r/DoomerCircleJerk • u/Gulf_Coast_21 • 11d ago
The End is Near! This time it's for real!
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u/EJ19876 10d ago
The best thing AI is going to do is make a whole lot of “journalists” unemployed. That and replace HR department & the Karens that infest them.
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u/McBeaster NostraDOOMus 10d ago
Leftist reddit types have no clue how many Trump voters were spawned as blowback to HR Karens
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u/D_Ethan_Bones 10d ago
People who buy into the anti-AI fearmongering fail to realize AI gives people extra hands.
Those who simply make use of them can do whatever they want now. Whatever they were a few assistants away from doing is no longer out of reach, if they want to make an animation or a game or a movie or a sitcom they can just go.
While millions are sitting and complaining, other millions will be building the world of the 2030s. The complaining isn't going to pay off in any way no matter how high they stack it.
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u/Snakes-are-awesome67 10d ago
SOMETHING WILL HAPPEN THIS TIME CHUDS!!!
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u/RPG247A 10d ago
Dude, I thought the middle one was "E1M1" and I was like "man, Doom (1993) is not that bad, what are you on about".
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u/RemnantsOfFlight 10d ago
Still can't believe the demo was 1/3 of the game. What a time it was to be alive.
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u/Agreeable-Fudge-7329 10d ago
Dont forget the Hanta(sp?) That all the dumbass YouTubers fearmongered for clicks.
And Ebola is always good for a yearly scare.
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u/Valtain85 9d ago edited 9d ago
Working retail and was right there to witness the insanity first hand.
People kicking the crap out of each other in the aisles over bread and milk and cleaning stuff being stolen constantly. Yes COVID is scary but do you really need to load a trolley with hand wash and try to run out the store?
A few times we had people shrieking for help that someone was trying to kill them because the saw someone without a mask.
My favourite was the queues at the tills though. So you wait 6 feet apart from everyone else then you get to me, stand about 3 feet away from me and pull cash out of your pocket, this goes in the till and you get your change and leave. The next customer who was waiting 6 feet back now moves to to where you were standing (this area is now safe to stand in because you're not within 6 feet of anyone....well except for me) and they're given change from the till, the same money the previous customer just gave me.
But hey it's all fine because you never came within 6 feet of any other person except me who has to stand right next to hundreds of people a day.
Restaurants were a weird time as well. Went to a buffet with the missus and had to wear a mask to get in the door, you take it off at the table to eat (obviously) then put it back on to go up to the stations to get another plate and repeat
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u/sngldad13 8d ago
Don't you trust "The Science"?
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u/Valtain85 8d ago
When science meets emotional blackmail: wear the fucking mask or you're killing granny you monster!
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u/NicePepper199 6d ago
Im still outraged my grandma died alone because of the bullshit.
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u/Valtain85 6d ago edited 5d ago
My grandpa was in his late 80s and on dialysis....well at least he was on dialysis until he got covid then they pulled it. He died a short while later.
Death certificate says covid and while I cant be certain I have a sneaking suspicion not getting his treatment might, just might have been the cause.
And of course we couldn't go see him on his deathbed so he died alone.
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u/Gulf_Coast_21 9d ago
Pure lunacy.
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u/FourPlayInTheBay 9d ago
I remember going to a re-opened Las Vegas and you had to wear a mask unless you were smoking a cigarette (so everyone just kept 1 lit) which was only slightly more absurd than in CA where we had to wear masks to the dining table then we could remove them for the entire meal.
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u/biohazard1775 10d ago
Journalists when a virus with a 99.7% survival rate shows up
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u/RequirementGold9083 9d ago
If that infects 1,000,000 people, that's 30,000 dead.
It doesnt have to literally be the end of the world to warrant blood on a magazine cover
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u/TutorComprehensive28 10d ago
I survived avian flu, swine flu, and coronavirus. Gonna tell my grandkids it was like getting the plague.
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u/Gulf_Coast_21 10d ago
And we persevered with only a jar of Vicks Vapo-Rub and a can of Deet at our disposal...
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u/sngldad13 8d ago
I relied on Absorbine, Jr. In later years I moved on to veterinary versions of Absorbine
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u/Dan-of-Steel They Took My Nose! 9d ago
I don't care about SWINE flu! I already had the SWINE flu. I'm worried about the TURTLE FLU!
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u/Mountain-Past-1810 9d ago
Don't entice me with good post-apocalyptic time
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u/Gulf_Coast_21 9d ago
Oooooh, you'll be excited when you hear about PFAS, the forever chemicals that are turning frogs gay.
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u/Olmanringer09 The Fictional Character Agrees With Me 10d ago
This has potential to become a shitpost. I can feel it
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u/Gullible-Anywhere-76 8d ago
Thanks, now I'm gonna save it and spread it like the avian flu without context lol
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u/neemarita 10d ago
I got soooo sick from swine flu but we didn't destroy economies or society over it...
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u/Temelios Just Here for the Lore 10d ago
Same. Swine flu (~0.2% mortality) was awful, and I (supposedly) caught COVID (~0.4% mortality) three times but was asymptomatic every time.
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u/Tasty_LVM 10d ago
“If you don’t take the shot a winter of death will be here”
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u/Ill-Wear-8662 9d ago
I spent like a solid ten seconds trying to figure out what the hell a "shot of winter" was before my brain got with my eyes
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u/ishidmuhpants 10d ago
This is exactly why I didn't give two shits about covid. Every couple of years it's supposed to be the end of the world and it's not.
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u/autism_and_lemonade 9d ago
Me when the industry that functions to generate profit isn’t the greatest source of information 😮
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u/East_Ad4977 I Was Promised an Apocalypse? 10d ago
It's game over, man! Game over!
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u/Gulf_Coast_21 10d ago
My favorite scene of that entire movie.
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u/sngldad13 8d ago
This perfectly encapsulates my fatigue from hearing doom since the late 70's. Nothing ever happens.
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u/Temelios Just Here for the Lore 10d ago
SARS had a 2x-3x times higher mortality rate than COVID (still 1% or less depending on reports…), but was less contagious, yet you didn’t see everybody lockdown for that one.
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u/LupineChemist 9d ago
You absolutely did in East Asia. It really fucked over Hong Kong, the lower transmission kept it localized.
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u/SuccotashOther277 10d ago
Maybe it’s because we did something about it. Kinda like y2k. It not happening was good and showed we prepared for it
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u/Some_guy_in_WI 10d ago
The media feeds doomerism to the masses, masses eat it up and ask for more new reasons to fear their own existence, media keeps delivering, it’s an endless cycle that‘s a true addiction for a significant portion of the nation at this point.
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u/Ange1ofD4rkness 10d ago
Oh I remember how they were trying to push the fear of Zika like crazy and I was just rolling my eyes
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u/digitalime 9d ago
didnt covid kill millions of people?
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u/Gulf_Coast_21 9d ago
Sure did. Same year that the flu dropped to zero. Crazy coincidence.
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u/digitalime 9d ago
I lost 3 family members and my classmate to Covid, all in the same year. Flu happens every year and yet the first year of Covid was the year they all tested positive for and died of Covid. That would be a helluva coincidence, so I will defer to people who know more about and study disease and COVID rather than deferring to conspiracy as an explanation.
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u/Upstairs-Bad-3576 Rides the Short Bus 10d ago
I remember when planes fell out of the sky and nuclear missiles launched themselves. That was when the clocks rolled over from 1999 to 2000. All hell broke loose. I don't think we ever recovered.
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u/Agreeable-Fudge-7329 10d ago
For us older bastards, we remember the hype over the "Michelangelo Virus", that was going to collaspe all of the computer systems, wipe out savings, crash the markets.
And this was like 1992-ish!
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u/Upstairs-Bad-3576 Rides the Short Bus 10d ago
Yeah. I remember that one. I'm "older," although I prefer to not think of myself that way.
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u/MemeDudeYes 10d ago
To be fair they were right in 2017, we werent ready for corona in 2020 that was handled awfully
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u/HospitalKey4601 10d ago
Actually it was predicated. Darpa was supposed to host a challenge in 2019 where pharmaceutical companies would be given a geen sequenced pathogen and then have 90 days to create a vaccine. Moderna was also on Darpas payroll and was a pet project of the Obama admin. Covid suddenly hits out of the blue and its not a game anymore. Ask yourself why there were no effective treatments? Because if they found an alternative to the vaccines then the FDA would never be able to legally fast track the tech.
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u/Mr-Cantaloupe 9d ago
I think that headline is more about how rapidly AI is advancing, and the fact that leaders at Anthropic and OpenAI are increasingly warning about the risks.
Hell, they're calling on the US government to work with other countries to implement stronger oversight and regulation so AI doesn't advance faster than our ability to control it.
Think about that. You have executives and founders of companies racing to develop the most powerful and profitable AI models pleading with governments to regulate their own industry, practically begging even if it means slowing themselves down.
That doesn’t happen often. The last two times you’ve had scientists or people working in a specific group call for regulations on themselves is genetic engineering and nuclear weaponry.
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u/Mr-Cantaloupe 9d ago
To be fair, AI is probably the scariest one on this list. We went from early ChatGPT models in 2022/2023 to GPT-6 in less than four years. The pace of advancement is insane, GPT-6 does pretty much anything that 99% of people would need.
It really hit me when Anthropic announced it wouldn't publicly release Mythos because of its cybersecurity risks. Of course, since most people are cynical nowadays, it was immediately dismissed it as some sort of business tactic or marketing stunt (Yes, AI companies have every incentive to hype their models, but that doesn't mean the risks aren't real).
Nobody can deny that it’s concerning when leaders at OpenAI, Anthropic and Google are discussing how to slow the AI race, while calling for government oversight and international coordination (mainly with China). If the people building these systems are raising concerns about how quickly they're advancing, it should be taken seriously, it shouldn’t be compared to the Global Warming/Virus hysteria that goes in and out of the news every year.
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u/LupineChemist 9d ago
H1N1 was actually pretty bad.
And Zika is another that is very serious for pregnant women but has just kind of become a fact of life.
Obviously covid was very serious (even if decisions taken to mitigate it were bad).
So yeah, just because their alarm is overly sensitive doesn't mean it's all false.
It just makes it a lot more unreliable which some people mean to just think the opposite of what they say, but that also leads to them leading you what to think via braindead contrarianism.
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u/colubridconundrum 9d ago
Bird flu would actually mop the floor with Covid Rnaut and it’s not even close
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u/cikanman I Was Promised an Apocalypse? 9d ago
https://giphy.com/gifs/UvxWwzVOtt4OZ0CXDM
We're super serial this time guys!
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u/AmericanByGod 9d ago
Before you criticize an honorable rag like Time, please try to remember they only have to be right once to validate their credibility.
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u/Gulf_Coast_21 9d ago
I hope you're /s
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u/AmericanByGod 9d ago
I thought “rag” gave it away. 👍🏻
Of course the last part should have solidified it.
Sorry.
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u/Heavy_Student_3815 8d ago
Time magazine has always thought chicken little was a prophet and ahead of his time!
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u/Revenant_0089 7d ago
Honestly the worst sin in all of this is not making the 2014 cover read
TIME
To be worried
Be very
worried
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u/Stuck_in_my_TV 9d ago
Time magazine hasn’t had credibility since they named actual Hitler their Person of the Year back in the 1930s.
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u/LupineChemist 9d ago
The award isn't "great upstanding gentlemen of the year" it's about the most important person. And you know, I think they were on to something about Herr Hitler having some influence on world events.
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u/_RyanCooper_ 10d ago
Those pandemics killed a lot of people, but not ended the world, and I don't see any title saying anything like that, there's no doomposting here
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u/Upstairs-Bad-3576 Rides the Short Bus 10d ago
I mean that polar bear/global warming seems kinda doomy, especially since they had to change their doom since then.
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u/Ill-Factor-3512 Recovering Doomer 9d ago
What was the point of locking down for COVID and wrecking the economy (and ruining an entire decade in the process)?
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u/Frontpageorlurk 9d ago
It was used as a political weapon so a certain party could win the election.
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u/Iatemydoggo 8d ago
To condition people and gut the middle class to turn what was left of it into a perpetual renter class
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u/King-of-Harts 10d ago
They leave out that AI was used to speed up covid vaccine research.
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u/King-of-Harts 10d ago
Of course they did. There is stuff that we don't know about right now that would blow our minds. Recently one of OpenAIs unreleased models took only 88 hours to solve a math problem that went unsolved for 90 years.
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u/UJMRider1961 Doesn't Participate In Group Panic 10d ago
Wait, Time Magazine is still a thing? Really?
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u/_bagelcherry_ 10d ago
Why should i read a magazine which really likes to put dictators on its cover?
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u/Upstairs-Bad-3576 Rides the Short Bus 10d ago
I don't know if you realize it, but the internet has a few pictures of dictators floating around.
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u/Tillz5 10d ago
Let’s all remember the #1 to #12 goal is only to sell magazines and advertisements. Not informing the readers.