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all of it and because we've been doomed since the 70s
by inigyou 4mo ago
all of it
and because we've been doomed since the 70s
- zuzululu 4mo agobut if you keep declaring a time clock every decade only to reset it for the past 50 years, does it not weaken the point of it ? we should've had an apocalypse by now, we haven't and unlikely to so for quite some time. why are we so eager and unquestioning of the published narratives going to the length of censoring counter theories?
- inigyou 4mo agoYeah the clock turned out to be silly, but if you interpret it as risk level instead of time, it makes sense. Since the 70s we have been at a near-100% chance this would happen.
- zuzululu 4mo agoso the probability approaches 0% every 10 years and then goes back up to 99% the following year and repeats 5 times ? that makes little sense to me
- simmerup 4mo agoLike an alcoholic saying drinking isn’t bad because he’s been drinking since his twenties and still hasn’t got cirrhosis By the time it’s an issue it’s too late.
- zuzululu 4mo agothats a silly take, this is totally different from some pending apocalypse that is repeatedly pushed back when it doesn't happen.
- inigyou 4mo agoWe don't know how much he'll drink before he gets cirrhosis. Now he's 60 and should have had it already. We still think he'll have it despite previously not predicting the timeline correctly.
- zuzululu 4mo agoYou seem less interested in whether the analogy is accurate than in making sure or desiring someone is dead by the end of it. I do find it to be weird way to respond to low stakes banter. argumentum ad cadaver
- simmerup 4mo agoI don’t think it is, and I don’t think it’s repeatedly pushed back I just think the science is still being worked out. But the world is getting hotter, and the scientists know it’s not good for us when the earth heats past a certain point. But we’re still burning that fuel regardless.
- zuzululu 4mo agoWe've had the apocalyptic climate prophecies every decade and towards the end of each they move the goal post again and again. Then other scientists offer alternative views that point out that flaw and they are automatically not deemed as science despite the geological history of earth's magnetic poles shifting and recorded climate changes. The fuel we burn barely makes a dent on the overall climate change effect. You are running out of things to blame so you keep moving the goal posts.