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  • Planet isn’t being killed.

    Sixth mass extinction in planetary history. We’re wiping mega-fauna and floral colonies off the map faster than at any time since the dinosaurs went extinct.

    No, what we’re killing is ourselves.

    Of all the life forms that have a chance of surviving climate apocalypse, humans are better positioned than most.

    We survived the Ice Age with far less. If 99% of the human population was wiped out tomorrow, there would still be more of us than during the era of Alexander the Great.

    The loss would be in biodiversity. A great deal of what makes living on Earth pleasant would be gone.



  • No endless clones of the same idea.

    :-/

    In the 70s and 80s, video games were so simple and straightforward, usually due to limited computing power, that it was trivial to create clones of games for other systems. Many of the most popular games of the early years of gaming such as Pong, Frogger, Arkanoid, Centepede, etc. were cloned heavily or were clones themselves.

    Case in point, six different Tetris knock offs released between 1989 and 1997.

    Another notorious instance was The Simpsons: Road Rage, which was a simple reskin of the then-popular Crazy Taxi.

    I’ll admit to having done a simple reskin myself, for a high school English project, that involved swapping out PacMan for a boat and the ghosts for angry natives. I christened it “Heart of Darkness: The Video Game” and got an easy A for my trouble.












  • Yeah, but paganism, animism, and Pastafarianism are all valid end points, too.

    There’s no social infrastructure behind Pastafarianism. If you’re in the clink for possession, the judge won’t remand you into the custody of a Pastafarian rehab program or grant hours of community service for organizing with Pastafarian social groups. Pastafarians don’t evangelize at local prisons and there’s no benefit to subscribing to Pastafarianism while incarcerated.

    The reason people end up “finding religion” is because religious people are finding them. Church groups love scavenging drink tanks and prisons for recruits. It’s the bargain basement for human labor