains reacted like chimpanzees to salt and fat

honestly I knew it was weird I felt self-conscious about doing it. I'm just bringing it up because those things were loving coated with PFAS and we were basically gobbling up the packaging

Cup Runneth Over
Aug 8, 2009

She said life's
Too short to worry
Life's too long to wait
It's too short
Not to love everybody
Life's too long to hate


Topo Chico Debarge posted:

I've always been a salt fiend. A friend in elementary school gave me a piece of rock salt he collected from outside kmart. I sat there and licked that thing during an assembly.

The boomers never knew how hosed up they were, but we do, lmao

Cup Runneth Over
Aug 8, 2009

She said life's
Too short to worry
Life's too long to wait
It's too short
Not to love everybody
Life's too long to hate


Rectal Death Adept posted:

Did you hear that in twenty years the New York pension fund will only make investments into net-zero carbon entities?

Love to be net zero instead of gross zero

Cup Runneth Over
Aug 8, 2009

She said life's
Too short to worry
Life's too long to wait
It's too short
Not to love everybody
Life's too long to hate


Cold on a Cob posted:

scrolling the page while watching the graph on the left update, giggling like a maniac

the COVID thread and this one are so deeply linked

Cup Runneth Over
Aug 8, 2009

She said life's
Too short to worry
Life's too long to wait
It's too short
Not to love everybody
Life's too long to hate


Trabisnikof posted:

i keep trying but the splinters are rough

Thank you for taking individual responsibility. If everybody stepped up to the plate like you maybe we'd have a chance

Cup Runneth Over
Aug 8, 2009

She said life's
Too short to worry
Life's too long to wait
It's too short
Not to love everybody
Life's too long to hate


MightyBigMinus posted:

only the most wildly optimistic and zealously hopeful people think this will be over quickly

it seems like wishful thinking

Cup Runneth Over
Aug 8, 2009

She said life's
Too short to worry
Life's too long to wait
It's too short
Not to love everybody
Life's too long to hate


Trabisnikof posted:

Exactly, for an easier to understand comparison, imagine my plan was to poo poo on your face 3 times a day.

But instead thanks to the clean technology of diapers I will only poo poo on your face once a day. Since I was going to do it 3x that means I get credit for 2 prevented face making GBS threads. So I use one credit for making GBS threads on your face in the morning leaving me one credit to sell to someone else who wants to poo poo on your face.

Through this system we’ve incentivized me to only poo poo on your face once by the profit I make selling poo poo credits, and reduced the total number of times you get your face shat on by 33%.

Win-win! This is how some day in a few decades we might get the number of times your face gets poo poo on each day down to 0, if the profits are high enough for me of course.

Wouldn't reducing the amount of times you poo poo on their face to zero just allow you to profit off of letting three other people poo poo on their face?

Cup Runneth Over
Aug 8, 2009

She said life's
Too short to worry
Life's too long to wait
It's too short
Not to love everybody
Life's too long to hate


Trabisnikof posted:

Yeah but I need to poo poo on their face, which is why I was going to do it 3 times a day before the face making GBS threads cap and trade system

So would you say that theoretically, reducing the number of times their face gets poo poo on to zero in a few decades might involve, for example, making GBS threads in a bucket, and then dumping that bucket on their face? Then you would no longer be making GBS threads on their face, but you'd still be achieving your goal.

Cup Runneth Over
Aug 8, 2009

She said life's
Too short to worry
Life's too long to wait
It's too short
Not to love everybody
Life's too long to hate


mawarannahr posted:

Why do people say decade instead of ten years? I’ve been wondering since yesterday. I guess it seems more impressive? Idk.

decade means ten years, why would you not

Cup Runneth Over
Aug 8, 2009

She said life's
Too short to worry
Life's too long to wait
It's too short
Not to love everybody
Life's too long to hate


Real hurthling! posted:

this here's america. its illegal to care about other peoples kids once theyve been born

However it is very important that you do have children

Cup Runneth Over
Aug 8, 2009

She said life's
Too short to worry
Life's too long to wait
It's too short
Not to love everybody
Life's too long to hate



"well you can't grow concrete"
"yeh you can"
"..................."

this is a microcosm of every debate over climate change

Cup Runneth Over
Aug 8, 2009

She said life's
Too short to worry
Life's too long to wait
It's too short
Not to love everybody
Life's too long to hate


I think we should reframe it as lives saved rather than lives culled, with "one billion people" as the current baseline we can hope for. Every oil baron we publicly execute adds to that total by reducing our carbon footprint going into the future. Just collapse, let's go!

Cup Runneth Over
Aug 8, 2009

She said life's
Too short to worry
Life's too long to wait
It's too short
Not to love everybody
Life's too long to hate


Torpor posted:

we are in a trolley problem but it is a single track covered in people and we have no switch to pull anyway. we can only watch.

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Cup Runneth Over
Aug 8, 2009

She said life's
Too short to worry
Life's too long to wait
It's too short
Not to love everybody
Life's too long to hate


nomad2020 posted:

For every oil barren cut down 3 more get promoted from middle management.

By my calculations that's an incredible opportunity to save lives

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