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calm down fercrissakes, these guys have been proclaiming the end of the world my entire life
"one more second!" like wtf, go for a walk outside and get some fresh air
Not so, if you look at their website, you'll see at numerous time through the decades they actually decreased the risk of Armageddon. I fear your sentiment of complacency is precisely the danger they're warning of. To pull a quote:
Threads
It just takes one thread, whether it be food, water, environment, radiological or biological to snap, and down goes civilisation. As civilization becomes more complex, the threat surface also become exponentially larger.
dude, calm down
Can you imagine what these guys would've set this thing to during the black plague?
we will be fine, go get some fresh air and talk to real people
You'll be fine is what you mean. That's all you clearly care about based on your bitching. Based on your other comments, you're just insufferable.
yes, I'll be fine, and statistically you will be too
have the day you deserve
“No need to do anything about anything. You’re already on a bell curve.”
Amazing advice
i actually do not espouse doing nothing, but trying to have real conversations on here about what we could is not worth time, because most of you are yankee doodle conspirators and shills engaging in bad faith
Why are you even on this platform?
This is for real people, not bots and soulless antagonizers.
I am neither a bot, nor a soulless antagonizer
I am here cause that's all reddit is now
and I found a bunch of shills here that really irk me, plus "worry and fear" content like this, that I like to counter
...a lot of it is designed to undermine plebe's hope for the future, and to sow strife
so i engage, and see who engages back
Don't breed.
too late
Cowards excuse. It's important to be aware about the state of things. And being aware is not at all mutually exclusive to living life in the real world? It's not like you have to choose between happiness and staying informed and critical. I have zero respect for this anti intellectual bullshit you're peddling
OH NO MY FEELINGS ARE HURT
an internet troll has "zero respect" for me and thinks I'm a coward
how ever shall I go on?
Idk go figure it out sport
guess I'll just go get my "burns" treated at the hospital for free
...thanks for the advice "bud", i figured it out
Glad for you 👍
you know what? I'll take it - thanks
Have a good day
You too man
Mate the black plague killed damn well near everyone and it would have been worse if not for many pockets of civilization still being removed enough and self sufficient enough to not have to deal with it in a major way.
If something of that scope hit today it would be many folds worse. Even covid was a fraction of what the black plague was in terms of reach and that ground things to a halt and killed an absurd number of people.
We would unironically be flung back decades if we are lucky and a hundred or two years if we arnt into the past if we had to rebuild after a black plague level event.
That's not even a unreasonable take. That's like a lukewarm take at best. If your goanna use an example at least use one that supports your claim
yes, so better get outside, enjoy the sunshine and chat with real people
life is short and you only get one go
cheers
Just “Don’t Look Up” and everything will be fine
/s
always has been thus far