Subject: (nm) isn't a tone tag
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Posted on: 2023-01-04 21:28:29 UTC
(nm) means "no message". It's auto-appended to the title of any post with a blank body.
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For New Year, I'd like to ask a serious question about humanity's future by
on 2023-01-03 00:33:30 UTC
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Serious business
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As humanity is proven to go extinct within this century, what are your thoughts on this? Do you think this is a good or bad thing?
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I think it's important to remember: by
on 2023-01-03 12:49:35 UTC
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Our species first appeared 300,000 years ago. We only developed modern agriculture 11,000 years and change ago. Even if things do indeed go bad throughout this century, we're adapted to survive a world that is much, much less engineered for human comfort and survival. We'll still be able to construct shelters, forage food, and build community. Remember, it's not our technology or economies or legal systems that make us "civilized." It's our ability to join together in cooperation and care-giving, to protect and provide for each other. And that's something that coded right into our DNA, something we had for millennia before we even arrived at the technological breakthrough of "put seeds in ground on purpose."
—doctorlit asserts that humans will do well
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This. (nm) by
on 2023-01-03 21:47:26 UTC
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Well, I can only thank you for the reassuring info 😊 by
on 2023-01-03 14:45:11 UTC
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and I will try not to put myself in situations that require reassurance-seeking in the future.
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Warning that this is not about the PPC but rather a thought about the future of humanity's existence by
on 2023-01-03 07:06:45 UTC
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I definitely clicked thinking it was a question about the future of the PPC, and I expect there are people for whom the actual question could cause a lot of anxiety, so...warning label added.
Yuki, I don't mean for this to make you feel bad; however, I do think a mention that this is not PPC-related may be helpful, so I've added one. Obviously not everything non-PPC necessarily has to be marked as such, but for topics like this I'm pretty sure having it be clear from the post titles what it's about is helpful. Often I see this happen organically, especially in political threads; either way, when it comes to RL Serious Topics, I think it's generally a good thing for people to have a little advance warning so they can choose whether or not they want to engage, and can avoid clicking on the thread entirely if they came to the Board specifically for writing/fandom related content (especially as a break from news sites or other platforms).
~Z
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Oh, sorry; I've retitled the post (nm) by
on 2023-01-03 07:32:15 UTC
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I apologize if I've caused unrest on the Board, and I'll confess upfront: by
on 2023-01-03 02:00:38 UTC
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I'm a rather pessimistic person. As in, I'd think I have oral cancer if I get a canker sore.
P.S: Everyone here is indeed among the most supportive people I've ever interacted with, and I'm sorry if I've bothered anyone.
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If you want to, feel free to send me any pessimism privately. (nm) by
on 2023-01-03 23:21:46 UTC
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Ah, I see. by
on 2023-01-03 07:16:53 UTC
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Thanks for the clarification. I got confused, and concerned, for a moment when I saw the original post. /nm And you haven't bothered me too much, so don't worry about me.
I doubt humans will go extinct, as we've proved ourselves to be quite tenacious. One of my worldbuilding projects actually revolves around some human populations leaving the Solar System to spread across the galaxy once Earth becomes inhospitable; a subsequent convention among the space-bound countries puts the home system off limits for war purposes, although stuff like tourism and pilgrimages to Mecca are permitted, of course (albeit super expensive because in this universe, the resources required for FTL travel are difficult to mass produce). And this is a bad scenario, where humans continue to strip Earth of resources and slowly degrade it, causing them to move off-world. In the end, I wish humanity the best and hope we don't trash our planet beyond saving, because I'm rather fond of Earth.
Well, that was sappy of me. On a tangential note, I kind of want to see a space battle within my lifetime.
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This is not a thing that has been proven. Like. At all. (nm) by
on 2023-01-03 01:57:37 UTC
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Um. What. by
on 2023-01-03 00:55:33 UTC
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Where on Earth did you hear that?!?
—Ls, more confused than panicked
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Multiple news articles, written by experts (nm) by
on 2023-01-03 01:05:28 UTC
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Links, please? by
on 2023-01-03 01:09:59 UTC
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I think you’re referring to climate change, but your original post was so vague, it could have been referring to virtually any disaster, from an alien invasion to the Second Coming. (Which I guess could be considered synonymous, now that I think about it, except the Second Coming shouldn’t make humanity extinct anyway so that was a bad example aughhghafafsfvjkl.)
—Ls
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Climate change, war, social unrest by
on 2023-01-03 01:18:12 UTC
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and it's getting proven more and more that maybe the world is better off without humans.
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Links, pleeeaase? by
on 2023-01-03 01:25:29 UTC
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Unless you just want my opinion on the hypothetical. I’ll give that, but I certainly think that the idea of humanity going extinct in 100 years in far from “proven”.
—Ls needs autocorrect to remind him that proven only has one o
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Here you go, one of them by
on 2023-01-03 01:41:43 UTC
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https://www.sciencefocus.com/planet-earth/how-human-extinction-would-change-the-earth/amp/
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That article literally says nothing of the sort. (nm) by
on 2023-01-03 01:57:05 UTC
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Actually, no it does. by
on 2023-01-03 15:00:49 UTC
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It’s just that it includes a link to another article that does, in fact, claim that.
However, just because one guy says that doesn’t mean that he’s right.
First of all, he’s a prominent microbiologist. His predictions have nothing whatsoever to do with microbiology, which makes me question his claims heavily.
Secondly, he admits he’s just being pessimistic. That doesn’t automatically make him wrong, just... interpreting events through a specific lens.
Thirdly, his entire argument is essentially just Malthusianism. Malthusianism has had serious, and quite valid criticisms.
—Ls
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I'm gonna add to this. by
on 2023-01-03 16:09:52 UTC
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Human population growth is already slowing. If I remember right, the UN predicted that the global human population would top off at under 12 billion. And what the Malthusianism critique said is correct: the birth rate in food-secure countries is lower than in food-insecure countries, due to education and women's rights allowing women to make informed choices about whether they want children or not. The countries in question are well on the road to becoming "developed" countries, and humanity will soon reach a point where equilibrium is reached between human births and deaths.
Overall, I do not think overpopulation is something people should be concerned about. But those are just my thoughts on the subject. /nm
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I’ll add that I definitely agree. (nm) by
on 2023-01-03 21:47:43 UTC
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Out of curiosity, why the “/nm” message ender? by
on 2023-01-03 20:56:38 UTC
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It’s not clear how it’s derived from your username. Not that that’s a bad thing at all, I’m just curious.
(Most of us who have a message ender that isn’t just [symbol]name derive the second element from our names somehow, often abbreviating a two-part name—the Lin and Star are actually from different sources, kinda.)
—Ls
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Oh, it's just (nm) but formatted differently. by
on 2023-01-04 00:48:44 UTC
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I'm used to writing tone tags with a slash. (No relation to slash fic, heh.)
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(nm) isn't a tone tag by
on 2023-01-04 21:28:29 UTC
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(nm) means "no message". It's auto-appended to the title of any post with a blank body.
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Funnily enough, (nm) only appears when the body of your post is blank. by
on 2023-01-04 15:39:45 UTC
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I believe it stands for "no message".
--Ls