“poured”? Alright, I don’t need to know

Yea I keep seeing people talking as if US is hanging by a thread and I genuinely don’t get it. As for the revival of feudalism, they share similar goals, that’s a big “what if”, but maybe you know more than I do

Chief, who exactly are the “jewish extremists” that want to bring Armageddon? That words refers specifically to end of days in christian, not jewish beliefs. I am fairly certain you are in fact thinking about evangelical zionists, and if Im right you have to be much more careful about your language, because to anyone lacking context you sound too much like a nazi. If I am wrong, then damn, im not sure if you aren’t one. In what way exactly US is collapsing? It’s not at its greatest, but not every crisis ends up in a collapse. You also list a bunch of topics to research, most of which I have some basic concept of and a lot of which would need a lot of time to fully understand. You certainly can’t be referring to how psychology used to not be distinct from philosophy, or how schools like behaviorism or psychoanalysis came to be (unless it’s about Freud and maybe others being jewish? I doubt, but you are really imprecise) And the biggest elephant in the room, what holy war iluminati???

I dont get it

The picture quality is not great either, I don’t think it succeeds in showing the scale of destruction at all

Alright bud, you got me, I think fiction specifically designed as dystopian with well explained mechanisms of how it resists change gets to be more pessimistic than reality

Yes, I am aware, specifically a satire of it, no?

I rarely play AAA games, especially ones made by Ubisoft. I did spend some time with the first one tho and yeah, I can see it being classified as “early stage cyberpunk”, but it’s quite far from the aesthetic of the genre I have in mind, my favorite cyberpunk games being Ruiner (and Shadowrun but that also has orks and magic, so ya know). Perhaps am a genre purist

And yet all that resistance ends up translating to individualistic defiance, sabotaging one power just to reluctantly grant advantage to another, sometimes terrorism. I guess if we strayed far enough from the common tropes of the genre, then yes you are right. But remember what is the origin of the genre - to my understanding, in its core it exists as satirical critique of neoliberal policy. I dunno, it feels essential to me, but genres are constructed

Its 2 words!! Does plain water cross culinary boundaries?

Im no scholar of the genre I dont think marxism can fix cyberpunk, im gonna be honest. You strike - you get gunned down by robotized police force, and even if you weren’t it ain’t like there ain’t people hungry enough to take your job. Solidarity of the people is completely eroded by the fact that you have to fight with others just like you for basic resources. Individuality is all people have left, sometimes not even that. There is no law beyond money. Where do you even start trying?

Came out as Austrian

No, ur not getting it. Theoretical projections have to have a methodology, and obviously cannot take everything into account. You bring up a figure, but I have no idea what is the projected state of the world you speak of, whether it projects that attempts of transforming the grid like that of EU would be ineffective, or that it’s a statement about the current state of infrastructure. Without the source I find that figure completely arbitrary, and you had the audacity to ask for a source in the very same message

I assume you said that jokingly, but if not, I cannot really agree

US has notoriously inefficient infrastructure and I forgot the actual data but, continuing comparisons to India, have like 7 or so times smaller population density. So like, US is far from overpopulated, the correct answer is infrastructure focus.

Way too many people are not educated well enough to be parents, I know I just argued with people who say there should be less kids, but like, my parents did best they knew and I turned out pretty fucked up, 3 psychiatry docs quite confidently gave me contradictory diagnoses, that feels like an achievement

You can’t just say “citation needed” and then provide no citation for your quite big claim, that’s just dumb. Does your source take into the account that whole EU is supposed to transition to clean energy by 2055, for example? Or that (theoretically) we have the ability for our power grids to run pretty much for free (obv with maintenance) if we do pivot into 100% renevable? I have no idea, tho my assumption would be that they don’t.

Bullshit. The planet kinda is at a breaking point, but due to irresponsible exploitation of resources. India, despite having over 4 times the population of US, actually produced slightly more than half as much CO2, their emission per capita being over 7 times lower (https://www.worldometers.info/co2-emissions/co2-emissions-by-country/ if you want to dispute my source, I do admit I chose the first google link). Yes. That is just one metric, yes, India can be criticized for a lot of things, but as for right now I see global warming as the #1 environmental threat, and that does not directly map to population density at all, moreso to what kind of infrastructure there is and how efficient it is. By natural properties of scaling things up, sufficient infrastructure sustaining denser populated areas becomes (obviously up to a point) more efficient. And yea, a place can be overpopulated, but not an entire planet, not in any currently feasible scenario

Vibe

Some of his stories are so good because the racist allegories are so absurd, so beyond workings of a normal mind that they actually work. Shadow over innsmouth is the least veiled example

Myself I prefer seeing them from a distance, but I still think they are veri cool. Appreciation of insects comes with time, I was never a butterfly lover but bumblebees… Best creatures on earth, I tell ya