“IT’S 100 SECONDS TO MIDNIGHT!!!!”
Stop quoting the time of the Doomsday Clock like it’s evidence of something. The Doomsday Clock is always predicting apocalypse. The earliest it’s ever been was 17 minutes to midnight in 1991. If your position is that humanity is always on the brink of extinction, then you really don’t need to check what the clock is at, do you?
I’m very much on Team Eliminate Existential Risk, but acting like humanity is at an ever-changing apocalyptic precipice isn’t helpful. It’s a political statement that doesn’t do much except inspire alarmism and hopelessness.
It does look cool in Watchmen, though.
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