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2023-03-11 at 4:34 PM UTC
Originally posted by Obbe We spend our whole lives chasing after things that ultimately don't matter - money, power, prestige - all so we can impress people we don't even like. We're born into a world that's messed up beyond belief, and then we have to spend the rest of our lives trying to fix it, knowing full well that we'll never succeed.
We're surrounded by other people who are just as clueless as we are, all trying to figure out the meaning of life and failing miserably. We create complex belief systems and philosophies to help us make sense of it all, but really they're just elaborate ways of avoiding the fact that we have no idea what we're doing.
But hey, at least we can laugh about it, right? Because when you really think about it, the absurdity of life is the ultimate joke, and we're all just here for the punchline.
Your life sounds fucked. Glad mine is not like what you typed. -
2023-03-11 at 4:38 PM UTCSilicon Valley Bank is shut down by regulators in biggest bank failure since global financial crisis
In an unexpected turn of events the US just experienced one of the largest bank runs in modern history within the past 24 hours. SVB's shares collapsed nearly 80% within the past 24 hours and led to one of the fastest bank collapses in modern US history. Amid record low unemployment and soaring inflation there hasn't been a more confusing time economically in recent memory.
Silvergate Bank, a bank exposed heavily to cryptocurrency, collapsed earlier this week and this is leading many to wonder if there is a contagion going on in the banking system, particularly on the west coast that is exposed to tech and crypto depositors. Venture capitalist have liked this to their "Lehman Brothers moment" and has led many startups across the nation to miss payroll this Friday due their systems being railed through SVB. -
2023-03-11 at 4:40 PM UTC
Originally posted by Speedy Parker Your life sounds fucked. Glad mine is not like what you typed.
Life is a journey, but not in the sense that you're actually going anywhere, more like you're just on a hamster wheel going round and round. That might sound profound to you but I'm really saying nothing at all. -
2023-03-11 at 4:43 PM UTC
Originally posted by Obbe My life is a journey, but not in the sense that I'm actually going anywhere, more like I'm just on a hamster wheel going round and round. That might sound profound to you but I'm really saying nothing at all.
FTFY and it doesn't seem profound it just makes you seem like a little sad sack. -
2023-03-11 at 4:45 PM UTCYes, you're going places Speedy, we are so very impressed.
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2023-03-11 at 4:49 PM UTC
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2023-03-11 at 4:52 PM UTC
Originally posted by Speedy Parker Who is we? You and the turd in your pocket. Are you really so insecure that you find it necessary to speak for imagined others to support your position.
No, I'm so insecure that I try to convince strangers on the internet that my life isn't actually a meaningless rat race. -
2023-03-11 at 4:55 PM UTC
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2023-03-11 at 4:57 PM UTC
Originally posted by Obbe Yes, humans, what a delightful bunch! I just love how we are so incredibly self-centered and egotistical, always putting our own needs and desires above everything else, including the planet we live on and the other creatures that share it with us.
It's just so charming how we have created all these amazing technologies and scientific advancements, but then use them to destroy the environment, exploit each other, and wage wars over resources.
And let's not forget how we are so good at creating social hierarchies and divisions based on things like race, gender, and religion, instead of recognizing and celebrating our diversity.
Really, humans are just the most endearing and lovable creatures on the planet. It's a wonder that we haven't managed to destroy ourselves completely yet!
Oh, and human rights are just the most hilarious thing ever! I mean, who doesn't love the idea of basic freedoms and dignities that are supposed to be guaranteed to all people, regardless of their race, gender, religion, or social status?
It's just so hilarious that we have to constantly fight for these rights, even in so-called "enlightened" societies, and that they are routinely violated with little consequence. And don't even get me started on how much fun it is to watch governments and corporations prioritize their own interests over the well-being of the people they are supposed to serve.
Ha ha ha, human rights are just a real laugh riot. It's almost like we're living in a dystopian satire or something.
But you don't reverse any of these things by spreading bald-faced lies, you know? -
2023-03-11 at 4:57 PM UTC
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2023-03-11 at 6:43 PM UTCThe truth is that there is only 1 actual proven existential, extinction level environmental catastrophe that actually does threatens all life on Earth and it has already happened and caused great calamity before.
It is called a major asteroid impact event.
The fact that all life has not been comprehensively eliminated already by such an impact has been literally nothing but a matter of great fortune... There is literally nothing preventing the next impact from happening and from being THE one big enough to end all life on Earth, period.
No more microbes even.
No moral judgments.
No grandstanding.
No one for you to fucking tell "I told you so" either.
Nothing will matter any more.
All of everything that was ever important to anything that could ever find anything important, would be annihilated: the fact that life exists at all on this rock is what generates any remote sense of meaning to it in the first place. So it would be the end of all sense of meaning.
The same way you don't give a fuck about the great cosmic cataclysms that happen all across the universe because they just happen to gases and minerals. No one does, except maybe some guy looking at them through a telescope, and he doesn't see them as a moral tragedy but an interesting photon source. A light show.
It would all be gone.
And this threat is of the type that is far beyond the control of any living creature on Earth as well.
Nothing, no form of life to ever crawl the surface of this interesting rock, ever possessed the remotest ability to prevent God fron just turning off every light in this way. Nor even conceived of some possibility of such. Or even managed to understand that threat.
The Earth's biosphere's ability to respond to such a threat, for 4.5 billion years, has been ZERO. Nothing, ever, has gotten even close to being able to prevent or meaningfully respond to a major asteroid impact event.
Until 2022, with the success of NASA's DART mission
https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-confirms-dart-mission-impact-changed-asteroid-s-motion-in-space
Now to meaningfully prevent a major collision in a real threat scenario we would need to detect the asteroid ultra early and deflect it very very far away from the Earth if it was on a potential collision course.
However, Earth life's chances of doing so just rose from literally 0% to some real nonzero value. That's like an infinity percent increase. And we will only get better at asteroid detection and targeting such projectiles.
Inevitably the same technology will be used to not just entirely deflect asteroids but put them into orbit around earth, where they can be mined and bring incredible wealth and abundance to the world.
So you can whine all you want about wars and capitalism and shit, fuck you nigga you suck anyway, the rest of us will continue to make the world based and dope fresh schwuggity goodalicious while you make up excuses to whine and whine so you don't actually have to improve the world in any way. -
2023-03-11 at 8:48 PM UTCJupiter is 72 times larger than Earth, so the tug of its massive gravity is enough to pull a lot of the larger asteroids into its embrace. Without Jupiter, we would have been hit by very large asteroids many times.
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2023-03-11 at 10:26 PM UTCBrazil lost 500 million bees in 3 months in 2019, raising concerns about the future of the Earth and its people
This is yet another example of how unsustainable and prone to collapse our modern industrial societies are. -
2023-03-11 at 10:52 PM UTC
Originally posted by Sweet The truth is that there is only 1 actual proven existential, extinction level environmental catastrophe that actually does threatens all life on Earth and it has already happened and caused great calamity before.
It is called a major asteroid impact event.
The fact that all life has not been comprehensively eliminated already by such an impact has been literally nothing but a matter of great fortune… There is literally nothing preventing the next impact from happening and from being THE one big enough to end all life on Earth, period.
No more microbes even.
No moral judgments.
No grandstanding.
No one for you to fucking tell "I told you so" either.
Nothing will matter any more.
All of everything that was ever important to anything that could ever find anything important, would be annihilated: the fact that life exists at all on this rock is what generates any remote sense of meaning to it in the first place. So it would be the end of all sense of meaning.
The same way you don't give a fuck about the great cosmic cataclysms that happen all across the universe because they just happen to gases and minerals. No one does, except maybe some guy looking at them through a telescope, and he doesn't see them as a moral tragedy but an interesting photon source. A light show.
It would all be gone.
And this threat is of the type that is far beyond the control of any living creature on Earth as well.
Nothing, no form of life to ever crawl the surface of this interesting rock, ever possessed the remotest ability to prevent God fron just turning off every light in this way. Nor even conceived of some possibility of such. Or even managed to understand that threat.
The Earth's biosphere's ability to respond to such a threat, for 4.5 billion years, has been ZERO. Nothing, ever, has gotten even close to being able to prevent or meaningfully respond to a major asteroid impact event.
Until 2022, with the success of NASA's DART mission
https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-confirms-dart-mission-impact-changed-asteroid-s-motion-in-space
Now to meaningfully prevent a major collision in a real threat scenario we would need to detect the asteroid ultra early and deflect it very very far away from the Earth if it was on a potential collision course.
However, Earth life's chances of doing so just rose from literally 0% to some real nonzero value. That's like an infinity percent increase. And we will only get better at asteroid detection and targeting such projectiles.
Inevitably the same technology will be used to not just entirely deflect asteroids but put them into orbit around earth, where they can be mined and bring incredible wealth and abundance to the world.
So you can whine all you want about wars and capitalism and shit, fuck you nigga you suck anyway, the rest of us will continue to make the world based and dope fresh schwuggity goodalicious while you make up excuses to whine and whine so you don't actually have to improve the world in any way.
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