Oddbean new post about login | logout Today in "so you followed an asshole in the #fediverse," Blocked someone suggesting that temperatures during the Eocene epoch -- 33-56 million years ago -- should have any calming or reassuring effect on Hominins about temperatures rising rapidly now. Hominins emerged during the Pleistocene epoch, you deliberately obtuse fuck.
@46cd5609 A group of people that intersects with the group of people who look down on people who live in tropical countries for both, what they perceive as a heightened or even excessive sensuality and also what they perceive as a lack of interest in intensive work.
@46cd5609 Earth. Will. Survive. Life will go on! This isn't really a debatable point. What we're worried about is fucking HUMANS surviving. The ball of rock is gonna be fine without us, and something will evolve to live It would be nice if humans, the creatures wandering around at this moment, continued to exist. But that's kinda up to us, and nobody has done as much global change as us, so there's no guidebook here This is like those people who think the asteroid landed on dinos