No Mutants Allowed

That's what the media want you to believe. In reality, forest fires are a natural and necessary part of the ecosystem. Some fire fighter was on the news saying these were the worst fires he had ever seen. Sure. He's 48. Earth is 4,5 billion years old. And those koalas burning to death? Evolution at work. Learn to fucking run, you lazy fur ball.

As for the conflict between the US and Iran: same fucking thing. Show people a picture of a rocket zooming through the sky and they think World War 3 just started. The media have become so powerful at manipulating how we perceive the world, there should be something out there (like a really powerful AI) controlling the media. It would probably delete 99% of our news and call it fake.

That denial is strong in you Alec. Keep pretending everything is ok.

Earth has always done crazy, scary shit, there just never was a time, until now, that there were 8 billion horny idiots collectively shitting their pants looking at Earth doing this crazy, scary shit.

As for human stupidity: isn't it about time some idiot did something really stupid so that those 8 billion horny idiots are reduced to maybe, at most, 1 billion? Come, come, nuclear bomb. That's not denial.

Well you still have a comfy computer laden room, so yea, everything is okay. Wars, fires, they happen. Womp womp.

I am not a sociopath so no, I can't just say womp womp.

Here's the thing though, yes - the earth can be quite killy, and the sun and temperatures can be pretty killy too, and yeah, koalas aren't fast enough, and seems like humanity isn't gonna be all that fast either - - - that's the complaint! That is what people are sad about. they *know* they're fucked, but - they don't *want* to be :I

None of these disasters will *erradicate* mankind - even if we're almost completely destroyed - even if we reduce mankind to just a pretty million scattered around the world, a new world, a depopulated world, a world of dreams and fantasies, a world where we can walk naked again - it still means the vast majority that used to exist had to die when they had other plans.

Meagre, mediocre, pointless, useless plans are what life is made of. NONE of us are important. ALL we ever do is meagre. All our plans are small and stupid and lame, but they are the very meaning of our existence, they are what the universe is. That is why death saddens us. That is why we want to live, and not to die.

There must be something out there that can kill all of us. A big enough piece of space debris would certainly do the trick, the perfect virus, space radiation from a stellar event elsewhere in the universe ... Even something man-made, like the perfect AI, might decide that the universe would be better off without us and act upon it.

Some things could, like the powerful stellar radiation bursts you mention - or, my favorite - any asteroid big enough to just melt the whole planet. It's only a matter of size. Last time we were hit by something like that, the moon was born.

Some of the reports about the bush fires actually have me chuckling. It's like some people really don't know that fire produces a lot of smoke and that a burnt forest produces extremely fertile ground. Also: 1.25 billion animals dead. Who counted this? Oh, it's a guesstimate, oh, okay, then it must be true.

Wasn't the country planning on killing 2 million feral cats anyway? And 1 million kangaroos? But then they show the rest of the world a picture of a burnt kangaroo (caught in barbwire, I'm not fucking joking, that probably prevented it from escaping the flames in the first place) and everybody sobs.

Must suck to have your home burned to the ground, though.