No more resources? Guess I'll die.

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HeadyMettleDetector@reddit

my favorite are the truly deluded ones who think that humanity is going to expand to inhabit other planets.

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The_New_Bruce_is_ITH@reddit

That was me years ago when the future was Star Trek.

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HeadyMettleDetector@reddit

i still enjoy star trek...but the people who take it too seriously, and think that it's a viable future for mankind are the worst.

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afternever@reddit

But we got the little pocket communicators

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LeadingAd4495@reddit

And I'm already pretty bald, so ...

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Taqueria_Style@reddit

So when do I get the kill self and replace elsewhere with an identical copy of myself mode of transportation?

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And the way things are going before long we'll have the Sanctuary Districts as seen in the Deep Space 9 episodes Past Tense 1 and 2. At least we get to 'stare into the nightmare rectangle black mirror and watch society collapse in realtime.' [memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Past\_Tense,\_Part\_I\_(episode)](https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Past_Tense,_Part_I_(episode)) Copy/paste of some quotes for the non-Trekkers: >"By the early 2020s, there was a place like this in every major city in the United States." "Why are these people in here? Are they criminals?" "No, people with criminal records weren't allowed in the Sanctuary Districts." "Then what did they do to deserve this?" "Nothing. They're just people without jobs or places to live." "So they get put in here?" "Welcome to the 21st century, Doctor."  >"If push comes to shove, if something disastrous happens to the Federation… if we are frightened enough, or desperate enough… how would we react?" \- Bashir

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PartisanGerm@reddit

Pfft compared to the religious, the stupid, and the Star Wars children? Almost everyone has had at some point a kind of delicious delusion for an afterlife, chance at immortality, or at least a distant future better than the present and past. Can we really blame people for keeping their hopium IV drip considering the intoxicating addictive properties?

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Pollux95630@reddit

Look how the latest Star Trek shows explain how they got to their current point. Nuclear war that almost wiped out all life, then they rebuilt from there. That's pretty much the only way we come out the other side and survive as well at this point.

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HeadyMettleDetector@reddit

star trek never accounted for human-induced climate change the effects of that, once modern society collapses, is going to take many thousands of years for the planet to rectify. there's no telling what kind of climate patterns the world will ultimately settle into.

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Correctthecorrectors@reddit

as long as the oceans don’t boil c02 doesn’t take that long to remove in geological terms

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Illustrious-Try-3743@reddit

Humanity is not one entity. It’s 0.05% the true geniuses that actually move civilizations forward, 0.95% the assistants to the geniuses and 99% plebs that have as much input and control over their lives as they do when riding a rollercoaster. Just like every species of organic life that ever evolved on Earth, the vast majority of people were always meant to die and have no meaningful impact on the gene pool. There’s estimated to have been 100 billion humans that’s ever lived and most do not have living descendants today. Going back to your statement, some offshoot of humanity might very well become interstellar. Your descendants, if you have them, will almost certainly not be part of that group.

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Solitude_Intensifies@reddit

Library wants there copy of Atlas Shrugged back, said you mistook it as nonfiction.

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karamielkookie@reddit

lol thank you for this comment it gave me a lovely giggle this morning and starting the day off with laughter is the best thing to do

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karamielkookie@reddit

This is actually an absurd idea to me. I bet there are many geniuses stuck in sweat shops or doing something stupid while idiots move civilization “forward.” And by move forward I mean ruin everything for short term gain. Our technological advancement has cost nearly everybody and everything on this planet EVERYTHING.

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Illustrious-Try-3743@reddit

If they were stuck in a sweatshop doing something mundane and repetitive, then what is the indicator that they were a genius other than a being your made up point? My point is vast majority of the population is entirely inconsequential. That’s why 99.9% of the species that have ever lived are extinct. Without the technology that’s alleviated the burdens of food production, there wouldn’t be close to 8 billion mouth breathers on this planet.

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trivetsandcolanders@reddit

You sound insufferable 😂

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Illustrious-Try-3743@reddit

You sound dumber than a box of rocks.

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Rule 1: In addition to enforcing [Reddit's content policy](https://www.redditinc.com/policies/content-policy), we will also remove comments and content that is abusive or predatory in nature. You may attack each other's ideas, not each other.

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trivetsandcolanders@reddit

You can’t expect that people will take well to calling the vast majority of humans idiot plebs. That’s too far even for the misanthropy of this subreddit.

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Illustrious-Try-3743@reddit

Then you don’t know the definition of pleb. People also probably don’t like to be called mediocre but that’s what the vast majority is definitionally.

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trivetsandcolanders@reddit

I dunno there is just something about the tone of your comments that comes off as quite elitist, in a different way than people in this subreddit who post about the shortcomings of humans. Maybe someone else who’s more articulate than me can explain why…

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Illustrious-Try-3743@reddit

I’m not in this subreddit all that often, but I certainly know Reddit well enough, so I imagine most of the complaints about humanity in this subreddit is under-researched bellyaching based on emotions and the need to feel you’re important. What I’ve posted is actually how this planet and evolution works, which is, it doesn’t care about you or any organisms, for that matter, at all. Survival is pure happenstance.

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Solitude_Intensifies@reddit

1 percent of the human population behaving like a super cancer cell is not something to crow about.

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Taqueria_Style@reddit

They'd be trying to do it with sticks if the actual geniuses didn't give chainsaws to monkeys. Seriously science needs to stop handing chainsaws to monkeys. Like look grow a little cynicism at least. What do these powerful fucking morons do to get you geniuses to spill the beans? Threaten to flush your head in the toilet like elementary school? Blackmail you with hostages and pull on your heart strings?

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HeadyMettleDetector@reddit

i have no descendants. i had no desire to bring children into a dying world. i pity the children and further offspring of the narcissists that did. it's going to extremely difficult for the next sentient species that evolves on this planet to copy our industrial trajectory, as the vast majority of the easily accessible fossil fuels have already been plundered and exhausted by ours.

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Mediocre_Island828@reddit

We can't even talk people into moving to rural areas, but sure, people are totally going to live on Mars or whatever.

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HeadyMettleDetector@reddit

we can't even solve the climate change that we've caused...but when it comes to terraforming dead planets into living habitable ones- no problem!

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Taqueria_Style@reddit

Real reason: No laws! Bingo bango bongo it's the Bioshock Empire of Elon.

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Eve_O@reddit

Right? Like the logic of it is this: because we suck at being responsible our previously habitable planet is becoming *increasingly* inhospitable to life--oh I know, let's leave it to go somewhere that is **entirely** inhospitable to life. Great plan, bro.

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Taqueria_Style@reddit

Just the North American genocide story but set in space. Sorry, bros, you're all out of continents.

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Jukka_Sarasti@reddit

>my favorite are the truly deluded ones who think that humanity is going to expand to inhabit other planets. There is no greater hopium..

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HeadyMettleDetector@reddit

and, even if we did- we'd be totally defenseless against the bacteria, viruses, microbes, and such in the biosphere. we evolved to live on earth, and nowhere else.

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Taqueria_Style@reddit

It's like goldfish trying to hop out of their aquarium. There's no comfy warm clean water out there, guys.

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PandaMayFire@reddit

We don't need to spread our cancer to other planets. If we were some sort of experiment by other beings, we're a failed one.

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Taqueria_Style@reddit

There was some Russian made (I think) B-movie that explained this neatly. This alien lands, he looks almost human but he's bald and has no mouth. So they take him to this military commander and he explains the whole thing. There's a colony ship on the way. They do this to habitable planets on a schedule. They take a clone of themselves, remove the telepathy, a quarter of the intelligence, cut the lifespan drastically, and increase aggression and mating drive to epidemic proportions. They then set these clones loose on a target planet. Purpose: bioweapon. Meant to sterilize the target planet of all indigenous life, then go after each other until they either kill themselves off or are at a manageable level that the colony ship can kill off from orbit. "Our weapons never fail..."

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xXXxRMxXXx@reddit

This takes religion to a whole new level when you think about it

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trivetsandcolanders@reddit

I wonder if humans will ever build “balloon cities” on Neptune.

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HeadyMettleDetector@reddit

no.

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trivetsandcolanders@reddit

It would be pretty cool though! A gal can dream…

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Virtual_Revolution82@reddit

The most deluded ones are those who believe humanity is gonna survive climate change or even a nuclear war

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OtaPotaOpen@reddit

The singularity cultists are somehow more annoying than finance Bros but definitely less pathetic than the cryptokin

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PatchworkRaccoon314@reddit

There was a short time period between when I thought this was possible, and when I realized it *shouldn't happen anywa*y. Because the future of an interstellar humanity is literally the humans of Avatar. Continuing to destroy and consume the resources of the Universe for no reason than to just keep growing like a cancer. The only end result being, instead of ten people who are trillionaires and 10 billion of the rest who are in poverty, there are now ten people who own entire planets, and 10 quintillion of the rest who are in poverty. Literally multiplying human misery by millions of times, and for what? So the people in charge can have a few more zeroes at the end of their bank account??

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Par31@reddit

Yup, inhabiting another planet is such a difficult thing to do. If we can't fix the problems here, we can't do something like that either.

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FudgetBudget@reddit

I feel like people often get this idea that humans are unique in this regard and use it as justification to be anti human. Not saying that's what your doing don't get me wrong. But the same thing happens if you place deer in a place with alot of grass and vegetation but no wolves . The deers eventually over populate till there's no grass left and then they all die out The problem isint that we conflict with nature, the problem is we haven't ascended past it

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Untura64@reddit

We lack a predator.

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tonormicrophone1@reddit

true but humans are unique that weve evolved away from pro sustanible limitations. other species havent and mostly reach a equalibrium with its enviornment . our species in the other hand evolved the intelligence , cooperation and etc to counter and overcome predators, short term resource limitations and etc. therefore causing humans to expand extract and etc to such unsustaniable levels. the problem is we are natures systematic flaw. nature has survived so far because it created species thst counter each other or are countered by the enviornment. thus allowing sustaniability. but at the same time natures laws of evolution and adoption would eventually create a species intelligent enough to overcome the limitations. which is what caused the breakdown of the current world. nature contradicting itself

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FoodN3tw0rk@reddit

This might be the most apt description of our society that I've ever seen.

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demiourgos0@reddit

I very much appreciate this, as a collapse aware preacher who also talked about They Live in my Easter sermon this morning. It was called "Put On Your Glasses."

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CountySufficient2586@reddit

Escapism and hopium. Let’s face it, our best bet is life extension or something resembling immortality. This may sound like a bad idea to some, but upon deeper consideration, granting people longer lifespans or something that resembles immortality would change how we perceive death. With extended lifespans, we may come to value humanity and being alive more, leading to better care for the planet. No longer feeling the pressure of time ticking away like a candle burning up, we could shift our focus towards sustainable living and preserving the environment whilst we find new meaning in this world and face the direct or indirect consequences of our own lives on the environment.

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Taqueria_Style@reddit

You might be right. Certainly modern financial planning goes the way of the dodo. Like the whole "I get to tap out before the impossibility of having to become a maga-googletyplex-trillionaire has to become part of my long term planning". What then? Do we finally realize how completely stupid this entire shit is?

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CountySufficient2586@reddit

Fanancial planning is a quite an anglo world thing haha. Im a dog I piss and wank in public.

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Minute-Judgment9472@reddit

Let’s not double down on technological progress. The issue is human nature itself. People would just use their longer lifespans to double down on the same destructive degenerate behaviors they are doing now.

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CountySufficient2586@reddit

And why?

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Eve_O@reddit

If only more of us had just put on those damn glasses back in the 80s when this film was released. Sigh. I guess there were just not enough [Rowdy Roddy Piper suplexes](https://youtu.be/11dZSPIe9UU?si=KR1xFYITZ2vJSdM4&t=267) to go around.

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Taqueria_Style@reddit

God that looks weird in 1080P. I'm assuming it's got some level of enhancement as well. It has that uncanny camcorder look to it. How to explain that. Like all the grainy that made it fictional is gone. It looks like if there were wires controlling the people you'd be able to see them. Or if there was a rubber prop of a dead body it'd look like rubber. That grainy "hide shit" patina over the entire thing is missing.

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Somebody37721@reddit

We still have plenty of chemical energy reserves left in the form of long pig.

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HeadyMettleDetector@reddit

when the grocery stores stop getting deliveries, it won't take long for cannabalism to become the way of the world. even moreso once all the rabbits and squirrels are gone.

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Somebody37721@reddit

[This guy](https://www.reddit.com/r/TerrifyingAsFuck/s/TGF2TdDiXl) is ahead of his time

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Taqueria_Style@reddit

Oh God. Now we're going to start getting "California man". Evidently close cousin to Florida man.

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PandaMayFire@reddit

Fallout: World. I can't wait to become a raider.

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Comrade_Compadre@reddit

The best part? It didn't have to be this way. We could've lived off the land, took just enough and put enough back. There were warning signs, there was also the opportunity to live in balance with our ecosystems. But a couple of monkeys with brain damage decided hording all the resources and was the way to go They doomed.us all and plan on living in bunkers in New Zealand

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Eifand@reddit

You act as if only a minority of people failed to “live in balance with our ecosystems”. Unless you are Amish, a contemporary hunter gatherer, or desperate poor in the Third World, chances are you are part of the Industrial War Machine that’s devouring the biosphere and fucking with the climate.

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Taqueria_Style@reddit

Yeah. Not gonna argue against that. How many people died to bring me this t-shirt, mattress, and laptop? Dozens. Likely.

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Minute-Judgment9472@reddit

Everyone wants to blame the corporations, but no one wants to ask who is buying the shit they’re making. We are all guilty myself included.

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Comrade_Compadre@reddit

..... What

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PatchworkRaccoon314@reddit

Honestly it's not even a recent development. Thinking that this is just a problem with modern globalist capitalism, that can be done away with, is another type of hopium. Complete destruction is baked into human DNA; being murderous monkeys that cannot be satisfied ever is the one trait that gave humans dominance over other lives, and allowed them to outlast (read: rape and murder) the other early hominids. The pre-industrial world almost hunted whales to extinction for their oil. Medieval Europe burned and logged all its decent forests. Ancient civilizations so thoroughly ate themselves dry that it caused the entire Bronze Age Collapse. And pre-historic Americans hunted megafauna to non-existence. Yes, things started an extremely rapid downward trend as soon as people organized and put the bankers and landowners in charge. But this isn't exactly *new*.

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tonormicrophone1@reddit

while this is true idk if that would be comparable to the destruction we see today. yes we were exactly as hungry parasites as we are now today compared to the past. but all of those ancient destructive tendecies were limited by the technological levels of past human societies to the point that even with the damages, the damages were limitrd enough to the point the earths overall enviornment could survive. while humans could still survive the catosphres caused by their own actions and still exist. its only after the industrial revolutions thats when humans destructive tendecies reached a zenith. and where we are not only seeing the extinction of the human species but also extreme long lasting damages and destruction to the entirity of the earths enviornemnt

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ItyBityGreenieWeenie@reddit

This is my BOOM stick!

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BearBL@reddit

Shop smart. Shop S mart. YOU GOT THAT!?!

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FlowerDance2557@reddit

out of resources? there's still [1.56 trillion barrels](https://www.statista.com/statistics/236657/global-crude-oil-reserves-since-1990/#:~:text=The%20world%20holds%20around%201.56,oil%20reserves%20as%20of%202022.) of proven oil reserves, and plenty more to come once the arctic becomes accessible for drilling!

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Warkitz@reddit

A closed system with infrastructure only sustainable with exponential growth? what could go wrong?!

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CountySufficient2586@reddit

Always best to do some prepping for harsher times.

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chinguetti@reddit

I made a song about this https://app.suno.ai/song/692bb215-1900-4561-b0c7-244b3f27b9f2

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Praxistor@reddit

yeah but gum is a resource

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KeithGribblesheimer@reddit

Wrong. There is a lot more coal left to burn.

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DeLoreanAirlines@reddit

This is great. Thanks for the laugh

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NyriasNeo@reddit

"No more resources? Guess I'll die." Not today. Not tomorrow. Not likely next week. We all die at some point.

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ObssesesWithSquares@reddit

Speak for yourself. Im literally designing a sub just to organise people in an unofficial way so to not go extinct. Its going to be ass for someome with ADHD to plan, but everyone sucks in this world.

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WigginTwin@reddit

You love to see it.

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