NathanielThomas

Colonel Nicholson: Yes, Clipton. I understand, truly. But don't you see it's a matter of principle? If we give in now, there will be no end to it. No!

Major Clipton: Sir, we're lost in the jungle, a thousand miles from anywhere. We're under the heel of a man who will stop at nothing to get his way. Principle? No one will know or care what happens to us! Give in, sir! Please!

I guess she thought she'd win like Nicholson.

Only the capitalists care

I'm not sure what a solution is but I do think that we should encourage people to not have children, stop handing out the baby bonus, and reduce immigration. I feel these moves can provide a (non-genocidal) way to relieving the pressures of human overpopulation. For example, Japan is doing great work in reducing their population, a trend that will reduce the strain of housing and services in that country.

We shouldn't but here we are.

What else can we do?

By the way, news companies are also run by maniacs.

No, I don't think depopulating the Earth is a fascist concept. I think murdering specific groups of people is fascist. I'm just talking about the unsustainability of the human plague.

There's always going to be meganerds who find insane builds in games.

I remember in Divinity Original Sin 2 I was at the final boss and it was stupid hard. So I went online to ask for help in Reddit and minmax nerds were like: Do you have skin graft? Do you have Green Tea? Do you have Adrenaline?

And sure enough, after respeccing the fight was a joke.

Of course, you can just beat DoS2 with barrelmancy, the most OP skill of all!

All I know is that despite all evidence that our world is increasingly turning into an inferno, that humans are still pro-human and will continue to want more humans. I guess we're just going to have to reap the predictable consequences of our obsession with overpopulating ourselves.

I still call anyone who is infatuated with a topic of interest a nerd, but usually tongue in cheek because the likelihood is I'm also interested

Of interest, in Canada's 2011 federal election the Conservative party with Stephen Harper won by painting Michael Ignatieff as a book nerd professor from Harvard University.

They ran ads with taglines such as "Just visiting," "Just in it for himself," and, most notoriously, "He Didn't Come Back For You." These all suggested he was an erudite professor from the USA who wanted to run Canada for his own self-aggrandizement and mocked his intelligence and academic bona fides.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTnjFyIbcCw

They are among the best at it, you have to admit

it's just pathetic that in 2023 we still consider AC to be a luxury when heating is mandatory. All humans require climate control for both extreme heat and cold. AC isn't and shouldn't be a luxury.

I.e. you see your home as an investment from which you expect to see a positive return, but now you are afraid that it may lose some of that value.

No, I don't see it as an investment. The way the system works sees it as an investment. We've created a system whereby housing is overvalued because it's meant to have inflationary payoffs.

My parents didn't see our home as an investment. They just bought homes at random that were close to where they worked and seemed good for kids.

There's no option for me to buy a place that isn't an investment because that's the very nature of the market.