The Ilx server needs moving a bit further away from the Yellowstone caldera blast zone, otherwise the Trump thread might get destroyed:p
― calzino, Saturday, 26 November 2016 01:05 (seven years ago) link
isn't seattle gonna be destroyed by an earthquake in like 10 years
― global tetrahedron, Saturday, 26 November 2016 01:56 (seven years ago) link
Where do we keep the tape backups?
― El Tomboto, Saturday, 26 November 2016 04:02 (seven years ago) link
Ppl lived thru WW2
hmm
― schlump, Saturday, 26 November 2016 04:21 (seven years ago) link
everybody making a pt abt relative geography shaping this otm i think ?, like w/o having to taxonomise what cataclysm means things are probably pretty apocalyptic nothing-will-be-the-same-again feeling anywhere where resources are scarce or where bombs are going off, ie to those poll voters. i feel like nuclear war just became 5000x more likely & the thing where some kind of implicit ice barrier erodes & the world is just immediately & cascadingly a different planet seems p feasible. maybe change this poll to before 2017 ???
― schlump, Saturday, 26 November 2016 04:28 (seven years ago) link
Has there ever been a generation of humans that didn't ruminate about whether they might be the second-to-last?
― El Tomboto, Saturday, 26 November 2016 04:35 (seven years ago) link
(and that there was probably nothing they could do about it? woe is us, cursed to roam this etc.)
― El Tomboto, Saturday, 26 November 2016 04:43 (seven years ago) link
the people on this board will almost certainly be fine imo
― k3vin k., Saturday, 26 November 2016 04:44 (seven years ago) link
i don't think it'll be so bad for humans who are born after the cataclysm bc this will be the only life they know. it'll be hardest for those of us who remember what it was like now and how great it was.
― Mordy, Saturday, 26 November 2016 04:44 (seven years ago) link
Like the younger people in this rather good film http://www.gstatic.com/tv/thumb/dvdboxart/75293/p75293_d_v8_aa.jpg
― I hear from this arsehole again, he's going in the river (James Morrison), Saturday, 26 November 2016 05:08 (seven years ago) link
this is how i feel abt the switch from cd -> mp3s xp
― schlump, Saturday, 26 November 2016 05:10 (seven years ago) link
i feel lucky to have experienced how good things can be and have been, but it will be especially frustrating to live with this (likely) suffering and misery, just knowing that it didn't *have* to be this way. hopefully can drive and motivate me politically?? (?)
― global tetrahedron, Saturday, 26 November 2016 05:36 (seven years ago) link
things will be fine.
― k3vin k., Saturday, 26 November 2016 05:41 (seven years ago) link
Respectfully, this is such a trite dad argument. It's exactly the kind of banal hindsight fallacy that would be taken as received wisdom on places like Reddit. Like others said, other generations weren't facing climate change with denialist resolve. I don't think global climate change will likely reach cataclysmic proportions in the next 30 years, but in the next 80 I'd say odds are approaching fair to middlin'.
― viborg, Saturday, 26 November 2016 06:05 (seven years ago) link
I don't know, how many people have to starve before it reaches a cataclysm?
― viborg, Saturday, 26 November 2016 06:07 (seven years ago) link
Wow, good job reading a bunch of nonexistent sentiment into my question!
Speaking for myself, I'm defining a "cataclysm" for the purposes of this thread as 2-3% global population loss.
― El Tomboto, Saturday, 26 November 2016 06:10 (seven years ago) link
So, roughly 200 million deaths at current global population of roughly 7 billion. Sounds cataclysmic enough to me to qualify.
― a little too mature to be cute (Aimless), Saturday, 26 November 2016 06:22 (seven years ago) link
http://www.livescience.com/14251-200-million-rapture-12.html
― El Tomboto, Saturday, 26 November 2016 06:28 (seven years ago) link
Be funny if we're all dead before this poll closes
― Never changed username before (cardamon)
if a punchline lands and nobody is there to hear it, is it still funny?
watched "pale cocoon" last night. touched on a lot of thoughts i've been having lately, particularly wrt this thread.
― xiphoid beetlebum (rushomancy), Saturday, 26 November 2016 12:39 (seven years ago) link
np: frank zappa, _does humor belong in a post-apocalyptic hellscape?_
― xiphoid beetlebum (rushomancy), Saturday, 26 November 2016 12:41 (seven years ago) link
just the other day i was wondering which science fiction dystopia seems most plausible from the perspective of 2016 and--if you allow for some imaginative license--it almost seems like it might be The Time Machine.
― ryan, Saturday, 26 November 2016 14:42 (seven years ago) link
(not just the extreme inequality or biopolitical schisms, or even the idea that there will be habitable and uninhabitable zones but because it portrays human civilization as just...dwindling away into time and a decaying universe.)
― ryan, Saturday, 26 November 2016 14:45 (seven years ago) link
& Orlando Jones rocking a Caesar cut, boggling at our sad descendants who don't take advantage of the vast institutional knowledge that he contains!
http://i.imgur.com/R3T8bih.jpg
― El Tomboto, Saturday, 26 November 2016 15:13 (seven years ago) link
http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2016/04/a-human-extinction-isnt-that-unlikely/480444/
― 龜, Thursday, 8 December 2016 19:35 (seven years ago) link
Global Challenge Foundation roughly answers the poll question for ILX:
Across 100 years, that figure would entail a 9.5 percent chance of human extinction.
― a little too mature to be cute (Aimless), Thursday, 8 December 2016 19:38 (seven years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Thursday, 19 January 2017 00:01 (seven years ago) link
― Mordy, Friday, November 25, 2016 9:44 PM (one month ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
we are legend
― sleepingbag, Thursday, 19 January 2017 00:07 (seven years ago) link
still feeling good about this
― trilby mouth (darraghmac), Thursday, 19 January 2017 00:09 (seven years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Friday, 20 January 2017 00:01 (seven years ago) link
clutch mutch?
― trilby mouth (darraghmac), Friday, 20 January 2017 00:03 (seven years ago) link
16 people leading the revolution
― F♯ A♯ (∞), Friday, 20 January 2017 00:04 (seven years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/1eWtMFd.jpg
― Karl Malone, Friday, 20 January 2017 01:39 (seven years ago) link
I'm about to turn 42, and I feel like I am living through one right now.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 20 January 2017 01:42 (seven years ago) link
You are confusing the scaldingly high potential for a cataclysmic event with the actual event, which is scheduled for later this year.
― a little too mature to be cute (Aimless), Friday, 20 January 2017 04:07 (seven years ago) link
51 and I feel as if everything has gone mad.
― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 20 January 2017 08:59 (seven years ago) link
You're getting worked up over nothing. Everything is going to be fine. So just relax, okay? You're really overreacting.
http://www.theonion.com/multiblogpost/this-war-will-destabilize-the-entire-mideast-regio-11534
― Rock Wokeman (Noodle Vague), Friday, 20 January 2017 09:30 (seven years ago) link
silicon valley hedge fund types certainly think they will
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/01/30/doomsday-prep-for-the-super-rich
― global tetrahedron, Tuesday, 24 January 2017 15:39 (seven years ago) link
“I think people who are particularly attuned to the levers by which society actually works understand that we are skating on really thin cultural ice right now.”
yeah man yr the only one who can tell
― difficult listening hour, Tuesday, 24 January 2017 16:18 (seven years ago) link
i read that piece and my real feeling about it was that there's a certain stripe of rich person that's constantly paranoid that something might bring an end to the lavish, crass lifestyles which they need yet scarcely deserve, the latter fact being something they're probably aware of.
― Bein' Sean Bean (LocalGarda), Tuesday, 24 January 2017 16:22 (seven years ago) link
When Marvin Liao, a former Yahoo executive who is now a partner at 500 Startups, a venture-capital firm, considered his preparations, he decided that his caches of water and food were not enough. “What if someone comes and takes this?” he asked me. To protect his wife and daughter, he said, “I don’t have guns, but I have a lot of other weaponry. I took classes in archery.”...Huffman has calculated that, in the event of a disaster, he would seek out some form of community: “Being around other people is a good thing. I also have this somewhat egotistical view that I’m a pretty good leader. I will probably be in charge, or at least not a slave, when push comes to shove.”
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Huffman has calculated that, in the event of a disaster, he would seek out some form of community: “Being around other people is a good thing. I also have this somewhat egotistical view that I’m a pretty good leader. I will probably be in charge, or at least not a slave, when push comes to shove.”
lol nerds (bolded part submitted for use on species tombstone obv)
― difficult listening hour, Tuesday, 24 January 2017 16:39 (seven years ago) link
love the implicit acknowledgement that there will be slaves -- just def not him
― difficult listening hour, Tuesday, 24 January 2017 16:41 (seven years ago) link
typical of these libertarian shitheads that their first and only thought in response to potential civil unrest is 'omg i'd better build a secret bunker' rather than 'omg how can i use my boundless wealth and influence to prevent this?'
― the greg evigan school of improvised explosive devices (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 24 January 2017 16:46 (seven years ago) link
lord of the flies is not a fucking instruction manual you dolts
― the greg evigan school of improvised explosive devices (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 24 January 2017 16:47 (seven years ago) link
http://s8.postimg.org/4qjmvxc5x/tumblr_ned75nk_LFX1s6efcxo2_500.gif
― difficult listening hour, Tuesday, 24 January 2017 16:49 (seven years ago) link
just for the record, this is the chinless manchild who believes he has the right stuff to go full immortan joe in the nightmarish hellscape world of the future:
http://www.deathmetal.org/wp-content/uploads/Steve-spez-Huffman.jpg
― the greg evigan school of improvised explosive devices (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 24 January 2017 16:58 (seven years ago) link
hmm, it appears deathmetal.org doesn't like hotlinking - try this:
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2016/11/29/17/3ADB96D400000578-3982922-image-a-23_1480439368880.jpg
― the greg evigan school of improvised explosive devices (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 24 January 2017 16:59 (seven years ago) link
if you want a vision of the future, imagine a flip-flop stamping on a human face - forever.
― the greg evigan school of improvised explosive devices (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 24 January 2017 17:01 (seven years ago) link
You can't fool me, that's Liam McPoyle.
― Lauren Schumer Donor (Phil D.), Tuesday, 24 January 2017 17:01 (seven years ago) link
Silicon Valley execs who think their leadership skills will transfer seamlessly to the post-apocalyptic economy of tomorrow might just maybe be in for a fun surprise.
― Transformed From The Norm By The Nuclear Goop (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 24 January 2017 17:06 (seven years ago) link
Immortan Joe was the CFO at Fruit Ninja devs Halfbrick, iirc?
― Transformed From The Norm By The Nuclear Goop (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 24 January 2017 17:09 (seven years ago) link