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[–] [email protected] 73 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Sitting here on the Domino's app like a king rn

[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They will send you pizza full of glass

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's tough being king 😬

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago
  1. Equilibrium reference
  2. Emergency Pizza.

My respect for you is vast

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 51 points 1 year ago (3 children)

You own nothing and be happy, so shut up peasant

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And they tell in communism you will own nothing, but in fact you already own nothing.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

For fucks sake!

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Exploring space via all the cool science, sci-fi movies and games is good enough. Also, tripping balls.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (3 children)

You don't even want to know how good future drugs are.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I want Mek from the Wayfarer's series. It's basically anti-coffee. A nice hot cut of relaxation. I like to imagine it as drinking a massage

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Maybe try a warm cup of chamomile and/or poppy tea?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Yeahhhh, maybe stick to chamomile. Lemon poppy tea is ok but both that and lean are overrated tbqh

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

He who controls the spice controls the universe

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

You prefer Can-D or Chew-Z?

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Uber eats is so expensive that you literally have to finance Domino's 6.99 each deal.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Old people: “you don’t know how good you’ve got it. All you have to do is pull out your universal spying device and give up you’re personal data and privacy so you can order a pizza. Then you don’t even have to pay for it for weeks later! So much entitlement.”

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Is that deal still around? Was poking around yesterday and couldn't find it.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Just double checked because it's been around in my region for a long time without fail... Yup.. still there.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Relax, of course there's a future.

Just not for humanity.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

Lol

You think we're going to colonize space?! We can't even agree to feed and house the humans here, and not because we lack the resources but because the economy requires scarcity to increase private profit. We can't even agree to stop destroying our only world/fishbowl to continue to profit a relatively small group of sociopaths who already have enough for 50 lifetimes. We can't even agree to stop killing each other over inherited melanin quantity.

We are a solidly type 0 civilization. We're far more likely to keep beating each other to death in the dirt over who gets the most capital until we destroy ourselves. Maybe if we eventually alter our genetics through technologies like CRISPR to weed out our most vile, least social impulses like insatiable selfishness, low intellect, and violence, then maybe those people will be able to stop undermining eachother long enough to establish a significant presence outside this rock.

But then we'll no longer be human, which I'm more than fine with because we're trash but most humans seem to think we're worth a damn despite 10,000 years of recorded history proving otherwise.

You want a space faring potential? Try Alpha Centauri. Want fart jokes, snake oil con artists, and murder over ignorant superstition and sociopathic greed? Yeah, you found the right place. Wanna buy a gun?

[–] Tranus 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I have a metal cup on my desk. This cup used to be a rock. Humans took that rock, and placed it into an environment specifically tailored to remove just the molecules we want from it. It was melted, using temperatures far exceeding what a human could survive. It was formed into a sheet, then pressed into shape, using tools specifically crafted for that one purpose. It was painted with a compound not naturally found anywhere on earth, because someone thought it should be green. It was packaged in organic compounds carefully formulated and shaped through hundreds of processes to ensure it couldn't be damaged on its trip to the other side of the planet. All of this for a cup. Why? Because it's slightly more comfortable to drink out of. A problem that wouldn't even register with any other living thing, solved with efforts far beyond their capabilities. And that is our closest competitor.

Humanity has accomplished more in the last hundred years, hell even the last ten, than anything else on earth (or beyond, for all we know) ever has. Yeah, war, greed, and racism are a thing, but it hasn't stopped us before, and won't stop us now. You are comparing real people to some idealized fantasy. A fantasy that only seems attainable because of what we have already accomplished, not in spite of it.

We only aspire to do better because we know what we are capable of.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Sure, that sounds pretty impressive, but without another sentient civilization to compare to, how do we know we're really doing all that great?

We might be the special education class in the universe.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

Bezos is estimated to be worth $150 billion. With a lavish lifestyle spending $500 thousand a year, and a life expectancy of 85, he theoretically has enough for 3529.4 lifetimes, or about 23.5 lifetimes per billion. Given that rich assholes tend to also be legendarily cheap, this is likely a conservative estimate for the number of lifetimes. On the average income in the USA of $63,214, that would be 186.1 lifetimes per billion, or at the median income of $44,225 it would be 266 lifetimes per billion. So every billionaire has enough wealth to support hundreds of people for their entire lives, from birth to death. An unfathomable amount of money.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

You think we're going to colonize space?! We can't even agree to feed and house the humans here

Well they're going to leave the unfed and unhoused behind, obvi

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Fuck capitalism and useless goverments

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

financing a pizza was the last straw

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Rest easy. We are unlikely to ever explore space, and even if we do, it wouldn't be anything like what science fiction is portraying.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

We are exploring space, just with robots instead of people, sending robots is cheaper

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

because it would be fierce, fancy and frisky Embrace FALGSC!

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

With the explosion of tech currently, and where we are with anti aging tech, theres a non zero chance we might not have been born too soon to explore space

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (5 children)

… assuming you can afford it.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (8 children)
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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Born just in time to catch the wave of longevity.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Just steal it at that point.

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