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That was the exact interpretation that site was using, actually <_<

Why was that thing posted again, though? I mean, things would probably be going a bit better if more folks thought like that (certainly I tend to prefer to interpret the stuff egregiously counter-thematic to Christ's primary line of thinking as people using Jesus like Plato did Socrates [20 AD sockpuppet account, go!], except less skillfully and even less representative of the original.), but most of those religiously affiliated don't seem to. At the most, I've seen that stuff coming out of the more radical believers, not those cleaving closer to the primary veins of interpretation.

Th'ram's fine, Script. It's the CPU/GPU that's the problem.

And unfortunately, the abacus and the monkeys are kinda' welded in there. This bloody thing's a laptop. Not easy to improve

The reason the Earth has oxygen at the levels to support human life is purely because billions of years ago an organism called cyanobacteria overpopulated the Earth and caused the great oxygen catastrophe. That's right. It's called the Oxygen Catastrophe.

Is there any actual point to bringing this up? Hadn't heard about the GOE, I think, so I checked in on it. Your overpopulation example, at the fastest, occurred over a period of several million years at the absolute minimum (nearly a billion, possibly even more, at the wider outliers). What our species is doing, and our actions? It's happening over the course of mere millennia. It's literally unprecedented change, and at a speed we've never seen before. The GOE is not really a comparable event, except maybe in the absolute broadest of strokes. What happened then is not a very good thing to pattern how we react now against.

As for the rest... calming down isn't exactly the best idea, really (though it would be perhaps more accurate to call it stopping being willfully blind, rather than something more panic-inclined.). We've been messing with stuff we only partially understand, and most of what we have come to understand is saying bad things at their most conservative, and very, very bad things not very far past that point. Life going on isn't really in question, sure. The issue is whether humans are going still be included in the list of objects still in that set for all that much longer (in a geological sense of longer, anyway). This sort of thing only makes a good movie when it's time lapsed, true, but an end-times of a thousand billion cuts spread out over a half thousand years is still an end-times. From the earth's perspective, things are about to become one hell of an action scene. And it's probably not going to do anything to make sure the media short it's watching doesn't end up a tragedy (from the perspective of the actors, in any case).

Insofar as effective action goes... we do actually see spats, here and there. Moreso on local than wider scale, and still very sporadic and spread out, but it's a start, and it's growing. Not nearly fast enough, from what we know, but every little bit helps. Not seeing as much in relation to population (and more importantly, population growth) specifically, but dealing with the consequences improves, piece by piece. But even population issues seems to be becoming more of a known subject of concern. Considering that it's one of the primary root causes of the problems we have... that's good. Acknowledging and addressing the fundamentals of a problem is one of the most effective ways of solving or mitigating that problem, especially over a longer time frame.

And destiny... destiny can shove off. "What will be will be" may be true, but it's no excuse to not try and make that eventuality better than it could have been without action. That things flow is no reason to not swim, especially when the rapids show signs of coming 'round the bend. Destiny is not and never has been reason to ignore the ethical considerations of one's actions... and that seems to be what your line there was suggesting we, as a species, as groups, and as individuals, should do.

Presumably one that would actually bite the bullet first if you were proposing something like that. Gods know that during the short period I was somewhat inclined towards that sort of thinking (most seem to go through that sort of phase when they're first running into the problem, but not yet actually picked up enough to know what the hell's going on.) I always included myself among those culled. Apologizes for the overestimation, I guess.

E: It doesn't help that that's basically the exact same line of reasoning that the whole "war will fix the problem" reaction follows. Hat tip for the flanderization, I guess. That comes before the strangulation for not using the sarcasm font.

... yeah, I've probably spent more time playing with <30 fps* than I have >30 fps (actually, around 30 is usually pretty comfortable. I've beat some fairly twitchy games, FPS and otherwise, with an fps hovering in the mid-teens to lower twenties.). I certainly haven't noticed in particular nausea effects. Not saying it's not happening to folks, just that I've never noticed it happening to me. Dunno about FOV stuff, though. I've never really bothered to pay enough attention to notice a difference, I think.

*And that's after turning all the silly useless pretty crap off.

Actually Misk, there's only about fifteen hundred folks in the US whose first name is Dimitri, going by one of the name-searching whatsit sites. Narrow that down to NYC and you'd probably only have a handful of folks to sift through

Was kinda' interesting to stick mine in there and see there's only a few hundred folks in the states sharing my name. I'm fairly compulsive about not associating this user name with my real one, though, as well as not sharing particularly identifiable information online all around. The few folks aware of the connection are of more or less the same opinion, insofar as that goes.

Partially habit, partially because I would honestly rather be fairly forthright on opinions and suchlike online, and having some them potentially easily traced back to me is... unwise, where I'm living right now. Lot of bigoted fuckwits in my area, plenty of which wouldn't have much trouble making problems for me, as I've seen them make problems for folks a bit more vocal about not cleaving strongly to the primary social mores of the area. There's fights to be picked on the subject, but this area isn't exactly the place to be pickin' 'em. Least unless you're willing and able to resort to violence when (and when is more likely than if, from what I've seen ) it ends up coming down to that. Might be the latter, not so much the former.

The proper solution to the grey/gray conundrum is to simply alternate. Never spell it with the same vowel twice in a row and you're golden.

Have now been rather intensely dizzy for the last sixteen or so hours. This is... rather unpleasant. Don't even feel particular sick or anything, no regurgitation urge, no stomachache, no fever, no headache, etc., so forth, so on. The world just keeps spinning a bit and occasionally trying to lurch its way out of alignment. Rather hope this doesn't stick around much longer