so the key is for humanity to multiply as quickly as possible, to build up greater gene diversity so that when the 99.8% virus comes, more of us will survive
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 2 December 2020 16:48 (three years ago) link
I wasnโt saying you were. It was a bit of a leap because these arguments always end up arguing that (unspecified) populations need to be smaller, and there are always bad faith actors happy to leap in to push that agenda. Just getting in ahead of that argument.
― scampus fugit (gyac), Wednesday, 2 December 2020 16:48 (three years ago) link
the key is for humans to start emulating the virus
i didn't suggest eugenics, but if i would have kept going, i would have gone there. so you just went ahead a little bit to meet me there. hi!
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 2 December 2020 16:49 (three years ago) link
and if i didn't suggest it, someone else would have.
(interestingly, this is true, but only in a context like the present, where there are way too many humans around so that it's eventually inevitable that someone will say something catastrophically dumb)
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 2 December 2020 16:50 (three years ago) link
if there were only 10 people on the planet, maybe there would be a day that wasn't fucking terrible because there would be a chance that none of them would talk to each other
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 2 December 2020 16:51 (three years ago) link
I donโt follow how covid or flu is evidence that the human population is too high (or too low).
― ๐ ๐๐ข๐จ (caek), Wednesday, 2 December 2020 16:52 (three years ago) link
it's just right
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 2 December 2020 16:53 (three years ago) link
Earth 2020: goldilocks
i'll take my dumb guy saying dumb things offline
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 2 December 2020 16:54 (three years ago) link
fuck this perfect world
The best of all possible worlds, apparently.
― Robert Gotopieces (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 2 December 2020 16:57 (three years ago) link
I have no opinion on whether the population is too high or too low or what. I just donโt follow how flu and covid are relevant to that question.
― ๐ ๐๐ข๐จ (caek), Wednesday, 2 December 2020 16:57 (three years ago) link
MOTHER EARTH IS TIRED OF OUR SHIT is what i think km is trying to say
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 2 December 2020 17:03 (three years ago) link
but frankly i think mother earth has better things to do than worry about us. weโre a blip
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 2 December 2020 17:04 (three years ago) link
- bob marley
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v296/WilliamCrump63/RaggettBrain.jpg
― Robert Gotopieces (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 2 December 2020 17:06 (three years ago) link
got it - more people is betterโ Karl Malone, Wednesday, December 2, 2020 4:44 PM (eight minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
โ Karl Malone, Wednesday, December 2, 2020 4:44 PM (eight minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
this quickly becomes a complicated and woo-woo topic but i do tend to think that ecosystems are intelligent, that we over-estimate our ability to thrive on earth when our raw numbers are so swollen, that we aren't that different from deer, that we need predators (of us) in order for the ecosystem we live in to sustain itself, that death needs to be in balance with life, etc. i.e. you aren't the only one who thinks along these lines, karl, and it's frustrating and honestly a little bit shallow when people shout 'eugenecist' at you for expressing something like 'there are too many people.' like i don't actually think mass killing is bad but i sure think we can put a lot more effort into making birth control easy and convenient for both men and women!
― cosmic vision | bleak epiphany | erotic email (map), Wednesday, 2 December 2020 17:06 (three years ago) link
i see you guys are having a moment
― the serious avant-garde universalist right now (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 2 December 2020 17:07 (three years ago) link
now thatโs what i was trying to say!! thank you james redd
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 2 December 2020 17:07 (three years ago) link
err.. "i don't actually think mass killing is good" lol
― cosmic vision | bleak epiphany | erotic email (map), Wednesday, 2 December 2020 17:07 (three years ago) link
Lol, no problem, Tracer.
― Robert Gotopieces (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 2 December 2020 17:07 (three years ago) link
sure map, sure
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 2 December 2020 17:08 (three years ago) link
Too late, the Freudian slip hath spoken.
2xp
― pomenitul, Wednesday, 2 December 2020 17:08 (three years ago) link
lol not even gonna put up that much of a fight about it
― cosmic vision | bleak epiphany | erotic email (map), Wednesday, 2 December 2020 17:09 (three years ago) link
I have no opinion on whether the population is too high or too low or what.
There's an emotionally-appealing (ie, "it sounds right") argument that the increase in population has increased the number of pandemic-style viruses insofar as there is a larger, more varied population on Earth for viruses to mutate within, giving more space for multiple viruses to mutate concurrently and increasing/accelerating the likelihood that one of them will be pandemic-worthy.
― DJP, Wednesday, 2 December 2020 17:10 (three years ago) link
We come from Mother Nature so everything we do is perfectly natural, including matricide.
― pomenitul, Wednesday, 2 December 2020 17:10 (three years ago) link
my feeling is "humans are inherently bad and shouldn't exist but since we're here and can all feel pain, let's try to minimize extinction level events...unless they're funny"
― Lover of Nixon (or LON for short) (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 2 December 2020 17:15 (three years ago) link
the Fleshlight Massacre of 2021 will be here for you, Neanderthal
― DJP, Wednesday, 2 December 2020 17:18 (three years ago) link
It isn't that there are too many humans on earth but rather that there are too many humans on earth living the way that humans do. The same would be true if, for example, there were a particular species of turtle that spent all of its time emptying aerosol cans into the morning air.
But I fear that we may be straying from the topic at hand.
― You will notice a small sink where your sofa once was. (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 2 December 2020 17:22 (three years ago) link
Turtle waxing nest pas
― spruce springclean (darraghmac), Wednesday, 2 December 2020 17:28 (three years ago) link
a particular species of turtle that spent all of its time emptying aerosol cans into the morning air
this is one of the strangest euphemisms for "mitch mcconnell" that i've read, but i agree
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 2 December 2020 17:29 (three years ago) link
i meant to add a fart joke in there, but whatever
the last hour of posts here really feel like oldskool ilx, right to the bit where I come in and contribute nothing but an uninteresting illegible and possibly false point.
― Two Meter Peter (Ste), Wednesday, 2 December 2020 17:57 (three years ago) link
Needs more Jay-Z/Nas beef discussion
― Lover of Nixon (or LON for short) (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 2 December 2020 18:01 (three years ago) link
I see I didn't even have to say anything to be here.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 2 December 2020 18:21 (three years ago) link
;)
― Robert Gotopieces (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 2 December 2020 18:22 (three years ago) link
oldskool ilx is returning, we are the virus
― Gab B. Nebsit (wins), Wednesday, 2 December 2020 18:23 (three years ago) link
*grabs throat, unable to speak*
― Lover of Nixon (or LON for short) (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 2 December 2020 18:27 (three years ago) link
https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/12/eu-throws-shade-as-uk-approves-covid-19-vaccine-after-10-day-review/Others in the EU were more even more direct in their criticism of the UKโs approval.โI consider this decision to be problematic and recommend that EU Member States do not repeat the process in the same way,โ EU Parliament Member Peter Liese said, according to Reuters. โA few weeks of thorough examination by the European Medicines Agency is better than a hasty emergency marketing authorization of a vaccine,โ Liese added.
― ๐ ๐๐ข๐จ (caek), Wednesday, 2 December 2020 20:21 (three years ago) link
Good thing Europe has borders, o wait
― velcro-magnon (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 2 December 2020 20:34 (three years ago) link
I think that's been provoked by the implication that the UK has Brexit to thank for the rapid authorization of the vaccine.
― ILXceptionalism (Tom D.), Wednesday, 2 December 2020 20:42 (three years ago) link
Brexitfest 2021, syringes, blue passports and bunting for all
it's gonna be our year guys
― Clean-up on ILX (onimo), Wednesday, 2 December 2020 20:45 (three years ago) link
Just in case you were wondering...
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2020/dec/03/gavin-williamson-britains-a-much-better-country-than-all-of-them
― ILXceptionalism (Tom D.), Thursday, 3 December 2020 17:29 (three years ago) link
These are iPad stations being prepared for virtual ICU end of life visits by a palliative care doc I know. Jesus. pic.twitter.com/lIgbg0FhaL— i cant drive, n95 (@roto_tudor) December 3, 2020
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Thursday, 3 December 2020 19:42 (three years ago) link
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― Robert Gotopieces (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 3 December 2020 19:44 (three years ago) link
xp... and a 9/11 Memorial-style Covid 19 memorial park that will be a forest of blank iPads on stands
― velcro-magnon (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 3 December 2020 20:31 (three years ago) link
sorry that's pretty fucking dark, I preemptively denounce myself
Kinda hit me hard that as I keep forgetting it's not just infected covid folk that are dying alone staring at screens. No-one gets family.
― Clean-up on ILX (onimo), Thursday, 3 December 2020 22:00 (three years ago) link
cool story bro
― pomenitul, Thursday, 3 December 2020 22:02 (three years ago) link