Daily Dose of Doom Thread

[MU82]

That is shocking.  The man is a laughingstock.

I've got too many laughingstock congresspeople here in NC to keep track of. Can only follow so many laughingstocks who are gerrymandered into place.

[Plaque Lives Matter!]

I've got too many laughingstock congresspeople here in NC to keep track of. Can only follow so many laughingstocks who are gerrymandered into place.

https://asgoeswisconsin.com/glenn-grothmans-strange-st-patricks-day-interview/

[mu_hilltopper]

This is as good a place to put this ..

Someone in the neighborhood died, and I was looking for a story .. checked the newspaper, then Facebook.  Found a dozen hits for obit/stories, but when I read them, they all seemed odd and vague.   

Finally found the real obit and realized .. the dozen other hits for stories .. were certainly scraped from the real obit, then run through AI to get hits on their websites. 

What the actual fock, humans.  Can you imagine brainstorming ideas on how to get traffic to your shítty website and coming up with writing fake stories about a recently deceased kid?

[MU82]

Humans are no longer necessary.

[rocky_warrior]

Humans are no longer necessary.

Au contraire mon frère! 

The robot overlords need US - that's right...everyone here - to create more content so that they can learn!
https://futurism.com/ai-companies-training-data

As it stands, the most practical solution for this looming problem — save for the advent of mass human content farms, where we lowly carbon-based creatures click and clack away to feed the endless data thirst of our robot overlords

[NCMUFan]

This is as good a place to put this ..

Someone in the neighborhood died, and I was looking for a story .. checked the newspaper, then Facebook.  Found a dozen hits for obit/stories, but when I read them, they all seemed odd and vague.   

Finally found the real obit and realized .. the dozen other hits for stories .. were certainly scraped from the real obit, then run through AI to get hits on their websites. 

What the actual fock, humans.  Can you imagine brainstorming ideas on how to get traffic to your shítty website and coming up with writing fake stories about a recently deceased kid?

Just goes to show, any and everything can be abused.

[mu_hilltopper]

Demographic doom.



Sure looks like people in their late 20s, 30s .. have plateaued at 1 in 3 married.

I'd imagine the next decade's kids will be 1 in 4 or worse.

Those numbers really pack a demographic punch.  Fewer marriages, fewer kids.  More wild sex parties, though?

Let us know, young Scoop nation.

[NCMUFan]

Maybe something like how animals can sense an earthquake coming.

[tower912]

Demographic doom.



Sure looks like people in their late 20s, 30s .. have plateaued at 1 in 3 married.

I'd imagine the next decade's kids will be 1 in 4 or worse.

Those numbers really pack a demographic punch.  Fewer marriages, fewer kids.  More wild sex parties, though?

Let us know, young Scoop nation.

The Washington Post gave a pretty good reason a few weeks back

[TSmith34, Inc.]

The Washington Post gave a pretty good reason a few weeks back

Drag queens?

[tower912]

Which subset of humanity refuses to marry what other subset of humanity.

[Plaque Lives Matter!]

Drag queens?

Pronouns

[Hards Alumni]

Demographic doom.



Sure looks like people in their late 20s, 30s .. have plateaued at 1 in 3 married.

I'd imagine the next decade's kids will be 1 in 4 or worse.

Those numbers really pack a demographic punch.  Fewer marriages, fewer kids.  More wild sex parties, though?

Let us know, young Scoop nation.

Millennials are also less likely to get divorced.

[TSmith34, Inc.]

True doom

[Plaque Lives Matter!]

True doom

you idiot! Explain this

https://weather.com/weather/tenday/l/Milwaukee+WI?canonicalCityId=317bac1c5a109363e634cb3a35bc7ac00f6b8a92fe2113a4ec81ac40839fd007

[TSmith34, Inc.]

I stand corrected! Looks like a new ice age a-comin'

Also, I appreciate the advisory not to go out in a small craft. Disaster averted!

[WellsstreetWanderer]

you idiot! Explain this

https://weather.com/weather/tenday/l/Milwaukee+WI?canonicalCityId=317bac1c5a109363e634cb3a35bc7ac00f6b8a92fe2113a4ec81ac40839fd007

A graph that begins in 1850 hardly can define a norm for a planet Billions of years old. It misses the Roman warming period and the Medieval warming period as well. Plus a gas that comprises .04% of the atmosphere and is the reason plants thrive is not a culprit for a “climate crisis”. Science you cannot question is not science that is propoganda

[Plaque Lives Matter!]

A graph that begins in 1850 hardly can define a norm for a planet Billions of years old. It misses the Roman warming period and the Medieval warming period as well. Plus a gas that comprises .04% of the atmosphere and is the reason plants thrive is not a culprit for a “climate crisis”. Science you cannot question is not science that is propoganda

*propaganda

[Hards Alumni]

A graph that begins in 1850 hardly can define a norm for a planet Billions of years old. It misses the Roman warming period and the Medieval warming period as well. Plus a gas that comprises .04% of the atmosphere and is the reason plants thrive is not a culprit for a “climate crisis”. Science you cannot question is not science that is propoganda

You're an idiot.

[MU82]

I vote that the world does absolutely nothing about global warming/climate change.

Our great-grandkids will like learning about what used to be Florida before they go vacation on the expanded Georgia coast.

[TSmith34, Inc.]

Plus a gas that comprises .04% of the atmosphere and is the reason plants thrive is not a culprit for a “climate crisis”.

This is science-based, unassailable logic. I've changed my mind.

[The Hippie Satan of Hyperbole]

Demographic doom.



Sure looks like people in their late 20s, 30s .. have plateaued at 1 in 3 married.

I'd imagine the next decade's kids will be 1 in 4 or worse.

Those numbers really pack a demographic punch.  Fewer marriages, fewer kids.  More wild sex parties, though?

Let us know, young Scoop nation.

My thoughts:

1. Co-habitation with an SO is pretty normal now. Even just after I graduated from MU in 1990, people usually didn't live together prior to marriage. Now it happens all of the time.

2. If living together outside of marriage is commonplace, then the primary reason to get married is to have children. And younger people just aren't doing that. The US is following western Europe, China, Japan, etc. and just not having children. They're expensive.

I could go on about what this would mean for our economic outlook and how it needs to mesh with our immigration policy, but that's a different topic.

[SoCalEagle]

My thoughts:

1. Co-habitation with an SO is pretty normal now. Even just after I graduated from MU in 1990, people usually didn't live together prior to marriage. Now it happens all of the time.

2. If living together outside of marriage is commonplace, then the primary reason to get married is to have children. And younger people just aren't doing that. The US is following western Europe, China, Japan, etc. and just not having children. They're expensive.

I could go on about what this would mean for our economic outlook and how it needs to mesh with our immigration policy, but that's a different topic.

Sultan, you are spot on with your comment about birth rate/immigration and this is, in my opinion, perhaps the greatest problem we face that is getting almost no attention whatsoever.  It could lead to some very tough times ahead for us if we don't address it soon. 

[JWags85]

2. If living together outside of marriage is commonplace, then the primary reason to get married is to have children. And younger people just aren't doing that. The US is following western Europe, China, Japan, etc. and just not having children. They're expensive.

I think an addendum to that is, at least in my experience, having a long term partner, having kids, and getting married later is far more common in Europe than in the US.  I know of a number business associates and friends who have been with their wives for for 20+ years, have teenage kids, but have been married less than 10, and a few who still aren't legally.  Interestingly, they have kids much younger than Americans, but just don't get married.  And its planned, not some youthful indiscretions.

[Plaque Lives Matter!]

Zombie (illness) doom

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/jan/21/arctic-zombie-viruses-in-siberia-could-spark-terrifying-new-pandemic-scientists-warn