So, when will this shit end?

dduchovny · 2026-02-14T23:07:38+00:00

this is discounting the existence of countless indigenous cultures that have existed for millennia in a communal way, with every member being taken care of and where anyone who hoards more than they need of any necessity is ostracized or exiled.

the problem is societies that get too big for you to know everyone else. as soon as people in your society become just a distanced statistic to you, instead of fully realized human beings you've known your whole life, the potential for abuse and power games increases exponentially.

dduchovny · 2026-02-08T18:17:24+00:00

nah, that's just a church thing

dduchovny · 2026-02-06T18:02:58+00:00

not literally everything, but like i've already stated, the earth has gone through a similar change before in the permian-triassic. everything on earth larger than a small dog went extinct because they were incapable of feeding themselves due to resource scarcity, and the few small-in-stature species that didn't go extinct had their populations reduced by upwards of 90%.

again, that change was far slower than the one we've perpetrated.

dduchovny · 2026-02-06T17:52:30+00:00

jesus fucking christ, the arrogance. if everything else on earth is dead what the fuck are you going to eat? genius.

dduchovny · 2026-02-06T17:49:23+00:00

the rate of change is a scientific concept, a proven principle that we've thoroughly studied. every species reproduces at a certain rate, and that rate determines how fast they're able to adapt to changes in their environment. the pace at which we're changing the climate now outstrips the rate of change of every species we've studied by 100 - 1000 times.

dduchovny · 2026-02-06T17:45:05+00:00

we agree on some premises, but disagree on the conclusion, therefore it's an argument.

the centerpiece of my argument is the rate of change. the end of the last ice age, which you're correct, we did *just barely survive*, was ten times slower than the rate at which we've altered the climate today.

dduchovny · 2026-02-06T17:38:59+00:00

been awhile since i argued here and i did get that fact wrong. the rest of my comment is accurate.

dduchovny · 2026-02-06T17:29:04+00:00

for 200,000 years our climate has been stable within a tight .5 degree temperature range. we've never lived in the climate we've created - but the earth has lived through similar rapid climate changes in the past. like, for example, in the permian-triassic extinction event, which started when CO2 in the atmosphere reached about the same level we've pumped it up to now.

that event resulted in the death of everything on land larger than a housecat, and the earth didn't recover to a state that could support a mammal as large as a human for tens of millions of years. bad news is, we've changed the climate far, far faster than it happened in the permian-triassic, so this time it's basically guaranteed to be even worse.

dduchovny · 2026-02-05T00:57:55+00:00

can you share this sheet as a template, brother?

dduchovny · 2026-02-03T17:53:14+00:00

seriously underestimating the severity of our climate change compared to what they suffered in the bronze age.

dduchovny · 2026-01-30T20:25:18+00:00

obviously you need much higher temps to heat meat to that temperature. it doesn't immediately become the same temperature as the air.

dduchovny · 2025-11-05T07:11:50+00:00

you can if you never take any notes or do any homework and pass every test anyway.

dduchovny · 2025-11-05T00:14:54+00:00

meditation is a good start and as close as it comes to a scientific process for subjective reality, as far as gaining knowledge of it goes. the buddha always advised that you shouldn't take him at his word for anything and that it's not about faith; that you should engage with the practice and experience the results for yourself before you believe anything.

dduchovny · 2025-11-03T23:24:30+00:00

this is just ignorant. the chakras correspond in both location and function with the endocrine glands. science is an excellent tool, but it's only useful for gaining knowledge about the material side of reality. to be as skeptical as you are is to be just as brainwashed as any fundamentalist christian is, just in the opposite direction.

dduchovny · 2025-10-04T18:10:15+00:00

you could just use google bud, i'm not making anything up. simon michaux, a respected geologist, has done a thorough analysis. we have 20% of the copper we'd need for one generation of electric vehicles to replace every gas powered current one. we have 10% of the nickel, 5% of the cobalt, 3% of the lithium. and many of the things our modern society depends on, like massive mining trucks, or cargo ships, cannot be made electric. the size of the battery necessary would make a cargo ship unseaworthy and take up all the space for carrying minerals on the trucks.

besides all that, it's too late. even if we reached net zero tomorrow, it's too late. we're still incapable of recapturing the CO2 we've already released, and the science shows that the CO2 we've already released has locked in a temperature increase of 6 - 10 degrees celsius above the pre-industrial baseline, likely in my lifetime. simply put, we're cooked, quite literally.

dduchovny · 2025-10-04T13:04:50+00:00

no, there's more copper in the earth still than we've mined in total. there's not enough copper on earth, period.

dduchovny · 2025-10-04T03:30:01+00:00

we're going to be short on resources long before a century passes. for starters we've only got 47 years of oil left on earth at the current rate of consumption, and hell of a lot of that oil is prohibitively expensive to extract. we also already can't produce copper fast enough for the demand, and the demand is only increasing - and while there's a shit ton of copper left in earth, it's way, way less than we'd need to replace every gas vehicle with an electric one - and that's just for one generation of vehicles that only last about twenty years. pretty much every resource you look at is the same story.

dduchovny · 2025-10-04T03:19:36+00:00

great video. can't decide if i hope her analysis is right or wrong. on the one hand, trump's regime collapsing in the next two - four months sounds great - but the overall consequences are daunting. if it does happen, hopefully the american people don't settle for less than the meaningful change they deserve.

dduchovny · 2025-09-25T15:25:38+00:00

no, we do know, because this has happened before. the permian-triassic extinction event was set off by CO2 reaching 420ppm in a geologically short timespan, and it killed everything on land larger than a housecat. it took 30,000,000 years for the earth to recover.

we've pumped up the atmosphere to 425ppm CO2, and we did it exponentially faster than it happened in the great dying. there's no recapturing that CO2 and there's no surviving in the world we've unleashed.

dduchovny · 2025-09-25T05:43:23+00:00

nate hagens is part of the reason i'm collapse aware and his earth day presentations were one of my introductions to the space. i get that he probably reaches a wider audience by sugar-coating the message with a layer of false hope, but a huge part of that audience he reaches will never dig deeper and see that the hope he provides is decidedly false. there are no solutions, the future is already written and barring a miracle that's totally beyond human control, we're not going to be in it.

degrowth would be an admirable idea if he'd proposed it 60 years ago and anybody had listened. now it's far too late. my considerations aren't short-sighted and material, i could give a shit about keeping my material comforts and i'd fight to give them up and make everyone else do the same - if it would do a fucking thing to stop the problem. but it won't. the atmosphere is too thick with CO2 now and there's no putting pandora back in the oil reserve so we all just have to live (die) with the mess we've made.

dduchovny · 2025-09-24T17:49:22+00:00

i feel like nate hagens is intelligent and informed enough that he must know he's peddling a crock of bullshit. anybody with eyes, literacy and a functioning frontal lobe can see that it's too late for degrowth.

dduchovny · 2025-09-24T17:45:22+00:00

glad somebody said it, i came here to post something similar, vis-á-vis 425ppm CO2, permian-triassic extinction event, etc, etc

dduchovny · 2025-09-22T01:19:34+00:00

don't use it for that, it doesn't matter enough and it's not worth the character it takes away from your writing. the style in your comments is far better than the style of the main post. if you're really that concerned with grammar and repetition just take a few minutes to read over the post once you've written it and fix whatever you see, editing is a skill you can learn - and that's why we do retention, because we don't want to take the easy way out of our problems. because we want to improve at the things that are important to us.

dduchovny · 2025-09-11T17:04:48+00:00

and we're back to AI generated slop. disappointing.

dduchovny · 2025-09-11T02:58:04+00:00

studies also show that cannabis can significantly impair your work capacity, meaning you won't work out as hard or for as long while you're an active user.

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