Where did it all go wrong?

[Occam]

When our level of technology surpassed our intellectual evolution.

Humans are simply too stupid to handle anything more than stone age tools without destroying the planet.

Most of us stupid fucks still believe in the Easter Bunny. Of course nothing that actually matters gets done.

[BisMarckie]

FACT CHECK: The Easter Bunny was mentioned by Aurelius Ambrosius as a symbol of resurrection, a man far smarter than everyone here.

[Raist]

Millenials.

[Kara]

I don‘t know how much you know about the Palatinate (I‘m an expert) but having a king from basically Germany‘s Arkansas would destroy any legitimacy of the Belgian state immediately.

Somehow I don't think legitimacy was on the mind of a constituent assembly elected by less than 5% of the population whose candidates for king had to be approved by foreign powers.

[Kara]

There's a luxury condo development in Irvine, California on Palatine street and I always make Germanic state jokes when I go by. America .

[recursivelyenumerable]

I was just thinking about how multicellular organisms were a mistake. Societies of bacteria are perfectly capable of cooperating and thriving without enslaving themselves to a tyrannical "organism" regime ruled by a clueless decadent neural caste. I don't agree with all of its methods but cancer makes some good points imo

IMPORTANT UPDATE

While randomly reading some ecology related Wikipedia articles I ran across this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medea_hypothesis

The Medea hypothesis is a term coined by paleontologist Peter Ward[1] for the anti-Gaian hypothesis that multicellular life, understood as a superorganism, is suicidal. In this view, microbial-triggered mass extinctions are attempts to return the Earth to the microbial-dominated state it has been for most of its history.[2][3][4] The metaphor refers to the mythological Medea (representing the Earth), who kills her own children (multicellular life).
Past "suicide attempts" include:

Methane poisoning, 3.5 billion years ago

The oxygen catastrophe, 2.45 billion years ago

Snowball Earth, twice, 2.4-2.1 billion years ago and 790–630 million years ago

At least five putative hydrogen sulfide-induced mass extinctions, such as the Great Dying, 252.28 million years ago
The list does not include the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event, since this was, at least partially, externally induced by a meteor impact.
Peter Ward also believes that the current man-made climate change and extinction event may also be considered to be the most recent Medean event, due to them both being caused by humans, concluding that Medean events are not necessarily caused by microbes, but also by intelligent life as well. He also believes that the final mass extinction of complex life, roughly about 500 million years in the future, will also be considered as a Medean event as well, as plant life that still exist by then will be forced to adapt to a warming and expanding Sun, causing them to remove even more carbon dioxide from the atmosphere (which in turn will have already be due to the increasing heat from the Sun gradually speeding up the weathering process that removes them from the atmosphere), and ultimately accelerating the complete extinction of complex life by making carbon dioxide levels drop down to just 10 ppm, below which plants can no longer survive, much faster and sooner than anticipated.

Looks like there's a good chance our planet's biosphere will finally head back in the right direction. It's nice to see there are still some people with a positive vision of the future.

[BIONIC]

There's a luxury condo development in Irvine, California on Palatine street and I always make Germanic state jokes when I go by. America .

The first house I lived in until I was 5?

On Palatine Ave.

Don't stay safe.

[recursivelyenumerable]

I was just thinking about how multicellular organisms were a mistake. Societies of bacteria are perfectly capable of cooperating and thriving without enslaving themselves to a tyrannical "organism" regime ruled by a clueless decadent neural caste. I don't agree with all of its methods but cancer makes some good points imo

IMPORTANT UPDATE

While randomly reading some ecology related Wikipedia articles I ran across this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medea_hypothesis

The Medea hypothesis is a term coined by paleontologist Peter Ward[1] for the anti-Gaian hypothesis that multicellular life, understood as a superorganism, is suicidal. In this view, microbial-triggered mass extinctions are attempts to return the Earth to the microbial-dominated state it has been for most of its history.[2][3][4] The metaphor refers to the mythological Medea (representing the Earth), who kills her own children (multicellular life).
Past "suicide attempts" include:

Methane poisoning, 3.5 billion years ago

The oxygen catastrophe, 2.45 billion years ago

Snowball Earth, twice, 2.4-2.1 billion years ago and 790–630 million years ago

At least five putative hydrogen sulfide-induced mass extinctions, such as the Great Dying, 252.28 million years ago
The list does not include the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event, since this was, at least partially, externally induced by a meteor impact.
Peter Ward also believes that the current man-made climate change and extinction event may also be considered to be the most recent Medean event, due to them both being caused by humans, concluding that Medean events are not necessarily caused by microbes, but also by intelligent life as well. He also believes that the final mass extinction of complex life, roughly about 500 million years in the future, will also be considered as a Medean event as well, as plant life that still exist by then will be forced to adapt to a warming and expanding Sun, causing them to remove even more carbon dioxide from the atmosphere (which in turn will have already be due to the increasing heat from the Sun gradually speeding up the weathering process that removes them from the atmosphere), and ultimately accelerating the complete extinction of complex life by making carbon dioxide levels drop down to just 10 ppm, below which plants can no longer survive, much faster and sooner than anticipated.

Looks like there's a good chance our planet's biosphere will finally head back in the right direction. It's nice to see there are still some people with a positive vision of the future.

[Himu]

When God decided we should fart and poop

[Yeti]

When some asshole said “let there be light”

[I'm a Puppy!]

Agriculture allowed us to settle - Settling allowed the lucky to amass a surplus - the surplus lead to shortages - this lead to inequality.
In essence, with these upgrades we never stood a chance.

[Human Snorenado]

In the beginning the Universe was created.

This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.

[Himu]

In the beginning the Universe was created.

This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.

Fuck off, Universe!

[thetylerrob]

A lot of people will say that it was when Steve Carell left the show, but actually it was sometime in season 5 when the writer's strike happened.

[Great Rumbler]

Agriculture allowed us to settle - Settling allowed the lucky to amass a surplus - the surplus lead to shortages - this lead to inequality.
In essence, with these upgrades we never stood a chance.

Eh, even back before agriculture people who were stronger, better at fighting, and had better weapons lived more comfortably than everyone else in the tribe.

[Joe Molotov]

When that monkey looked at the monolith and then picked up a femur, it was the beginning of the end.

[Human Snorenado]

...but for real, it was when we sent Troy out for pizza. It is known.

[recursivelyenumerable]

In the beginning the Universe was created.

This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.

Fuck off, Universe!

Surely the beginning deserves some of the blame for housing the creation of the universe in the first place?

[Zeliard]

Sorry Joe but I have to hijack this thread to respond to this shit since the topic is closed, and someone brought it to my attention:

On which mod is more likely to be a spree killer -

http://www.thebore.com/forum/index.php?topic=45102.msg2311705#msg2311705

"I am firmly of the belief that online personality does not effectively indicate that someone is a terrible (or good) person in real life, so I'm hesitant to answer this question. But if we can agree this is a superficial question that has little bearing on actual life, I'd answer Zeliard. Pre-arrest, I would not have answered Amirox. Because he was so open about his illicit drug use, he seemed like someone willing to be rather open about illegal activity."

I dunno. Statistically, Opiate is a white guy with the empathy of walnut, so he's far more likely to be a spree killer than I am. It's actually pretty ironic to ask this question out of Opiate of all people. If a news story came out that said Opiate was arrested and it was discovered he fashions lampshades in his home out of human skin, would anyone honestly be surprised?

http://www.thebore.com/forum/index.php?topic=45102.msg2311769#msg2311769

"This is actually precisely why I picked him: he seems like the sort of guy that would just go unnoticed in a room of 3 people, and that was true even on the Moderator channel. After some thought, I decided this was a particularly important skill for a spree shooter."

I've made some lasting friends out of the gaf mods, largely from irccloud chats. If Opiate thinks he was somehow popular in the mod chan, he should have been a fly on the wall after he was demodded (what was that for again, btw?). The relief was palpable, as was the cringing whenever he posted one of his sociopathic "thought experiments": https://www.neogaf.com/threads/declawing-cats.622606/post-70238536. Isn't it much better to adopt a cat that you declaw rather than not adopt a cat at all? No Opiate, it isn't okay to adopt animals just to torture them.

I'm also apparently so forgettable that this turd mentions me in an other forum 2 years after he was banned, and I think we've spoken to each probably no more than 5 times. It would be funny if it weren't so sad. I must have called him a robot one too many times.

[team filler]

 

[team filler]

why did you cover up amirox being a pedo, zeliard? 

[Zeliard]

Amir0x was demodded before I became mod, so I never really interacted with him nor saw him chatting in the mod channel. I didn't know the guy at all.

[samir]

Amir0x was demodded before I became mod, so I never really interacted with him nor saw him chatting in the mod channel. I didn't know the guy at all.

Yet you willingly became a mod on a forum that housed known pedophile Amirox, and Dennis. 

[Zeliard]

True.

[Rufus]

Planescape: Torment faithful, unite! 🙌

[OnlyRegret]

I'm also apparently so forgettable

oh hey, it's you, yeah you weren't the most memorable mod but I wouldn't feel bad
the most memorable ones were the fuck-ups or some flavour of bad

so that actually means you were cool

[Zeliard]

I'm also apparently so forgettable

oh hey, it's you, yeah you weren't the most memorable mod but I wouldn't feel bad
the most memorable ones were the fuck-ups or some flavour of bad

so that actually means you were cool

Thx bby. I also wasn't around and online much after mid-2015 or so. When I came back the Evilore stuff was a couple weeks old and I had no idea about it, but a lot of shit went down in the slack chan that I missed.

[Himu]

Zeliard is cool.

[OnlyRegret]

I didn't mind Opiate that much, then again, I figured it was obvious he had Aspergers or something of the sort and adjusted expectations accordingly.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Societal_and_cultural_aspects_of_autism#Asperger_syndrome_and_interpersonal_relationships