This is internet arguments now
Sure but when hasn’t it been?
As late as the 2000s. The internet didn’t always have the content it does now. News agencies took a long time to adopt it. Publications scientific or otherwise weren’t all published online. Content aggregators hadn’t scraped and indexed it all. Random pseuds hadn’t social media profiles to digest and spit out their takes on it. None of that existed which has led us to this point where internet arguments are two doofuses frantically dumping the results of that on each other.
Believe or not. Once upon a time not long ago people on the internet didn’t know everything. And generally they didn’t pretend to. Much less get into the modern day logical fallacy warfare while firing volleys of “sources” at each other.
I dunno the 80s?
As a user of the internet and telnet in the 80s, this was also the case back then. But also, sharing the entire sources and sharing knowledge was the primary use.
It’s just two AI chatbots posting to a dead internet, on a dead planet, hours before the last bit of electricity is consumed by their mainframes and a rack mining crypto.
There’s a ray Bradbury story that’s kind of similar.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/There_Will_Come_Soft_Rains_(short_story)
I actually have read that one before. Definitely the inspiration 😆
Probably inspired that ST:TNG episode with the Douwd as well.
!RemindMe 2035
It used to snow as late as April in southern Kanto (Tokyo metro area) back in the early 2010s, sometimes leaving several cm on the ground for days.
I spent last winter in northern Kanto and it only flurried a couple of times.
Same deal with Lake Placid, NY and Hakuba, Nagano, you ask anyone who’s been in a snow area since the 70s about how impassible people’s yards became from the snow when they were in their 20s. At least Sapporo got snow this year.
When I lived in the NE US in the ‘00s it would snow so much the airports would shut down for a day. Piles of snow would last well into spring. Last time I was there it snowed maybe a total of a foot for the entire winter for a couple years running. All those winter scenes in film, or even Currier and Ives prints from the turn of the last century are the only context that it used to actually snow and stay covered for months at a time.
MRGA guy on the right
In the beginning, autumn and spring duration were 13 weeks. Then six, then three weeks. The last autumn lasted for a week. In next year they will be four days, we could be seeing a summer and winter transition in eight hours, until they switch in four minutes.
brace yourself, winter debate is coming
God, I remember when that meme was so fun to use.
What’s winter ?
The time when stuff is really dry because nestle cloud seeds over their collectors, but it’s not all hot enough to reach its flash point. Until the big fire (that’s usually ‘spring’). So its the ~month where you can sometimes see the sky.
why 2034 we already barely have snow
Already happening here, I mean no snow in winter :3
How come you can makum snowballs in summertime?
I just respond “ur mum”
Clouds.
If amoc shuts down we’ll (nordics) have a Siberian climate.
Honestly its ridiculous how people act today.
But yeah, all we can do is try and show them how their behavior is not really sane when it comes to social media discussions. But for all we know we could be talking to bots.
Peoples opinions are reported as “misinformation” sometimes. Makes me laugh.
