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“Writing for the panel, Judge Julie Rikelman, who was appointed by President Joseph R. Biden Jr., said it appeared that the [grant] terminations would set back lifesaving research by years, if not decades.” www.nytimes.com/2025/08/21/u...
My issue is I’ve never seen an optimist work on any of the problems that actually make me a pessimist. It’s like no matter how hard I try they just refuse to se it because complexity activates the amygdala and shutdown dopamine rewards in that direction.
I laughed when he put away the beer like it was going to want one. Lol
And this is how facists trigger multi-polar traps to keep chronically going throughout time
I’ve also realized they use the psychiatric as a existential certainty that they are not the problem device.
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Humans do at times but only because the feedback loop is longer than they are around for.
No do they actually have the ability to actually meaningfully reduce immigrations it’s just toughness theater. Even if they yes abuse and kick a lot out. It dosent change the structural patterns that drive everything i.e. shareholder capitalism
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Crazy thing is fossil fuels have killed more people than nuclear ever has and it’s not even close.
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That’s because in today’s day we need a rich freind to buy a projector and a screen and we do movie nights in the park and make popcorn on our camping stoves and have fun that way. Screw corporations. Make your own veg and fun and adventure
This webinar looks great! Despite creating an armory of things to kill them, we are completely dependent on insects. “The little things that run the world,” E.O. Wilson said. They, and we, are intertwined with other invertebrates. Planting #nativeplants is something we can do. #gardening #plants 🌿
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oh dont worry, its called planetary boundries, humans also are great at ignoring the real globe and telling you to shut off your brain and live in mythic real subjective world of theirs as their capitalist slave for their benefit. but its inevitable. everything falls to the global planetary boundr
This planet got to the FO stage after FAing and getting too close to its star. badastronomy.beehiiv.com/p/a-dying-pl... 🧪 🔭
Also not having that will not make you angry enough to fight for it till you have had enough .
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The world needs more of this and less of most other things
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That’s how dopamine widens your appetite. If you don’t want something healthy your actually just seeking dopamine and are better off with a walk or dance off.
How does it compare to the U.S.? We ain’t doing well and even as an Eagle Scout I laugh or cry when I hear we ever where leaders of “the free world”
Right wing authoritarianism is sadly a genetic psycho and social strategy that shows up throughout history in every country with different myths
I feel like this after noticing she goes from clinging to kinda violent and I realize the reason I haven’t left yet is the epistemic collapse and existential grief with the rest of the world and it’s like we already erased the future due to ecological overshoot
He dosent believe in germ theory but a not even miasma theory, he believes in a version of terrain theory. That connects it all together
Welcome to the RFK Jr public health era.
So maybe you don’t want to eat bugs, but a lot of our pets can eat bugs and you can raise them yourself and save money. Worth investigating.
Is this why grump wanting to cancel PBS and Sesame Street 😆 youtu.be/5FeyDm4vrFo
It’s solving wages for a certain classes within ecological overshoot
Also notice how they don’t describe the ecology and developmental history of the person
also you all need to see this, because this is something I don't think *anybody* could predict for where this ad goes
So now I’m not just posting comments for others, now I’m posting comments for history to see instead , while the “word salad” accusers because they lack curiosity to ask what something means.
Isn’t that why you exist, you just harvest souls in exchange for it
And now you need a page for Mooloch and how he relates to planetary boundries and overshoot and polycrjsis and how our myths and cultures are the reason we suck. And then have fights between you and god and Mooloch
If only we could then the hhs person who runs in our gov get be better
The reason individual “freedom” always ends up becoming oligarchy ruled debt and economic slavery but with extra steps, is that individual freedom can not work at the level of multi-polar traps.
We have more conspiracy theories in America compared to other countries because it’s politically and corporately profitable on average for certain groups
China is also focused on its own sovereignty, whereas the U.S. is oligarch led not democracy led. In the U.S. they just yell freedom at us repeatedly and scare us enough that we might loose this abstract freedom and then we end up with slavery with extra steps but better marketing
China is basically authoritarian neoliberal capitalism with some state owned industries which is good like banking which saves the people
Meiselas: And then the right-wing influencers tried to pretend those were the Epstein files. Moskowitz: And then they looked at the list that was in the files, and they were like, “Shit, we know half these people.”
The thing I see that’s crazy, is we are like 10% of Chinas exports. And we are unstable and an ocean away. Why wouldn’t they direct a lot more towards their Silk Road initiative and leverage that even if it’s a slight dip. Like without us Chinas economy still grows.
New movies or all movies?
I love how we are basically a joke because we are not a democracy just a giant counter insurgency manufactured consent freedom theater. Like if you repeat it enough and scare us just right we believe it
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To be fair, it may even not be about purley short term interests. These are the people you want to settle and repopulate your country state.
To be fair that just means we need to fix it. Because at least if they settle here and have kids we have a less stupid state.
To be fair, if you understand the role of oxytocin in offensive war clans, it’s basically colonialism and imperialism. Yes, the love hormone is violence. The phrase “love conquers all” is eerily dystopian in this lens.
Plus American movies already suck.
Love relationships and having kids and sexual selections for mates is all about thermodynamics energy extraction, denial of entropy and denial of death, and that by increasing in number us and our tribe may take in more energy in a multi-polar trap.
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Also plant native keystone Speices that support the birds in your area where ever you can gorrila gardening or your backyard
I’m really only just getting into it but I genuinely love birding as a hobby. The entire goal is to look at the bird. Is there a bird? There is a bird! Look at the bird! If you are very keen you can learn what to call the bird so that you can properly thank it for the joy you feel when you see it. 🪶
As a 93rd percentile extrovert I kinda just have to go look at “saying hi and kinda getting to know you” as a sort of entitlement because no body else is going to do it so I kinda have too.
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Our in field margins are starting to look great and over the last few years we’ve added them to all our fields every 90-120m. Receiving public funded support to deliver these and cover the cost allow us to deliver them. Supporting nature recovery on farms supports food security.
So what are you hopeful for?
And how do I find joy in this world, how do I find promise that I am not just subjected to constant neurodivergent micro traumas and on top of it people unwilling to deal with the problems I see. Ugh it’s like polycrisis is coming more and more and yet we are an algorithm that is overspent ourselves
I grew up in a time where Nintendo, SEGA, and Sony ruthlessly dunked on each other CONSTANTLY and it was hilarious.
So if he is playing 4 dimensional chess, what institutions and groups is he playing with and what does he realistically expect to happen? Or is it just ego fueled cognitive distortions
Prob because you stop debating facists who can only throw ad hominem attacks and lack any insight or critical thinking.
One day I’ve got to visit Lake Superior. I’m not far from Michigan (Chicago suburbs) but need to get hiking up there some how. Even once saw a guy winter surfing with a wetsuits and I’d actually be down for trying that
Thoughts on it?
An underrated driver of all the reactionary nonsense of the last decade: wealthy tech bosses deciding that their workers have become too uppity. That's a big reason the elite class didn't celebrate Biden's full-employment economy -- they don't like empowered workers! www.wsj.com/tech/tech-ca...
The argument that “we earned it and it’s our money” is oddly what keeps you from grasping class conciousness. We aren’t capitalist we are vast majority workers and we are stuck in a neoliberal system we had no power to shape or be included in just used by. It’s why we are so frustrated & burned out
So something like 40% of the 200k-500k yearly x 5 years worth of guns that are smuggled from us to Mexico cartels come from TEXAS. Like what tf are they doing about this? That ain’t an accident and oligarchs know this is happening!
Epic we will have to make our own and that’s going to go bad.
And someone was stupid enough to be like “well I’ll just buy American” and I’m like “you work in eff supply change managment, you should know when you take out the biggest supplier it reduces the total number of each type of item we produce and then supply and demand screw you over
What Italians were even crying about this? Like for real. We don’t care.
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At this point I want to be able to make skyscrapers out of mineral soil somehow in the middle of forests with train rails between buildings and we all just hang out and farm and garden for the building and go visit our freinds and play sports and stuff on the train
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I saw a commercial for a national furniture chain that began with “Beat the tariffs!” Because they know the market is about about to turn to crap.
This should be it: youtu.be/gU4x-Ox8_Qo
This is how you know they are stupid. Decarbonizing leaves more oil for later.
This should be it: youtu.be/gU4x-Ox8_Qo
Trump cuts $6B from the economy with cuts to country's biomedical innovation pipeline (every $1 of research funded by NIH generates $2.56 in economic activity)
Not sure, I did see a trans YouTube creator make a video on the “stories facists hate” and it damn near made me cry. Made me realize the types of stories we do need.
Which is bad because not like the U.S. makes much
And that 40% is just all feels and vibes and outgroup aggression and no thinking beyond identity
To be fair, California is just multi-cultural Human Resources neoliberalisms, the red states are just dominating justification neoliberalism. People are shafted in both as class conflict occurs in both.
He sounds ignorant to me. Like no concept of how global markets work. Like it dosent matter if you can go to dominos. If you dramatically change the input and output of countries you fundamentally change the markets it’s wht western sanctions against socialist countries is so damaging.
China will just give aid to other countries and build relationships their and give them more debt
It’s stupid to have a war on this. Like even if you hate women for what ever reason and you spend any amount of time with them. You at least want their health regulated enough to not cause you further grief
Also the problem with individual ethics is they still lead to everybody at their throat in multi-polar traps and VUCA BANI worlds
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt: "There will be no unilateral reduction in tariffs against China." As predicted, it was yet another pump and dump on the stock market. Endless market manipulation.
Like the idea of love conquering all is a scary quote when you realize how oxytocin in offensive warclan coalitions actually makes them better at exploiting the enemies and create lead by example behaviors
And the main reason I won’t throw out ethics entierly is because it’s tech a systems thinking version of morality. Morality is just evolutionary survival and mating strategy within a multi-polar trap of global anarchy & we are not a social species we are a coalitional one. Oxytocin=colonization
On some level you need to deal with the hard global audit limits of planetary boundries and other feedback loops and the future is local that’s an idea that keeps coming up wheather we want it to be or it’s forced on us
Ethics and morality is meaningless in a world with energy and material constraints and not educating on class conflict. Energy and materials and polyvagal and terrror managment is what drives humans.