Does your ankle work? Both of them? Appreciate them.
Do your lungs work? No cancer in them? No cough? Appreciate that shit.
Your brain doesn't have meningitis, does it? If not, appreciate that.
You don't have a cold or a flu right now? Or ebola? Appreciate that.
I see way too much complaining on here, but most of you fucks have bodies that work kinda ok most of the time, and you need to appreciate that and not throw it away. Do diet and exercise and take your vitamins just like Hulk Hogan and all that good shit. When shit starts acting up you really notice quick.
Originally posted by Krow
what was the point of this video again?
It seems to be a particularly ill considered corporate video.
At 0:31 it looks like the windows explode or something, though it's probably just water being thrown up into the air.
I guess congratulations are in order, the car perhaps survives being bungeed from the trailer hitch attachment point. Lets see them get into it and start it up to prove it.
WRT to OP, technology won't just go away, it will evolve. Just like the collapse of Rome didn't lead to the loss of bronze or iron or anything like that. In fact most people who lived through the collapse of Rome just seen it as a devolution, like Brexit, there was now a local king in charge instead of some far away emperor, and life continued (though there was surely a lowering of living standards and a collapse of trade).
We could easily transfer to a renewable economy right now - making our own wind turbines, micro-hydroelectric, reconditioning our own batteries, re-purposing our cars as generators fueled by bio-diesel. We could return to horses (horses are a form of technology - just like cars, they used to be too small even to ride before selective breeding took over) and grow our own food (same thing with crops - modern crops and meat animals are amazingly productive compared to pre-industrial ones - selective breeding again).
We could use waste glass to build greenhouses and use electrical machines to till the soil. A collapse would not necessarily be a bad thing. We have so much fluff on our civilisation, we're like a fat man, we have a lot we could bear to lose.
Many areas wouldn't even notice, except that there is less air traffic, and antibiotics are harder to get.
Originally posted by Jiggaboo_Johnson
It used to be that any nation was only ever 3 meals away from collapse…now in Fat America that's only 2hrs.
Worse than collapse - mass diabetic coma. An entire continent too tired to move, angrily being nasty to each other due to low blood sugar, but too tired to climb out of their SUVs to forage for grubs in the bushes.
Originally posted by Octavian
I honestly don't care. Have you read 1984? The protagonist meets some high level government type and thinks he's part of the resistance, the he finds out he's just being played and gets fucked over.
That's me. He knows the machine he is apart of is evil but there's fuck all he can do to help the rebels. Just accept what is, and know what you can nothing about.
The protagonist in the book was trapped, but Orwell understood the power of memes (virally propagated thoughts) and the book was an attempt to fight back using that.
In general I think we need to cut parents way more slack.
We try to hold them to impossible standards in the way they raise their kids - watching them all the time, never letting them out of sight, etc. Even though it used to be normal enough to let kids ride their bikes all over the place nowadays that's suddenly verboten.
And it's pretty normal for kids to want to sleep with mom up to a fairly old age, like 5 or so, and you've just got to deal with the fact that often-times mom's boyfriend also wants to be close to those boobies too.
It's no wonder so many people are opting out of having kids altogether.
All this pressure on parents isn't healthy and it isn't sustainable.
Lets face facts. The people who published this image should be ashamed of themselves and their methodology, and should have deleted their work and retired to monastic life rather than shoving this travesty out in front of the public for a bunch of pseuds to hum and haw over.
