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toasty228
·avant-hier·discuss
Why? We basically broke evolution and purposefully make the specie more dysgenic. At that point we need life long drug treatments to keep people from overeating because they have less self control than pigs and literal cattle. Surely there is a middle ground
toasty228
·avant-hier·discuss
Humans idk, but wildlife in general is getting fucked

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocene_extinction

> The Holocene or Anthropocene extinction[3][4] is an ongoing extinction event caused by human activity during the current geological epoch,[5][6] impacting diverse families of plants[7][8][9] and animals, including mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians,[10] fish, and invertebrates, as well as both terrestrial and marine species.[11] It is sometimes also called the sixth extinction
toasty228
·avant-hier·discuss
> High energy use is exactly how prosperity happens

Yeah I guess if you don't account for any of the side effects and externalities sure... We might as well start using asbestos, leaded gas and other magic prosperity products again.

We're so focused on short term numbers that we forget about the past 3b years and anything that will happen after the next 10 years. Don't conflate prosperity and brain dead productivism/consumerism
toasty228
·il y a 3 jours·discuss
Now try in the sun behind a truck laying asphalt
toasty228
·il y a 3 jours·discuss
Lmao, go work in construction a single day when it's 30c in the shade and come back to enlight us
toasty228
·il y a 3 jours·discuss
> nothing new. In 2003 there was a huge heatwave and thousands of people died

It's completely new both in absolute temperatures, frequency and length of the heat waves
toasty228
·il y a 3 jours·discuss
It's already very common, you virtually always need one to pass energy source regulations for new builds, that or solar panels to offset fossil energy on paper.
toasty228
·il y a 5 jours·discuss
> Where have the hardcore nerds gone?

They grew up and understand what's at stake
toasty228
·il y a 7 jours·discuss
AR/VR is the next big thing since 2015, the cumulated revenues since then don't even match the yearly revenues they were predicting for 2020 alone. This is going to end up like 3d TVs
toasty228
·il y a 8 jours·discuss
> today's luxury is tomorrow's necessity.

Not sure about necessity but it sure sound like it's tomorrow's e-waste and land fill material
toasty228
·il y a 14 jours·discuss
Lift less weight then, there is no reason to get injured in the gym if you have a normal body, proper form and lift reasonable weight. From an health point of view it's better to squat/deadlift a mere 60kg safely than trying to go for 200kg+ and snap a disk for absolutely no reason. 100% of my injuries are gym related, because I threw my back exactly once, and since then I lift reasonable weights and focus on proper execution/form

Some people believe "high intensity" means lifting as much as possible as fast as possible, I'd say more reps and deliberately slow movements are as intense for the purpose of staying in shape/healthy.

Most body weight exercises are virtually impossible to fuck up to the point of injury, done properly they'll keep you fitter than 99% of the population
toasty228
·il y a 14 jours·discuss
Yeah sure, if you hold the biggest firework you can legally buy in a closed fist something bad will happen, otherwise it's very unlikely... You're far more likely to cause damage by throwing rocks
toasty228
·il y a 14 jours·discuss
It depends what sunscreen you use: mineral vs chemical font behave the same, on how much you used, on what you're doing.

Chemical ones go bad with exposure to sun, mineral ones not as much, but either way they can both be rubbed off the skin
toasty228
·il y a 14 jours·discuss
Either way it doesn't matter, use mineral sunscreen. Of course if you use bottom tier sunscreen formulated in the 60s you're asking for troubles
toasty228
·il y a 14 jours·discuss
> How did we get through the Neolithic Era without sunscreen?

By reproducing at 15 years old long before cancer is a problem? Skin cancer was probably at the very bottom of causes of death back then, by a fat margin.

They also didn't have tooth paste, tooth brush, soap, antibiotics, vaccines, so go ahead and live like a caveman... I'm 100% positive it'll have a negative impact on your lifespan
toasty228
·il y a 18 jours·discuss
And you can buy the compute power equivalent to the entire NASA Apollo program for $15, now what?
toasty228
·il y a 18 jours·discuss
No amount of pills or computer thoughts will fill the existantial void created by late stage capitalism
toasty228
·il y a 20 jours·discuss
1c to 2c according to simulation in Paris, even up to 3-4c for some streets

The exhaust of a single car/plane/ship are also immeasurable, yet here we are...
toasty228
·il y a 20 jours·discuss
The irony is that if we never invented AC climate change wouldn't be as bad since half of the US, middle east and Asia would still be mostly unusable
toasty228
·il y a 20 jours·discuss
The point is that you're all shitting on China 24/7 while not recognising that you're slowly but surely building something very similar at home right now