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Complacency about the serious challenges the world is facing is not an option. But the idea that we are almost at the point of no return via the Doomsday Clock isn’t helpful.

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[–] Deme@sopuli.xyz 20 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

It stopped being useful ever since they stopped using it just to visualize how quickly a nuke war could end things. Climate change is serious as shit, but it's not going to lock in total devestation within the next two minutes. Same goes for many other slow-burn threats they try to cram in there. Many of them are already here, pretty much none have a discreet threshold to count towards.

[–] Davel23@fedia.io 11 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The word you want is discrete.

[–] idiomaddict@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

You can remember it, because the T separates the Es into discrete entities

[–] Deme@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 day ago

English spelling sucks by being detached from pronounciation episode 978