NOTE: may be inaccurate. Feel free to photoshop your variants.
Why is a bright future assumed?
Sun eventually goes supernova.
It doesn’t. It’s not massive enough. It turns into a red giant, then collapses into a white dwarf and eventually fusion basically stops.
Yeah but in the process it’ll scour the surface off the earth so it’s not all bad news
Alternatively, if we wait long enough we always have the heat death of the universe to look forward to.
That’s not bright at all. That’s the darkest thing.
Very true.
Not before ballooning up and frying the Earth.
Yeah that’s totally not a worse death.
Realistically speaking, any of the major changes that happen near the end of a star’s life will make their planets uninhabitable on a time scale that seems pretty long from a human perspective. Imagine the last 100 years of climate change, but it just keeps getting worse at the same pace for a million years. By the time a star swells into a giant or explodes in a supernova, there won’t be anyone around to notice.
Thermonuclear reactions are very bright
yall want a bright future but when people start actually fighting for one you show your colors as class betraying cowards
Why are you not in lemmygrad, comrade?
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And now you’ve outed yourself for our blocklists. Good job.
Did the ‘Stalinist’ username not clue you in or did i have to point out the obvious to ya
They want a bright future just for themselves. Not for the society as a whole
that doesnt work though. Happyness consistently is highest in societies which have the strongest wealth distribution.
Humanity will not exist long enough to reach said bright future
I’m worried the bright future will start right as the last humans die…
That’s why it’s called the bright future… Right?
Keeping in mind that a single axis for progress is reductive: also, don’t forget that there have been and will be backslides. For example, European colonialism set back a lot of progressive / alternative cultures, genociding them or converting them to something that better-served the interests of empire (e.g., race rules).
Stop using proprietary software, embrace FOSS. Krita, GIMP, Inkscape.
You want me to say “Feel free to GIMP your variants”? =\
P.S. I made this in Inkscape actually :)
The word you are looking for is “make” or “edit”.
Kids these days… Have to rename everything! /s
Did you know that “to google something” is the proprietary version of “to search something”? See!!! Proprietary software has integrated into conversational phrases! *It’s time to stop!*
I envy you because I don’t know how to use Inkscape properly (it looks very complicated). I don’t really need/use it, so yeah.
#ABSOLUTELY PROPRIETARY
keep using ‘photoshop’ as a generic term and verb until it becomes ‘generic enough’ for adobe to lose its trademark. same with ‘google’ ftm.
Nooo!!! You are only helping them! /s
Instead use edit/make/search.
*Look how they massacred my
boyEnglish!*
Richard, is that you?
Yes
Shhhhh it’s okay to let people enjoy things
Enough is enough. It’s time to make this year the year of Linux. /s
I mean, I mostly enjoy my FOSS (there are some issues). At least I don’t have to pay thousands of dollars or pirate it (and hiding it) only to find out that it’s Linux incompatible.
Another alternative is that we’re already living in the “Golden Age” of Mankind, which is kind of scary to think about.
We may look back at these days - you know, where not all diseases kill you, and in fact were super easily handled, barely an inconvenience!:-P - and wish to have such things as “antibiotics” again, before bacteria all became immune to them.
Or maybe the world will rally together, and start funding research into alternatives quickly enough for it to matter? Just like climate change too…
It’s a good thing that people aren’t anti-science now, bc that surely would be a problem if we want to reach that bright shiny happy future we keep hoping for. :-|
It is very naive to think that the collective endgoal of humanity is to have super health when right now the only goal is which super power will dominate over the others, killing everyone who stands on their way
Not just right now - it was probably always that way. At one point those nations needed STEM e.g. engineers to win those (cultural) wars, while now we are gearing up to use robots and AI instead.
Even so, I think the loss of antibiotics is more of a short sighted side effect. It could need a century of development to overcome, but it is more profitable to sell pain relief right now so… it’s a problem for a future generation to have to deal with, so long as I get mine now, seems to be the way of thinking.
Our existing antibiotics would be perfectly fine, if they were used responsibly instead of mass breeding resistant bacteria to mass breed animals under terrible conditions because capitalism.
In the same wake climate change would be much easier to deal with if the economic system wasnt designed around infinite growth of production and consumption.
If wishes were horses, then we all would ride.
As it is, instead we will FAAFO.
there’s only one future for humanity that’s bright
It’s posadism time
Climate change will also kill capitalism and can signal aliens far away.
Yeah, you’re mostly missing the ages prior to middle. Like stone, which was pretty huge.
Ok, added some bars to the left
Ah, much better. lol
yep, also a viable variant
in reality the graph alternates black and white and only holds true for one certain location/group at a time
By “bright future” you mean nuclear apocalypse?
I mean that’s the brightest future right, them bombs give out all kinds of light.
We don’t have time for your full scale reality. The luxury is gone to shop for quality. It is all a sacrifice of illusion now.
I’ll believe it when we dismantle the nukes, class society, and fossil fuel industry. A better world is possible but only if we fight for it.
The day i realized this and that i wouldn’t live to see said bright future was rather disheartening
I was gonna post this lol