• pedz@lemmy.ca
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    22 hours ago

    Maybe if we have cheaper gas, burn more oil, buy even more stuff, and concentrate on having a strong economy, things will get better?

    • makyo@lemmy.world
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      22 hours ago

      Surely we can capitalism our way out of this mess that capitalism created!

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    17 hours ago

    I’ll be honest even as someone who studies the climate pretty extensively I didn’t think it would be this bad yet.

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    1 day ago

    Huh. So Sarah lives in L.A. and can accurately predict the future. I gotta ask her about some lotto numbers…

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    23 hours ago

    In Kim Stanley Robinson’s Mars trilogy Earth actually lasts another two hundred years from now before catastrophic changes happen, and that’s pretty depressing in the context of what’s already happening irl.

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        4 hours ago

        coz thats where the money is /I would s, but omg

        dammit speed running enshittification is obvious profit. I hate your obvious rightness.

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    17 hours ago

    “So it worked! Now I return to 1025 and destroy all the knowledge of this time machine.”