Allonzee
@Allonzee@lemmy.world
- Comment on NASA finds humanity would totally fumble asteroid defense 1 week ago:
Covid kind of disillusioned me to the whole “all humanity needs is a common enemy/suffering to get right” concept.
- Comment on NASA finds humanity would totally fumble asteroid defense 1 week ago:
Same, if we can’t even, in actions not rhetoric, start from a baseline of “we’re all in the same boat, we all have needs and seek happiness, how do we maximize everyone’s well-being to facilitate that?” then we’re still just savage animals wrestling in the dirt, but with the dangerous capacity to devise technologies for selfish ends we aren’t wise/evolved enough to truly appreciate the consequences of using.
- Comment on NASA finds humanity would totally fumble asteroid defense 1 week ago:
“According to The Atlantic, an asteroid that weighs more than 1.7 quadrillion metric tons could sterilize Earth by raising the temperature of its water above 100°C. This asteroid would be 10–1,000 times heavier than the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs and would be between 60–96 kilometers (37–60 miles) wide.”
The Atlantic article itself is lay walled, but yes, and it’s entirely dependent on the mass of said Asteroid.
- Comment on NASA finds humanity would totally fumble asteroid defense 1 week ago:
Maybe the 10 commandments posted in every Louisiana classroom will stop the asteroids.
- Comment on NASA finds humanity would totally fumble asteroid defense 1 week ago:
Whenever I dare to hope about the lofty, admirable star trek future, I remember that space is completely unforgiving and we just aren’t up to the task for anything more than a selfie by the best half dozen humans we can possibly produce.
As a species, we aren’t going to spread out there. Still too primitive, and probably too self-destructive to make it out of this phase of evolution.
We aren’t even capable of caring for one another, let alone the EASIEST to maintain, most naturally human friendly habitat we would ever encounter. No airlocks, the air/water/waste recycling was already fully automated, all we had to do was not recklessly grow/metastasize to the point we strain the absolutely massive system out of greed and glut, and stop carelessly shitting where we sleep. We all know how that’s been going since we figured out how to make dead animal poison rocket us accross town.
Master space? Master planetary defense? We’ll be lucky if we aren’t scattered tribes living near the old hardened structures of the before times for emergency shelter from the new normal weather events in a hundred years. We’re already starting to argue over the resources it’s taking to rebuild population centers from the current new normal.
- Comment on Elon Musk Begs Advertisers to Return as Twitter's Revenue Plunges 1 week ago:
I, for one, would like to hear Elon beg.
- Comment on Pornhub to block two more states over age verification laws 1 week ago:
…specifically the freedom of others to live exactly as I demand they do!
- Comment on Paris Olympics at risk due to extreme heat, report warns 1 week ago:
We’re destroying our own habitat, not to mention the habitat of other life that isn’t actively burning the very ground beneath their feet, all out of sociopathy, greed, and ego. We’re competing against one another over ego scores as it all burns to see who can get the highest score before they have to retreat to their luxury bunkers, mischief managed.
The idea that our species will continue to gather to celebrate the supposed nobility of human competition, as our many self-created existential crises close in around us, is gallows hilarious.
Homeostasis and cooperation should have been humanity’s business, especially when the scientists started warning us of what we were doing about a century ago.
- Comment on "I lost trust": Why the OpenAI team in charge of safeguarding humanity imploded 1 month ago:
I completely agree and have made similar points about that being our species’ epitaph.
- Comment on "I lost trust": Why the OpenAI team in charge of safeguarding humanity imploded 1 month ago:
Humanity is surrounding itself with its own self-inflicted destruction.
All in the name of not only tolerated avarice, but celebrated avarice.
Greed is a more effectively harmful human impulse than even hate. We’ve merely been propagandized to ignore greed, oh im sorry “rational self-interest,” as being the failing and character deficit it is.
- Comment on Microsoft's carbon emissions up nearly 30% thanks to AI 1 month ago:
Fuck it, if we’re doing this, let’s get it over with.
Good luck dolphin people!
- Comment on Ron DeSantis signs bill scrubbing ‘climate change’ from Florida state laws 1 month ago:
Henceforth, in Florida, climate change will now be called The doom that must not be named.
Way less scary now.
- Comment on Farmers Hiding Bird Flu Cases in Cattle from the FedGov 1 month ago:
The private profit motive is at odds with societal well being.
And it wins every time.
- Comment on The second matchup of the tournament 1 month ago:
Does this forest get smaller over the course of the night like a hunger games arena?
- Comment on The illusion of free choice 1 month ago:
Would you rather be alone in the forest with
A) a bear who has been starved and given your scent.
B) Al Gore who is giving an 8 hour PowerPoint presentation on light switch waste awareness.
- Comment on The illusion of free choice 1 month ago:
Plot twist: you get this regardless of your answer:
- Comment on Also, don't knock 1 month ago:
Walter, what the fuck are you talking about?