Pardon?

  • @Wahots@pawb.social
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    5710 months ago

    The ancient ebola viruses locked in ice for thousands of years as some rich asshole takes a sip:

    • @SHOW_ME_YOUR_ASSHOLE@lemm.ee
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      10 months ago

      I think this is a plot point from the game Talos Principle. Melting arctic ice releases a virus that wipes out humanity leaving only machines to become intelligent and carry on civilization.

      Edit: The game is 10 years old people and this is barely a spoiler.

  • @dhcmrlchtdj__@lemmy.worldOP
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    4710 months ago

    If this were a plot point in a novel I would think it too on the nose and unrealistic. This is the fucking world we live in

  • @pdxfed@lemmy.world
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    4410 months ago

    Countries with non-renewable resources being scalped by profiteers …who runs out first?!? Stay tuned …

  • @Peppycito@sh.itjust.works
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    3710 months ago

    The Great Lakes used to be a source of ice for peoples ice boxes. There were railroads built to move it to cities. In my town there was a huge building full of ice and sawdust that would keep it frozen into the summer.

    There hasn’t been so much as a skim of ice on the shore this year.

    • @Nudding@lemmy.world
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      2510 months ago

      Less than half a percent of ice coverage on new years day this year, while in the 1980s it would be over 10%. We’re so fucked lol.

    • @bitwaba@lemmy.world
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      10 months ago

      Sweet Tea is a southern delicacy because it was the ultimate rich plantation owner flex. Ships in the winter used to grab icebergs and drag them down to harbors which were then cut up and taken to be stored at the plantations in saw dust. Then they’d need tea from India or China, and sugar cane from the Caribbean. It was literally a global drink. Something only the richest of people would be able to obtain all the resources for to have their house slaves whip up for a visitor on a hot summer afternoon.

  • @Darkblue@lemmy.world
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    2910 months ago

    Oh no, the world is now seriously doing what was a funny satirical subplot in the movie Brewster’s Millions.

    Movies are not meant as instructions people, cmon!

    • LiveLM
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      910 months ago

      The ‘Torment Nexus’ meme is evergreen

  • @DocMcStuffin@lemmy.world
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    2410 months ago

    This sounds like something out of the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. Something you’d read just before the Earth gets blown up.

  • magnetosphere
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    2010 months ago

    Sure. Why the fuck not. There’s more money in killing the planet than saving it, and humanity has decided that short term profits are more important than investing in our future, so might as well go full throttle.

  • @ExLisper@linux.community
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    1010 months ago

    You go girl, milk those stupid rich people for all you can. I sure hope they are just pretending to transport ice and are actually selling them frozen tap water. Getting rich people to pay lots of money for stupid shit is basically wealth redistribution.