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Interesting Fact of the Day:
Current climate change is happening at a pace 6.2 times faster than the climate change that resulted from the asteroid impact that killed the dinosaurs.
We have had 1.06 C change in about 150 years. The dinosaurs experienced a 4.5 degree change over 4,000 years. So for the dinosaurs it changed at a pace of 0.001125 C per year for us it has been about .007 degrees per year. So current climate change is happening 6.2x faster than it did during the extinction of the dinosaurs.
I understand why COVID is, for you, a very serious issue. But what snow said is equivalent to someone saying "man people suck, if the world ended it would be a good thing".. if someone says that i dont think it would make them insensitive to anyone who has ever suffered and died though.
Its about context. You cant judge a person's generalized comment directed to someone else the same as you would someone speaking to you directly and aware of your personal struggles
@freemo @snow Yeah, I know, it's just kinda shitty to pick that issue to latch onto specifically when it's a real and current threat and not some abstract possibility like the world ending immediately.
It would be perfectly fine to hope for something that's unlikely or near-impossible, but to muse in such a manner about something that's already affecting people is in deeply bad taste.
I'm not so much personally offended due to my own *personal* struggles as I am bothered by the choice of an issue that's so heavily stoked in racial issues and nationalism to illustrate said morbid point.
Btw @snow re: the whole "哦，系咁噶啦，本來身體因為空氣污染有問題嗰啲人咪仲開心，大陸大停工。" thing, I'm Korean, but nice try.
@greenled
I can understand that. It's a "too soon" sort of reaction and I get that :(
@snow