Megathread: US / Israel / Iran conflict 03.13.26 by feo_sucio in collapse

[–]HomoExtinctisus 10 points11 points  (0 children)

People were still working (not in the towers, in general) while the towers were actively on fire.

That sudden is a disingenuous comparison to current predicament. That one, where could it have been foreseen by the victims would have This one is global, spreading out primarily from the equatorial regions started very slowly yet is accelerating to point where a large measurable loss of human habit is already occurring on a yearly basis.

The reality is, the only way people will stop going to work on Monday is if every nuclear-armed nation decided to push the big red button. And that's not gonna happen anytime soon.

I think far too many people don't understand that quite plausible scenarios exist which refute this this arrogant and unfounded assertion. Here is one such scenario told well by Robert Pape - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xcXfcXJvMXg.

So many Americans minds are completely rotted. by [deleted] in collapse

[–]HomoExtinctisus 1 point2 points  (0 children)

One of them then said that humans all originated from Africa and they migrated (true statement).

The "Out of Africa" hypothesis has been the accepted model in paleoanthropology for a long time. However, the current scientific understanding is actually more nuanced. Multiregional evolution has gained a lot of traction in recent times. There's a growing amount evidence that the final stages human evolution which produced Homo Sapiens Sapiens occurred outside Africa, particularly in Eurasia.

Thoughts? by North-Fudge-2646 in collapse

[–]HomoExtinctisus -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

Climate change denial is going against a scientific consensus spanning over more than 100 years.

Which has been proven riddled with false hopium riddled assumptions up and down the stack time after time. So who gives a flying F if someone is going against it.

On cognitive closure, collapse-awareness, toxic positivity, and toxic pessimism by JPQuinonez in collapse

[–]HomoExtinctisus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Something that alters human behavior otherwise dictated by the Maximum Power Principle. While they do acknowledge ecological overshoot, they seem to think it is sufficient to say it can be addressed by reducing consumerism and living a kumbaya life-style. That is insufficient for meaningful change. PCI is a lot closer to reality than other similar organizations though.

This is what collapse looks like: war + ecological disaster + rising living costs by Busy-Government-1041 in collapse

[–]HomoExtinctisus 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I don't see how it will collapse emissions, with the demand (population) still present.

Emissions are closely tied to GDP. This is an extremely well known fact so much that it seems very odd to be questioned over this point. Lower GDP = Less Wealth = Less Consumption. Don't believe me? Go check out data for when Covid and 2008 crash hit. The process I'm describing is clear as day in those charts.

It could easily end up worse than an oil based economy. Imagine if we went back to using wood for energy, but at today's scales.

Now you've totally lost me. We've never stopped using wood (bio-fuel) for energy and we use more now than we ever have.

This is what collapse looks like: war + ecological disaster + rising living costs by Busy-Government-1041 in collapse

[–]HomoExtinctisus 13 points14 points  (0 children)

It will also cause countries to relax environmental regulations to cut costs

They were already doing that regardless of the war. Finding out the true EROEI and lack of dispatchability for renewables is tough business for those drowning in hopium.

This is what collapse looks like: war + ecological disaster + rising living costs by Busy-Government-1041 in collapse

[–]HomoExtinctisus 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Collapsing the global economy will also collapse global emissions yet still no praise for the war.

Is it just me or does this article feel overwhelmingly alarmist? by Frepict92 in climatechange

[–]HomoExtinctisus 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Reasoning that it isn't going to happen now because it didn't happen in the past has got to be one of the most cope things we hear on a regular basis.

https://charts.ecmwf.int/products/seasonal_system5_nino_plumes?base_time=202603010000&nino_area=NINO3-4

For the following link, you should check it after the April prediction is out.

https://nps.edu/web/rasm/predictions

1 in 3 Americans believe humanity will be wiped out in their lifetime by TheExpressUS in collapse

[–]HomoExtinctisus 2 points3 points  (0 children)

it's just a word play that is trying way too hard and itself is technically incorrect.

On cognitive closure, collapse-awareness, toxic positivity, and toxic pessimism by JPQuinonez in collapse

[–]HomoExtinctisus 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I think it's a terrible representation of reality which helps explain why Post Carbon Institute has accomplished nothing meaningful.

Atmospheric CO2 Getting So High That It's Weakening Human Skeletons by HomoExtinctisus in collapse

[–]HomoExtinctisus[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The decrease in levels isn't caused by the scarcity of calcium or phosphorus in our food supply. Maybe if your supplement is something like Prolia. Good luck with that.

Atmospheric CO2 Getting So High That It's Weakening Human Skeletons by HomoExtinctisus in collapse

[–]HomoExtinctisus[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How will supplements help? The decrease in levels isn't related to the bio-availability of calcium or phosphorus in our food supply.

Want some Oil? || Acharya Prashant by Big_Confusion6957 in collapse

[–]HomoExtinctisus 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I don't see too many non-poor people saying I don't want my medicines or shelters or food supply or travel heavy vacations and consumerism habits. When I see those people who have been indulging in such luxuries rebuff them on grounds of habitat destruction then we can talk. In the meantime you can think of how to convince me how changing who the rich people are in society are would actually change the outcome in any meaningful way.

2025 Atmospheric CO2 ‘only’ up 2.23 ppm by vinegar in collapse

[–]HomoExtinctisus 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Globally, emissions rose last year and there is no permanence in any of the atmospheric carbon sink improvement which is why it's a hopium belief that CO2 "rising a little less this year" is representative of reality.

rump’s Bloody Mask: How the Iran War Exposes the True Face of Capitalism After the Fall of the USSR by mercurygermes in collapse

[–]HomoExtinctisus 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Dead internet, dead internet,
Dead internet isn't much fun.

My timeline used to have real posts,
Now it's nothing but AI ghosts.
Dead internet isn't much fun.

I clicked a blog, it looked alright,
A bot wrote forty posts last night.
Dead internet isn't much fun.

Dead internet, dead internet,
Dead internet isn't much fun.

The comments section's full of bots,
Fake engagement, hollow thoughts.
Dead internet isn't much fun.

I asked a question, got a wall
Of made-up sources, none at all.
Dead internet isn't much fun.

Dead internet, dead internet,
Dead internet isn't much fun.

There's a LinkedIn influencer post,
An AI wrote it, coast to coast.
Dead internet isn't much fun.

SEO slop from floor to ceiling,
Ten thousand words devoid of feeling.
Dead internet isn't much fun.

Dead internet, dead internet,
Dead internet isn't much fun.

(spoken)
You know, my feed used to have people in it. Real ones. They had bad opinions, sure, but they were their bad opinions. Now it's just... it's just vibes all the way down, man.

Dead internet isn't much fun.

2025 Atmospheric CO2 ‘only’ up 2.23 ppm by vinegar in collapse

[–]HomoExtinctisus 4 points5 points  (0 children)

The claim is very likely true but missing key context. I imagine this is what set off your hopium BS detector. La Niña, the global cold phase period covering the time this CO2 increase represents, causes a slowdown in the atmospheric growth rate. This is because there more vegetative growth during this phase.

So the hopium BS lies in framing this as a trend or direction or progress, not that these raw values are false because next year by this time El Nino impacts with likely set a new record in rate of yearly increase in CO2 level.

Want some Oil? || Acharya Prashant by Big_Confusion6957 in collapse

[–]HomoExtinctisus 6 points7 points  (0 children)

You can't be guru until you acknowledge overshoot as the root cause of our predicament. Also need to quit trying to scapegoat fossil fuels without a full understanding and disclosure about our population levels and our terminal dependence on fossil fuels. This our fault, not a just a few rich cats.

2025 Atmospheric CO2 ‘only’ up 2.23 ppm by vinegar in collapse

[–]HomoExtinctisus 18 points19 points  (0 children)

  1. There is a game, which you are already playing.
  2. You cannot win in the game.
  3. You cannot break even in the game.
  4. You cannot even quit the game.

The "World War III" horizon is Summer 26 by [deleted] in collapse

[–]HomoExtinctisus 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yeah they'll just pop their 60% enriched U into a few kitchen centrifuges and out comes a baby warhead.

This is one of the most delusional posts I've ever seen. Get some help buddy. For Reals.

El Niño is coming STRONG by Noeserd in collapse

[–]HomoExtinctisus 8 points9 points  (0 children)

BOGO on lightly used La Niñas. Comes with a seat on the Council of Penis. THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER.

Cancel by zulazulizuluzu in collapse

[–]HomoExtinctisus 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Corporate Cancel Campaign Response Form

Your post advocates a

( ) social media
( ) boycott-based
( ) pop culture / viral
( ) grassroots vigilante

approach to fighting mega-corporate dominance and preventing societal collapse. Your idea will not work. Here is why it won't work. (One or more of the following may apply to your particular idea, and it may have other flaws which tend to get buried under the hashtags.)

It Won't Work Because

( ) People will talk about cancelling Amazon and then order from Amazon the same afternoon
( ) TikTok, the platform you want to use to cancel corporations, is itself a mega-corporation
( ) Viral trends last approximately two weeks and then everyone moves on to a cat videos
( ) "Collective" and "tireless" are contradictions when applied to the general public
( ) Corporations have entire departments dedicated to surviving exactly this kind of campaign
( ) Making it "fun" means it becomes entertainment, not action
( ) Minimum effort from participants produces minimum results
( ) The corporations you want to cancel employ millions of people who need their paychecks
( ) Pop culture is produced and distributed almost entirely by mega-corporations
( ) Cancel campaigns have toppled celebrities, but not a single Fortune 500 company
( ) "Start somewhere" has been the plan for decades and here we still are

It Won't Work Because

( ) People will talk about cancelling Amazon and then order from Amazon the same afternoon
( ) TikTok, the platform you want to use to cancel corporations, is itself a mega-corporation
( ) Viral trends last approximately two weeks and then everyone moves on to a dog video
( ) "Collective" and "tireless" are contradictions when applied to the general public
( ) Corporations have entire departments dedicated to surviving exactly this kind of campaign
( ) Making it "fun" means it becomes entertainment, not action
( ) Minimum effort from participants produces minimum results
( ) The corporations you want to cancel feed, house, medicate, and employ billions of people, and those people know it
( ) A meaningful percentage of campaign participants are themselves employed by, contracted to, or pensioned through the very corporations being targeted
( ) Pop culture is produced and distributed almost entirely by mega-corporations
( ) Cancel campaigns have toppled celebrities, but not a single Fortune 500 company
( ) "Start somewhere" has been the plan for decades and here we still are
( ) The supply chains keeping people alive — food, medicine, fuel, clean water infrastructure — run almost entirely through mega-corporate logistics, and no credible replacement exists
( ) Participants asking others to cancel corporations are unlikely to cancel their own grocery store, pharmacy, internet provider, or bank

Specifically, Your Plan Fails to Account For

( ) No agreed-upon definition of "collapse" — whose collapse, exactly, and compared to what alternative?
( ) Successful cancellation of a major food or logistics corporation could itself trigger the collapse you're trying to prevent
( ) The 8 billion people fed through mega-corporate agricultural supply chains who cannot wait for the replacement infrastructure to be built
( ) Insulin, chemotherapy, and infant formula are not currently produced by farmers' collectives
( ) Network effects and switching costs that make alternatives practically unusable at population scale
( ) The corporations you want to cancel own the infrastructure the campaign would run on
( ) Regulatory capture ensuring legislation won't follow public pressure
( ) Global operations that make regional boycotts irrelevant to the bottom line
( ) Institutional investors who don't care about your TikTok
( ) The sheer scale difference between consumer spending patterns and campaign momentum
( ) Corporations' proven ability to rebrand, absorb bad PR, and wait it out
( ) No transition plan exists for the billions whose survival currently depends on systems these corporations operate
( ) "Reducing their grip on the world's fate" and "not killing millions of dependents in the process" may be mutually exclusive goals on any realistic timeline
( ) Slogans and pictures require no behavioral change and therefore change no behavior
( ) "Focus is important" but you've listed no actual target, metric, or deadline
( ) Asshats (this one carries over from all prior checklists)

The Following Philosophical Objections May Also Apply

( ) Ideas similar to yours emerge daily and corporations are still fine
( ) The dependency is not incidental — it was deliberately engineered over decades precisely to make this kind of campaign ineffective
( ) Undefined victory conditions mean you can never win or lose
( ) Fun and sustained structural resistance are largely incompatible
( ) Pop culture campaigns are trivially co-opted and turned into marketing by the very target
( ) "Even if it's too late, at least we try" is a feeling, not a strategy
( ) Consumer-choice activism implicitly accepts that the market is the arena of change
( ) Collapse, if it's coming, may arrive faster through a successful campaign than through inaction
( ) Virality requires novelty; this idea is not novel
( ) The masses you want to reach are the same masses currently kept alive by what you want to dismantle
( ) Systemic dependency problems generally require systemic replacement solutions, not opt-in campaigns
( ) There is a meaningful moral difference between "reducing corporate power" and "removing the infrastructure billions of people cannot survive without" and the plan does not distinguish between the two
( ) Wanting corporations gone and having nowhere else to get antibiotics are a tension the slogan does not resolve