or maybe I should go because who will care about debt in the apocalypse

anyway I plan on being a USB media trader after the internet falls

    • crispyhexagon [none/use name]
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      4 years ago

      jokes on you, cant make me pay bills when i dont have any money.

      oh dear sweet drainage gutter, youd never evict me

    • Indifference_Engine [comrade/them, any]
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      4 years ago

      God damnit, I was looking foreword to being the guy with the flamethrower guitar and now I find out the collapse of capitalism can't even give me that!

  • Provastian_Jackson [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    you're still going to have to survive for decades and the world will be a lot more competitive in every way.

  • gayhobbes [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    Because the world isn't going to end. Don't bet on it ending anyway.

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        If literally nothing changes. Go to college, people been doomsaying since I was in school back in 2000 when the world was supposed to end because of Y2K. There's always a new crisis.

          • gayhobbes [he/him]
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            4 years ago

            Y2K was a very credible threat that we averted due to the work of a shitload of engineers, time, and money. It's a common misconception that it was a nothingburger because they did such a good job of cleaning it up.

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          People have always been doomsaying. Before Y2K it was decades of impending nuclear annihilation.

          Not to say that those weren't necessarily real threats, but the smart money is on human society pulling through in some way.

          • gayhobbes [he/him]
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            4 years ago

            That's how I feel too, plus the threat being exaggerated more than it will turn out to be. I don't mind any of that, I mean, we need to change society fundamentally but I don't think a lot of what is predicted will come to pass.

      • Esoteir [he/him]
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        worse than that lol, it's going to keep going business as usual until our great-grandchildren are shot for drinking from a private water source

        edit: the idea is to prevent that, but thinking that the apocalypse is going to happen in our lifetimes is a road to poor decision-making and disappointment lmao

        hellworld will continue for as long as it can if it isn't stopped, and there's more than a few generations of gas left to burn

  • PM_ME_YOUR_FOUCAULTS [he/him, they/them]
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    4 years ago

    I mean if you don't go into ruinous debt, then you get to party, take drugs and learn cool shit (assuming you choose to study something cool). I went to college on the scholarship and it was pretty worth it

  • coeliacmccarthy [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    go to college and study how to most efficiently extract nutrition from a human carcass

  • Not_irony [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    I ponder going back for the second reason. I already have like $50k in debt. What's another $100k between friends once we switch to bottle caps, plus then I could spend my time learning, reading theory and not working.

  • Phish [he/him, any]
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    4 years ago

    College is fun. If the world's going to end you might as well party and try to get laid for a while. Plus, as you mentioned, this has the added bonus of your debt not being an issue.

    Anyway, I have a pretty extensive media library if you want to buy some stuff for your USBs.

  • TemporalMembrane [she/her]
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    If you don't want college, go to a technical school and pick up a trade at least. Being a laborer or retail worker for a decade sucks ass, trust me. Plus, your technical know-how will be more valuable than a humanities degree - although medical training or engineering would always be good too.

  • Mike_Penis [any]
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    4 years ago

    consult climate science to see what is going to happen. the world isn't going to just catch on fire or something.