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18 Feb 2026, 8:15 pm

I just don't want to suffer anymore.


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19 Feb 2026, 2:33 am

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I have seen so many ends of the world scenarios play out to be nothing. I have panic fatigue. I will worry when something actually happens.


At the company I went to work at in 1980, the guy leaving as I went to work was a member of some crazy religion that had the second comping picked down to a very specific date. When that date came and went, they decided they were off by a year or so.

So the head of my department called the guy into his office one day and confirmed with him that the world was going to end on whatever that date was.

Then he said something to the effect of, "I bought a 30 foot sailboat over the weekend and scheduled the monthly payments to begin after that date. I'm counting on your word. If I ever have to make a payment on that sailboat, it is all your fault."

The guy got mad, turned in his resignation, and I was hired to take over his job.



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19 Feb 2026, 5:51 pm

^ lol



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19 Feb 2026, 6:56 pm

kokopelli wrote:
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The guy got mad, turned in his resignation, and I was hired to take over his job.
Well ... I guess a better outcome for you!


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19 Feb 2026, 10:48 pm

Does anyone else hear loud noises or see flashes of light while falling asleep at night and think "Omg the world is ending we're getting nuked", and your heart races and your stomach flip-flops, but then it turns out to be something else, like maybe just the snow plow going down the street? Because it happens to me quite a bit.



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20 Feb 2026, 1:51 pm

If it bad that I actually envy people who ''won't be around to see'' what the future of this world holds where technology becomes too advanced for our own good? Like a couple of blokes at work in their 60s were saying about self-driving cars and buses, and they seemed relieved when they said that they are unlikely to be around to suffer it but that I will. My heart sank. Not just about self-driving vehicles but with everything. Can't these geniuses that invent all this futuristic technology actually stop to think that what purpose would humans serve on this planet if everything we can possibly do becomes replaced by robots? I don't want that. I want to be able to think for myself.

The Millennium Bug did happen, because ever since the year 2000 we've become obliged to be too dependant on technology, where as before 2000 technology was a useful tool or a luxury. Now it's a ''you must have or you won't be able to function in this society'' thing.


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20 Feb 2026, 2:34 pm

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Can't these geniuses that invent all this futuristic technology actually stop to think that what purpose would humans serve on this planet if everything we can possibly do becomes replaced by robots?


I feel like their goal is to make regular working people obsolete. They don't see us as people, they see us as 'human resources' at best.


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21 Feb 2026, 12:15 pm

Tamaya wrote:
If it bad that I actually envy people who ''won't be around to see'' what the future of this world holds where technology becomes too advanced for our own good? Like a couple of blokes at work in their 60s were saying about self-driving cars and buses, and they seemed relieved when they said that they are unlikely to be around to suffer it but that I will. My heart sank. Not just about self-driving vehicles but with everything. Can't these geniuses that invent all this futuristic technology actually stop to think that what purpose would humans serve on this planet if everything we can possibly do becomes replaced by robots? I don't want that. I want to be able to think for myself.

The Millennium Bug did happen, because ever since the year 2000 we've become obliged to be too dependant on technology, where as before 2000 technology was a useful tool or a luxury. Now it's a ''you must have or you won't be able to function in this society'' thing.


The classic boomer ideal of "we screwed everything up for our children, but we're living in luxury and we won't be around to see the world we're leaving behind for them...so who cares what they think?"

I hate that we're basically inheriting a titanic mess that we'll have to fix. Assuming that we still have time to fix it. It feels like there is time to fix it (and I don't believe in evil being "too big to fail"; that's just quitter talk), but too few people are willing to take the measures necessary to save it.

And yes, I also agree that we're far too dependent on tech for everything, and we're approaching the point where they're going to replace us with machines, determine we're no longer "useful" and then kill us through whatever means are available. We need to go back to the days of "dumb" and "analog" technology, because the walls of surveillance are closing in around us.



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21 Feb 2026, 4:30 pm

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It sure is. I might have to work Sundays again, which I hated doing before. That's what the world coming to an end looks like.

When the world is ending, but you still have to go to work tomorrow...

We're absolutely living in the worst possible timeline.


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22 Feb 2026, 8:09 am

EmpireHonda wrote:
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It sure is. I might have to work Sundays again, which I hated doing before. That's what the world coming to an end looks like.

When the world is ending, but you still have to go to work tomorrow...

We're absolutely living in the worst possible timeline.

It's because I don't believe the world is ending. The world's ''been ending'' since time began and we're all still standing.


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22 Feb 2026, 8:23 am

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Can't these geniuses that invent all this futuristic technology actually stop to think that what purpose would humans serve on this planet if everything we can possibly do becomes replaced by robots?


I feel like their goal is to make regular working people obsolete. They don't see us as people, they see us as 'human resources' at best.


But then you get idiots like Nigel Farage who want to get everybody into work. What work? Where are the jobs? The more jobs that are being replaced by computers, the more people are going to need government support to live.

This is why I hate when every inventor in the past is autistic, because it makes us out to be eccentric geniuses who think of nothing else but computers that are destroying mankind. Why don't historians focus on the sensitive, quiet, empathetic, sweetheart types like Foster? It isn't fair.


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22 Feb 2026, 6:38 pm

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Why don't historians focus on the sensitive, quiet, empathetic, sweetheart types like Foster? It isn't fair.

"The squeaky wheel gets the oil."



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22 Feb 2026, 6:43 pm

JumpinJim wrote:
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Why don't historians focus on the sensitive, quiet, empathetic, sweetheart types like Foster? It isn't fair.

"The squeaky wheel gets the oil."


I guess that's why I was diagnosed soooo early in life unlike the vast majority of spectrumers, because I wasn't quiet enough - although I think these days it's the quiet kids that automatically get labelled as autistic even if they're not.

It's just Foster's traits that are historically documented seem like autism traits comparable to other composers of that era who have been studied and armchair diagnosed as autistic, and... Wait, sorry, derailing somebody else's thread on to Foster isn't very respectable of me lol. Sorry, OP. Back on-topic...


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22 Feb 2026, 10:55 pm

Tamaya wrote:
funeralxempire wrote:
Tamaya wrote:
Can't these geniuses that invent all this futuristic technology actually stop to think that what purpose would humans serve on this planet if everything we can possibly do becomes replaced by robots?


I feel like their goal is to make regular working people obsolete. They don't see us as people, they see us as 'human resources' at best.


But then you get idiots like Nigel Farage who want to get everybody into work. What work? Where are the jobs? The more jobs that are being replaced by computers, the more people are going to need government support to live.

This is why I hate when every inventor in the past is autistic, because it makes us out to be eccentric geniuses who think of nothing else but computers that are destroying mankind. Why don't historians focus on the sensitive, quiet, empathetic, sweetheart types like Foster? It isn't fair.


Farage seems to be a relic of the era where everyone had to have a master and only the nobility could be idle.

It's a shame we can't send him back to the fantastical era his imagination is stuck in.


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22 Feb 2026, 11:28 pm

in 1970, commentator Eric Sevareid said "the number one big business in America is not steel, automobiles, or television, but rather the manufacture, refinement, and distribution of anxiety". things have not changed at all in the intervening 56 years. that is not to say that we have nothing to worry about. the things we do have to worry about, we all are powerless to change. Satan runs this world and the top people are all in his thrall. all we can do is: pray for deliverance from the agents of the principalities of evil; and eschew evil in all its forms in our own lives to at least set the proper example for our fellow humans. DON'T be of this world's evil, DON'T be evil.