• Supervisor194@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    Yeah but in 2000, I still felt like shit roughly made sense. We entered clown world long about the time the LHC fired its first high energy collisions.

    The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) was first “fired high energy” when it achieved its first high-energy particle collisions on March 30, 2010. On that date, proton beams collided at a combined energy of 7 TeV, setting a new world record and officially beginning the LHC’s research program.

    I remember hearing that that was going to happen and, you know, being mildly concerned. Then it came and went and I forgot about it. But I distinctly remember 2012. A series of truly bizarre things happened in my personal life. I sold a condo I owned at the time and moved away to try and put some distance between myself and what was happening. It was pants-on-head stupid, like I just couldn’t believe what was going on, but it was personal, not earth-shattering, just truly, deeply bizarre.

    Shortly thereafter, Trump happened, then covid - and the whole world began being truly, deeply bizarre. Now things have progressed so far that where I used to think I knew a bit about how the world works and where it’s going, I am now utterly adrift. I don’t even try to make sense of it anymore, just to accept it and roll as best I can.

    I’m not saying correlation is causation but when I first heard the LHC theory it made me stop and think.

    • stratoscaster@lemmy.world
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      1 day ago

      I feel like everyone that heard that theory stopped to think about it. Maybe some people took it seriously, but at the least people entertained the idea for a second.

      • skye@lemmy.world
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        23 hours ago

        Yeah dude, the Pandemic was localised entirely within the U.S.

        Trump dancing like a clown on the world stage, wrecking economies and aiding his favourite Russian Master is at this point only affecting the U.S. No other country affected by this shitshow 👍

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          21 hours ago

          Covid had several precursors that predated the LHC. The US going ape is going to have global implications, but the fucking balls on you to think your country going full bore idiot means the entire human race has been thrown into the darkest and twisted time line.

          No. The US has just made some bad decisions and started to do to itself what it’s spent the past 80 years doing to the rest of the planet