My theory is that Covid killed everyone and this is purgatory. (TikTok screencap)
We will make any excuse for these issues to not be deeply rooted in our civilization, huh
It's been downhill since 2020
Submitted 6 months ago by thal3s@sh.itjust.works to [deleted]
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drspawndisaster@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
Yrrsinn@discuss.tchncs.de 6 months ago
In 2010 they tried to create micro black holes, since this hat not worked the probability for extra dimensions is somewhat limited, at least that is what we believe. But maybe something went wrong back in 2010.
A_Chilean_Cyborg@feddit.cl 6 months ago
2018 for chile
mavu@discuss.tchncs.de 6 months ago
“I just got a great idea for a new novel! It’s about the end of humanity, but with a twist, because the humans don’t even know they are done for yet. They think it’s just a bit more aggressive flu, but in fact it’s highly contagious and each time you get it, it damages your brain a slight bit more. Everyone keeps getting infected and so they slowly get dumber and more aggressive until civilization collapses in wars and economic chaos.”
“That’s stupid, something like that could never happen.”
hector@lemmy.today 6 months ago
The flu is one thing, all of the toxins we are exposed to from companies trying to save a buck is everywhere as well. This is like some 1984 shit we are heading right now. More dangerous chemicals than ever being allowed into our water, our air, and our food. The flu and the covids are just icing on the cake. And I think I have noticed people getting Dumber from the 90s. Not starting in 2020 starting before that.
mavu@discuss.tchncs.de 6 months ago
agreed, except that the “getting dumber” really only started around 2010 or so…
Gammelfisch@lemmy.world 6 months ago
1975 is the beginning of the end for the US Empire. The treasury spent on a dumb war in SE Asia, Reaganomics and his trickle down BS, Gulf War I & II (wasting more treasure). Krasnov, COVID and fucking Krasnov again.
hector@lemmy.today 6 months ago
1972 was the genesis, there was a business Round Table where the rich and Powerful companies agreed on a long game to overthrow democracy and undo the gains from the New Deal. They have since refined the game, and destroyed any organized opposition. Also obviously had worthless conservatives on their side take over the Democratic Party.
Toneswirly@lemmy.world 6 months ago
The vaccine was really just a sedative; they kidnapped you and plugged in you to the matricksssssssss
MashedTech@lemmy.world 6 months ago
2016*
Blackmist@feddit.uk 6 months ago
“With this character’s death, the thread of prophecy is severed. Restore a saved game to restore the weave of fate, or persist in the doomed world you have created.”
It was Harambe. We didn’t reload.
hector@lemmy.today 6 months ago
We were saying this elsewhere, and someone posted a link claiming the real cause was like a week before Harrambe, a rat I think it was crawled into the Hadrian collider I think while on, in switzerland I think they are accelerating particles to study Physics bullshit, higgs boson something.
There was a theoretical possibility they could have started a chain reaction that would destroy the world they were saying when they were talking about building it fyi.
Anyway though this rat got in there when it was on and they are saying that through the timeline off, a week before harambe.
Snowpix@lemmy.ca 6 months ago
Harambe wasn’t marked as Essential, but he was truly essential for all of us.
HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 6 months ago
Ah the good old Futurological Congress by Lem. Read it, the movie is a mess.
Yrrsinn@discuss.tchncs.de 6 months ago
There is a movie?
HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 6 months ago
Barely.
x0x7@lemmy.world 6 months ago
It’s called mass psychosis.
AreaKode@lemmy.world 6 months ago
matdave@lemmy.ml 6 months ago
2014*
outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 months ago
In a very real sense we do li:e in a fantasy world, where the pervasive oppositional disingenuous bullshit and disinformation have poisoned us, and we trust the shit we made up to process stuff as high level abstractions without necessarily tying them back to anything remotely near bare-metal material reality.
And tyen when people find exploits in tjose abstractions, there is no recourse.
staph@sopuli.xyz 6 months ago
At this point, anything remotely near bare-metal material reality triggers such a cognitive dissonance in a lot of folks, on account of all of the bs they have in their heads, that all of that bare-metal material reality is discarded as too painful.
outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 months ago
I know it’s cliche, but i think capitalism deserves a lot of the blame.
Bennyboybumberchums@lemmy.world 6 months ago
This isnt a shitpost, this a fact. In 2020 everyone had little choice but to stay online, on social media, and got absolutely brain fucked by extreme opinions being forced on to them by whatever side the algorithms threw at them. Almost no one on line is in the middle, or if they are, they are very quiet. Everyone is extreme right or extreme left and they attach that to anything and everything. Music, movies, tv shows, comics, youtubers, etc etc etc.
I mean, for example, why cant any woman be allowed to voice her opinion on bathrooms without being called a nazi or woke? Why isnt this subject just a conversation? Why is at the forefront of seemingly everything? And why is being for or against linked to woke and nazi? Are why are we all seemingly OK with banning people from spaces just because they have a different opinion?
And have you noticed that any example used to shit on the left or right are utterly ridiculous extremes? Or the sex wars, they are huge right now. Self professed alpha males morons looking for virgins that will cook and clean vs onlyfans whores who wont stop being gang banged in public toilets for anything less than 6ft3, 6 figure incomes, and 6 pack abs. These people are all insane, but for some reason they keep getting pushed as the average or the majority of people dating. All women are misandrist, all men are misogynist, and theres extreme fuckwit doing fuck wit things on a youtube video to prove it…
Dont like Star Wars these days, chaps? No, you see, its not cos its shit. Its cos youre racist and sexist, dont you know? You need to cut that shit out, and watch the masterpieces coming out of disney+ right now!!!
Scared to walk home alone at night? Well, thats because theres men on every corner waiting to rape you… Dont think all men should have a curfew? I mean, Sally met that one guy who turned out to be into playing warhammer on Saturday nights with his friends. Its basically the same rape…
Extremism in everything, and theres an easily clickable buzzword for anyone that you dont like, so that others rally to your cause.
The whole fracking world needs to drink a nice big tall glass of calm the fuck down.
architect@thelemmy.club 6 months ago
It’s not an alternate timeline.
It’s the most profitable one.
WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today 6 months ago
And the profitable timeline is the only possible one. This is the great filter.
humorlessrepost@lemmy.world 6 months ago
This would imply that capitalism is inevitable in species with potentially spacefaring intelligence. I refuse to accept that for my own sanity’s sake.
MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 6 months ago
We’re really generating value for those shareholders aren’t we?
architect@thelemmy.club 6 months ago
Absolutely.
And as you can see, fiction scales better than truth.
Nomecks@lemmy.ca 6 months ago
I feel the same about 2007, and 1999.
buttnugget@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Just a reminder that traitor lunatic Trump was president in 2019. So no. Lol
BillMurray@lemmy.world 6 months ago
It went to shit when you dumb mother fuckers elected him for the first time in 2017. Stupid fucking idiots.
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 6 months ago
Exactly. You have to go back to at least 2015 to find anything resembling normal life.
h3ll3rsh4nks@ani.social 6 months ago
…And things still weren’t as crazy as they are now. To me that’s points towards the guys theory LOL
GladiusB@lemmy.world 6 months ago
The world has always been crazy. Just more adults are becoming aware of it and able to see it all the time, every day.
Zink@programming.dev 6 months ago
The internet has made us aware of how fucked up our kind is.
architect@thelemmy.club 6 months ago
Rome went out drunk on wine and conquest.
We’re going out buzzed on overpriced food delivery and crypto regret.
Cheers!
umbrella@lemmy.ml 6 months ago
[deleted]davidagain@lemmy.world 6 months ago
2016 also had Brexit and Trump winning at the ballot box
absentbird@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Yeah, I still feel like that year is when things really went off the rails in the US. I lost a lot of friends and family to the cult, and I’m starting to think they’re never coming back. A chasm has formed in America and it’s only getting wider.
rabber@lemmy.ca 6 months ago
Nah 2012 when people got smartphones is when the world ended
Snowpix@lemmy.ca 6 months ago
Making the internet as easily accessible and dumbed down as possible didn’t help. It let stupid people easily find each other and reinforce each other’s beliefs while isolating themselves from reality.
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 6 months ago
Smartphones --> dumb people --> Donald Trump
BlueMagma@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
🎶It’s get.ting bet.ter all the ti-i-ime I have to admit. it’s getting bet.ter A little bet.ter all the time (can’t get noo worse)🎶
I’ve seen this argument so many time… It’s not going downhill, we are just getting older, we understand the problems of the world better, we are more informed, we watch the news and we start to have that nostalgia feeling that it was better before. It was not ! The world is getting better for so many metrics, sure there are issues, there always has been, it’s not perfect. Sure there are localized places where it’s temporarily getting worse ( the US might currently be living through a rough time, but it will pass).
Overall, it’s getting better all the time. We are currently living the best time in history so far. Millions of new stuff to discover, infinite access to the cumulated knowledge of mankind. More democratic country than ever, famine is getting down overall, health is getting better too. Poverty is decreasing too.
I’m not saying we shouldn’t do anything to try and make it even better, we definitely should do everything we can, there is still a lot to do to make it the best world possible. But please stop with this constant whining about the past. It was not better, you simply didn’t know any better in the past, and your memory of the past is tainted because your brains actively choose to erase bad stuff and only remember good stuff (this is a real human brain unconscious behaviour, look it up).
uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 months ago
We’re running out of water for agriculture. The zoomers may be middle aged, and the alphas, adults, when the climate crisis fully catches up with us. And if the human species is lucky, it’ll happen first in the US or Russia or one of the old-guard powers, and the new order can use their renewable energy surplus to create new desalinization technology.
But current estimates (by those few climatologists willing to say other than it’s going to get very bad. ) estimate the upper limit of the sustainability projections are a global population of about a billion people, if the international community chose to act today on all fronts. (Obviously that’s not happening in the US, or in autocratic regimes, who imagine – falsely – they can create a self-sustaining colony on Mars – we’re a century or more from that).
That is a best case scenario unless we discover some miracle technology.
All other scenarios get worse than that, from a population in the hundreds of millions to human extinction. There is a ray of hope near the bottom, since Homo Erectus had at least one period of tens of thousands of years with a population under 10K before they would populate the world again, until they were out-competed by other hominids (e.g. us. Homo Sapiens). So we might have a tiny society that survives for an eon, but don’t expect any culture (from wet burritos to Beethoven’s Fifth to the 道德經) to survive. And a fuckton of science will have to be rediscovered.
So seriously bad shit for all of Human society is, at this point, for all intents and purposes, inevitable.
BlueMagma@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
Yes, the climate crisis is a huge problem, probably the biggest mankind has ever faced. Everyone should do everything they can to try to minimize it (I sure am).
You’d say it started going downhill in 2019 or 2016 ? /s
There is good news though: climate literacy is going up, more and more people realized everyday throughout the world. It hasn’t really reached the political level in most countries but I see a trend of countries taking more and more action against climate change. Of course we are not there yet, but we could be in the future. This is not to say that “the climate” is not worsening, but there are improvements here and there. I truly believe humanity will make it, likely not with the same population count but still. Life on earth is almost guaranteed to survive, it has lived through worse than that. It has to get worse for people to really realized and act against it.
Climate change is one thing, but it’s not “ALL”, there are many metrics by which the world is getting better all the time.
All in all though, and I think it’s the most important: doomer talk is not helping at all, it demoralises people, and it prevents them from acting, if people believe we are done for, why would they make any effort ? Why would they try to fix it ?
Seeing the strong word you have about the climate crisis, I can only imagine you are doing everything you can to minimize it, are you ?
kreskin@lemmy.world 6 months ago
2017-2021 was Trump, so I think it started earlier. Was it maybe more like US election season 2016 as the start of it? It’s hard to pinpoint. But yes. The old US seems gone now-- Our government went from covertly corrupt to very openly so. We’re becoming Russia, and its hard to imagine ever rolling it back to who we once were.
Zink@programming.dev 6 months ago
Harambe was 2016!
Not my joke, but it fits, lol.
finitebanjo@lemmy.world 6 months ago
People who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it. The USA has been in a constant power struggle between monied interests and liberty since the founding days. The same party has been in control of China since before Mao was starving millions of people. A lot of european countries are literally still monarchies.
This is the normal.
ubergeek@lemmy.today 6 months ago
September 11th, 2001 was a real inflection point for the US. We, collectively decided that civil rights aren’t as important as revenge.
Snowpix@lemmy.ca 6 months ago
The terrorists ended up winning the long game in the end. They caused America to tear itself apart from within and made it a pariah on the world stage.
FlyingCircus@lemmy.world 6 months ago
9/11 also marks the end of western hegemony as the West destabilized the world and ruined its reputation as a force for good in its pursuit for revenge, leading to the rise of BRICS and other anti-imperial coalitions.
9/11 also coincides with peak imperialism, the final stage of capitalism, which marks the point when increasing exploitation abroad has diminishing returns so capitalists must begin devouring the imperial core, leading to stagflation, enshittification, rent-seeking, and other parasitic activities. This in turn leads to an economically struggling population of former petit-bourgeois, which is a class condition that is especially susceptible to reactionary propaganda, leading to the rise of fascism.
Historians will almost certainly mark 9/11 as the beginning of the end of the American Empire.
FosterMolasses@leminal.space 6 months ago
Almost makes the inside job conspiro seem not as crazy…
A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 6 months ago
sept 11 was the first time the republicans seize the opportunity to put america on track for its fascist fourth reichdom fantasy.
FlyingCircus@lemmy.world 6 months ago
The overwhelming majority of Democrats also voted for the Patriot Act. Democrats and Republicans are two sides of the same coin.
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 6 months ago
- Just been a whipsaw shitshow since.
chocrates@piefed.world 6 months ago
Eh The Matrix had it right. 1999
HalfSalesman@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Its actually that between 1991 and 2001 that we merely had a full decade of relative stability in world events. Crazy shit stopped happening for a while and we have collectively imparted that things used to be “normal” on people born after 2001 but they’ve interpreted their own childhoods as the normal years.
gravediggersbiscuit@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
I see this said about the 90s all the time but really this is not true. In the 90s there was (not an exhaustive list)
- First Gulf War
- Yugoslavia war
- Rwandan Genocide
- Oklahoma City Bombing
- Columbine Massacre
- Los Angeles Riots
- The Fall Of USSR (while on one hand a good thing it also cause so much economic decline, hunger, and excess mortality in the millions to many former bloc countries)
- Somalian War
- Black Monday
- US 1990 recession
- 1997 Asian Financial crisis
- Dot com bubble
It’s very common when asking any person what was the best period of time for the world for their response to be a period of time their formative years were.
The reality is history is full of horrid horrid things and nostalgia is a follie that’ll trick your mind.
HalfSalesman@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Yes, stuff still happened, but it was all mostly local scale in consequences or temporary blips. Conflicts, economic downturns, weather events can all be huge tragedies, but an entire super power cratered in on itself in '91 and splintered into smaller countries massively rewriting the political landscape. And in 2001, 9-11 happened and its arguably a starting point for a domino effect of terrible unhinged shit that followed that also had massive global political ramifications, arguably to this very day.
Lemmisaur@lemmy.zip 6 months ago
What about the African Great War that started in 1997?
FosterMolasses@leminal.space 6 months ago
Yep, preach.
hark@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Yeah, it’s less “stability in world events” and more so the west riding high off winning the cold war.
Modern_medicine_isnt@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I think it was always fucked. They just hid it better, and many people pretended not to see.
GlendatheGayWitch@lemmy.world 6 months ago
*2016 was the last normal year.
Let’s not forget the chaos and societal upset during the first term.
AquaTofana@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Bruh we as Americans have such a short attention span/memory I stg.
His first term was “BUILD THE WALL”, “CHECK THE BAFROOMS”, “SHUT DOWN BASES IN EUROPE” and “NO MUSLIM IMMIGRANTS ALLOWED!!!”
None of these ideas he’s espousing are new, they’re just more hateful and damaging. He just got slightly better at understanding politics/government, so now he’s more dangerous/efficient.
GlendatheGayWitch@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Yeah, there was too much infighting and incompetence for him to do as much damage in the first term. His cabinet was dropping like flies the first term and we’re almost 8 months in and nobody’s been fired yet