I've always been fond of the explanation that the Mayan calendar was right about the apocalypse starting in 2012, it just took a few years for the effects to be visible.
My major is conservation biology and most of my classes are environmentally focused. The main lesson I've taken away is that we're all utterly fucked. Katrina scale hurricanes used to be a once in a decade event. We had three last year, and another this year. Temperature instability is leading to hotter summers and colder winters like the heat waves and polar vortex, and agricultural food supplies will take the brunt of the damage in time. 1/4 of the world faces severe water shortages in the next decade, and rising ocean levels threaten to create unprecedented refugee crises by 2050 as major population centers are submerged, including but not limited to all of Florida, New Orleans and NYC, 1/3 of Bangladesh, 1/2 of the Netherlands, and the entirety of the Maldives.
Meanwhile fascism is on the rise around the globe, economists say we're heading for another recession cycle, our president is opening internment camps for "undesirables", mass shootings and hate crimes are on the rise, police brutality plagues our nation, and horrific diseases long dead are making a comeback in the age of antibiotic resistance because people won't vaccinate their goddamn kids.
Sorry for the long rant, it's just that I can't help feeling like we're all fucked and nothing can be done about it. I know I've talked to a lot of my peers about this and they feel the same way. We're inheriting a world that feels broken beyond repair and we don't know how we can possibly fix it.
Today is a good day to live, Today is a good day to die. And remember when it's time to go, it's time to punch the fuck out.
Just when I thought I was out... they pulled me back in.
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Re: Invading Area 51 ?!?! <Reply # 141 on 9/17/2019 2:39 PM >
It's too bad Nick the Greek isn't alive to see this.
It's legend in Las Vegas that Nick once escorted Albert Einstein around Las Vegas introducing him as Lil Al who ran a major numbers operation in Princeton, NJ.
It's too bad Nick the Greek isn't alive to see this.
It's legend in Las Vegas that Nick once escorted Albert Einstein around Las Vegas introducing him as Lil Al who ran a major numbers operation in Princeton, NJ.
It's too bad Nick the Greek isn't alive to see this.
It's legend in Las Vegas that Nick once escorted Albert Einstein around Las Vegas introducing him as Lil Al who ran a major numbers operation in Princeton, NJ.
Hiko, Nev. —-- About 75 people arrived early Friday at a gate at the once-secret Area 51 military base in Nevada. The group gatherd at the time appointed by an internet hoaxster to "storm" the facility to see space aliens - and at least two were detained by sheriff's deputies.
"None lethals... first." Oh cool, they get to try out their new state of non-lethal weapons on test subjects. Bonus if that fails to stop them they get to see if the minefields are effective... "Sir, you are in a minefield! Slowly walk backwards retracing your steps exactly. It will be alright..."
Just when I thought I was out... they pulled me back in.