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There's a good chance for another major pandemic, and we're passing the global warming point of no return.
For better or worse, the US was the biggest player on the planet; now that we've fumbled, I think the world is done for. Maybe China could have risen to take the US's place, but they're stumbling toward an economic catastrophe, India has their own problems, and Russia is exposed as a bit player. The EU could have been a shining beacon, but they're struggling with their own rise in fascism. Who else is there? A South American country? They're barely holding on to their own economies. Canada? Too small - I mean, big country, but not very big population (1/10th of the US). And the US is big enough that when we go down, we're going to drag a lot of the planet with us. Shit, thanks to Russia and Israel, we've been edging into WWIII. Trump's senile enough to press the button, I have no doubt, and he'll be completely surrounded by moronic Yes-men this time, with no one to try to talk sense into him. Maybe a relatively quick, fiery end would be better than a painful spiral.
We're done as a planet. Some creatures will survive, but humans have used up all the readily available low-tech surface resources - oils, coals, metals - so anything that evolves intelligence after us won't make it past the stone age. And then, the sun will die.
At least we have more solid evidence to the answer to Fermi's paradox. It'd be a bigger question if we weren't rushing toward our own extinction.
I'd thought the Great Filter would be a more formidable event than a reality TV host
Oh, man. That'd be a book. Or maybe a chapter in an alternate version of Hitchhiker's.
It always turns out to be the equivalent of a reality show host.
Count us out. Canada has our own Trump wannabe lined up. He's been like 20-30 points ahead and we're no where close to election time.
Ontario the biggest province stayed home and didn't bother to vote out the conservative premiere who has been fucking shit up. They all stayed home and handed him another majority. In a year or so we will elect our analog of Trump. Make no mistake he's stocked the party full of MAGA and Proud Boys. I'm not being dramatic. It's literally what it is. Within 4 years Canada will be openly aligned with Trump.
Yeah, I kinda figured when the truck convoy started out there you guys had your own problems.