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Don’t panic, but an asteroid has a 1.9% chance of hitting Earth in 2032 (arstechnica.com)
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[–] llamacoffee@lemmy.world 7 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Wow this is the most depressing comment section I've ever seen.

[–] threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 week ago

Yeah, even for Lemmy this is bad. I hope most of them are semi-facetious?

[–] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 1 week ago

it's just standard "haha self harm funi", it's so easy to post and reliably gets a few upvotes, so it's just a kneejerk response to posts like these.