Three dictators controlling about 11000 nuclear warheads.
Not a doomer, but that looks suspiciously like the Great Filter solution to the Fermi paradox.
Fun fact: great filters don’t necessarily have to wipe out the species, they just need to be obstacles unsurmountable by our current resources, mental capacity and evolutionary state.
It may be that for any species that develops spatial reasoning and language while still carrying survival instincts, that they can never get past a certain point where their tech keeps outpacing their own mental/cognitive capabilities and they keep bombing themselves back to the stone age, or creating some kind of technological wonder that they can’t control because they’re still unevolved primates/reptiles/insects/cephalopods despite having individual potential for thought and self-awareness.
There may be millions of civilizations out there just like us, who can look out at the stars and dream of a larger universe, but can never make a progress past their own prejudices and fears to ever get out into the universe until eventually their species just evaporates away into the great sea of entropy that comes for every world.
I think that every single day: this is going to get way worse, long before it gets better.
I’ve never been a Prepper, but I’m getting some stuff in order. There may be a Civil War ahead, and there may be some fighting, so right now I’m concentrating on losing weight, and getting in shape. I’m also starting to get some self-defense gear together.
I’ve decided that dying an old man in my bed would be a waste, and my life may have a twist ending I hadn’t anticipated. If it all goes sideways, I intend to get my licks in before going out.
I’m getting in shape too. Recently got a manual labor job to speed up the process. If Civil War happens, I’ll at least be strong and fast enough to kill some fascist scum.
Congratulations on no longer being a part time dog walker. You’ll be surprised how quickly having a real job makes you sick of lefties though.
I had the opposite experience. more exposure to ignorant conservatives showed me how selfish and stupid so many are
Well I’ll admit, I’d be lying if I said I hadn’t known plenty of people who fit that mould too.
Beats working in an office all day. You basement dweller troglodyte.
I’m not sure I agree with that. But I work outside. It has its ups and downs but I really just wish people who keep society running got paid as much or more as assistant marketing vice managers or whatever fake human resources job gets handed out based on nepotism.
