Quote from: Sandtrap on February 26, 2015, 11:12:30 PM

But the point is, as we stand now, there's enough room for people to live comfortably on the planet with 7 billion.

Overpopulation isn't about the literal size of room available so much as it is resources consumed.

We're not even overconsuming resources. We're just using them and wasting them in the wrong way. With our current numbers we can sustain ourselves but the problem is, resources are being wasted.

Things are built cheap, designed to break and wear down, be thrown away, and then replaced. Food is over consumed when we actually have enough to go around for generally everybody.

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It's only fucking February. Holy shit this is a bad start to the year.

I have a long winded answer.

It's no different than british troops using the sphinx in egypt for target practice and blowing it's nose off. No different than the countless records and museums in germany and britian that were both bombed to pieces in the war. No different than mayan ruins being bulldozed over to make a road.

ISIS are just assholes, plain and simple.

Quote from: Sandtrap on February 26, 2015, 11:33:16 PM

Honestly, in all due fairness, having to be the president of united states has to blow ass. Looking at Obama as a person, I think he's intelligent.

Maybe not regarding certain decisions made. But the man's no dummy. But imagine this. You wake up in the morning, and it's your job to manage the mess that is the united states. You've got some ideas, and you try lobbing them around. What happens? Congress cock blocks you. They throw a temper tantrum and shut down.

You try to do anything remotely good and the entire country has a heart attack. And, assuming you even manage to do anything decent, when your terms are up, you pack your shit and you leave, essentially leaving the door open for the next asshole to come in and dismantle what little you accomplished.

If I were in his shoes?

Fuck yeah I'd be taking taking trips around the world. Fuck yeah I'd be shoving over weddings to have a game of golf. What the fuck else could he really do at this point but not enjoy his time while it lasts?

He knew what he was getting into.

Knowing what you're getting into and staying cheery throughout the entire process are two different things. You can always know what you're getting into but it still doesn't cover your ass once you're actually in the middle of it.

Trudeau.

Absolutely. Putting everything aside, and using even a very basic example here, mob mentality. Mob mentality of course, is called as such because it's labeled after the phenomenon that happens when you get a mob of people.

The entire group of people, becomes singular. And they all act together in a singular goal, with a singular purpose. Destroy shit. Fight. Reasoning goes down the drain and at that point it's pretty easy to say that the average collective IQ of the group goes downhill.

Let's throw in another factor. Every human being has a circle around them. This circle is the upper limit to how many people this person can know and care about before simply, not caring. The average, absolute upper limit is 100. You can personally know 100 people in your life before after that, you stop caring.

Now. Toss in human empathic nature and our ability to spread memes. Not internet memes. We're talking real memes. Like yawning. Walk into a restaurant, and yawn. You'll notice other people will likely start yawning on noticing you. Or, if you want, try it with a friend. Yawn and make sure they see it. Chances are in a bit they'll yawn.

That's empathic connection and what we call a meme. It's a sub conscious action that we do without really knowing why. These factors translate on an emotional level. Put people in a room with a sad, crying person and other people will feel distress. Anxious.

Put enough angry people together in a room and you get a mob.

Put enough sad and stressed people together, and things really start to fall apart.

Take all of these factors, and do the math.

What happens in cities? What's happening with the internet? People are crowded together. They live, work, and struggle for space. It's stressful, aggravating. People are being thrown together with thousands of others and they meet and talk with thousands more across the internet.

Their personal sphere of people can't handle it. They stop caring.

Average collective group intelligence decreases because lets face it, the only difference between a mob and people living together in a city is the mood and mindset.

Personal spheres collapse, people don't care. Packed living creates stress, depression, sadness, which because of our social nature, is very, very easily transmited through a crowd.

My point here is, we're social creatures. We naturally tend to group together for survival. But there's a limit. I wager there's a limit before benificial effects start to go downhill.

I'm not saying that we should disband, or even try to disband cities. But they need to be restructured. The more people cluster together, the more unhealthy they become.

Currently, mathematically speaking, you could take all 7 billion people on the planet and drop them in the grand canyon together and they wouldn't even fill it. Of course, being that cramped together would be no fun.

But the point is, as we stand now, there's enough room for people to live comfortably on the planet with 7 billion.

We're just not doing things right. But I've got no doubt that as population increases, as population clusters, things will get worse. And if you want even basic levels of proof, just look at society today. You can't say that something isn't fucked.

Quote from: Sandtrap on February 26, 2015, 10:22:18 PM

Familiar names.

You remember the Boss?

Not ever talking with him but I remember the name and I remember the profile picture.

Meta and sandtrap

Hey, hey, that would be sitcom worthy.

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I shoveled bricks into a dump/trash truck. I also cleared the area around a big ass iron beam so we can pull it out tomorrow.

So, when avatars first came out and I wasn't fond of them, and I figured they'd be forced into shit like games and such, I said to myself. "Fuck people. If I'm going to be using this little bitch in gaming I may as well make him look like an abomination."

I tried my best to remove his eyes. Never found a way.

I loves me the greens.

Oh my god I'd be such an asshole about quitting if I had to write paragraphs.

I'd write a fucking novel.

Oh. Okay somebody please tell me you remember these things. There was a big trigger grip. And a long ripcord.

When you pulled the ripcord, there was a thing sitting on the trigger that had something like helicopter blades with a circle around them. Pull the ripcord and they'd go flying. I don't remember the name but I know as a kid those were the coolest things.