MTZAn uplifting message for you.
StinkyFingerItchyBumQuality shitpost.
It’s also a repost with slightly edited bottom text. I’m confident I first saw this meme around 2016. Sad that it’s still relevant
The best memes are eternal and damned.
Boomer Humor DoomergodTrue. It was 80 today and it’ll be in the 30s the rest of the week.
Life really is suffering.
I hope the cold snap kills all those mother fucking mosquitoes that just came out.
Nah, they’ll survive. It’ll just kill all the buds on your trees and your bulbs that were duped into poking up.
AmbientDreadEverything is okay until it isn’t.
definitely_AII genuinely had this realization today, a few hours ago.
I was like… Shit just keeps getting worse, and worse, and worse, and fucking worse.
So in a couple of years, as shit as I feel about shit right now, I’m gonna look back at this moment all nostalgic like.
So every moment we are alive it’s the worst moment to be alive? Whoa.
Homer Simpson energy, as well. “The worst day of your life so far.”
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iktWhat? No, it’s the best moment to be alive, because it’s still better than what’s around the corner. Stay positive, it’s going to get a SHITFUCK LOT worse before you know it.
The best time to live is behind us. Just because it’s going to get worse doesn’t mean it’s not bad now.
Today sucks, tomorrow sucks worse, but today still sucks just as much as it did before you thought about tomorrow.
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TheDemonBuerI feel like our whole lives here in the US we’ve been told to expect things to just generally keep getting better, seemingly forever. Like, that’s the narrative of “progress.” The economy just keeps growing, the nation just keeps getting richer, technology just keeps getting better, living standards just keep getting better, so forth and so on. But, that was probably never realistic, or even feasible. I mean, no civilization progresses forever. Essentially every civilization that’s ever existed has followed a pattern of ascension followed by decline. Many of the most notable civilizations ascended very quickly and dramatically, and then collapsed just as quickly and dramatically. Why should we expect to be any different? What makes us think we won’t follow the same pattern as basically every other civilization in history?
mycodesucksIt would’ve continued if we’d left competent people in charge instead of handing the keys over to the absolute WORST people in the world. Now we’re about to lose:
All of the benefits of diversity Open computing and ownership of hardware/software on any consumer devices The open internet All of the momentum on the transition to alternative energy All the progress made on CO2 emissions Freedom of travel Free elections All rights to privacy Safe products and foods Ownership of housing
Humanity would be doing GREAT if not for the humans.
Every individual civilization has followed that pattern with a few exceptions. Overall, however the previous view is correct historically speaking. As a species things do just keep getting better for us, except in periods of systemic transition.
As a species things do just keep getting better for us, except in periods of systemic transition.
I think that’s been generally true since the first agricultural revolution led to the emergence of civilization, 10,000 or so years ago. But, progress has not been linear, it’s been exponential, with most of the progress occurring in just the last few hundred years, since the industrial revolution. In that regard, the progress that we’ve experienced over the last few hundred years has been anomalous.
The way of life that we take for granted today is very different from how most of humanity has lived through the vast majority of history (and that was itself very different from how our species had lived through the vast majority of our existence, with humans living in small hunter-gatherer tribes for most of our time as a species).
Modern life has existed for only the blink of an eye, on evolutionary time scales. Yet, in that time we have used up an incredible amount of natural resources, and we have made significant, irreversible changes to the Earth’s biosphere and climate.
It took our species nearly all of the 10,000 years of civilization’s existence to go from a few million people on the planet to a billion, but it only took a little over two centuries to do from one billion people to over eight billion. That kind of exponential growth simply cannot be sustained indefinitely on a planet with finite resources. Even at maximum possible resource use efficiency, and even with the maximum possible environmental impact mitigation efforts, the Earth still wouldn’t be able to sustain our growth forever. We would reach some hard, physical limit to growth, eventually.
Have you ever considered that trans people are the reason that we don’t keep progressing forever? /s
I think the problem is that, at some point, the powers that be decided that “better” is synonymous with “more appended zeroes”. We (and presumably any society) could ostensibly have kept growing indefinitely, provided we agreed that the ever-increasing personal wealth of the few (to the detriment of the many) does not constitute growth.
Every day is better than the next!
Can I take a moment and speak to the appropriateness of where all ruling powers around the world have led us to:
Malallocation Noun. The act or an instance of malallocating something. If misallocating is poor or improper allocation, malallocation is a more extreme form of the same principle, except instead of varying degrees of being suboptimal, it is directly harmful in important ways to the host.
Humanity has some really big fucking fish to fry at the moment. It looks like we are choosing going full psycho, so at the moment when the world needed to push past industrialization into something more sustainable, we chose billionaire fantasy levels3 of egregious malallocation. All that absolutely neccessary global military buildup is malallocating funds from our transition from a perpetual growth plague species, to a sustainable member of a natural complex system, keeping the system viable indefinitely. Like on the level of answering the Fermi Paradox. Can the species be smart enough to overcome the growth paradigm, before succumbing to the environmental deterioration of a species intelligent enough to remove a great many limits to growth, but not yet smart enough to not do so, deliberately, because of an understanding of scale and long term consequences. I’d even settle for a little pre-caution. But no, short term benefits are indeed enormous so humanity continues to make terrible decisions that lock in horrific consequences for us all, forever. Like climate change, but not just that.
I genuinely believe we won’t make it the transition. The irony is that we could, but only with real meritocratic win-win capable management, not the psychopaths in charge now. Guys like Bannon think they are architects of surviving empires making it through the transition. Alien archeologists will hear of the god of death who brought the end of global cooperation just when humanity needed it most. It’s the ONLY way to deal with global problems.
The irony is these people are the very forces they fear the most. It’s how you get into an AI cold war as birth rates plummet while building billionaire bu kers. Terminal short termism.
TL DR. We are in a shitposting community. Add some shit to your speech
It’s all shit.
Well, since this is a russian soldier, their life getting worse is a good thing.
Imagine there is a war and nobody is going…
A soldier decides on his own to go / fight
Never said that there will be no consequences for your decisions.
But i would rather die in prison for doing the right thing than dying for some rich asshole who thinks “its honorable” to die for your country but would never do the same on his own…
Well if your options are to potentially die in war or die at home for sure (or get imprisoned)…
That kinda changes how you decide. But I am sure there are also many soldiers who are going willingly.
Still I blame mostly Putin
Not only Putin, bit every fuckin rich person who wants to keep their incredible wealth and supports him.
And yeah dying in a war or dying at home is the main argument I use when people always say “why do refugees dont just fight…?”
I kinda feel bad cuz I chortled…
So. What if I do have money right now. Not much but enough to say I’m not worried just yet.
What is a wise decision to make with this money? Knowing shit will get worse?
I know this is a shit post but it really gets me thinking what to do next?
AFallingAnvilIn a bit of a similar situation, my do as I say not as I’ve done would be to try to find a mutual aid group and/or begin exploring disaster preparedness and recovery learning and prepping.