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A year later and still activating existential dread. Very well done.
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Why is a bright future assumed?
Sun eventually goes supernova.
It doesn't. It's not massive enough. It turns into a red giant, then collapses into a white dwarf and eventually fusion basically stops.
Yeah but in the process it'll scour the surface off the earth so it's not all bad news
Alternatively, if we wait long enough we always have the heat death of the universe to look forward to.
I read in this book that there's a restaurant just before that happens where you can bounce back and forth between the death of the universe and the hours before it. So that sounds cool.
Try the steak.
I don’t like food that talks to me before I eat it.
Shh!" said Ford. "It's conical. So what you do is, you see, you fill it with fine white sand, alright? Or sugar. Fine white sand, and/or sugar. Anything. Doesn't matter. Sugar's fine. And when it's full, you pull the plug out... are you listening?" "I'm listening." "You pull the plug out, and it all just twirls away, twirls away you see, out of the plughole. "Clever." "That's not the clever bit. This is the clever bit, I remember now that this is the clever bit. The clever bit is that you then thread the film in the projector... backwards!" "Backwards?" "Yes. Threading it backwards is definitely the clever bit. So then, you just sit and watch it, and everything just appears to spiral upwards out of the plughole and fill the bath. See?" "And that's how the Universe began is it?" said Arthur. "No," said Ford, "but it's a marvelous way to relax.
Not before ballooning up and frying the Earth.
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Thermonuclear reactions are very bright
What's weird to me is, the dark ages weren't dark for the Middle East, they kept on learning and expanding. What's in a name and all that.
Historians of the medieval era hate the term "dark ages", even in relation to Europe. The whole notion that the Roman Empire went poof one day and then everything sucked for 1000 years is just cartoonishly wrong.
I once heard in some history tv show that it's called "dark ages" not because of the bad living conditions, but because we know so few things about it, compared to other history periods.
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Only a little unfortunate they skipped the enlightenment, akin to what Europe had.
They didn't skip it, the enlightenment was a continuation of what they came up with. I'm pretty sure they didn't deny the earth is round and the sun is the center of our galaxy.
Medieval people thinking the Earth was flat is a myth that was made up during the Age of Enlightenment.
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Humanity will not exist long enough to reach said bright future
I'm worried the bright future will start right as the last humans die....
That's why it's called the bright future.. Right?
Stop using proprietary software, embrace FOSS. Krita, GIMP, Inkscape.
You want me to say "Feel free to GIMP your variants"? =\
P.S. I made this in Inkscape actually :)
The word you are looking for is "make" or "edit".
Kids these days... Have to rename everything! /s
Did you know that "to google something" is the proprietary version of "to search something"? See!!! Proprietary software has integrated into conversational phrases! *It's time to stop!*
I envy you because I don't know how to use Inkscape properly (it looks very complicated). I don't really need/use it, so yeah.
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keep using 'photoshop' as a generic term and verb until it becomes 'generic enough' for adobe to lose its trademark. same with 'google' ftm.
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Keeping in mind that a single axis for progress is reductive: also, don't forget that there have been and will be backslides. For example, European colonialism set back a lot of progressive / alternative cultures, genociding them or converting them to something that better-served the interests of empire (e.g., race rules).
Another alternative is that we’re already living in the “Golden Age” of Mankind, which is kind of scary to think about.
We may look back at these days - you know, where not all diseases kill you, and in fact were super easily handled, barely an inconvenience!:-P - and wish to have such things as "antibiotics" again, before bacteria all became immune to them.
Or maybe the world will rally together, and start funding research into alternatives quickly enough for it to matter? Just like climate change too...
It's a good thing that people aren't anti-science now, bc that surely would be a problem if we want to reach that bright shiny happy future we keep hoping for. :-|
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Yeah, you're mostly missing the ages prior to middle. Like stone, which was pretty huge.
Ok, added some bars to the left
Ah, much better. lol
there's only one future for humanity that's bright 
in reality the graph alternates black and white and only holds true for one certain location/group at a time
We don't have time for your full scale reality. The luxury is gone to shop for quality. It is all a sacrifice of illusion now.
I'll believe it when we dismantle the nukes, class society, and fossil fuel industry. A better world is possible but only if we fight for it.
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