Greta is an absolute freak.

Her basic decency, which I have to assume is some kind of random genetic mutation, risks putting our species in a forgivable light.

Not cool Greta. You could at least throw some trash on the ground or something to fit in.

The tiny class of private shareholders making it this way.

Honestly, in the course of our species living in servitude to a few thousand sociopaths who’ve used their capital/power to convince us that meaningless productivity for toxic economic metasisis is “the only way forward” and the meaning of life, I’ve come to realize their terraforming of our only habitat against our physically fragile species in their blind, reckless pursuit of ever moar is a purely accidental mercy.

Extinction is far preferable to generation after generation sacrificing themselves from cradle to grave solely to enrich our modern pharoahs of avarice and their nepo progeny without end. Sometimes extinct is better.

You’re free to disagree, of course, but better to see the silver lining in what our species is quite literally dead set to do and well into accomplishing. Im just glad greed caused climate change won’t permit this torturous, exploitative civilization to continue for more than another half century or so.

Ah yes, more of that voluntary nature of capitalism they like to crow about.

In 100-200 years, this will be humanity’s legacy.

The treatment.

Cures don’t create dependency on the ones that sold the sickness.

Much like Facebook, if you participate in LinkedIn, I question your judgement.

As someone who participated in the last, maybe shut down any fellow peasants who try to insult and/or mock the next one, if the owners allow there to be a next one.

There’s nothing more demoralizing than being attacked by the people you’re desperately trying to help.

Covid kind of disillusioned me to the whole “all humanity needs is a common enemy/suffering to get right” concept.

Whenever I dare to hope about the lofty, admirable star trek future, I remember that space is completely unforgiving and we just aren’t up to the task for anything more than a token selfie by the best dozen humans we can possibly produce with great effort and training.

As a species, we aren’t going to spread out there. Still too primitive, and probably too self-destructive to make it out of this phase of evolution. This might be one of those great filters scientists postulate as to why there aren’t signals from innumerable civilizations out there.

We aren’t even capable of caring for one another, let alone the EASIEST to maintain, most naturally human friendly habitat we would ever encounter in the cosmos as we evolved to fit it. No airlocks, the air/water/waste recycling was already fully automated, all we had to do was not recklessly grow/metastasize to the point we strain the absolutely massive system out of greed and glut, and stop carelessly shitting where we sleep. We all know how that’s been going since we figured out how to make dead animal poison rocket us accross town.

Master space? Master planetary defense? We can’t even defend this world from our own habitual consumerism. We’ll be lucky if we aren’t scattered tribes living near the old hardened structures of the before times for emergency shelter from the new normal weather events in a hundred years. We’re already starting to argue over the resources it’s taking to rebuild population centers from the current new normal. We have played pretend we were since human civilization began, but we are NOT and never have been this world’s owners or masters, and we are still very much its subject.

And Reminder, what we’re doing and have been doing in decades won’t be undone for millions of years. The Earth is a self-correcting system, and the damage we’re doing is inconsequential to its 3.8 billion year old, beautiful story of life growing out of every crevice, just not on a timescale humans can benefit from or even truly appreciate.

Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell - Great Filter

I, for one, would like to hear Elon beg.

Any performer that doesn’t pursue increased with profit with every new tour is a filthy socialist!

/s

Our owner class truly believes they can sustain an economy made up of and powered by the 90% almost exclusively for the top 10%.

Almost makes me glad they’re also recklessly ending the world (for humans and other not so physically resilient/hearty species, not all life thankfully) in pursuit of even moooaaaar short term growth/metastasis cash crabs. I’d prefer nature go back to the drawing board to having a few humans exploit the value out of most humans very lives in perpetuity.

That ongoing reality makes me ashamed to call myself human, not proud.

I understand why they kill us.

In addition to destroying their habitats for strip malls, we rope them into entirely too many of our rhetorical infighting arguments.

I completely agree and have made similar points about that being our species’ epitaph.

Humanity is surrounding itself with the harbingers of its own self-inflicted destruction.

All in the name of not only tolerated avarice, but celebrated avarice.

Greed is a more effectively harmful human impulse than even hate. We’ve merely been propagandized to ignore greed, oh im sorry “rational self-interest,” as the personal failing and character deficit it is.

The widely accepted thought terminating cliche of “it’s just business” should never have been allowed to propagate. Humans should never feel comfortable leaving their empathy/decency at the door in our interactions, not for groups they hate, and not for groups they wish to exploit value from. Cruelty is cruelty, and doing it to make moooaaaaaar money for yourself makes it significantly more damning, not less.

Fuck it, if we’re dumb/selfish enough to be doing this, let’s get it over with.

Good luck dolphin people! My only advice, if you have any dolphins incessantly trying to claim more resources for themselves than all the other dolphins, beat the ever loving shit out of them and nip that in the bud.