• jsomae@lemmy.ml
    71·
    1 day ago
    • Economic collapse
    • Being too anxious to work
    • Fascism
    • Unexpected death
    • Singularity
  • FollyDolly@lemmy.world
    202·
    2 days ago

    Right now, climate change. This planet was a paradise and we ruined it for ourselves. I don’t think we have very long before ecosystems just start breaking down in massive ways.

        • banghida@lemm.ee
          41·
          2 days ago

          It takes a one way ticket and ask for political asylum. Or something. If you have proof of ancestry somewhere in Europe you can get citizenship.

          • ERROR: Earth.exe has crashed@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
            52·
            2 days ago

            Lol. Most of the world still officially considers the US a democracy, so nope, no asylum. They’ll tell you to relocate within your country (aka, move to a blue state, blue city).

            Good luck, and bye! you get deported back to the US

            • gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
              1·
              1 day ago

              Yeah, we’ll have to wait for open civil war to break out before they’re liable to accept any meaningful quantity of Americans who aren’t in VERY special circumstances. And we’d also have to piss off enough countries such that they’d refuse to extradite (or just go to France (but good luck if the French fascist party wins)).

      • ERROR: Earth.exe has crashed@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        61·
        2 days ago

        Not the person you replied to, but:

        My Options are:

        1. Remain in US

        2. Go back to China, an actual dictatorship. Hopefully Xi doesn’t find all the anti-CCP stuff I said while in the US? China tends to label people who have moved oveeseas as “汉奸” (Han Traitor). I could potentially end up in prison. Also job market has like 10 times more people competing than the US. Also 户口 (Hukou) issues, my Hukou was in some rural village, very shitty place. If I go to a city (where the actual jobs are), I’m essentially treated as a foreigner in my own country. (Also, China revoked my Chinese citizenship already. So I’d technically be an actual foreigner lmao)

        3. Become… stateless and get stuck in an airport?

        Or secret option number 4:
        1. Hope an advanced alien civilization abducts me? 😏 /jk, but that’s be fun tho
  • Alice@beehaw.org
    41·
    2 days ago

    Climate change, and the generations after me who will have nothing left.

  • tetris11@lemmy.ml
    141·
    2 days ago

    Not finding anyone to replace my ex in my heart. Someone not finding her and giving her the life we dreamed about.

              • tetris11@lemmy.ml
                2·
                2 days ago

                Feelings: I can’t shake away the thought that I’ve hurt her deeply. I mourn for the children we wanted to have. The house and the garden I promised. The stolen fertile years of her life. I hurt someone whose only crime was not quite being able to share the same headspace as me. I felt lonely in the relationship due to the language and the alien culture, but since I’ve been alone and moved back to my home country I’ve realised that I tend to just generally live in my head, regardless of language or company.

                I feel that my loneliness problem wasn’t coming from her somewhat difficulty in hearing me, but in my difficulty sharing aspects of myself with others. I feel that I’ve ruined my life, and that’s okay, completely self-inflicted… but I can’t live with the idea that I’ve ruined hers too. The thought and the guilt buries me every night.

                Closure: we’ve said goodbye a thousand times, and have talked about the above themes, but I can’t shake away the memories I have with her.

                • Elise@beehaw.org
                  2·
                  1 day ago

                  Sounds like a many incomplete closures? So you keep talking with each other or where are you now?

  • ERROR: Earth.exe has crashed@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    253·
    3 days ago

    The Internet or the power grid just shuts down one day when I wake up.

    Like, yes I know there are the typical fear of nuclear war, or plague and stuff.

    But those things, you typically just die.

    But imagine you are alive, but have zero access to the internet. Zero entertainment.

    I’ll be so bored to death, while also not have the courage to end it (because of survival instincts would probably overrule my desire to die). Its just torture.

    • Nollij@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      92·
      2 days ago

      If the entire Internet/power grid just shut down permanently, it probably wouldn’t take very long until you (and everyone around you) died. It’s not just your entertainment anymore.

      Electricity obviously keeps your electric appliances going, including HVAC. Even if it’s gas, it probably needs electricity to work (e.g. fans on the furnace).

      Electricity at a grid level keeps the natural gas flowing. Any backup options would quickly deplete.

      It’s also necessary for gasoline, since it all stops flowing if it can’t be billed. Remember the gas shortage because of a ransomware attack? Those systems won’t have power very long.

      You won’t have tap water, nor would there be clean/treated water at the source.

      Now, what if you had electricity, but there was no longer any Internet? Well, that’s a little better. It’s possible that emergency operations could be implemented (using the military) to keep you barely alive, until things could be fixed. But let’s just assume the Internet is completely gone. Then what happens?

      Remember when I mentioned the ransomware attack? Those systems probably don’t have an offline mode. If they can’t bill for it, the gas stops flowing.

      No credit cards, no bank transfers, no phones. The public Internet is now the medium for nearly all communication outside of an org.

      You can’t buy food at the grocery store, but it won’t matter for long because they can’t order anything more, and the trucks can’t deliver it.

      Most people would be dead in about a week, maybe 2.