• Agent641@lemmy.world
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    2 hours ago

    In 6 billion years the sun will swole up to engulf the earth and none of this will have ever mattered.

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      Assuming humanity doesn’t get our shit together enough to explore and settle the galax-heeheehee. I’m sorry. I used to hope for that.

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        Even if we did, most of us will likely be born into slavery on some distant colony as the property of a deranged tech trillionaire.

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      Cost of living has gotten to me recently so I’ve been making my own pizzas and they taste better than dominoes plus they’re cheaper. I’m stoked

      Dice some garlic, mix it with passata and chopped spinach and that’s your sauce. Cheese and sliced tomatoes on top, plus more spinach

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    When you die there is nothing. You go back to where you were before you were born.

    No past, no future, no memory, nothing.

    You will cease to be and the memory of you will fade from this universe nearly instantly.

    There’s a lovely peace to that…

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      That might be the case. Or you could be part of something else. A collective consciousness, of which you are a transient node. Or maybe there is no time at all. What we call time could just be our current state on a progress bar as we process life. Or maybe we’re part of a nervous system for some larger construct. Or perhaps we are just reluctantly self-aware iterations of bio computers with fleeting lives that appeared through the chance combination of carbon-based structures.

      Who knows. That’s the beauty of it, which I personally feel religion and a certain type of confident atheism tend to deny with their respective faith/certainty.

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      Death is before me today Like a sick man’s recovery, Like going outdoors after confinement. Death is before me today Like the fragrance of myrrh, Like sitting under sail on breeze day. Death is before me today Like the fragrance of lotus. Like sitting on the shore of drunkenness. Death is before me today Like a well-trodden way, Like a man’s coming home from warfare. Death is before me today Like the clearing of the sky. As when a man discovers what he ignored. Death is before me today Like a man’s longing to see his home When he has spent many years in captivity

      I saw it in sandman but apparently its Ancient Egyptian

  • Grawlix@leminal.space
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    1. The world is αwful.
    2. The world is much better thαn it once wαs.
    3. The world cαn be much better than it currently is.
      All three stαtements αre true αt the sαme time. It’s wrong to think these stαtements contrαdict eαch other.

    You sαy there is doom in our current reαlity, and it feels true, but never discount the wonderful things either. While mαny in this threαd have focused on directly αnswering question, I suspect there mαy be αn underlying dissαtisfαction in your mentαlity.

    This threαd cαn shαre wonderful things, but without α shift on mentαlity, it mαy be eαsy enough to brush off. I know becαuse I wαs and still αm like this. Prαcticing grαtitude or grαtitude journαling mαy help, it did for me.

    • I’m grαteful becαuse vαccines hαve such α powerful αurα of protection, thαt we αs α society have forgotten the nαmes of the diseαses they protect αgαinst. The world can be better, because one day, we may even erαdicαte these diseαses which still plαgue our species.
    • I’m grαteful I hαve opposαble thumbs, becαuse it mαkes it eαsy to be α potαto on the couch and doom scroll. The mere αct that I can see informαtion on α powerful device thαt cαn tell me the stories from αround the globe is quite incredible.
    • I’m grαteful becαuse I don’t comment very often, but I wαnted to this time. I usuαlly lurk quietly, but I too cαn be better thαn I currently αm αnd pαrticipαte sometimes.

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    I know it’s not a big thing, but for everyone who owns Yooka-Laylee on Steam, Yooka-Replaylee just released and is temporarily giving a discount for those who bought the original. Any chance to save money and have fun is a plus. Especially if you need distraction and escapism from the world.

    Bonus: the game is NOT following the trendnof being triple AAA slop $60 priced. I’m confused on how much the owner bundle discount thing is, but it’s currently 10% off in general until October 16, in which it will go back to being $29.99USD for the game. For a collect-a-thon, I’d say that’s a steal.

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    what’s “uplifting” depends a lot on what you want to see in the world …

    but i’d say that we live in very exceptional times in history, so what’s currently happening is not the norm and will sooner or later pass…

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    When I need my fix of good news I go to iea.org and look at some graphs. I’m always thinking it should be faster but then again there’s hope for climate change and the world is transitioning despite how entrenched the fossil fuel industry is.

    Here’s one on the investments being made:

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    Every generation in human history has been more intelligent and progressive than the last.

    This trend is not slowing in the modern era.

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    Im going to read through but I can’t imagine anything that is uplifiting enough to counter the current weights attached to us.

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    Renewable energy and battery storage are seeing an absolute collapse in prices such that it is inevitable in the near to mid term future that we will move away from fossil fuel extraction leaving much of it in the ground. This will happen no matter who is in charge politically or who tries to subsidize fossil fuels because money is king and a lot of free energy hits the earth every day.

    This, combined with falling birthrates, means we will hit peak carbon emissions and begin to drop back to a new normal, a new economy built around labor rather than capital because of the shift in balance between resources and workers similar to what happened during the black death. It is my opinion that this will begin to happen in my lifetime and will fully come to pass in our children’s lifetime.

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      Having worked in energy for 10 years (particularly battery storage and solar) you are correct about the prices falling, and in my opinion you are also correct about this dooming fossils.

      However, I do not agree with your second point around a new economy arising built around labor rather than capital. The mechanics of value creation can change (eg renewables vs fossils) but what the ruling class will not allow to change without intense prolonged struggle is their own position as the rulers.

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        You might be right, but my idea on it is that productivity increases have leveled off and population will begin falling in our lifetime. The ruling class loses power historically when the supply of labor is impacted.