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Re:Collapse OS by panarky on Wednesday March 26, 2025 @08:53PM (#43489290)
Hasn't Kunstler been predicting the imminent end of oil supplies since the 1990s?

When a professional prognosticator's prognostications continue to be falsified by actual events, year after endless year, at some point don't people stop listening to them?

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Re:Collapse OS by -__---____-ZXyw on Wednesday March 26, 2025 @10:42PM (#43489893)
> When a professional prognosticator's prognostications continue to be falsified by actual events, year after endless year, at some point don't people stop listening to them?

Funnily enough - not whatsoever! And the benefits of this amazing fact are reaped by economists* the world over, year after year.

* And, to be fair, journalists, politicians, various flavours of youtuber, etc, etc.

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Re:Collapse OS by UltraSane on Wednesday March 26, 2025 @11:15PM (#43490058)
"When a professional prognosticator's prognostications continue to be falsified by actual events, year after endless year, at some point don't people stop listening to them?"

Yet people still listen to Musk about when Tesla will have autonomous driving.

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Re:Collapse OS by peppers-ghost on Thursday March 27, 2025 @09:04AM (#43493178)
we'll be terraforming mars soon I just know it!
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Re:Collapse OS by andsoitis on Wednesday March 26, 2025 @10:21PM (#43489788)
what do you think about the idea, though?
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