When veiled threats become explicit, it was probably a matter of time but they still leave you feeling nauseous
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The antidote to government by the powerful few is democracy by the organized many.
Learning about Epictetus from a friend as a way to cope.
Achieve enlightenment through cultivation of the five noble virtues
- Nonreactivity
- Fluorescence
- Low boiling point
- Electrical conductivity
- Fun at parties
Why is the Times publishing that anonymous, and ultimately meaningless, op ed on the most important day of Kavanaugh hearings, which are ultimately far more consequential, if not to distract?
I hate this symbiotic relationship certain papers have with this administration, where they feed off each other.
“We are living in a culture entirely hypnotized by the illusion of time, in which the so-called present moment is felt as nothing but an infinitesimal hairline between a causative past and an absorbingly important future. We have no present. Our consciousness is almost completely preoccupied with memory and expectation. We do not realize that there never was, is, nor will be any other experience than present experience. We are therefore out of touch with reality.”
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Alan Watts
Pretty deep
“All of a sudden the idea of leaving this ship–this narrow cabin where during long days I was able to shelter a heart cut off from everything, this sea which has been such a help to me–frightens me a little. To begin living again, speaking. People, faces, a role to play. I’ll need more courage than I feel capable of. Fortunately, I’m in good shape physically. There are moments, however, when I would like to avoid other human beings.”
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Albert Camus, American Journals
“The people will rise up before the machines do”
– Andy McAfee, co-author of The Second Machine Age
According to a new study predicts that Earth is going to transform in an extreme way during the coming century; new ecosystems would emerge, vegetation decline and change, and food and water might become rare goods. The last time the climate changed so dramatically. that North America’s better part was covered in glaciers. The study even paints the worst scenario, in which humasns face possible extinction, due to the greenhouse-gases pumped into the atmosphere.
The team relied on a multitude of paleontological records from all across Earth’s history, helping them compare current conditions with previous ones, explaining how climate-change affected biodiversity and ecosystems.
They stated that we are on the very edge of another massive shift, as massive as the last Ice Age, as vegetation all around the world is at substantial risk of compositional and structural changes in the absence of greenhouse gas-emissions, which mostly occurred during the 21st century. Shockingly, this scenario would become true even if things do not change at all.
Another reminder that there is no other issue, no other worry, more important than climate change and climate adaptation – not AI, not jobs, not terrorism or migration, not even rising inequality.
Seeing how incapable I am of convincing even those I share my life with – to use less AC, buy fewer things, use mass transit or bike instead of cars – it is unlikely that humans can change their ways, so the only thing to do at micro level is to see how prepared and adapted little L is for the unpleasant future we are all sending him into.
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