Message from @Somi
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lets hope so
The Doomsday clock ticked to two minutes to midnight, again. https://thebulletin.org/sites/default/files/2018%20Doomsday%20Clock%20Statement.pdf
'The doomsday clock' is one of the most absurd things I've ever seen
At best just a guesstimate made by a bunch of socialologists and political science. No one can say for sure what "one minute" means, this is the very defination of a measure being vague and subjective.
From reading the article most of their concerns are with nuclear war with North Korea, not as much as it was in 1953 with an actual "Doomsday" scenario. I don't think a conflict with NK will lead to a new world war or a "Doomsday", but will be catastrophic for the region. They also talk about the failures of demorascies to disinformation and misuse of information ..
I don't really care about the clock itself, i more like to read their reasoning behind it.. To agree or disagree with..
The suggestion that humanity is 'two minutes from midnight' when it comes to life as we know it is patently absurd and clearly a statement by people who's -job- it is to be as alarmist as possible.
Drop the alarmist rethoric basically, reason behind it is interesting and all.
But surely we were alot closer to nuke outs back then than now.
Closer to nukes being thrown, yes.
Closer to world-as-we-know-it ending full-arsenal nuclear exchanges?
We couldn't be -further- from such a thing.
the one good thing about globalism is that it's made war between US/NATO, Russia and China simply a concept of the past.
I mean, I doubt a nuke war would start off with the first salvo being the entire salvo
The economies are too intertwined with one-another to allow any kind of actual warfare to happen between the major power holders in the world.
We where closer to all out nuclear war back in the 1950s, but we still have the threat of "local" nuclear war between two or a few nations.
There are alot of nukes out there..
Do they take into account that? Or is it assumed that at "midnight" we get a full out total annihilation.
That's what your average person would consider the term 'doomsday' to mean
Armageddon, the apocalypse, etc.
Well, maybe not for "us".
THen again, life changed when we realised how powerful nukes were
I think life would change again if a modern 15 megaton warhead detonated over a city, considering that Hiroshima was 15 kilotons.. a firecracker in comparison...
*real shit?*
huh..
i wonder what caused it?
Perhaps
rises like this are usually due to news or happenings of this sort
I believe the news blamed the Dollar drop on the China solar cell forced taxation into the US, haven't looked into it much..
So US taxing china on solar cells or something else?
More like tariffs on solar panel import from china to protect US solar panel manufactures, is what i got from a quick googling..
THing is, its only one aspect of the Chinese economy
There must be tarrifs on other products
The USA is currenly building alot of solar panels in the nevada desert i think
miles of them
China is just doing good buisness
lol