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Tapas Easwar May 21, 2025

Imagine in 20 years having to explain we used to have chocolate and coffee but we let a couple of guys destroy the earth so they could have all the money.

Future generations will think we're insane. We look back at cave people and think 'yeah nice finger paintings and bone tools you absolute idiots - we did planes and twitter'.

We are the cave people now. We are the idiots.

A.A. Delafin, radical May 21, 2025

@TheBreadmonkey or having to explain why the sky is blue in old paintings and photographs, instead of yellow-orange, after we deployed massive scale solar radiation management, just so we could keep burning fossil.

Dave Mc May 21, 2025

@TheBreadmonkey a sustainable future could look a lot like how we live now. Except less planes and probably less meat. And definitely not AI data centres sucking terawatts of power. Or billionaires. Problem is, I'm not sure we've got the collective intelligence to make the change.

Pteryx the Puzzle Secretary May 21, 2025

@guigsy @TheBreadmonkey
Heck, not even necessarily less meat, if the whole growing-animal-free-meat-in-labs thing works out.

Vi 🦄🏳️‍⚧️🦄May 21, 2025

@guigsy @TheBreadmonkey I mean there is only a couple thounsand billionaires right? How many plumbers exist in the world? Gotta be more than that. #Luigi

lonely extrovert May 21, 2025

@guigsy @TheBreadmonkey it's not so much a matter of intelligence, but of will. corporate greed overtakes the will of those whose support could actually effect change at scale.

Phil Haigh May 21, 2025

@TheBreadmonkey

Face Thumb May 21, 2025

@TheBreadmonkey We sent people to the moon. We cured all sorts of diseases. We created computers that can do trillions of computations a second. And we destroyed the whole world so that a handful of billionaires could become trillionaires.

Ben May 21, 2025

Hooray!

Colin H.May 21, 2025

@TheBreadmonkey
IN YOUR FACE, DARWIN!

Eh?!?May 21, 2025

@TheBreadmonkey
Kinda optimistic to assume that there will be someone to explain and someone else to explain to.
Also, those couple of guys, in their fortified, isolated, autonomous compounds may actually have chocolate and coffee.
[doomsplaining mode OFF]

fischli May 21, 2025

@TheBreadmonkey all generations think we're insane, except the morons

Fishercat May 21, 2025

@TheBreadmonkey Yeah, I've been mentally saying goodbye to every food and seasoning that can't grow in my region. Even if the crops make it, the supply chains won't. Thank gods we can grow garlic here.

Lyrial May 21, 2025

@TheBreadmonkey I'm not going to imply anything, but we do have guns.

celeste_hearts_disability_pride

@TheBreadmonkey

Ever the optimist.
That anyone will be around in 2 decades let alone there will be future generations.

I imagine the cockroaches & crocogators who might survive won't care much.

bstow Sep 23, 2025

@TheBreadmonkey Bold of you to assume future generations.

@TheBreadmonkey the idiot was inside us all along.

No, wait.

The idiot was the friends we made along the way.

No, that doesn't work.

SOMEONE BRING ME MORE COFFEE AND CHOCOLATE!

This is going to be a long night.

Lord Caramac the Clueless, KSC Jan 7

@TheBreadmonkey I never thought of cavemen as idiots. I always thought they were bloody ingenious, doing all those things they did with tools made from flint and bone and wood.

You make a good point