Also memes: !comedyheaven@lemmy.world

Reading/writing: !worldbuilding@lemmy.ml

Then we just need to put ice cubes in the ocean. Plus that would help us cool the earth down

You lost a remnant of someone you cared about, so it makes sense even though it was bad for you in the long run

Reminds me of my local Rally’s switching to an “automated drive thru assistant.” The jank thing doesn’t even respond when you talk to it, just reminds you every 60 seconds that it’s ready when you are. First time I went I drove off. Went a second time thinking it might have been a fluke and I’d get actual human service. Nope. Guess I’ll be finding a new burger place for my hangovers

I can’t fathom having all these unique experiences, all these stories and love letters to genres and cultures getting lost in the vortex of time.

Something something lost like tears in the rain. (Blade Runner)

Just know that every generation before you and every generation after feels the same about their culture/experiences. C’est la vie

Humanity’s existed for hundreds of thousands of years without any kind of permanent medium, and we still do. It’s only in the very recent history of extreme archival that we’ve come to think that information should last forever.

Houses, cities, peoples, cultures, public works, countries, knowledge, technologies, languages - all that we are is ephemeral, and we’ll continue on

witty commentary on current issues

Am I the only one who doesn’t enjoy the twitter-takes? Don’t get me wrong, I actually agree with most of the takes. It’s just that it all feels like they’re trying to one-up each other with the cleverest gotcha and it makes me roll my eyes. Maybe I’m just not the target audience for a twitter/mastodon style community

I’d just log off lol

How about you use the most basic social etiquette available and be at least not a total asshole.

And how about I take this chance to remind everyone that we can all block the users we don’t want to interact with. And that maintaining a block list is a great way to ensure a decent online experience

In agreement with your broader point but a different approach: to say that we should die out as a species due to climate change is over-simplifying, imo. Yes, there are hardships ahead and we truly need to look at ourselves as a species and ask what needs to change for the sake of ethics and others. However, we have been in dire situations before, albeit with less foreknowledge. Would someone living in, say, 1840 have wished that humanity had died out in the bronze age collapse, when the near-entirety of known civilization collapsed due to climate change?

When considering the entire species we can’t take such a short term view. Yes, hard times are ahead. Yes, we will get through it. I say if one is inclined not to have kids, he should not have kids. But if one is inclined to do so, he should do so

Yeah after getting used to the not-totally-assholes community of lemmy I’m not going back to reddit. The community there kinda sucks

Using Connect too, surprised I don’t hear more about it. It’s not perfect, but it’s pretty solid

I would imagine it working just like on reddit and lemmy, where it can originally be claimed by the original poster or anyone who wants it. It’s obviously not an ideal solution, but it’s worked well enough historically. Maybe someone else would have a better idea

This is great. Have you thought about sharing your work over at c/worldbuilding at https://slrpnk.net/c/worldbuilding@lemmy.ml ?

I could’ve told them that. Just gotta put your socks on and rub them on the carpet /s