notfromhere
In the early days, humanity was in awe of the Earth’s bounty. They tapped into its veins, extracting oil and gas to power their machines and fuel their progress. The planet’s crust was mined for minerals, its forests felled for lumber, and its oceans ravaged for fish.
As time passed, the pace of extraction accelerated. The once-pristine air grew thick with pollutants, the waters became choked with waste, and the land was scorched by wildfires. But humanity couldn’t resist the allure of growth and profit.
They dug deeper, piercing the Earth’s mantle, releasing ancient carbon into the atmosphere. The planet’s temperature began to rise, but still they drilled, pumped, and mined. The warnings of scientists were ignored, their cries of “peak oil” and “climate change” drowned out by the din of progress.
One day, the Earth’s core began to slow its rotation. The magnetic field that protected the planet from the solar winds started to weaken. The once-stable atmosphere grew thin, allowing the harsh radiation to seep in.
As the planet’s lifeblood dwindled, the consequences became impossible to ignore. Weather patterns turned extreme, storms intensified, and droughts lengthened. The oceans, once teeming with life, began to boil away, their waters evaporating into the dry air.
The manetosphere, the delicate balance of gases that sustained life, grew weaker by the day. The solar winds howled through the gaps, stripping away the atmosphere’s protective layers. The surface temperature soared, baking the remaining life forms into extinction.
In the end, it was as if humanity had sucked the very essence out of the Earth. The once-blue skies turned a sickly yellow, and the air reeked of ozone and death. The planet’s final breaths were labored, its core now still, its magnetic field a faint whisper.
The last remnants of humanity huddled in underground bunkers, awaiting an end that was both inevitable and agonizingly slow. As the atmosphere dissipated, the solar winds ravaged what remained, scorching the barren landscape until it resembled the desolate wasteland of Mars.
In the silence, the Earth’s corpse lay still, a testament to humanity’s unrelenting greed. The once-thriving planet was now a husk, drained of its lifeblood, its beauty lost forever.
OP image is blurry for me. Direct link
Good news, oil changes on electric cars are not a thing. Wiper blades, wiper fluid, air filters, rotate tires is about it. Maybe brakes and brake fluid at some point but haven’t needed it in over 5 years yet.
Only thing I’ve needed at the mechanic is rotate/balance tires and replace cracked windshield as I don’t want to own the equipment for that.
How can you invalidate just the portion of a law you don’t like based on a technicality without invalidating the whole law that is subject to the same technicality?
Say you do Reddit, but… not really Reddit.
“No I don’t have facebook. Do you know Reddit?”
“Oh… Reddit? Yea what subs are you in?”
“Well… it’s like Reddit…”
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It’s only fiction until it’s not. But fantasy? Dude needs to learn the difference between sci fi and fantasy. Everybody has to lump those together like they’re the same thing.
The “article” reads like a drama. The dude has all original code and artwork and a different game engine. The screenshots show a very simplistic thing… you wouldn’t sue someone because their stick figures look too much like yours. If the game was copied that quickly there wasn’t much substance there to begin with imo.
This is essentially the police station scene of Demolition Man where the guy answers a phone call and says if you would prefer to be connected to an automated system, press 1 now. It sounds like the recipient of the email would have preferred an AI generated response that had a warmer tone.