E ) All of the above.
Why not get ready for a global happy society? Instead of preparing for doom, time can be spent on making the world good.
You can both work for a better future while also prepare for a bad outcome.
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.
in trek, over 600million people died in a nuclear holcaust of ww3.
I like those odds!
It’s indeed not bad. Usual nuclear winter simulations have billions dying.
Don’t forget climate collapse!
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
The forgotten stove backburner is still on, but we left the house
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.
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?
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.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.
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!!
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
But they were, all of them, deceived, for another Ring was made
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 :)
All of the above unfortunately
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.
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!
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.
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.
Umm actually… It’s Harold. As in, “Harold be thy (middle) name”.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
We saw it bounce back during Covid fast. I cant help but think this bullshit is exactly what these oil companies want you to think.
This is all based on actual science that I went to school for, have a degree in, and studied for years afterwards.
The only thing that really bounced back during covid was air pollution in big cities. Global warming didn’t stop, the polar caps were still melting and the insect population didn’t meaningfully increase again. Less immediate pollution is nice for the people living there, but on a global scale it made next to no difference.
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.
I’m gonna wing it.
wildcard
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.
