[Ayoob_Reloaded]

we have company in
this place.

[Specop_007]

Dumbest reply I've seen yet....
"Similarly, rising gas price does not effect you if you use public transpo. Rising gas price DOES NOT effect price of milk, eggs, airplane tickets, and everything else in your life as the tin-foil-hat retards here tell you. Sit back life is good. Ignorance is bliss. The less you prepare for life, the better you do."

[larrydallas]

Some of those posts in that thread are beyond stupid. These guys are just making up time frames for economic meltdown w/o any reasoning and logic to back it up.

I think their heads would explode if they got on this forum where people explain why they think what they think.

[UIUCstudent01]

Another thread though...

On the Asain Markets FALLING DRASTICALLY

And that could spell doom... As the housing bubble is being realized and popped accordingly..

I'm going to be watching the stock markets open in the morning, I'm staying up all night doing a paper anyways.. so bonus for me!

Edit: Here's some actually links to financial ticker sites and such: Just the Japanese Market Nikkei
Yahoo's Major Players Tickers
Another important thing but I don't understand it very well..

Someone predicted that the stock market won't open tomorrow... And that the emergency session passing the new bankruptcy law was very timely.

So, yeah. The beggining of the end

...

Back to my lab report...

[MattSavinar]

The dude who said, "all my assets are in recyclable cans" had me rolling on the floor.



Matt

[UIUCstudent01]

Good God.

My roommate is/will be pissed at me and the world. His parents are very well off (somewhere around 3-6 million dollars). He was planning to just go to college to appease his parents.. His parents will probably be losing alot. His plan for the rest of his life was to just play video games and eat fast food (dead serious on that). A little unrest in the world can hopefully shake him up (or kill him - he has specifically said that if the worst Peak Oil situation happened, he would probably just sit on his ass and whither away).

But other than that..

I loved the comments about "Is Wendy's going to be open? [followed by a dumpling shaped smiley character representing the American Public at Large]"

That site though, is utterly ridiculous in its threads.

[larrydallas]

The guy that said he was selling tin hats so the govt.'s mind control and reading machines could not work on you was funny. Also funny was the guy that said Americans have enough body fat to live off of for a month and how that is enough time to casue real trouble.

Humor at this point is a good way of dealing with a situation which is going to be scary as hell.

The bankrputcy bill passage was chilling. I am not affected because I owe nothing at all to any bank, creditor, etc...but YIKES still!

[AdamB]

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A wave of nationalist/populist/anti-globalization, record high debt, nuclear doomsday clock at its highs, soaring financial leverage, and now trade wars. If the world did not have enough to worry about, 20,000 scientists have a few more reasons to believe 'the end is nigh'...and President Trump is not to blame for any of it (yet). A dire warning to the world about its future, predicting catastrophe for humanity, continues to gain momentum, becoming one of the most discussed pieces of scientific research ever. As The Independent reports,the new letter was actually an update to an original warning sent from the Union of Concerned Scientists that was backed by 1,700 signatures 25 years ago. It said that the world had changed dramatically since that warning was issued – and almost entirely for the worse. Mankind is still facing the existential threat of runaway consumption of limited

[Newfie]

Adam,
Thanks for posting that up. I rarely read the comments to our news stories. But reading through these I’m amused or shocked at the level of commentary. Quite the rabble out there.

I’m glad to see the scientist have made a follow on warning, I doubt it will have the tinyest effect. This has some selfish consequence.

It’s like going to a massive and lavish party with 1,000 folks. Top shelf booze and food galor. You feel a bit uncomfortable at partaking of the extravagance. But then you stumble into a side room where the hosts accountant, lawyer, and preacher are all discussing how he is broke, he is paying for the feast on credit he can never pay off, they have all spoke to the host individually and collectively to no good end. So you do the only rational thing, return to the party and enjoy.

Not a great story, and obviously troubling.

[AdamB]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('MattSavinar', 'T')he dude who said, "all my assets are in recyclable cans" had me rolling on the floor.



Matt