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[–] [email protected] 99 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Why is a bright future assumed?

[–] sbv 95 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Sun eventually goes supernova.

[–] [email protected] 71 points 2 years ago (5 children)

It doesn't. It's not massive enough. It turns into a red giant, then collapses into a white dwarf and eventually fusion basically stops.

[–] octoperson 49 points 2 years ago

Yeah but in the process it'll scour the surface off the earth so it's not all bad news

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Alternatively, if we wait long enough we always have the heat death of the universe to look forward to.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I read in this book that there's a restaurant just before that happens where you can bounce back and forth between the death of the universe and the hours before it. So that sounds cool.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

Shh!" said Ford. "It's conical. So what you do is, you see, you fill it with fine white sand, alright? Or sugar. Fine white sand, and/or sugar. Anything. Doesn't matter. Sugar's fine. And when it's full, you pull the plug out... are you listening?" "I'm listening." "You pull the plug out, and it all just twirls away, twirls away you see, out of the plughole. "Clever." "That's not the clever bit. This is the clever bit, I remember now that this is the clever bit. The clever bit is that you then thread the film in the projector... backwards!" "Backwards?" "Yes. Threading it backwards is definitely the clever bit. So then, you just sit and watch it, and everything just appears to spiral upwards out of the plughole and fill the bath. See?" "And that's how the Universe began is it?" said Arthur. "No," said Ford, "but it's a marvelous way to relax.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I don’t like food that talks to me before I eat it.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

That's not bright at all. That's the darkest thing.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

Not before ballooning up and frying the Earth.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago

Thermonuclear reactions are very bright

[–] [email protected] 35 points 2 years ago (1 children)

yall want a bright future but when people start actually fighting for one you show your colors as class betraying cowards

[–] decisivelyhoodnoises 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

They want a bright future just for themselves. Not for the society as a whole

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Humanity will not exist long enough to reach said bright future

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I'm worried the bright future will start right as the last humans die....

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago

That's why it's called the bright future.. Right?

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Another alternative is that we’re already living in the “Golden Age” of Mankind, which is kind of scary to think about.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago (5 children)

We may look back at these days - you know, where not all diseases kill you, and in fact were super easily handled, barely an inconvenience!:-P - and wish to have such things as "antibiotics" again, before bacteria all became immune to them.

Or maybe the world will rally together, and start funding research into alternatives quickly enough for it to matter? Just like climate change too...

It's a good thing that people aren't anti-science now, bc that surely would be a problem if we want to reach that bright shiny happy future we keep hoping for. :-|

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 years ago

Keeping in mind that a single axis for progress is reductive: also, don't forget that there have been and will be backslides. For example, European colonialism set back a lot of progressive / alternative cultures, genociding them or converting them to something that better-served the interests of empire (e.g., race rules).

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 years ago (5 children)

Stop using proprietary software, embrace FOSS. Krita, GIMP, Inkscape.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

You want me to say "Feel free to GIMP your variants"? =\

P.S. I made this in Inkscape actually :)

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The word you are looking for is "make" or "edit".

Kids these days... Have to rename everything! /s

Did you know that "to google something" is the proprietary version of "to search something"? See!!! Proprietary software has integrated into conversational phrases! *It's time to stop!*

I envy you because I don't know how to use Inkscape properly (it looks very complicated). I don't really need/use it, so yeah.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

#ABSOLUTELY PROPRIETARY

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 years ago (1 children)

keep using 'photoshop' as a generic term and verb until it becomes 'generic enough' for adobe to lose its trademark. same with 'google' ftm.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Shhhhh it’s okay to let people enjoy things

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Yeah, you're mostly missing the ages prior to middle. Like stone, which was pretty huge.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Ok, added some bars to the left

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

Ah, much better. lol

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 years ago (1 children)

there's only one future for humanity that's bright posadist-nuke

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago

in reality the graph alternates black and white and only holds true for one certain location/group at a time

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

We don't have time for your full scale reality. The luxury is gone to shop for quality. It is all a sacrifice of illusion now.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

I'll believe it when we dismantle the nukes, class society, and fossil fuel industry. A better world is possible but only if we fight for it.

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