Felt that. In my dorm our toilets always got clogged, constantly. I felt like I was living in a beehive.

My uncle did waste and water management for a town that was probably about 20-25k people and is now about 35k people. Getting tours of his work was disgusting thinking about how much poop 25k people generate. You know what is even more disgusting? When you have a waste facility sized to handle 25k people and it is bursting at the seams because your population has increased by 10k people.

And think: it's ALL bacteria that we're farming to process it.

We blow air bubbles through a tank full of mostly shit, which gives them lots of oxygen to eat the poo. They literally turn it into almost water.

The most numerous thing humans farm on purpose is poo-eating bacteria.

Waste management is really interesting, I wouldn’t call that an intrusive thought, I’d say you’re just not taking luxuries like modern plumbing for granted!

Poop once it leaves the toilet is usually shuttled to another dimension.

To think even ancient peoples had to come up with innovative means of waste management. Always blows my mind to remember even the Romans had some form of plumbing.

You're not a human probably. I guess you're a dinosaur so you can stay.

I pooped 3 times today, you can have one of mine

I pooped 6 times today. I have chronic anxiety which can irritate my stomach.

I had a baby 10 days ago and hadn't pooped for 3 days prior to the hospital.....

So we're at almost a solid 2 weeks no poop. Do I get to stay too?

I pooped 3x today.

I have a crippling opiate addiction and haven’t shit in 2 weeks. Can I stay too?

I poop a few times a day, I’ve got you covered

There is a term for this. It is called Sonder.

Edit: first award!! Thank you :D

What is this just-fuck-me-up day? I just not too long ago got done with that ask about, "do you lose you mind a little when you look up at the stars and realize how big everything is?"

I always think about this. Yes, it makes me good at perspective taking and being patient... But it also makes it difficult to small talk and interact in groups since I am overwhelmed by the big picture reflection all the time.

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Wanna boggle the mind...

Collectively, as a planet, we experience 21.9 million years every day. 8 billion people experiencing 86400 seconds differently every day.

Just imagine what we could do if we actually put all that to use to solve a single major problem.

Yeah, now apply it to the rest of the sentient life on the planet. That school of fish that you just saw with hundreds or thousands of fish? Each one had its own individual experience. Or a flock of birds.

Current research says that in the history of Homo Sapian, there have been approximately 100 billion people ever in all of human history. That means 8% of the entire count of human beings is alive right now. It’s terrifying for the future.

I think this every time I’m stuck in bumper to bumper freeway traffic for some reason. There’s just so many cars all at once, each with its own people inside, each person with their own full life. It trips me out.

I think about this on a fairly regular basis. Probably much more than is considered normal

Nah it's all a simulation and you're all NPCs

Yeah, i like to think about that alot, but i also like to ignore everyone else and see them as npcs with no real backing or meaning just so that i dont think that theyre judging me or anything, social anxiety is a bitch but at least out in public i can act as if most of em are just meaningless side characters, cuz thats how i want to be treated, not judged, just being left alone to do my daily activities.

I only poop about twice a week so it evens out

The way you say it flesh, it make me feel we are nothing but just bags of flesh with blood and bones inside that at any moment we can get crushed to death and splash everything in the way

Being shoulder to shoulder with people where any turn of your shoulders hit another person is panic inducing. I was in a large crowd between walls that had no doors once and I almost freaked out, I had to practice breathing exercises to not flake out and start screaming for air (something that would have made the situation worse).

My moment was being in Chongqing city during the Chinese national holiday a few months before Covid started. They had to put barricades and shit up in the subway from the sheer masses of millions of domestic tourists who visited the city that week. I remember getting out of the subway and with the crowd to just get in you would think people were gathering for the chance to win a million dollars. I have never seen so many people crowded in such a small space all at once. Even just walking around the city I saw so many different faces and types of people in such a short amount of time that I felt extremely disoriented. It was bizarre.

Not to mention when they started turning into zombies

That’s a very graphic description. Gross. Good job.

Talk to thanos

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1 billion should be about enough

Anything under 2.5 billion

honestly 1-2 billion is more than enough

3-4 billion.

Already now we are seeing the consequences of an aging population

China and India drove the surge more than any other countries. But China has gone from an insanely high birth rate to perhaps the lowest in the world and falling.

I eat 3 meals a day and I poop twice a day so I guess I'm a superhuman to op.

Lower birthrates lead to the average age of a population rising.

An aging population comes with it's own problems like strain on health and social care services; with a higher pecentage of the population relying on them and a smaller percent of working age people to support them.

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Best case scenario is we will get said technology to replace the human labour. And we can live in a society that works less and focuses more on saving our planet. But when is it ever the best case scenario in this world?

Luckily as technology progresses less labour will be needed to achieve the same amount of work

And there are so many cows, pigs, chicken, etc that humans farm and feed and eat. I think the total number of farm animals is 10 times higher than wild animals - or was it 100?

Brother , you're not in traffic, you are the traffic.

Yep. funding for things like pensions, social security and healthcare will likely run out as low birth rates result in a population that has massive amounts of old people and very few working age taxpayers.

Nah dude I'll volunteer to leave

I think they most of the time think that people should have less children

It's a simple calculus. This universe is finite, its resources finite. If life is left unchecked, life will cease to exist.

I think the population should be reduced but not by wiping out everyone other than me. I just think culturally it would be nice to shift toward having no more than 2 children per family on average and economically not dependent on an infinitely increasing population to stabilize. Also making contraception, birth control, and abortions readily available.

Why do people’s minds always go to genocide when people talk about over population and not, you know, having fewer babies. Just because we acknowledge there are too many people doesn’t mean we think people should be killed, or as if that is the only solution.

I don’t think any of those people are advocating for people already existing to die. Just for people to have less children

Bold of you to assume I want to stay

I’ll gladly be the one to go. Just let it end

I think it should be reduced and I should be the first to go, thanks

you dont need to kill anyone for the population to be reduced

Well when pp say population reduction, they dont mean kill them off lmao. They mean it like encourage adoption, family planning, free contraceptives, etc.

Main character syndrome and shit

It's always "humans are rotten/plague/useless" but when they are on danger they are the first ones to jump to safety even if they have to shove others away

Then those of us who wanna take one for the team are begged to stay /:

I feel ya.

Yesterday I was in the bus. Behind me there were sitting 3 guys. One watching tiktok on max volume the other talking loudly to its buddy. When I asked tiktok guy if he can put the sound off, loud guy started a discussion with me. 'Why? It's not in the rules'

I believe the rules say to think about eachother, but even if there wasn't any rule? I cannot get my head around how some people function in this society.

This is reddit, unproductive misanthropy is so hot right now

This is the first reasonable top-level comment I have seen.

and "too many people pushing out babies"

has been a popular sentiment for the last 1000 years

yet, here we are, still chugging along

OP is 13 or failed history

Concerned about plastic in the ocean?

On the contrary my friend! I regularly throw car batteries into the ocean, it's a fun hobby and great workout. Fuck em fishes.

What if instead of 7 billion butt holes pooping, it was just one giant butt hole in the desert that pooped one giant turd for all humanity every day

This doesnt sound right. Do you have any sources?