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  • Only one can likely be credited as directly causal to a human extinction, but I’d think several factors can end up contributing to keeping us grounded even if we stick around for several additional millennia. And we could to some extent experience several of them simultaneously. For example if it is necessary to successfully create one or more technically possible (unbeknownst to us) technologies, but they remain unproven for the entirety of our species span of life on Earth. And while this is attempted, we end up with shortages that make soace exploration and colonization politically impossible, as the resources are never allocated for the purpose.

    In this case we’d have both problems, but solving either one of them would still not get us out there.

    In another example, perhaps even the technology is proven eventually, but due to scarcity rhe window of opportunity temporarily closes, and then wars, plagues, and a few other factors set humanity back to the stone age with a small population. Perhaps some predatory animals end up very successful at hunting us to extinction. Or perhaps we’re gradually finished off by several famines.

    One could maybe point one cause out as more consequential than the others, but if the problems end up being such a quagmire I’d say they all played a part in filtering out humanity from interstellar colonization.




  • Comment105@lemm.eetoAsklemmy@lemmy.mlcan anyone tell me wtf this is?
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    Do what I did and weld your house out of 20mm steel plate and have tightly controlled, thoroughly monitored and analyzed airflow, with a single two-stage entry hallway for washing off and inspecting your terran exploration suit and all acquisitions before entering your home.

    I can pull a serious vacuum on this bitch, nothing’s getting in unless I want it in.








  • As far as I gathered, they claimed that allowing women in national parks meant losing control over them which led to some women not wearing their required head scarf.

    They cannot tolerate the slightest slight, and don’t think women should have any agency in the first place, so it’s a very easy decision for them to simply imprison all women in the entire country to ensure they all keep their head scarf on.

    But putting restrictions and practical imprisonment onto women for their entire life with harsh punishments for disobedience is hardly unique in Afghanistan.

    The entire Muslim world is full of men who like to commit human rights violations of this specific kind. And a larger group; the vast majority of Muslim men, who favor this but don’t act on it much beyond voicing their support.

    Religion is horrible.

    Islam is currently by far the worst one.

    The mild existential comfort it grants to the weak is not worth the vast array of curses it comes with.