Think of the shareholders! - eviltoast
  • supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz
    162·
    13 hours ago

    This economic crash is going to be so much more painful than a nice quick asteroid impact that vaporizes you in a fraction of a second. Jealous of the dinosaurs right now.

    • mgnome@piefed.socialEnglish
      20·
      12 hours ago

      You’re romanticizing dinosaur’s situation tho. Most weren’t fatally hit by asteroid, but slowly perished from consequences of that hit afterwards, including worsening of air quality due to smoke and ash, different cataclysms like volcano eruptions and floods, and due to food shortage that happened due to aforementioned things.

      So kinda what we’re about to get anyway minus the asteroid.

      • don@lemmy.ca
        11·
        11 hours ago

        Thanks for pointing that out. That said, I sure wouldn’t mind being among the dinosaurs within the immediate blast radius of the impact point. Like sitting on top of a detonating thermonuclear device.

      • jballs@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        4·
        11 hours ago

        I dunno, I heard somewhere that the whole world basically turned into an oven almost instantly. The vast majority of dinosaurs were dead on day 1.

        Edit: I think it was this RadioLab https://radiolab.org/podcast/dinopocalypse-redux

        Edit 2: Added the quote. All temps are in F.

        Which means that if you were a terrestrial dinosaur anywhere above the ground on the Earth on that day, you would have experienced some heat that is almost unimaginable. Maybe it started at a hundred degrees, because it was June. It was summer. But within minutes, it would have been 300 degrees. 500 degrees. 700 degrees. 900 degrees. Estimates are on that day, temperatures topped out at something like 1,200 degrees. At that temperature, nothing can protect you. Your scales, your fur, whatever you got, it’s not gonna do any good. Your blood will literally start to boil inside your body, and you will die.

  • oni ᓚᘏᗢ@lemmy.world
    51·
    12 hours ago

    I’ve always seen the economy system as the biggest scam in humanity. Am I wrong by thinking like that?

    • Rhaedas@fedia.io
      7·
      12 hours ago

      It started off as something legit, trading and bartering. The idea of money as a substitute for direct bartering made sense too, since dividing some things isn’t practical. As to where things went bad, I’m sure there’s tons of debate on that. And there’s always been scammers, like that guy Ea-nāṣir and his damn sub-standard crap he passed off as copper.

    • macniel@feddit.org
      2·
      12 hours ago

      which economy system? Because its just the title of an important section of a government.