What's on your mind?

[GoatmasterGeneral]

10 hours ago, JonoBlade said:

I take the view "hope for the best, plan for the worst."

Which is to say I am relatively positive, but we are in for a rough ride. Not from rogue AI or any of that shit, just the habitable area of the planet shrinking.

Hollywood generally doesn't make movies about this. It is too slow moving and boring. Asteroids, zombies, alien invasions, and megalomaniac computers are much more immediate. It is part of the distraction from facing the delusion of infinite growth on a finite planet.

As the polar ice caps continue to melt we can just let the AI start building huge cities for us under the oceans. Plenty of room down there, the fish seem to dig it anyway. It's a lot closer and cheaper than colonizing deep space, problem solved. The rate of population growth is slowing drastically anyway, we're well under 1% now. If this trend continues in 100 years they'll ptobably have to start giving people incentives to procreate just so the species can survive. 

[Dead1]

Hey and it just gets worse - new there is plastic in our literal blood!

 

 Fuck our species is making a mess of it.  We think we're smart but we are actually really, really fucking suicidally stupid.

 

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/mar/24/microplastics-found-in-human-blood-for-first-time?fbclid=IwAR1trnmexkedH1hwKBd8hONDeTNHVBOfrh5XO-3ca-XL-76iZ5sx7_eOJL0

 

 

[JonoBlade]

7 hours ago, GoatmasterGeneral said:

The rate of population growth is slowing drastically anyway, we're well under 1% now. If this trend continues in 100 years they'll probably have to start giving people incentives to procreate just so the species can survive. 

1% is still compounding interest. 

Even if/when population plateaus, it is still a while before that happens and resources being consumed at something like twice Earth's capacity to renew them will have to lead to some form of collapse. 

If all those 10 or 11 billion people have aspirations to live like the average American the world will be so munted.

[GoatmasterGeneral]

Don't worry the average American standard of living will be so low by then that won't even be a problem. And your omnicient AI will find us new things to use as resources when the old ones have been used up which won't be for many thousands of years. And if shit as we know it collapses one day then humans will just have to adapt. We are very resilient. Deadovic says we have plastic in our literal blood now don't cha know. 

[AlSymerz]

That's okay, when you get to a certain age if you can't afford titanium you end up with a plastic hip, a plastic knee, a plastic shoulder, and then it's time to throw a Tupperware party!

 

[RelentlessOblivion]

It’s been a long time coming but as of today I can officially say fuck all social media. I know my uni lecturer said journalists need to have social media but honestly having a platform to spread my opinion isn’t worth the racism, sexism, bigotry, and all around shitty Ness that is rampant across Facebook, Twitter, and so on.

[AlSymerz]

Social media is for spreading my opinion? Holy shit, the world aint ready for that.

 

[blaaacdoommmmfan]

14 hours ago, RelentlessOblivion said:

It’s been a long time coming but as of today I can officially say fuck all social media. I know my uni lecturer said journalists need to have social media but honestly having a platform to spread my opinion isn’t worth the racism, sexism, bigotry, and all around shitty Ness that is rampant across Facebook, Twitter, and so on.

Isn't this forum social media. Just saying.

I agree Facebook, Twitter and all that can be very negative and they seem to monotise hateful stuff sometimes. Like they just want as much advertising money as they can regardless of the message content. For instance there way too slow to take down all sorts of awful posts and that's if they ever take them down. Plus why can't the user take them down like you can here.   but some of the metal bands Facebook pages were positive from my experience.you had to be invited in.  Very much if you were nasty to others you was kicked off. These pages I suspect are a minority on social media. 

I'm rarely on it.  

[zackflag]

I finally caught the covid. Time to see if those vaccines and the booster are really worth their salt. Feels like a bad chest cold so far, and my sense of smell is completely gone. Definitely feel like shit but not the worst I've ever been sick.

[FatherAlabaster]

Booo. Hope you feel better soon and recover completely dude. And I hope your sense of smell recovers completely too... mine hasn't, and it's kind of a constant bummer in the background. Bastard virus.

[AlSymerz]

3 hours ago, blaaacdoommmmfan said:

Isn't this forum social media. Just saying.

 

This debate has raged on many a forum for many a year, it's funny to see how many people don't think forums are social media. The only real difference between forums and FB is the moderation level.

3 hours ago, blaaacdoommmmfan said:

but some of the metal bands Facebook pages were positive from my experience.you had to be invited in. 

I'm not a member of any group that required an invite so I only see public posting from bands and with FB blockers on I don't even see comments unless I choose to see them, so from my experience FB is little more than a good advertising tool for bands. I know shit goes on there, I know some people live to post their opinions on there but I don't see it unless I choose to and in twenty something years I've never made a post of my own.

I was a member of some WASP group that was invite (all you had to do was ask and they invited you) but all it was was people posting the same images over and over, people complaining that Blackie never commented, and people reliving the same stories every few days. It was as boring as hell and something I dumped very quickly.

[blaaacdoommmmfan]

I got really bad deja vu today whilst writing a card for a friend that it had reminded me like I'd done some very similar before. Sort of had a panic attack/ reminded me of being in a nightmare. I'm know I'm not only one who has these. But shared it. I had some food and did some jobs and was fine. What is it with deja vu? Any experts out there. It's not like in the matrix where deja vu is the code getting changed. Agent Smith is not going to knock on my door. I hope not😂

[AlSymerz]

Agent Smith knocking on your door has to be better than having Will Smith knock on it.

I have such a terrible memory for so many things that even when I have deja vu I can't figure out why so I just don't bother. My memory sucks, after nearly 20 years I can still read off each item on the delivery dockets I used to give stores when I delivered their orders. There was nearly 200 products a store could order with a seeming random code number, the lowest being 25 and the highest 8000, and I can still name ever product and it's number. But ask me my thoughts on an album I listened to once last month and I couldn't tell you anything more than whether I liked it or I didn't.

 

[RelentlessOblivion]

Déjà vu is definitely weird, but what’s weird is I feel like I’ve had this conversation about déjà vu before…

 

also I hope you make a full recovery Zack

[GoatmasterGeneral]

44 minutes ago, KillaKukumba said:

Agent Smith knocking on your door has to be better than having Will Smith knock on it.

Agent Smith hits harder.

[AlSymerz]

Yeah but with Will you have to listen to him whine and shed crocodile tears until he thinks you believe what he's saying.

[GoatmasterGeneral]

29 minutes ago, KillaKukumba said:

Yeah but with Will you have to listen to him whine and shed crocodile tears until he thinks you believe what he's saying.

I'd hate to argue with you sir (well not really) but just because he's knocking doesn't mean I have to answer. Certainly wouldn't be the first time I turned off the music stayed real still & quiet and pretended not to be home.

[AlSymerz]

You don't have to open it for Agent Smith either, but lets face it if it was a Sunday morning and the knock sounded distinctly like your friendly Jehovah's Witness who you were not only expecting but ready to invite in coffee and and chat, like every other Sunday, then both Agent Smith or Will Smith could take you by surprise.

[GoatmasterGeneral]

Will Smith ain't taking me by surprise, I'm onto his game. If he came strolling up to me I'd preemtively kick him right in the nuts before he could even draw back to launch his slap.

[AlSymerz]

You must have good aim because he proved this week that his nuts are in Jada's purse.

[GoatmasterGeneral]

I think when the Smiffs go out on the town she lets her rapper boyfriend hold onto them for safe keeping. 

[AlSymerz]

Well that's fair, she can't be expect to hold both pairs.

 

[blaaacdoommmmfan]

22 hours ago, KillaKukumba said:

Agent Smith knocking on your door has to be better than having Will Smith knock on it.

I have such a terrible memory for so many things that even when I have deja vu I can't figure out why so I just don't bother. My memory sucks, after nearly 20 years I can still read off each item on the delivery dockets I used to give stores when I delivered their orders. There was nearly 200 products a store could order with a seeming random code number, the lowest being 25 and the highest 8000, and I can still name ever product and it's number. But ask me my thoughts on an album I listened to once last month and I couldn't tell you anything more than whether I liked it or I didn't.

 

Will Smith only slaps so that's much preferred. It's Nothing like that body slam agent Smith put on neo in matrix revolutions  that made a huge crater😉

 

[AlSymerz]

Never seen it, but if he wants to make a crater I'm pretty sure Will Smith could be buried in it and no one would care.

 

[RelentlessOblivion]

The first matrix movie was pretty good, after that it went downhill fast if you ask me.