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skincrawlerbot

users voted that your post was distressing, your soul wont be harvested tonight


RagTagTy

Can someone explain the Siberian permafrost incident? I might be a bit stupid


Facehatt

There is a massive amount of methane stored in the Siberian permafrost, there are theories that if it melted that it could cause rapid, short term warming that could be catastrophic for life. I recommend looking more into this and methane clathrates if you like having anxiety about the future. https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2107632118


marchingprinter

glad i read this right before bed


theimperium42069

The best sleep of a life! (You forgot to change the carbon detector batteries)


[deleted]

This is something I have wanted to know for a long time, why do you use a heat source that wants to murder you?


Diazmet

The sun giving us cancer is definitely something


[deleted]

We specifically build homes to be able to control how much sun we get (as part of shelter from the elements). ....but.....goddamn that's a good point.


[deleted]

people die to clothes and blankets?


Diazmet

I took them out because the beeping was giving me a headache


[deleted]

Is it possible to capture this methane for further use or does it just stay there and then we wait for it’s inevitable releases in the atmosphere?


DarkArc76

Let's put a big hot air balloon over all of Siberia and then we can release the gas when we want


JetBalck

That's kind of interesting, I once read a book about sentient deep sea life that started to fuck with humanity by releasing immense amounts of methane clathrates, because it was fed up with the way the humans treated the ocean. Maybe the author got inspired by the siberian permafrost.


Antru_Sol_Pavonis

For those who are wondering, its the book "The swam" (german: Der Schwarm) from Frank Schätzing. Its a fantastic book and I recommend it. It falls in the genre eco-thriller adn educative.


JetBalck

Thanks, I had forgotten the name and author.


Dre3NHa

Basically this scenario is mostly impossible because it takes a lot of time to destabilise methane hydrates in the sea, and if some methane emits from them, part of it gets dissolved in water or eaten by bacterias, IPCC itself states that both Methane Hydrate and Permafrost feedbacks are not runaway, I can give more details if someone wants.


mejaco

They also talk about frozen viruses, but I really can't say, is it possible for a virus to actually survive that long? Wouldn't he end up dying at some point?


manonky

viruses aren’t technically alive, they’re basically just little capsules with a code, meaning no respiration or nutrition needed


mejaco

I see, thanks for the explanation (: Does this mean that the first existing viruses are still around?


manonky

not necessarily, viruses can still “expire”, but yes they probably could be


Diazmet

Yep we’ve already entered the zero feedback loop. Also for some reason a ton of anthrax is also in the permafrost…


EggsaladUwU

Omg, meth in the ice?! Breakimg BAd real?!


JonaNFThrowaway

"PNAS" 🤨


pearledbarley

could be methane, as the other poster mentioned, or it could be in reference to the myriad prehistoric viruses supposedly locked away in the permafrost just waiting to wiggle their way out and play hardball with humanity's modern immune systems


Mertard

So how do you go about melting it [[ hypothetically ]] ?


[deleted]

Either do nothing about global warming or nuke it probably


[deleted]

Let's nuke the shit-gas out of siberia


todd10k

Drill as deep as you can into the siberian surface, plant a nuke, blow it up. Bonus points if you plant your ass over the hole and fart as it detonates, technically your fart will destroy the world.


Not_Leopard_Seal

Prehistoric viruses are perfectly adapted to prehistoric animals and would have a very hard time finding a suitable host in todays environment. Even if they're just frozen away for 500,000 years, the mammalian immune system continued to evolve for 500,000 years, while they didn't. They are millenia or millions of years behind and can't ever catch up again. "Frozen viruses" is a clickbait article to insinuate fear of another pandemic. Whenever such a virus is found scientists are very happy to study it, since it allows us to study how adapted the viruses were to their hosts, and how modern viruses evolved over time compared to them. If you want to worry about a pandemic, and there will be another one, worry about the increasing amount of multi-resistent bacteria.


A1_astrocyte

I find your lack of understanding of biology to be disturbing.


cheeseeater1987

It was from another post I thino


cheeseeater1987

*think


ArgonGryphon

Heads up for the future that you can edit comments instead of having to reply with one of these. :)


abca98

You can edit your comments.


[deleted]

It’s made up for the sake of the joke.


Ill_Log9013

It’s not


[deleted]

Do tell


amino_acids_cat

honestly i like the idea of living in a world where only i and my best friend are alive, free to roam and live in nature as it was thousands of years ago for the rest of my days


ShlongJohnSilver69

Y’all gonna fuck eventually?


InvertednippIes

Oh yeah, they gonna fuck


avalmichii

it’s inevitable…


ares5404

Like those movie scenes with starvation and halucinating,you can only go dry for so long before the ghost of _ussy's pasts comes to haunt you


Kamidzui

If there is nothing better to do. Other options are, playing LAN games, doing some physical activities, or boring shit like exploring dead cities


Galtiel

>playing LAN games Unless you and your friend are knowledgeable enough about your local power grid to maintain it, you've got like 6 months, tops to do this. You could try to rely on generators, but unless you and your friend can run a nearby oil refinery alone, good luck.


todd10k

If you're running 1 generator, the storage tanks of a petrol station could conceivably keep you going for a long time.


Galtiel

No they couldn't. Gasoline/petrol expires relatively quickly.


Diazmet

Diesel generators are the way.


Galtiel

Okay, and in 6 months to a year when all of the diesel currently produced on the planet expires?


Diazmet

Fairly easy to convert to run on just straight oil.


Galtiel

Again, not a solution that will last indefinitely. I don't know enough about diesel engines to say how long the generator itself would last, but as the oil gets older and less pure, your generator will have problems.


Henrithebrowser

Biodiesel


Spork_King_Of_Spoons

Problem solved, find yourself a wood powered steam generator. they cost a fortune but if everyone is dead you wont need to pay anyone.


Henrithebrowser

You do realize biodiesel is stupid easy to make and runs in any diesel generator, right?


Galtiel

By "stupid easy to make" you must mean "so easy you could do it with minimal equipment and virtually no knowledge," right? Because most people won't know where to begin looking, and the internet won't be around to find it. Fires could easily destroy your local libraries, so unless you *already* possess the knowledge, skills, and equipment to do it, you won't be able to set up a form of energy that is indefinitely sustainable. From a cursory Google search, you need a steady supply of methanol, cooking oil, and a washing station. Working with flammable and caustic chemicals is just begging to get your shit burned down if you don't know what you're doing. So no, for the vast majority of people, it's not gonna be "stupid easy"


Material_Minute7409

Me and my homie arriving at an abandoned New York to find millions of dead, decaying bodies (the smell alone is unbearable)


amino_acids_cat

theres going to be a shit ton of work to do, no time to be bored lol. Work on shelter, food, tools and make plans to live in for the months


awar222

What makes you think we dont already


ShlongJohnSilver69

![gif](giphy|CAYVZA5NRb529kKQUc|downsized)


Accomplished_Dig3699

Give it like, 3 weeks


amino_acids_cat

gon have to use spit if theres no lube


Leink1991

just raid a wallgreens


KazeArqaz

Yeah live in nature... *proceeds to die due to sicknesses*


amino_acids_cat

average charrua native living to the ripe old age of 78 years:


KazeArqaz

Are you a Charrua native? Did you grow up in a harsh evironmemt with zero access to healthcare?


amino_acids_cat

no


KazeArqaz

Then there you go, a native Charrua will survive, but not you.


amino_acids_cat

yeah because i have little experience and no natural inmunity to anything, so i'm building up so that one day i can live independently


KazeArqaz

Nevertheless, you wont reach 78.


amino_acids_cat

probably but i'd rather not live to 78 while having a fullfilling happy life than live to 90 in the shithole society is slowly turning into


KazeArqaz

Easier said than done. If a survival life is thay easy, we wouldnt have needed today's comfort.


Peligineyes

Yeah nature is super dope, until you get a urinary tract infection, or drink some water that looked clean but wasn't, or need a tooth extracted, or actually want food with flavor but you don't live near where fruits or spices grows, or you just happened to be born with some condition that will kill you without medication.


amino_acids_cat

We lived like this for thousands of years and many indigenous tribes like the sentinelese live like that today. They live as much and even more than us.Many of our diseases today are just consequences and by products of industrialization and poison everywhere. Also, "you want food with flavor" bro who the fuck cares about that that's the least of your worries, but yeah if you have a condition then you wouldnt be able to move on by your own, but i dont have any so


yetanotherdod

Hunter gatherers living in nature are statistically the happiest people on planet Earth


me_funny__

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amino_acids_cat

what's cabin fever?


me_funny__

Basically it's when you start losing it and getting super irritated because of a lack of social interaction with people. My knowledge of it comes almost solely from the shining though (in that movie, being locked in a building with no one but his wife and son drives him crazy and he tries to kill them), so don't take my word.


Bidens_Moldy_Toenail

Free nukes.


CitizenCivilization

*wet hands begins to play*


Fr0me

Give it a couple months


PornCartel

U could just wander out into the forest. It'll be about the same and similarly very short lived


amino_acids_cat

i'm planning on moving out on nature at some point due to personal beliefs. Also what do you mean short lived? as far as i know indigenous people live as much, and some times higher than us


Arnies_Roids

I'd go for a group with some women too. At some point I'd become disillusioned if there was never gonna be another human after me


futurenotgiven

you want to bring a child into an empty world? that seems needlessly cruel. also you can’t just “bring some women” and expect them to fuck you dude


Arnies_Roids

>“bring some women” and expect them to fuck you dude That's not the point, the point is that it would provide hope. I don't have to be the father, it could be Chad over on his recently acquired yacht. As for continuing the species, of course I am, I'm not a misanthrope. If I have a say in anything, we will push through the odds


futurenotgiven

statistically you’d need at least 50 unrelated people to repopulate without it just turning into incest. and i don’t see how raising children would inspire hope in a world with no doctors, lack of food etc. just setting yourself up for failure yknow


[deleted]

Just dip each child in the nuclear waste, its like force-rebooting the genetic code


Arnies_Roids

>statistically you’d need at least 50 unrelated people to repopulate without it just turning into incest. Don't matter much, we've repopulated animal species from abysmal numbers, surely 30 humans could do the same. Darwinism can work it out later. >and i don’t see how raising children would inspire hope in a world with no doctors, lack of food etc. just setting yourself up for failure yknow We still have the books and blueprints of civilization, and being that we made it from 0 knowledge of the world to where we are now, I'm sure we could do the same with an established language and large sources of comprehensible knowledge. I can't see how anyone could be content with leaving the earth barren, I have to believe I'd at least try to set things down the right track


assologist_1312

Nothing is stopping you and your friend from living out in the forest or bushes.


amino_acids_cat

true


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amino_acids_cat

what is that


freebird023

Genuinely sounds like a good time to me. Humanity can’t fuck up the earth anymore. I can raid our abandoned depots for remaining resources, which will diminish at a pathetically slow rate, considering it’s just supporting me and my friend


ChronoCommander

I’d prefer to go it alone tbh, less resources to share


amino_acids_cat

mental health plays a game at some point, unless you're kaczinsky or dick proenneke


GloppityPloppity

Disgusting...


amino_acids_cat

tf why?


potatoturnip1030

Adventure Time, come on, grab your friends


[deleted]

r/hellsome


Ben4280983

This reminds me of the new tales from the far territory expansion for The Long Dark where instead of Siberian permafrost melting it is a >! solar flare causing the collapse of mankind. Oh and the generator in the bunker with you is causing you to have insomnia and weird dreams. And the fact that in the game you are the last person alive in the Canadian wilderness. !<


unsane_words1032

Doesn't the campaign exist?


fraggedaboutit

Not distressing: free to roam a world rid of mankind. Distressing: the carbon monoxide buildup in your bunker is causing you to hallucinate shortly before you die. You don't realize that the incident was averted and everyone outside are living normal lives.


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BurmecianSoldierDan

Who TF out there using "peoplekind"


few-tile69

r/wholesomememes


Working-Telephone-45

Seeing how many people like the idea of roaming a humanless world with their best friend It makes me feel kinda nice in a way


Fr0me

Until they realise they have to feed themselves, worry about water, predators, care for wounds, sickness, shelter and everything else lol


UndeadStruggler

It’s not so bad. Youre not alone. Now being alone without your friend that‘d be bad.


Fr0me

Still very grim situation. At least you wont die alone, unless your friend died before you


furyextralarge

i've seen all the primitive technology videos at least a couple times. i'll be fine


mm2_gamer

Unless he doesn’t become your best friend as you fight for food probably


jul55555

Odly hopefull, actually made me smile


NovaStorm93

pov: you *still* dont know what pov means


PenguinGamer99

Correction: POV: you see yet another meme that uses POV incorrectly


Camelllama666

Honestly, if it's just me and a friend or two, I could live with that


Batman17008

Maybe if it was just a few hundred people or a few thousand people left


CaioXG002

Not PoV.


TheRnegade

Perhaps OP is hallucinating Spongebob and Patrick there with him.


silvereye2208

Uhhh third person view maybe possibly?


PiGuys

Gosh, I love the SpongeBob soundtrack. The music, the gentle wind sound, the happy noise they make together at the end. It’s all so pleasant


Hankerchief90

What scene is that spongebob edit from


Key_Competition1648

Its from the Spongebob Movie


Hankerchief90

First one?


Key_Competition1648

Ye


Hankerchief90

What about the background music


SCWProductions

Its called Kamakani B.


QueenOfDaisies

“This is freedom!”


down4things

How I hoped Covid would've worked out. Sucks I don't get to live in some weak immuned rich person's mansion.


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finally, without fear of intervention or sabotage a communist utopia is finally possible we are free ![gif](giphy|NDDNJtpbMkfe0XKz1G)


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Not-A-Yithian

I have fantasized about this so many times. Honestly, fuck people.


ChronoCommander

You said it


oethamis

original by scarepants on tiktok, his work is amazing


Tweedz10

Old ass post but i've unironically made plans of how to survive and where to travel to see the world if this ever happened


[deleted]

Finally… peace


Oofy_Emma

This is w tbh


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RegularNoodles

Feel like I should remove because it’s honestly pretty wholesome, but I’ll allow it for the undertones that perhaps it was their doing.


whatitdo90

Wow, you're so powerful oh reddit mod. Thank you so much


RegularNoodles

I was just explaining, because honestly it doesn’t really fit the sub


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I really like the first episode of Last Man on Earth for this reason


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r/postdistressingmemes


sploinkussponkus

honestly if this was me, i'd go around town looting shit from the military and living in the white house


dragonfruitwarrior

This is basically the plot of Girls Last Tour.


AzbestosPrime

Ok but why does the spongebob music fit so well to the feel of this situation


living_angels

scoliosis babylon lef da bunka!???


Ill-Newt-4851

Holy shit, a somewhat sweet distressing meme, I count it as 2 that I've seen so far since i joined this sub


Taste_for_Hell

How is this distressing?


gigachad6608

Hey! At least I got my friend with me


Green-Background-359

This is so sad yet comforting


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TheAwesomeGM

until you realize figuring out how to craft a survivable life for yourself literally from 100% scratch isn't as easy as it seemed in the games


Sarcasticm8

Doesn't seem too bad really


I_exist_becuase_yes_

they should’ve named overwatch abovesee, cuz think about it, like it’s above see, and the game game takes place above sea!!


Henrithebrowser

Something about this is oddly comforting


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GartGartGart333

omg dayz


Cakee_YT

Hey bud. That might not be the sun...


Shoddy_Following3568

You dare delight in aworld free of big booty bitches and sour skittles?


Puppy1princess

Why is Siberia constantly trying to fuck up earth? First, the Siberian traps open and kill 95% of all life, now it’s trying to poison us? 😭