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Margit's Musings's avatar

It’s talking about the current situation. Maybe the future will be a little, teensy bit better. (I can hope, can’t I?)

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V Warren - nee Bicunas's avatar

We have to find a way to change republican hearts because they're ones that usually stymie anything that has to do with the environment or wildlife or whatever. I don't have any children but I have cared about other people's children grandchildren great-great-grandchildren and the future of the Earth for them. But I'm getting to the point where I'm getting tired of that. Tired of caring for people who don't care.

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Sher''s avatar

Me and your AI agree...and I haven't even read your article yet!

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Sher''s avatar

Ok Now I read it...and I still agree!

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Linda Blatnik's avatar

that was fun

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Nancy's avatar

Seems very similar to the Walking Dead!

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Kathy H's avatar

Ai drew a logical conclusion. Logic doesn't tend to be human's strong suit.

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Lynn Horsky's avatar

The heart has its reasons which reason does not know... --Pascal----

The heart of darkness of this MAGA fascist death cult will certainly hasten the 6th mass extinction. The clock is surely ticking, and not only in their alternate universe. Species are lost every hour already It does look grim. Best to keep awake, present, and able to deal with crises so as to support others as the fall of America infrastructure crumbles and costs rise and services fail. If Dems take Congress they need to pass legislation to stall development of AI data centers and force them to use and develop clean energy supplies.

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Diane Lee's avatar

Too bad those who need to hear/read this won't....

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Anton Kleinschmidt's avatar

Bleak. What happens if you factor in the nuclear threat. Currently rereading The Road by Cormac McCarthy. It generates an aura of inevitability

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Celeste Myslewski's avatar

Simply brilliant.

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J.A. Hatfield's avatar

In a climate-stressed, resource-scarce world, vertical stratification becomes literal. The elites wouldn’t just have better neighborhoods - they’d have better atmospheric layers above the stale and stagnant pollution line.

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Hope E.'s avatar

Yikes.

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Lisa Brannan's avatar

🫣😣

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V Warren - nee Bicunas's avatar

Maybe I missed it But didn't say when this might occur? You know 50 years 500 years a 1000 years or what?

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Oliver Markus Malloy's avatar

It's already happening right now. We're drowning in garbage and pollution, wildfires in California, Australia and Canada were so bad they turned the sky orange, we're running out of resources, extreme weather events are getting more and more deadly and destructive, and our infrastructure is crumbling.

That's why the AIs all came up with similar pictures. Many places around the world already look like scenes from Mad Max or The Walking Dead. And more and more areas will decay and look like apocalyptic sci-fi as well.

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V Warren - nee Bicunas's avatar

2 movies come to mind. Idiocracy which is where we are now. And the movie called Wall-e. I think that's what it was called.

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ALICIA BAY LAUREL's avatar

I see that AI is doomed because of its outsized need for electricity and water. But humanity and life on earth can be saved through a simple change of the human heart.

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Sarah Gillian Bower's avatar

Never. Gonna. Happen. Nope. 👎

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Linda Barkume's avatar

Obviously you haven’t been in Detroit lately or you wouldn’t have used it as a reference.

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Kathy H's avatar

That's why Ai sucks, it just mashes up volumes of input, it doesn't have discernment. The information available was maybe what was most reported at one time. Areas of Michigan have been devastated economically in recent history, but Detroit isn't the poster child for the apocalypse as far as I know, either. Geez.

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