The World Is On Fire

[BigAl]

So moving on and opening this up a bit from the Crazy American Politics thread, I thought we should have a separate thread about this.

It feels as if the world has been on fire since the Russian invasion of Ukraine coming up on four years ago.

Iran is now teetering on the brink, Trump is talking about then, he has already sanctioned going into Venezula and snatching their leader and taking Greenland next is up next on his agenda.

As some one alive during the Cuban missile crisis, I have to think are we facing as big a threat now as we have during my life time ?

[Mason89]

Here’s the good news 

Putin 73

Trump 79

Netenyahu 76

 

[Goldie03]

[Jute]

1 hour ago, Mason89 said:

Here’s the good news 

Putin 73

Trump 79

Netenyahu 76

 

With Trump’s alleged diet it’s a miracle he has made it to 79. Thing is Vance is a different type of evil to Trump as in he is a religious fanatic and even more for the watching. 

[manc_don]

5 hours ago, Jute said:

With Trump’s alleged diet it’s a miracle he has made it to 79. Thing is Vance is a different type of evil to Trump as in he is a religious fanatic and even more for the watching. 

Yeah, I’m not holding out much hope for it all. Naziyahu seems to get away with absolutely everything. So he’ll probably dodge death somehow too. 

[TheDonbytheDee]

Best thing to do is switch off from it all.

Absolutely nothing any of us can do to change it.

If the World ends by the 25th of May, 2026, Aberdeen will still be the Scottish Cup holders.

Every situation has its upside.

 

 

 

 

 

[Mason89]

7 hours ago, Jute said:

With Trump’s alleged diet it’s a miracle he has made it to 79. Thing is Vance is a different type of evil to Trump as in he is a religious fanatic and even more for the watching. 

JD Vance is hated by the MAGA movement, politicians and voters. He’s been completely sidelined from any decision making. He’s basically unemployed at the moment. 
I think the plan is that once he gets the job, being popular with the electorate won’t really be an issue 

Edited Monday at 07:02 by Mason89

[Mason89]

You know what I find a bit odd? Nobody seems to give a fuck about the hunger strikers. 

I mean, whether you agree with them or not (you fucking should, what’s wrong with you!?) these are peaceful protesters getting absolutely shafted by the government. 
 

I would’ve thought people might care a bit more about that 

[RicoS321]

As terrible as the world is, I don't think that there's any need for bold letters in the opening post. 

Anyway, it's just the beginning of civilisational collapse. It'll a decade or three to get into its stride, it's fine. 

When all the hard to reach resources have been used up, which they largely have, and when population begins to drop, then this is the result - always. Venezuela is as much about the US having oil as it is China not having it. They're not making roads without Venezuelan oil, that's for sure (or at least not very good ones). You can have all the solar panels in the world, but diesel builds infrastructure. 

We're basically entering a period where our children and their children will have less energy at their disposal (especially with the negligent AI waste). Our economic system can't handle degrowth. The mental cases in charge have spent fifty years shouting GDP, growth, "what about the economy" and "he/she is economically illiterate" at anyone who tried to point out the anti-thermodynamic cult that they had created. They'll die clinging to those religious economic beliefs.

[Mason89]

Are you available for parties? 

[Don Julio]

Resources dry up. Life becomes shit. People rebel. 
 

Time to go back and read The Handmaid’s Tale. Or the history of Teotihuacan. Or Aberdeen post mid-90s. Or whatever.

Rico clearly knows more about this than the rest of us so looking forward to reading more (that’s not sarcasm by the way).

 

[BigAl]

1 hour ago, RicoS321 said:

As terrible as the world is, I don't think that there's any need for bold letters in the opening post. 

Anyway, it's just the beginning of civilisational collapse. It'll a decade or three to get into its stride, it's fine. 

When all the hard to reach resources have been used up, which they largely have, and when population begins to drop, then this is the result - always. Venezuela is as much about the US having oil as it is China not having it. They're not making roads without Venezuelan oil, that's for sure (or at least not very good ones). You can have all the solar panels in the world, but diesel builds infrastructure. 

We're basically entering a period where our children and their children will have less energy at their disposal (especially with the negligent AI waste). Our economic system can't handle degrowth. The mental cases in charge have spent fifty years shouting GDP, growth, "what about the economy" and "he/she is economically illiterate" at anyone who tried to point out the anti-thermodynamic cult that they had created. They'll die clinging to those religious economic beliefs.

Objective achieved as it  grabbed your attention 

Truthfully hadn't actually realised it was on bold until it was posted and thought fuck it, leave it as it is Al 

[Jupiter]

What's all the fuss about, this is the best time to be alive in the whole of human history.

[Mason89]

Why didn’t it just fly away? 
 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/cgrdxnqqv2po?app-referrer=search

[InversneckieDob]

On 12/01/2026 at 17:24, Jupiter said:

What's all the fuss about, this is the best time to be alive in the whole of human history.

That'll be the EDGY take then.

[Jupiter]

21 hours ago, InversneckieDob said:

That'll be the EDGY take then.

So when would you have preferred to be alive?

[Mason89]

That Nobel Peace prize thing is a bit of a brass can. Does nobody get embarrassed anymore? 

[Don Julio]

17 hours ago, Jupiter said:

So when would you have preferred to be alive?

I get what you’re saying Jupiter. On the face of it there’s never been a better time to be alive in terms of all sorts of metrics, when looking at the global picture.

That doesn’t mean that we’re not all doomed though! Same might have been true of Rome or Teotohuacan or wherever. It’s not just about where we’re at but about where we might be going.

And being purely UK-centric I’d argue we’re in a worse position now than we were in the 90s on lots of fronts. So there is good reason for a sense of malaise.

[RicoS321]

6 hours ago, Don Julio said:

I get what you’re saying Jupiter

Do you? It seems to me that he's saying nothing at all, from a vacuum of imagination. If he'd articulated his position, then there might be something to go on, otherwise it's just some trite pish, of the clever, smart-arsedness type that lacks any depth or wisdom. Fairly fucking pointless in the scheme of amiable online conversation. I would genuinely like to hear his position, going beyond the tired, narrow, elusive statistics of the system (GDP, poverty, flushing toilets etc) and some real thoughts and opinions to show me/us how linear progression isn't just a pathetic myth. 

It is the best time to be alive because it is the only time we will be alive, and via the lens of the technological system, things have never been so technological. 

Look at the improvements in art with AI. The beauty of the Top 40. Today's the best there's ever been. 

[InversneckieDob]

On 15/01/2026 at 19:10, Jupiter said:

So when would you have preferred to be alive?

What do you do when you have to go without attention?

Is that when the voices start?