RGamma

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841.
by RGamma 3y ago
I recently had the pleasure to vacation on a car-free island (few thousand inhabitants including tourists). Only motorized vehicles allowed are a handfull small electric transporters for logistics (and construction vehicles, ambulance). Tur
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by RGamma 3y ago
Also, how it happens. By reasonable self-regulation or by the ecosphere getting a heart attack. Now what's more likely...
843.
by RGamma 3y ago
Make numbers go up. Like always...
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by RGamma 3y ago
These mental gymnastics are crazy, man.
845.
by RGamma 3y ago
No mention of the ongoing extinction event, but that's just a side show, right?
846.
by RGamma 3y ago
The Win10/11 setup uses 640x480 resolution or such nonsense on my system with 4k monitor, RX6*** card, so I have a teeny-tiny view of the interactive elements. Gave me a good laugh each time.
847.
by RGamma 3y ago
It's only a problem if you view it as one. At current resource consumption rich countries would need half or even less of their population to exist sustainably ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_ec
848.
by RGamma 3y ago
It actually gets better toward the end as the working age/pensioner ratio increases and average age decreases (visual estimation). It's getting over the "lump" that's gonna be painful. That said there's no way
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by RGamma 3y ago
Wrong taxon, I guess.
850.
by RGamma 3y ago
The reason I wrote my remark is the relatively recent uptick in "in nature everything always changed regardless of whether we exist, therefore we're absolved from everything that's happening with the biosphere"-style arg
851.
by RGamma 3y ago
That's dangerously simplistic, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecological_stability and related topics for a start.
852.
by RGamma 3y ago
US in first place both by wreckage caused and ability to fund a clean energy transition. Why am I not surprised?
853.
by RGamma 3y ago
Atharva College of Engineering - A Carbohydrate Based Cringe Generator
854.
by RGamma 3y ago
Economists could gain a lot of credibility in my mind if they were to take a superorganism approach inspired by ecology or biology. As things stand they're more like tumor promotors.
855.
by RGamma 3y ago
Pragmatic = ?
856.
by RGamma 3y ago
Lucky you. I'm still scraping together whatever my memory kept but so much is gone. It felt like it would last forever...
857.
by RGamma 3y ago
And save some memories you made while e.g. online gaming. Why should that be any different from RL?
858.
by RGamma 3y ago
If you take to the streets because some rando far away burned your favorite fantasy book, there's something really wrong with you. No wonder people in western democracies dislike the idea of Islam spreading there if its followers inclu
859.
by RGamma 3y ago
Get your AI army ready to enforce law, I guess.
860.
by RGamma 3y ago
I'm trying really hard to give all this a comedic spin as copium, but the joke will not get to me quite yet.
861.
by RGamma 3y ago
This was here recently: https://www.mdpi.com/2673-4060/4/3/32 It may be light on actual analysis, but it's a nice summary of events and dynamics.
862.
by RGamma 3y ago
Enjoy shit while it lasts, I guess.
863.
by RGamma 3y ago
The schizos won't like this one bit.
864.
by RGamma 3y ago
Add an option to show only top level comments/collapse threads by default. Auto dupe detection with linking historical discussion (mild QoL). Aggregate dupes posted in a short timeframe (needs manual intervention I fear). Add an at lea
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by RGamma 3y ago
The curious outgrowths of consumerism never fail to surprise me.
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by RGamma 3y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resource_curse
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by RGamma 3y ago
always have been
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by RGamma 3y ago
Not VSauce too :( It's like a virus.
869.
by RGamma 3y ago
It was once in a lifetime. Now most everyone's following commercial maximes while faking enthusiasm and dying inside a bit every year.
870.
by RGamma 3y ago
Nobody these days would believe how enthusiastic I was about the early internet. The best ideas will win bla bla...

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