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2023-03-11 at 6:44 PM UTC in The TRT Thread: Its the end of the world as we know it so GET WHOLESOME editionButt
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2023-03-11 at 6:43 PM UTC in World to hit temperature tipping point 10 years faster than forecastThe 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 6:22 PM UTC in World to hit temperature tipping point 10 years faster than forecast
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2023-03-11 at 6:21 PM UTC in What are you doing at the momentClit Eastwood
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2023-03-11 at 5:07 PM UTC in What are you thinking about....
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2023-03-11 at 3:43 PM UTC in What are you thinking about....I wish P2P filesharing and Blockchain and cryptocurrency tech somehow dovetailed and just made it normal to pay someone for the service of having a file available, no matter how. It would be cents paid per share and probably really hard to work out the technicalities but it would change the course of human history and the enterprise of information freedom forever.
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2023-03-11 at 3:38 PM UTC in What are you thinking about....
Originally posted by aldra I still torrent shit
girlfriend has netflix but there's not really much on there I care to watch
I pay for pirate Plex shares specifically because I don't want to have to torrent something before I watch it, nor shit around between various different services who may or may not have a particular piece of content in particular quality.
And I already have unlimited download and ample bandwidth but not unlimited storage to load up all the new releases all the time and then browse them.
So I am willing to pay some other guys who already torrented all that shit and keeps it up to date with Radar/Sonarr for all new releases on their cloud NAS like $10/mo to stream from their server, just like a streaming service but with all the different services' content in one.
Different shares offer different kinds of content focus for different prices and you are genuinely paying for availability and curation.
I just want it to be available to watch. I'm not pirating because of not wanting to pay money, it's genuinely for convenience.
So it's worth it.
I never want to wait like 30 minutes for some movie to DL before I watch it, I just want to watch it. -
2023-03-11 at 3:22 PM UTC in White males are ugly, white women overwhelmingly prefer brown men and racism the white man's attempt to prevent their sexual successSee?
Any remotely cool and chill guy would have just lolled at the ars article and kept up with the rest of us.
Not Thin-Skin-Vinny tho.
The average chinkosphere internet user's insect brain, more than anything else, runs on a superficial sense of vanity as a primary drive. -
2023-03-11 at 3:13 PM UTC in What are you thinking about....I just subscribe to various Plex shares now. I hate the real streaming services.
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2023-03-11 at 3:13 PM UTC in What are you thinking about....
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2023-03-11 at 3:12 PM UTC in World to hit temperature tipping point 10 years faster than forecast
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2023-03-11 at 3:11 PM UTC in How are you feeling at the moment..
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2023-03-11 at 3:10 PM UTC in Over a majority of you suckI'm like the king of not having drinking problems
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2023-03-11 at 1:48 PM UTC in Over a majority of you suck
Originally posted by Bradley I don't blame myself so much as I blame my drinking, Jigga. I've noticed all the calamities of my life chiefly are happening because of alcohol or made significantly worse than alcohol. SO just like you, akaka my interenet hero, about eleven days ago I just stopped drinking.
WHy can't all people in AA be as strong willed as us?
You have more clarity on your alcoholism than most. I appreciate that a lot in a person. Good for you. -
2023-03-11 at 1:41 PM UTC in World to hit temperature tipping point 10 years faster than forecastUhhh, then why are you complaining?
Earth has self regulating climate > Civilisation develops in climate > Civilizational activity alters climate > Civilization collapses and ceases > Earth regulates itself back to normal now that civilization is dead.
Sounds like a self correcting issue to me... The stakes are really more about our survival than about stabilizing the planet.
We should just focus on human survival and prosperity.
The sad truth is that wild non-human animals do not provide us much benefit, same with plant life.
Eventually the sun will explode and some species will either have figured out how to make it to other worlds by then or the entire Saga of Earth will end in a meaningless whimper, forgotten by the universe.
Every battle, every struggle for survival, every heroic victory and every heartbreak, all human and earthly sense of meaning will be erased in the most ultimate fashion when it is all swallowed by the sun.
It is our moral imperative to escape this ultimate doom. And the most wild animals with no intelligence supply, is resources for humans to use. We shouldn't exhaust them of course but why should we protect them from the ultimate struggle for existence outside our farms and our cities and our spaceships? Are we not entitled to climb to the top of the evolutionary boneyard like all life has been trying to do since time immemorial?
Animals and plants can either help humans help all life on Earth expand to other worlds, or they can get eaten. Fuck them.
We should just struggle to survive. -
2023-03-11 at 1:31 PM UTC in What are you thinking about....
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2023-03-11 at 8:43 AM UTC in What are you doing at the momentPaging Dr Butt Tits yours presence is requested in Courtyard 8.
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2023-03-11 at 8:42 AM UTC in What are you thinking about....Paging Dr Butt Tits
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2023-03-11 at 8:42 AM UTC in How are you feeling at the moment..Johnny Nonymous
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2023-03-11 at 1:16 AM UTC in World to hit temperature tipping point 10 years faster than forecast
