LengAwaits

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[–] LengAwaits 7 points 3 months ago

Don't worry, it only has ≤5 lines of text because the card is cropped. The artist credit line at the bottom of every card would mean that it indeed does have >5 lines of text. You just know how to extrapolate from incomplete data!

[–] LengAwaits 5 points 3 months ago

I have no horse in this race, topically speaking, but your continual return to name-calling ("Cheney Dems", "Blue MAGA") belies your attempt to come across as a good-faith participant in this discussion. There are people out there that think differently than you, and there always will be. Using pejoratives, reducing people you don't know to mere "thought-terminating cliches", is not conducive to civil discussion or persuasive dialectics.

[–] LengAwaits 1 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Alright. I'm sorry to have annoyed you. I was just hoping for a discussion.

We have a difference of opinion and that's alright. My concerns surrounding the Holocene extinction event triggering total ecosystem collapse need not be yours.

I'm a human behind a screen, just like you. It's free to be kind to people, even when you disagree with them.

[–] LengAwaits 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (4 children)

Look, I know it's not something anyone wants to confront, but I'm not sending it out of malice, or to attack you. There's no need to be condescending.

I simply want to be realistic about the world we live in. From my point of view it is better to be concerned about the possibility of human extinction and act as though it is a potential outcome, rather than to pretend that our species has wholly conquered the laws of nature and is indestructible.

[–] LengAwaits 4 points 3 months ago (8 children)

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-019-47540-7

Don't miss this bit:

The bounds are subject to important limitations. Most importantly, they only apply to extinction risks that have either remained constant or declined over human history. Our 200 kyr track record of survival cannot rule out much higher extinction probabilities from modern sources such as nuclear weapons or anthropogenic climate change.

[–] LengAwaits 25 points 3 months ago

Very nice work. You beat me to the punch, but I'ma ride your coat-tails and post my version here anyway!

[–] LengAwaits 2 points 4 months ago (4 children)

So then why not proof-read what you post? If you don't care enough to proof-read it, why should we care to read it?

[–] LengAwaits 9 points 4 months ago (7 children)

No judgement intended here, English might not be your primary language, but it's "write it off", not "right it off".

[–] LengAwaits 6 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

I wiped my ass with a wadded up ball of 25 toilet paper squares for years because no one wanted to tell me about more efficient and effective ways to do it. Bathroom knowledge is like your paycheck. They say you shouldn't talk about it with your peers, but it needs to be talked about.

These days I can clean my whole ass, even on the most explosive days, with less than 10 squares, and I'm saving so much money.

[–] LengAwaits 34 points 4 months ago (1 children)

It takes a big person to cop to things like that, instead of doubling down. Whatever his reasons, we should all strive to be as open to admitting when we were wrong as Coolio was.

[–] LengAwaits 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Stein stans refusing to engage with this screencap while also arguing that it's okay because Stein disavowed Duke's endorsement:

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