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[–] kautau@lemmy.world 27 points 11 months ago (3 children)

It’s wild watching all the “human entropy” build up at the same time to hit in a really shitty fruition of shittiness. Religious conflict and genocide in Gaza, hottest planet records month after month, Russia/china/North Korea building up for WW3, a massive rise in fascism across western nations, with a culmination in this year’s US presidential election, unprecedented corporate profits as inflation skyrockets, AI companies abandoning ethics for financial gains as the LLMs rapidly grow in capability

It’s like Murphy’s law hitting the planet all at once, we’d just need some new COVID super strain to hit right as WW3 kicks off to be the cherry on top

[–] tsonfeir@lemm.ee 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I think Covid actually delayed it! I don’t think we will be as “lucky” if a second round comes.

[–] kautau@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Ironically it’s like it delayed it to occur when everything else is beginning to rear its head. Everyone was so focused on Covid they couldn’t be shitty for a little bit. Not anymore. WW3 is one thing, WW3 with a fascist, fractured west is another

[–] Rayspekt@kbin.social 4 points 11 months ago

What I don't get is the sissy sub fascists nowadays. The dumb fucks generally want to wage war with everybody and now that there are legitimate threats to their precious Vaterlands they are pacifists all of a sudden. I get it, they a funded largely by russia and china etc, but do they really think they won't get shafted when the west collapses? Absolute omega farts.

[–] sheogorath@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Sell all of your assets and build a self-sufficient ranch on New Zealand. Looking at WW3 projections it's going to be one of the places untouched by a nuclear war and won't feel the effects of a nuclear winter as harsh as other places. Hmm, it looks like that the billionaires building their doomsday bunkers at New Zealand has the same idea.

[–] kautau@lemmy.world 18 points 11 months ago (2 children)

lol “all of my assets.” If my net worth is debt, then perhaps my ranch will be built from anti-matter

[–] Rayspekt@kbin.social 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Yeah Imma part with my Bionicles and Beyblades for the safety ranch.

[–] Hadriscus@lemm.ee 1 points 11 months ago
[–] Rayspekt@kbin.social 4 points 11 months ago

The one rogue nuke hitting New Zealand would be a heavy hit to Peter Thiel and his buddies' apocalypse plans as they continue to buy up the whole country.