Arrest pedophiles and all our problems would be solved instantly.
But they were, all of them, deceived, for another Ring was made
No-one was prepared for the Starlink re-entry events. Humanity had been so busy looking outwards, but had failed to look upwards. From 2035, they had to learn to accept the regular and devastating reentry of this fleet of miniature satellites. Molten fire would rain from the sky, multiple times per day at any time or place. Many cities were destroyed during this period, with too many deaths to count.
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.
2026 Q4 robotic AI push
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 :)
Don’t forget climate collapse!
The forgotten stove backburner is still on, but we left the house
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
Yes, for a few decades. And then we’d go straight into warming again.
The only solution: a new nuclear war every 50 or so years. Solar radiation management is for suckers, real men use nukes!
True, but it would still revert to global warming after that. Probably even way worse because a lot of the vegetation cover would be dead, so think desert weather : very cold nights and very hot days.
And whatever nature managed to adapt and survive the winter would probably be killed off by the warming afterwards. Yeah.
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.
only “ai takeover” that is going to happen is mass surveillance so billionaires can control us better, if we let them.
we’re gonna 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.
Me, a procrastinator: eh, it can wait
E ) All of the above.
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.
Maybe that calendar wasn’t the end of the world, just when the end started.
So you mean it was the beginning of the end of the world?
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!!
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.
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?
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.
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.I kind of think the opposite.
If the gift of existence is so rare, then don’t we have a responsibility to make the most of it? The big question is to which end.
I’m not a fan of accelerationists.
Lyrics from Tool’s “Aenema”.
Aahh, I didn’t spot it.
Thanks
Environmental collapse laughs.
Just wait until we hit the ocean acidification tipping point where it becomes chemically impossible for certain tiny creatures at the base of the food chain to form calcium-based hard shells.
The whole ocean won’t hit that point all at the same time, but once we get close, it will happen very rapidly, affecting most of the oceans in the world within a few years. Entire ocean ecosystems will rapidly collapse when the bottom of the food chain falls out from under them. Already-strained fisheries will suddenly run completely out of fish, quickly driving the last few populations to extinction. But that’s only the tip of the iceberg for our problems. Those tiny organisms have a profound impact on the entire world’s climate and weather patterns, as well as being a huge part of the carbon cycle. When the oceans die, the effects felt on land will be extreme. And it will drastically accelerate carbon accumulation and climate change – those calcium-based hard shells are calcium carbonate, which incorporate carbon and often end up sequestering it on the sea floor when the creature dies, where it could stay locked away for millions to billions of years. Without them removing carbon from circulation, climate change will get far worse and accelerate much faster (which, in turn, makes ocean acidification worse, so there’s no going back once we hit that tipping point).
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.
por que no los all of the above?
