Just being alive counts

Sounds like the guy has a few bruises but is otherwise ok. Things are bad when I’m wondering if police will be hanging around voting areas this election to try to prevent this sort of thing. Are they even allowed?

In the fall we usually get a few hours of rain and then it clears away to cloud or sun and that’s my favourite weather.

These are not imaginary uses cases. Are you generally critical of technology?

I’ve had a couple tenga’s but I feel like these are meant to be disposable. Never a flip though, kind of pricey.

As of August 2024, cumulative sales of Sony’s PlayStation 4 gaming console had risen to roughly 117.2 million units

Nintendo Switch was the best-selling video game console worldwide in 2022

the Xbox One, was put to market in 2013 and sold roughly 58 million units in total until the end of its lifespan in 2020.

https://www.statista.com

Friday, am drunk. At least during the daylight I’ll be sober living my life.

Good news though, my workplace is attempting to form a union. Signed my card today. Fuck management, the spineless bastards.

I did this one year. It was better. It just feels like normal time. I don’t actually remember it being a problem at all and my morning/evening was better.

Why doesn’t the government just give the loan to Constellation to restart the reactor? What’s the point of Microsoft in this.

Wow very juicy. In Syria, but still.

I think it’s hard time to not be an asshole and work in comedy. A friend of mine got into stand up and it was just an avenue for him to teach everyone about the stereotypes he believes in. Before he was just this friend who said shit and we could ignore and change the subject, and then he got an audience and it was like everything he believed in was automatically approved and appropriate. If it got groans from people in the crowd "but they’re women so who cares hahaha’. Covid took a lot of these people over the edge.

I’m learning that even when I’m relatively miserable a good plate of food will make me feel as good as drugs, alcohol or sex. Sam is a smart boy.

You’re oversimplifying something to make your own point appear valid when it isn’t.

That helps, good analogy. So the effects will be the things we already see - high cost of living, persistent low wages, fewer economic opportunities, increasing social isolation, additional strain on federal budget, reduced social services, changes in crime patterns, increasing poverty class, lower income countries more or less left to fend for themselves/less support, etc. More of the same, but instead of a limited period of economic depression we move into a long term depression and risk in multiple areas (like another pandemic). I can understand that better than picturing what a famine would look like in Toronto. Am I misinterpreting what people are saying, is that what they are already saying?

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I’m familiar with all of that. I spent a lot of time on /r/collapse until it went completely off the rails. Crop data is available online - output in Asia is still increasing. I’m not sure if you looked at my sources but outside of social media that horrific doom narrative is not prevalent.

That’s what I find confusing. We (global we) have already had enormous crop failures and disasters recently. https://www.agweb.com/news/crops/crop-production/farm-bureau-finds-2022-weather-disasters-amounted-21-billion-crop-losses these events can get amplified on social media and then it’s disorientating to me when the effects slip away.

I think what I want is data:

https://ourworldindata.org/agricultural-production

I don’t doubt it’s going to get worse, but I’m struggling to understand the details of that. You’re saying famine in Chicago, full on North Korean style society? War, yes I said already we already do that all the time. Not new. Warlords, not new. Loss of knowledge? Vague. I’m sorry but this is what I’m talking about. How did you reach these conclusions, if you know?

That’s the conversation I was having with my therapist this week. I don’t know. I’ve always massively struggled with this. Thinking about it sends me into a spiral.

As of now the plan is to look for other opportunities in industry. Some training is fine but I would like to avoid loans. I don’t have anything specific yet, but public sector is likely part of it. I’m less motivated to help people as I am to make certain people miserable. Countries have started to track job quality (“job quality”), it’s data worth looking at.

Depending on how that goes I have other thoughts but nothing that is sucking me in. Maybe I’ll give up entirely and become a vagrant. I also have a viable non-expiring business idea that would de-employ a certain group of people I don’t like. I’m not ready for either of those yet.

In the meantime I have a bucket list of things that I’m working through. It helps me feel like my life has forward momentum despite what’s happening with my career (it’s also opening up new doors I didn’t see before, eg acting). Between that and therapy my job feels often feels like something I’ll deal with later.

Shouldn’t we put more weight into your friends opinion?

Another person replied to me with a list of things that are a constant in our world. Except ‘collapse of civ’ which is exactly the kind of conclusion I’m raising doubts on as there isn’t as much to support it. Again, focused on regional impacts and not places that are going to be obliterated.

Another person said ‘wait till permafrost melts’. This is already baked into models, it’s not expected that all permafrost is going to melt everywhere.

Idk. I’m eagerly waiting for AR7 and I’m regularly checking in on a few places. I’m aware of the narrative that IPCC leans towards conservative estimates or is overly optimistic. Internet forums don’t seem to offer much to this conversation and it’s mostly people echoing what they already believe. I’m not seeing any exceptions to that norm here in this thread.

The few places:

• http://www.columbia.edu/~jeh1/mailings/
• https://www.realclimate.org/
• https://www.theclimatebrink.com/

An article/search topic that swayed me a while ago:

• https://climate.mit.edu/ask-mit/will-climate-change-drive-humans-extinct-or-destroy-civilization

I expect that geoengineering is going to happen on a larger scale, it would be counter to how people operate to not pursue that option.

It just makes me realize how much I hate what I do for a living.