Draegur
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- Comment on 2073 by Asif Kapadia. sci-fi docu. 1 week ago:
… personally, i wish aliens would show up and be like, “bruh.” to save a sapient biosphere from extinction.
But I don’t actually believe it’ll be that.
Probably more likely a total systemic collapse of the United States of America due to its critical infrastructure crumbling past a point where its economics can adapt resulting in a stock market crash that wipes out entire industries. Then a cascade failure of all the nations that were still relying upon them to remain functional that crashes just about every OTHER economy across the entire planet (though potentially not china maybe) and leaves almost the whole population of our entire species to fend for ourselves.
After the initial riots disable urban centers and local peacekeeping forces fail to quell them, the bureaucrats wholly owned by corporate sponsors will go full mask-off and call in private security contractor shock troops to exterminate the uppity peasantry and brutalize any survivors back into submissive complicity. Anyone who didn’t fight will be targeted for detainment via guilt by association. Personal property will be seized “for peacekeeping purposes” and anyone who isn’t working for the corporations or mounting a strong enough resistance will be captured and concentrated in forced labor camps.
Billions of us will die, possibly even more than half of our entire species, whether from lack of critical support systems (lack of food, potable water, medical care, and/or shelter that can protect them from extreme temperature), by exploitation of warlords rising to fill local power vacuums (including corporate-owned city-state enclaves), or in conflict between corporate enclaves and said warlords, all exacerbated by hotter and longer heat waves and droughts, deeper and sharper cold snaps, HARSHER storms, BIGGER fires, MORE floods, rising sea levels, and no organized reconstruction efforts.
There may or may not be a few madmen who decide to pull the doomsday triggers and kick off a global thermonuclear exchange out of impotent rage that despite all their destructive power they’re still about to lose everything and are lashing out in hopeless desperation.
2036 heralds the watershed moment that people realize we’ve entered the new dark age. There is nothing we can do to stop it, but if you start right now, you might prepare yourself and your local community to mitigate the hardship… even if only temporarily.
- Comment on Help me out: which looks better for the Duck - the neck tie or the bow tie? 1 week ago:
A beret and an ascot/cravat!
A fedora for the necktie like a 1950s hard boiled detective!
A pointy wizard hat and a robe!
- Comment on Help me out: which looks better for the Duck - the neck tie or the bow tie? 1 week ago:
With THAT hat? Definitely a bowtie. It’s a verticality balance thing. The hat is vertical so the tie should be horizontal. Now, if the duck had a WIDE hat, THEN you go for the long tie.
- Comment on 2073 by Asif Kapadia. sci-fi docu. 1 week ago:
so this takes place in 2073, and says it’s “37 years after The Event”
… 2036.
This is sending chills up my spine because this is the year me and my friends “joke” about “THE BIG ONE” happening. The big what exactly? Could be anything; whatever it is, the big mood is surrounding that SPECIFIC year. It’s been an in-group memetic reference in my circle for decades now. I think I first made an offhand remark about 2036 being when “it” happens all the way back in like 2003 or something
it’s probably just a coincidence.
…probably.
but damn what a coincidence.
- Comment on So many options, such excitement 1 week ago:
Many consider.
Very ponder.
Ow.
- Comment on Resume help 1 week ago:
ADHD makes it EXCEPTIONALLY HARD for me to switch tasks, actually x_x the only time I can get ANYTHING done is when I can hyperfocus into ONE thing
- Comment on Anon does overhead press 2 weeks ago:
jesus talk about having noodle-arms
- Comment on I got into the wrong career lol 2 weeks ago:
If you’ve got it, flaunt it.
I hope she manages to set up an irrevocable trust that guarantees steady income for the rest of her life so someday she can quit sex work and just pursue art or something if she wants
Hell, maybe it’ll turn out that sex work is her art and that is ok too
- Comment on Good morning I choose making the best of what you have. 2 weeks ago:
Park like that and it’ll get impounded. Believe me when I say the impound bill will be higher than the worth of the vehicle. Even surrendering the title to the towing company may only take fifty dollars off it for sparing them some paperwork. You’ll still be in debt or sent to collections. Don’t risk it.
- Comment on SAD 3 weeks ago:
I probably already have.
- Comment on Anyone notice how Brian Thompson dies and suddenly aliens start attacking? 4 weeks ago:
Aliens are not attacking.
The drones have hurt no one.
They are paying more attention now.
Perhaps if society kills more CEOs, they will finally consider us sapient and establish contact.
- Comment on Anon makes weed eggs 4 weeks ago:
indeed, the ham is the most important component in green eggs and ham
- Comment on how do I become the dullest, most boring coworker so this needy man leaves me alone? 4 weeks ago:
NO! Warrior EMPEROR! of the galactic empire! (very space opera!)
- Comment on how do I become the dullest, most boring coworker so this needy man leaves me alone? 5 weeks ago:
Oh yes! Talk to him about MULTILEVEL MARKETING! Hell, OP might even be able to sell him garbage and make some money on the side if he’s stupid and desperate enough!!!
- Comment on The Two Genders 5 weeks ago:
someone should endeavor to make The Most Political Game In The World by simply having no white male characters in it at all.
- Comment on Motivational, inspiring 5 weeks ago:
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Some aneurysm posts look like they were written by someone having an aneurysm.
Some aneurysm posts make me feel like I’m having an aneurysm when I try to read them.
This one is both.
- Comment on Hey is Sharing Luigi’s Manifesto on Social Media Actually "Glorifying Violence"? Because Reddit Said So 😭 5 weeks ago:
barbara streissand has taught them nothing apparently
- Comment on Interesting. It's a constant reminder 1 month ago:
I like public restroom doors that have a handle like protrusion for your foot
- Comment on what a moment to live 1 month ago:
Let’s increase each one’s pay by exactly three aerodynamic chunks of lead, to be deposited directly into their brainpans at supersonic speeds.
- Comment on That's right! 1 month ago:
I do believe I’d love being a small part of a polycule…!
- Comment on That's right! 1 month ago:
I got a girlfriend in 2023
The experience was mid.
She’s cool and we still hang out sometimes but being in a relationship kinda sucked and I’m glad we reloaded the friend save state.
I’m just not cut out for being someone’s only partner.
- Comment on Binary search 1 month ago:
Expecting feral hogs to be capable of reason was a mistake.
- Comment on healthy routine 1 month ago:
How bout fuck insta.
How bout that.
Doom scroll on mastodon.
- Comment on Reversed roles 1 month ago:
Mom when I asked for a puppy: “you aren’t ready for that kind of responsibility.”
Me when Mom askd for grandkids: “I’m not ready for that kind of responsibility ¯\_(ツ)_/¯”
- Comment on Shiny 1 month ago:
No apologies necessary! I actually thought it was more likely that going on. I hope I did not come across as too confrontational!
- Comment on Shiny 1 month ago:
It’s also good for (at least some?) neurological people.
I would like to preface that I am not saying this to be judgemental and I’m not implying that anyone was hurt by it, but,
I’m not sure if you used “neurological” instead of “neurotypical” on purpose…? Because literally every creature with a brain is neurological.
And while I definitely used “neurodiverse” instead of “neurodivergent” on purpose because it feels nicer, implying that the opposite term is “neurological” might sound to some as though you are implying that neurodivergent/aneurotypical people have no neurological framework and I hesitate to jump to the conclusion that that’s actually what you meant.
- Comment on Shiny 1 month ago:
“Hey look at this cool rock i found” is definitely a valid courting technique for non-diamonds in neurodiverse persons :3
- Comment on gen z gorillas 2 months ago:
Feels like a metaphor for Gen Z at large tbh
- Comment on But yes. 2 months ago:
The same guy who deliberately messed with the vending machine will also intentionally misplace the delivery of the skull gun aug module, smh.
- Comment on But yes. 2 months ago:
Steam implies water! What if we used some OTHER phase-change working fluid? :D
||(No idea what, though. my question is implied with a playful tone and is at least 50% facetious; any actual discussion that might result would be little more than a pleasant coincidence)||
