Disaster

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[–] Disaster 7 points 9 months ago

This is the sugar thing all over again.

[–] Disaster 6 points 9 months ago

It shouldn't need to be said as a matter of common decency, but:

Making people unnecessarily miserable has negative health outcomes

[–] Disaster 1 points 9 months ago (2 children)

For the same reason a human in a bad automobile crash may be conscious and yet be immobile - the brain releases its own mix of painkillers along with other chemicals such as adrenalin when your body gets badly damaged.

That's sometimes why you can get a big gash in your arm running or fighting or even moving furniture around, and might not immediately notice until you move into a lower state of excitement and those chemicals clear out of your blood stream.

Someone can be very badly injured, but since they're in shock they might not be able to tell how badly they are hurt until the local environment changes.

[–] Disaster 3 points 9 months ago

They are making money off a literal public good. EVERYTHING they produce, including the profits, is public property.

[–] Disaster 2 points 9 months ago

The sun will start increasing in luminosity within a billion years, at which point it will be intense enough to cause rocks to begin soaking up CO2 to a point where photosynthesis will become difficult, and the planetary food chain will collapse.

The hour is much later than we think. Maybe another supercontinent cycle or so?

[–] Disaster 2 points 9 months ago

The hour's growing late there. We needed to solve that problem before this technology became available. Just need useful life-extension technology and then it'll just be a bunch of rich psychopaths running around the planet, and everyone else will be disposed of.

[–] Disaster 2 points 9 months ago

brb, adapting my digestive system to directly extract energy from rocks.

[–] Disaster 5 points 9 months ago

I recently had to hold my nose to see a band I've been following for a very long time.

The venue utterly sucked, treated like cattle, tighter security than getting on a plane flight. Pathetic.

Ticketmaster/livenation can go die in a fire.

[–] Disaster 5 points 9 months ago

..yet another reason to not use that pestilence.

[–] Disaster 5 points 9 months ago
[–] Disaster 3 points 9 months ago

It might help if they didn't put all their efforts into killing Nitter and other useful frontends.

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