I imagine for some of those folks being a part of a group that demands nothing other than your agreement is better than belonging to a group demanding a truthful relationship to the facts and their impact.
I imagine for some of those folks being a part of a group that demands nothing other than your agreement is better than belonging to a group demanding a truthful relationship to the facts and their impact.
Oysters and kiwi
electric power generation, which accounts for a mere twenty percent of overall energy consumption, and only about thirty-five percent of total carbon emissions.
Curious what the other 80% of overall energy consumption is from. I imagine a large amount is agriculture, but I couldnāt articulate whyā¦
Boggles the mind sometimes the trust we put in expertsā¦ I was scratching my head going, āHow can something in your arm prevent pregnancy if itās non-hormonal?ā
I genuinely have no idea how a professional could have come to another conclusion. Not trying to be rude. I really donāt understand it.
Thanks for the heads up. Seems like Nexplanon is a hormonal birth control though.
Whatās the non-hormonal arm implant called? Havenāt heard of it and a Google search is not giving answers.
Yes, very well said.
Iām considering the Lusophone world for myself and my family. My vision is to find a place where my kid can put down roots. Iām having a hard time working out the details, though.
I have climate-driven concerns about living near the equator or in Europe. And as part of the contraction you mentioned, I expect moving around the globe will become difficult or problematic.
That doesnāt leave many options.
I acknowledge your upset and frankly, I agree with much of what you said. Iām defending nothing.
And yet itās still your anger at an institution not meeting your (and many othersā) standards.
Thatās still not the same as doing nothing, or, to put a finer point on the Trump vs Biden difference, that the Overton window in one case could even possibly trend in a direction you and I can agree is positive.
Iām done here, friend. Be well and take care of yourself.
I appreciate that your answer was something other than violent revolution or its buddies. Thank you for elaborating!
If youāre willing to share: where would you go?
Yes, the āfascizationā of the US government has been unfolding for decades.
To make a leap from that to an inevitability that ādestroying the system to start overā is the only cureā¦
Well, isnāt the cure is worse than the disease?
What are the practicalities your presumptive solution hand-waves away?
Insurance and reinsurance markets, for example, provide regional/national/global stability for business to happen in the face of mass catastrophe. Medicare and Medicaid provide millions of people with healthcare.
These details, and literally thousands like them, make up the everyday function of governmentāeven if they are currently not working in some places or not working as well as weād like in many others!
If youāre actually committed to the welfare of millions of ordinary people, then your position has got to be more nuanced than ādestroy the system!ā
What are we destroying? What are we replacing it with? What kind of work are we doing to ensure a reasonable transition? Who is the we that is organizing toward a new vision? How do we work with opposing forces inside and outside of our camp?
All of those questions fall under the banner of politics and the answers are constrained by the agendas of the participants engaging with the existing system.
Where on this thread did I defend Biden?
Our anger at the Democratic Party not doing enough to X, Y, and Z is valid.
As far as Iām concerned, feel free to beat up on the Democratic Party.
From my perspective, I was calling out the parent poster for a lack of rigor.
A national political institution not meeting our standards is not the same as a national political institution doing nothing.
Additionally, it also doesnāt work for us to equate a Trump presidency with a second Biden term as though one clearly wonāt be worse than the other for many of the values you and I seem to be mutually committed to.
No, it doesnāt work like that. You are claiming nothing has been done on any of those issues. Itās prima facie a bold and likely specious claim.
Speak honestly: have you looked for any counterexample?
Or are you content to make extreme claims, hook people in with emotion, and throw the effort onto others to check your work?
Come on.
Nothing
Source please.
Iām sure itās not at the level that you and I wish for, and your grievances are validā¦
But calling it ānothingā and then insinuating a Trump presidency will be equally bad as another Biden term?
Come on, friend. Letās be more rigorous than that.
I donāt agree with all your conclusions or timelines, but youāre perfectly cogent enough. Ignore the haters. You literally pointed them to Kahneman 4 sentences in and they couldnāt be bothered.
I enjoy the use of language. Not that you need me to say it but keep on doing you and know thatāto the extent youāre willing to make yourself understandāthe message can be received.
To all the haters: Look at OPās post history. This personās views are coherent and nuanced. Their creative unusual use of language doesnāt merit ad hominem attacks. How about calling yourself out as unwilling or unable to grok the communication?
The background to OPās comment is that human beings have two modes of engaging with the world:
Our world order counts on reason being sufficiently related to reality. Otherwise, law (which is entirely reason-based) can be weaponized for the sake of the feelings of the powerful. Rule of law then becomes a smokescreen for āmight makes right.ā
None of this should be surprising so far. OP then makes some pessimistic predictions about the inevitability of a Trump presidency and its dire consequences for the more-or-less reason-based world order weāve grown accustomed to.
Will a sufficiently powerful mass of anger, greed, and fear snuff out the infinite possibilities of empowerment, creativity, and uplifting spirit that human beings can generate? OP says yes (referencing the Great Filter) and predicts some timelines.
OP, if youāre willing to share Iād be interested in hearing how you came to the timeline conclusions.
OP, I donāt think a Trump presidency is inevitable. And, tangentially, the scope of the underlying structural situation scares me. Seems like we can have a good conversation (maybe here?). Thanks for posting.
Never Biden voter on all of us to make sure we put in someone who will
Ok troll, take your sanctimonious BS and go home. If Biden or Trump (or, Godwinās Law arriving right on time, Biden or Hitler) are equivalent in your eyes, you are lost.
Iām pushing back on the notion that telling someone ādonāt stressā is in any way helpful.
They would already be not stressed if an obstacle didnāt come up. Telling them to not stress is akin to telling them to not be depressed or to just chill out. Thereās no pathway to how. Thereās no meeting someone where theyāre at. Thereās just a well-meaning person lacking emotional tooling to support another.
There are lots of ways to actually provide the support. There are lots of ways for a person to reset their nervous system. āDonāt stressā isnāt either.
āDonāt stressā is terrible advice to someone who has no experience of control over what upsets them, which seems to be an issue OP deals with.
Youāre a human being in the body of a human animal. While you can try to use your thoughts to fix/rationalize/justify your feelings, I suspect youāve already made those attempts with limited success.
OP, here are 2 implementable suggestions:
DO stress. If youāre already in that state, trying to force yourself to feel another way will make it worse. Let yourself feel what you feel. Have the experience of allowing the sensations in your body to be what they are. If the sensations involve pressure, heat, discomfort, tension, etc, have them. If you find yourself having new sensations in reaction to the feelings you experience, have those new ones too. This kind of somatic practice can help you discover a new way of experiencing life that your mind doesnāt dominate.
Pick a breathing exercise and do it for 2 minute, 2 minutes, 5 minutes, whatever works. Doesnāt matter which one, as long as it doesnāt have an end goal. Breathwork can help you discover the different modes of being in your experience.
Thatās the Erin Brokovich chemical.
OP said wrong answers only.