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. we’re 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 better― Karl Malone, Wednesday, December 2, 2020 4:44 PM (eight minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
― 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 that’s 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 UK’s approval.“I consider this decision to be problematic and recommend that EU Member States do not repeat the process in the same way,” EU Parliament Member Peter Liese said, according to Reuters. “A few weeks of thorough examination by the European Medicines Agency is better than a hasty emergency marketing authorization of a vaccine,” Liese added.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (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
We're the best because we were first to accept this thing all the other countries made and tested.
― Clean-up on ILX (onimo), Thursday, 3 December 2020 22:05 (three years ago) link
https://i.imgflip.com/1xvnfi.jpg
― pomenitul, Thursday, 3 December 2020 22:07 (three years ago) link
lol, that's a great cartoon
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 3 December 2020 22:47 (three years ago) link
daily tests have dropped significantly in illinois over the past 2 weeks. at first, i thought that might be because the rest of the U.S. is spiking so tests are in short supply. but overall U.S. tests are down, too:
https://i.imgur.com/PVh2w5C.png
so, repeating this...does this mean that that the whole world is spiking so global tests are scarcer?
― Karl Malone, Friday, 4 December 2020 05:30 (three years ago) link
Honestly I think it's because tons of people got tested before Thanksgiving travel and that's the spike you see right before the last two weeks
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Friday, 4 December 2020 05:50 (three years ago) link
It doesn’t really make sense for tests to go down while presumably the prevalence of the disease is going up. It would make sense for tests to flatten out if there’s a supply chain problem. The simplest explanation for a drop is slow reporting of data that will likely later get backfilled. I’m guessing tests in particular are subject to backfill because they get reported more slowly than eg deaths (especially negative tests). I bet if you come back in a month and look at the data for the last two weeks of November that drop will have disappeared.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 4 December 2020 07:56 (three years ago) link
but would you bet 1 million dollars on that?
actually, make that a $4-10 bet, or a beer on me, sometime after all this. miss you, old friend.
― Karl Malone, Friday, 4 December 2020 08:06 (three years ago) link
Hello, looking forward to beers!
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 4 December 2020 16:28 (three years ago) link
Me and Karl malone after we get the vaccine https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fenXptAOBY8
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 4 December 2020 16:30 (three years ago) link
i think that's the closest i've gotten to an authentic pub experience, other than a bunch of french dudes in my apartment singing their national anthem in the kitchen in the middle of the night, at my housemate's party, a few years ago!
also i'm sure you're right about the reason behind the testing drop, i just wanted to bet :)
― Karl Malone, Friday, 4 December 2020 16:46 (three years ago) link
Things escalated quickly on CNBC this morning....way to go @andrewrsorkin keeping that idiot Santelli in check pic.twitter.com/MD2zzfQxVk— Icculus The Brave (@FirenzeMike) December 4, 2020
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 4 December 2020 17:14 (three years ago) link
why do all of these people act like kindergartners
― early-Woolf semantic prosody (Hadrian VIII), Friday, 4 December 2020 17:18 (three years ago) link
"I don't want to, waaaah!"
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 4 December 2020 17:20 (three years ago) link