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[–] schwim@piefed.zip 18 points 1 week ago (1 children)

In the US, it will be blamed on Biden.

[–] Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

"He et a wild vegetal once. That's why their en't any remain."

Just imagining how that's going to sound.

[–] Naz@sh.itjust.works 17 points 1 week ago

Unfortunately this is true.

It's known as shifting baseline syndrome and it's a cognitive bias / fallacy.

See also: Recency bias

[–] Etterra@discuss.online 5 points 1 week ago

I'm so glad I'll be dead by then. And with no kids to have to suffer through the even worse future to come.

[–] TheShamMirrors@lemmy.today 1 points 1 week ago

Okay, but consider this:

You now live in a P.O.D. album art booklet

[–] switcheroo@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Perhaps, but the place will be lawless and we old folks will remember who was behind the apocalypse because they were greedy pieces of shit. Money is worthless in an apocalypse, and they'll be lucky if they aren't made into stew on account of them being as equally worthless.

Happy little rainbow over the death of mankind amirite?