volvoxvsmarla

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[–] volvoxvsmarla@lemm.ee 11 points 1 day ago

Best case scenario this will not end well for Elon. Worst case scenario this will not end well for the world and we'll all die in nuclear war or something.

[–] volvoxvsmarla@lemm.ee 2 points 2 days ago

I'm afraid you won't have time. It will take minutes. And I'm not even sure it would be announced.

[–] volvoxvsmarla@lemm.ee 1 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Man I can't remember the original meme/context to this one, can you help me out?

[–] volvoxvsmarla@lemm.ee 68 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Absolutely agree with you, but, unpopular opinion probably, I also don't want a lazy ass who can't or doesn't want to get a job to be homeless. Like, I don't care how much of an asshole you are and how many drugs you take and that you don't care to hold a job, I still want you to have shelter, food, and basic necessities. Let alone kids of these people.

[–] volvoxvsmarla@lemm.ee 22 points 3 days ago (2 children)

So, in the best case scenario, the US as we know it is done and, after a hard fall and hitting rock bottom, will emerge as a country that is less of a capitalist hellhole. Ideally, in the process, other countries will find more independence from the USA, be it trade wise or security wise.

The more realistic scenario is that everything will stay the same/similar and just get slightly worse all the time but every other country will still suck up to the USA and everything gets a little worse. Oh yeah and climate change will fuck everyone up the ass.

The worst case scenario, I would argue, is that this ends in the destruction of the world via nuclear war within less than an hour. This is what I am scared of the most.

[–] volvoxvsmarla@lemm.ee 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Funnily enough, the day before you posted this, I was reminded of Return To Oz (I was at the zoo and someone... Scared the crap out of me). That's probably not exactly post apocalyptic or solarpunk, but definitely takes place after a societal collapse of Oz and has creepy weirdos on something like rollerblades. Just in case you want to expand - or dare I say, roll towards the horizon.

[–] volvoxvsmarla@lemm.ee 3 points 6 days ago (3 children)

I'm.... At a loss for words but I'll screenshot this and put everything on my bucket list

[–] volvoxvsmarla@lemm.ee 10 points 1 week ago

Everyone here fixing stuff with 3D printers while I am here struggling how to sew up wool silk leggings in a way that keeps them elastic and fighting for my life with darning

[–] volvoxvsmarla@lemm.ee 1 points 1 week ago

I've always heard promises promises give an end to those promises in the bridge of Lady Gaga's Pokerface

[–] volvoxvsmarla@lemm.ee 3 points 1 week ago

Thanks man, I'll try my best

[–] volvoxvsmarla@lemm.ee 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Oof for someone who isn't tech savvy this was a hard read but I appreciate it!

My experience with Linux - and as I now know, probably GNU? - is limited to not pressing a button while my dad's computer at work turned on so that I would end up in not in Windows. He had one amazing game on Linux where some troll had to roll stones (I wish I could find it again). I came to work with him every now and then and was allowed to play while he would half desperately half violently try to get rid of the chaos on his desk, which consisted of about 700 pounds of paper and occasional random paper clips.

I loved these days. And the canteen's gravy with rice for some reason.

(Edit: this was in the mid to late 90s)

 

This is both a shower thought and a stupid question but I think it fits this community better.

Since air conditioning is apparently heating the local environment while cooling down a house I was asking myself whether it would be possible to basically either build a layer of glass/plexiglass right over the actual outer structure of a house, leaving a tiny gap between wall and glass, or at least put a house in a kind of glasshouse dome with a double glass wall. And consequently inject a sulfur compound, calcite etc into that "gap", basically creating a very tiny micro-atmosphere that has that sun blocking effect.

Would that work, just logically/technically? Would the environment heat up less, more, or just the same as with geoengineering in the stratosphere? Would it even cool down a house/keep it cool at all?

 

I am looking for a term to describe the line of thinking that goes something like "I hate my work, I am sick all the time, I am depressed, I can't find happiness. But I should be happy. Those problems don't matter. All my problems are so insignificant, there are little. They're just some stupid first world problems. I have it good, I have food on the table and a loving family. There are millions of people who have real problems, people living in severe poverty, starving to death, being bombed."

I think about this often, it came up when I was talking with someone with mental health issues and I remember him telling me that this way of thinking has a name/is a common symptom that occurs in people with a specific personality disorder, although I cannot remember what disorder he claimed it was. Also this was more than ten years ago so it might have either changed or my memory of this event changed.

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