I’m really worried about the state of the US despite being a white male who was I’ll coast right through it. I’ll also accept “I don’t” and “very poorly” as answers

  • kromem@lemmy.worldEnglish
    561·
    10 months ago

    It does, but it’s accomplished that over the past century by prioritizing short term growth, long term consequences be damned.

    As those debts are starting to come due to collect, while it is still accurate to say that there’s been an unprecedented good run, that doesn’t mean the fast approaching wall ahead that has everyone else worried is a mirage either.

    Both can be true.

    • burgersc12@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      134·
      10 months ago

      Overshoots a bitch. Soon the land will be unable to feed the people and our artificial fertilizer will no longer work. It was fun while it lasted!

      • gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        7·
        10 months ago

        We’ve had market corrections. We’re coming up on some global population correction for sure in the next century or so. I guess we’ll all find out if that’s the Great Filter, or if it’s something else we haven’t found yet.

        • burgersc12@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          1·
          10 months ago

          The “Great Filter” premise assumes that there are no other “advanced” civilizations in the galaxy. Seems like that might not be the case, if the UAP news is not some massive psy-op lol

          • NιƙƙιDιɱҽʂ@lemmy.world
            2·
            10 months ago

            Aliens probably exist somewhere, but space is unfathomably large. They have never been here. UAPs generally fall into two categories: faked or oddities not understood at their time of capture.

            • burgersc12@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
              1·
              10 months ago

              Listen to Cmdr. Fravor and the three other pilots that witnessed the Nimitz UAP in the early 2000s. A tic tac shaped object, darting back and forth like a ping pong ball, that travelled from ~80,000 ft to ~20,000 ft in seconds on radar, and went to their cap point, “60 miles away in one minute”. If it isn’t NHI it is almost certainly some zero gravity tech completely unknown to the average person and is very unlikely to have not leaked at some point.