Images of Note: Knowledge is the Heaviest Burden

Nov 14, 2024 5:07 PM

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This is what so many queer servers are like

FISH!

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

PISS NUKE

OH NO!

Birthrates are dropping and the world fertility rate is at replacement rate right now.

Soon.

FINALLY!

He just kept on Yoing.

MEAT ROBOT

Love it when smug people learn things that make them unsmug.

PEGGING SAVES LIVES!

the next 4 years *at least*

:D

me :)

Like I know that is not what they are like Canonically, because they're also meant to be scholars and artists and the like, BUT I WANNA SEE MUSCLEBOUND HIMBO SPACE MARINES!

is this in relation to Doge?

Now which country is this.

AAAAA

monch monch monch monch monch monch monch monch monch monch monch monch monch monch monch monch monch monch monch monch monch monch monch monch monch monch monch monch monch monch monch monch monch monch monch monch monch monch monch monch monch monch monch monch monch monch monch monch monch monch monch monch

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The Onion has bought infowars. it's gonna get weird.

#60 - There are a lot of furries in the military. No one really cares what you do in your recreational time so long as you aren't hurting anyone and aren't forcing your shit on others.

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#2 HE DOESNT WANT THE SLIMY CAT??

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#6 id be shitting my pants if I saw that irl thank God is just ai

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#6 yo quick question what the actual fuck

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#6

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NSFW #41 Stop stop stop!... You had me already at "Pegging".

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Sorry but even suggesting that Ross Perot would have been a good president is... I can't even...

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NSFW As a non-American I didn't understand 90% of the text tbh... and the 10% I did understand was fogged up by pegging.

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#72 Tool for me, every time

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#41 Alas, 14 years too late for me. My cancerous prostate is long gone.

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#22

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What's the deal with ghost? i fuckin love them. did i miss something?

2 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

#75 I appreciate your dumps, but I kind of miss your old closing image because it looked like you were bursting into a room like Kramer

2 years ago | Likes 18 Dislikes 0

I kind of imagined the possum just flinging its entire body against the door until the hinges break, making it funnier when it reveals itself as completely uninjured and impossibly small. I’ll probably reanimate it at some point once I’ve gotten better.

2 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

#6 No! bad boy Mr Cheeto! you know you're not allowed on the bed!

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#32 the chart implies at a certain frog level, happiness diminishes, but rises again with more frogs

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#31 this is a meme one never egrets seeing.

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#49

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#27 the Roomba is also our creation and therefore our own child eating our skin.

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#1 Upvote Space Lesbian Catgirl.

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Upvote Space Lesbian Catgirl.

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Wouldn't know from experience.

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Upvote Space Lesbian Catgirl.

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Upvote Space Lesbian Catgirl.


And yes, very much.

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Upvote Space Lesbian Catgirl.

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#3 wtf lobotomy corporation meme in the wild??

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Project moon mentioned, activate one limbilion sleeper agents

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#9 light snack

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#35 LET HIM FINISH! I could NOT be more interested!!!!!

2 years ago | Likes 45 Dislikes 1

This was already canon for my tabletop game (they're also pirates because everyone in the setting is a pirate)

2 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Behold, it's One Piece!

2 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Yeah :3 It's one piece with Pathfinder 2e rules and races and also all the boats can sail on the giant desert that makes up most the continent

2 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

So it's also Monster Hunter 4U!

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This means Hogger's female.

2 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

One word: pseudophallus.

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Well yeah, that's half the reason Hyena anthros are my favorite!

2 years ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 0

Ah, a discerning pervert of culture, I see

2 years ago | Likes 13 Dislikes 0

Damn right! Just waiting for the next chapter of Tails from Yeencon to come out!

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I made a homebrew version of gnolls that took this into account (among other things). Hyaenic people wouldn't go agrarian, obviously, but for a non-agrarian society to not be conquered by neighboring agrarian societies, they need to be pretty big and hold a lot of land. So, my gnolls have a society structured more like the Mongols than anyone else, with a strong emphasis on mounted archery and magic disciplines that emphasize healing and survival, for obvious reasons.

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#22 wait did I get this from another IoN?

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yes

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#7 Oh thank goodness she didn't eat her

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Looks & sounds like it's playing ddr

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#2 I despise these

2 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 0

tiktockers imposing them self over videos your trying to watch?

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#23 only a true yo-yo master can transcend yo-yoing and simply yo

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#71 I wanna be part of a vague group of queer depressed communists that sounds amazing.

2 years ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 0

EXACTLY! Where do I sign up?

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#2 If you hate it? Maybe don't share and platform it.

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I mean I get it, I hate it too. Sometimes you just need to vent, and it therefore requires examples since I'd never seen it either.

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Tbh I kinda love those.

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I also kind of love them.

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Then share them to the heavens and distill them to their greatest essence as you see it!
Crank it to eleven! Find what you love and let it kill you!
(sincere, and good wishes at you)

2 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Everything except the cat at the end. I thought it was a transforming vacuum (that would be cute) but it was just a nightmare from one end of the couch to the other.

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#6 ah, yes, well seems there's a duende problem

2 years ago | Likes 15 Dislikes 0

Jesus christ AI.

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WTF is this?

2 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

A duende.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duende "A duende is a humanoid figure of folklore, with variations from Iberian, Ibero American, and Latin American cultures, comparable to dwarves, gnomes, or leprechauns."

2 years ago | Likes 12 Dislikes 0

It's dumb deep fake AI

2 years ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 1

It IS kinda freaking me out tho

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#26 Seeing as all of the origin stories regarding chili center around poverty if you want a thin watery chili skip the beans, you want it thickened then the beans seem like the obvious choice.

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Skip the beans? Oh but have meat? I'm poor, I just put beans in and skip the meat most of the time, beans are way cheaper and good protein but also tasty, why would you skip beans. (I'm eating bean chilli right now.)

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And the Peeps?

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If you are using Peeps you have odder things to worry about

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They make it taste...bad.

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#14 I was SO pissed when I was in the earth science program and the guest professor started pushing Malthusian theory and individual carbon footprint trash. I was still at the beginning of my education so I didn't know enough to speak up and refute them, but I was proud that my class managed to research the carbon footprint enough to disprove its assertions using its own metrics

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It's just "blame poor people for existing" rather than "blame the rich and powerful for their wastefulness"

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That is certainly part of the issue, but I dont think it explains everything.

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Well I don't know your professor, but in general that is what it's about. Malthusian theory is intimately tied to the idea of society as individuals in competition with each other, the level playing field, the free market, where each is an agent of rational choice & responsibility. In this worldview, individuals bear the blame & responsibility and solution for their own carbon footprint, and for any shortages in the market, rather than looking at the power structures within society as a culture.

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That's interesting, I've never seen it couched that way. It feels obvious that individuals will do what is best/most pleasant for them, and that that is exactly what gets us into this situation, because "what is most advantageous for me, now" is never what is advantageous for everyone, long term.

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Hmm yes take comfort in the fact you're expressing a specific but popular view on imgur and reddit, a very US based conceptualisation of human nature and society. It's very interesting to trace its philosophical roots.

2 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

if someone follows the idea of a "carbon footprint" that a single person would do, a hypothetical person who kills an oil company CEO would have a lower carbon footprint than 1000 vegan bicyclists.

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Yep! This is where the most meaningful change can happen from below, in direct action and in indirect action, pressure on policy changes.

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I dont think I've ever heard an argument indicating that we wont eventually hit carrying capacity. What's the popular take?

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All evidence indicates that population doesn't grow the way Malthus anticipated, as nations industrialize, birth rates go down. Current UN projections suggest that the global population will never reach 12 billion. We produce and throw away enough food to accommodate that many people. The issue isn't available resources, it's resource allocation. As usual, the problem is capitalism.

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Thanks, that is more or less what I was looking for. I dont know that I agree entirely, but there is certainly precedent for birth rates declining in the developed world. Here's hoping nothing else bites us in the ass before we stabilize.

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Theoretically we could eventually hit carrying capacity, but we're a very long way from that. We already produce more than enough food for everyone alive, we just allocate it horribly.

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It's less our ability to produce food right now that is a concern, and more what producing food at the current levels is doing to our ability to *continue* to produce food at that level. If we're not looking at the things that are quietly failing in the background, like aquifer usage, soil fertility, and blight frequency brought on by massive monocropping, then we'll hit that capacity before the public has realized there's a problem.

2 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

We could easily produce enough food for everyone sustainably, we only don't because it's not as profitable and it would mean people would have to change what they eat.

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right it's the "we dont" that is an issue. Something needs to change.

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Big movement to make agriculture more sustainable. It doesn't even drop production! Turns out the microbiota in the soil actually are important for fertility. Turns out you can distribute chemical fertilisers much more sensibly and less wastefully.

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Population size * Average consumption = Damage to nature

The "anti-malthusians" are just knee-jerking at anyone who says we're over-populated under this system, which we very much are. Nature is fucking collapsing in real time.

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We need to eradicate capitalism and materialism. Having a fridge is possible for everyone, having a fuck off huge house with even 2 fridges, multiple cars, and gargantuan amounts of waste isn't even viable for those who have that NOW. Look at American Halloween and tell me that's good for the environment.

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Like Skathir said, it's intellectually dishonest, even malicious, to subscribe to malthusian thinking without some severe critical limitations to the theory. 1% of our population is causing everyone else's misery and scarcity issues. We could be farming and living relatively in balance, but we're not allowed to. We have the technology and practices, and they keep getting better while we stay behind.

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Look at HOW MUCH artificial intelligence tech is using of the earth's resources. Look at the news of what is happening with that. It's disgusting and gobsmacking. Do we need that really? All that? Compared to the putative benefits. No we fucking don't. SO MUCH ENERGY AND DRINKING WATER. The tech giants have just said straight up "we'll geoengineer the planet later (!!!!), for now we have to abandon our climate goals in favour of AI". For fuckin WHAT? Their profits?

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I'm no luddite, I have a comp sci degree, I am DEEPLY critical of how this is going. It's so concerning.

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I dont know that all consumption is damaging, but there is very much a point at which it starts to cause problems. I have a hard time believing that anyone reasonable thinks that we are not already hitting that point, let alone that we'll *never* hit that point.

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That's what I was getting at. As long as we're consuming sustainably it's not a problem, but are we consuming unsustainably? It sure seems that way from where I'm sitting. Oil is going to run out soon if nothing else.

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As an illustration, when Europeans took north America, they used the resources in a way that allowed for more population but only if that population adopted the new lifestyle. The old one was renewable and stable for thousands of years but wasn't competitive and was pushed aside. Industrial production of fertilizer from fossil fuels (using haber Bosch) as well as fossil fuels in general have exploded our population capacity again. BUT only for as long as we keep the fossil fueled lifestyle. 1/

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Now we need to get all that same stuff done without the fuel, and we've been accustomed to infinite growth besides including in population. The population density we have in cities only works because they buy the resources of a much larger area. That larger area is made to depend on the city for money and the things produced in the city. Things produced can be e.g. a shirt that uses a farmer's cotton but required a bunch of expensive machines the farmer can't afford to buy, plus skilled labor 2/

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Well of course if you give a HUGE slice of the consumption pie to wasteful and damaging systems and did I mention WASTEFUL, driven by particular economic incentives that only benefit the wealthy few, then of course you could argue "overpopulation", but only on an intellectually dishonest technicality. It's a bit like building more roads instead of public transport and then wondering why the roads are still completely congested no matter how many roads you build. Except worse and more unequal.

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There's so much house hoarding by the wealthy in my country but their media interests have seized on the "too many migrants are the reason you can't find an affordable rental". There's currently zero economic incentive for housing to become more accessible and useable, but oh no let's talk about "not enough affordable housing" as if the problem is too many other poor people rather than too many disgustingly wealthy and wasteful people incentivised to create and hoard resources.

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*not create resources, just hoard

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