No. The less carbon that is added to the atmosphere, the less severe the damage will be. Economic collapse will only increase the motivation to rely on cheap and dirty fuels, not to mention the incentives to cut down all the trees and exterminate all the wildlife.

It seems like that would be a pretty good shower thought if I could make any sense of it at all. Profile says “prompt engineer.” Did an LLM come up with it? Or is there something I don’t know about David Mitchell and/or Slavoj Zizek?

It’s a good bubble! Like those little bubbles you get in champagne, except this one’s the size of the entire western hemisphere. It’s so fizzy with innovation it’s going to be worth every trillion dollar bill it incinerates. Your investments might end up worthless but you’ll have the satisfaction of knowing you helped bring about the birth of General AI, who will be along any minute now, the superintelligent robotic overlord that will soon rule over your life. It’s going to be so amazing it’ll be worth literally all the money in the world. Stop trying to make bubbles go away. Stop trying to think rationally. The AI will do that for you.

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They don’t need you to buy anything right now. They want you to see the ads, remember them. Think of them when you hear the brand name. Know that their products exist. Maybe even mention one of those products to your friends in conversation some day, or just nod in recognition if someone else mentions it. They’re buying space in your mind.

Civilization is on the decline, well past its peak, and probably will be for another hundred years at least. At a personal level I’d advise you not to worry about it too much. The things you can do to make the world a better place are the same things they’ve always been.

Tetris has a CEO? Does she hang out with the President of Pong and the Mayor of Space Invaders?

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Having scanned through the list of movie titles in this thread the one I most want to watch again is The Third Man.

Oh great it’s time for that again. So many things they might try to do to protect the children. So few of them that would not do more harm than good.

Please let this government fall before they fuck it up too badly, and the same to its successor. Delay is all we can do, and hope we can hold them off long enough for the utter stupidity of “age verification” systems to become obvious to even the politicians as its failure in e.g. the UK continues to play out.

Yeah. I live in one of those places were everyone else thinks it’s necessary to own a car.

I used to believe that owning a car was necessary.

Sure it sucks as a currency, but it if you’re the only town doing it then it might work okay as a tourist attraction to draw in any remaining wealthy bitcoin enthusiasts.

You could do worse than starting with some Kropotkin.

I think you’d be better off if you’d done some reading first before forming opinions about it.

He didn’t need to rule out the possibility of ruling it out. I heard him on the radio. He said in a direct way that he would not want to see a ceasefire at this time. Of course it wouldn’t be possible to have one right now in any case. Along with all the other things he’s said it very much looks like he’s still entirely supportive of this unprovoked war of aggression but belatedly understands that admitting to this might be politically disadvantageous.

“Little to no government intervention” is the one thing all the self-described libertarians I’ve met seem to agree on.

“No oppressive power structures” is the thing that the anarchists agree on.

This Russian activity in the Alaskan and Canadian ADIZ occurs regularly and is not seen as a threat.

Glad to see that in there because I was worried for a moment that my first reaction to seeing the headline being “this probably happens all the time and someone just decided that now is a good time to tell us all about it for some specific reason” was too cynical.

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