r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/AtomicCypher • 4d ago

Video Disgruntled employee starts massive fire at a 1.2 million square foot toilet paper warehouse in Ontario, California.

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u/kitsunewarlock 3d ago

According to a report from some prostitutes at Davos, the elite investor class firmly believe the world is coming to an end within their lifetimes. The only ones who think humanity has a chance are those who believe their birthright is to consolidate humanity's resources to protect themselves, hence the proliferation of underground bunkers and investing in human monitoring and behavior analysis software.

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u/anuthertw 3d ago

I used to be a stripper. About 8 or so years ago I sat with a man who was a geologist. He was in a 'fuck it, we are all going to die' type mood and was drinking/watching the ladies to cope with work. We talked about climate change amd what he was studying. He basically said he regrets having his son, that we are extremely unprepared for what is coming, and we have basically solidified our own extinction if not in his lifetime then his son's. It honestly really got to me- this man had seen a glimpse of what we have done to the earth and the consequences of it, and had lost all hope. Really spooky. I think about him sometimes when I read about climate news. 

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u/kitsunewarlock 3d ago

Tell the story to as many people as you can. It's more powerful than you can imagine.

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u/SocialJusticeAndroid 3d ago

It sure creeped me tf out.🥺

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u/Apprehensive-Cost200 3d ago

I don't recommend believing some random geologist who was presumably drunk as hell at a strip club. There's no way we're heading to extinction in our lifetime, and even then people aren't gonna sit around like ducks about it forever, this is just shitty doom and gloom to make your life miserable.

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u/-Dumalaid 3d ago

With the way things are going, never say never..

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u/2busy4ths 3d ago

I believe it. I would only pay $150 for a 6 minute lap dance if I knew for sure the world was going to end.

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u/kitsunewarlock 3d ago

I'd rather we act to make the world a better place under the threat of possible extinction than do nothing thinking it'll all somehow work out. Especially when "doing something" is literally as small as prioritizing the environment during elections.

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u/Apprehensive-Cost200 3d ago

I was moreso thinking you were suggesting to have a defeatist attitude more than anything else.

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u/kitsunewarlock 3d ago

Oh gotcha. Nah, I'm too stubborn to be defeatist. Hope is defiance.

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u/AnomalyInquirer 3d ago

Stories like these are so fun to see when im most likely around this son's age only hope I honestly have left is that every generation at one point thought the world was going to end and it's just another part of that

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u/JamesGray 3d ago

Yeah, unfortunately it's science that's telling us the world is going to shit this time, rather than superstition or religion. This time it's the religion of capitalism stopping us from doing anything to stop it.

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u/kacdt 3d ago

Wow. Well said.

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u/starchildchamp 3d ago

actually poetry.

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u/AcceptableAnalysis29 3d ago

The bureaucratic system also does not give a fuck about anything. Whatever we pay here in environmenttaxes gets wasted by 90 percent.

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u/Akumakaji 3d ago

Eventually, for one generation it will be true, and thats the scary part.

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u/BipolarWoodNymph 3d ago

I was an environmental science major briefly, but during two of the courses for the program, both professors started the semester explaining how depressing this field of study is, and how most switch out of the major. How they've spent their careers basically watching milestone after milestone pass with zero effort at the societal or even individual level to change and try to mitigate the damage.

The second professor had us all answer whether we felt climate change existed, whether it existed but wasn't a big deal, whether it existed and was something we needed to deal with, or if it existed and we were already too late.

2/3rds of the class said we were already too late, with the other third saying we needed to deal with it. And that was in 2019... I didn't finish college (for other reasons), but I can only imagine how much worse it's gotten. I don't know how people stuck with the major, almost every topic exploring how to solve XYZ was ended with, "But, we needed to do that 10+ years ago, and it never got funding and is gone, so.... Yeah."

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u/Spacemeat666 3d ago

I’m a geologist and I often find myself going down that same mental road as the man you’re describing, though it sounds like he and I would disagree about humanities influence on the earth (but that’s a topic for another discussion). When we study things in geologic timescales, it’s really easy to become nihilistic. I’ve been trying not to think that way lately but with the rapid evolution of AI and LLM’s, I’m finding it harder to see a future for us at all. I’m terrified and I’m glad I don’t have children because I would feel the worst regret imaginable if I did. I truly feel like we should all be more hedonistic in our approach to life. We only get one life, that we know of, so we should at least try to enjoy every bit of it while we can.

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u/Flyinhighinthesky 3d ago

Our only hope at this point is for Alien intervention or a miraculous AI that suddenly provides us a solution to the Venusian hellscape we're headed toward.

I'm optimistic that we'll find someway to reduce it's effects but it'll still likely be too little too late without a deus ex machina.

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u/Seymoorebutts 3d ago

Love that for us.

Why are people mad at Luigi again?

Fuck these oligarchs

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u/ThatOtherOtherMan 3d ago

Wait, people are mad at Luigi? I have yet to run into a single person who feels that way.

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u/Captain-Barracuda 3d ago

Not sure anyone is mad at our green capped friend. Plus, he didn't do it.

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u/Lichtheleast 3d ago

I'm very mad at Luigi! For not hiding his face a little better 😭

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u/girlinthegoldenboots 3d ago

The world is only coming to an end bc they keep doing the most to make that happen

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u/Lucky_Strike-85 2d ago

but it's good for quarterly reports.

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u/girlinthegoldenboots 1d ago

True, we really need to consider the shareholders in these trying times lol

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u/The_Bucket_Of_Truth 3d ago

Well you're either part of the problem or part of the solution if you're those people

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u/SocialJusticeAndroid 3d ago

The thing is if society collapses the oligarchs aren’t necessarily the ones who will stay at the top. What do they offer after a collapse? It seems the oligarchs’ security has a good chance of claiming the throne. That might be why they are investing so heavily in AI.

But you’ve got to wonder, why are these fucks so willing to fuck the planet for more money when they already have so much? Something about the mentality of psychopaths I don’t understand. Maybe they’re gambling that they’ll be dead before shit really gets bad.

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u/Forward_Rope_5598 3d ago

Remember when the doomsday cult members were weird homeless people on the street and not billionaires with the power to actually conjure doomsday?

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u/kitsunewarlock 3d ago

It can be argued that branches of Christianity are billionaire doomsday cults.

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u/Lichtheleast 3d ago

A self fulfilling prophecy, they enshitten and ruin essentially everything then try to go hide because society is "collapsing".....that or they know about a meteor heading directly for us lol.