Sample size of this study?

…that’s just civil war with extra steps

I’m going to call them “AI zombies”.

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/dickensian

The long shadow of “I just wanna grill” is made of wildfire smoke.

Most people don’t care or have no power.

It gets worse when you realize antivaxxers exist.

Their previous excuse was that Musk was going fund their competitors in primaries. Didn’t Musk back out recently?

Even without greed, even if these companies were non-profit, the risks would remain and the future would be uninsurable. Insurance costs need to be reduced by reducing the real risks: from not building in a tinder box to building fortified/resistant constructions. Yes, that is going to be much more expensive. That is the point too: the construction developers are grifting the buyers by selling constructions that don’t have a long-term future. People wouldn’t pay a boatload of money for temporary constructions, which is what is happening when you run the risk of storms or fires destroying your building every couple of years.

What this means is that building development needs to happen in safe places and with a high-density that reduces costs. The bourgeois lifestyle is not and can never be scaled up for the masses.

I got a hydraulic mechanical standing desk (smaller area), but I also worked with two old nightstands stacked on top of each other, with a larger chipboard board on top for which I did the edge banding.

I dont think the weather is going to be our worst problem. Its going to be ourselves.

Climate is not weather per se. Climate heating and chaos means that drinking water and food are going to become an issue; that’s while you’re taking in smoke pollution outdoors and sweltering indoors.

I’m not concerned with AI so much for the simple fact that electric grids, data centers and even chip production aren’t going to do well in a hot and chaotic climate.

Those 2050s are going to be coming sooner than expected.

The current adult generations don’t comprehend that they’re sacrificing the children’ future (and thus, the children) in order to maintain their Business As Usual lifestyle and dreams of being rich. It’s all “what about me tho?”, “it’s someone else’s problem”, “it wasn’t me!” All of this is very easy to do. It’s like stealing candy potable water from a baby.

I got a hydraulic mechanical standing desk (smaller area), but I also worked with two old nightstands stacked on top of each other, with a larger chipboard board on top for which I did the edge banding.

I was referring to the origin of domesticated grasses. If you want to understand the origin of grasses, that’s a different set of literature.

Grasses are older than humans.

My point is that, if you study land ecology and history of ecosystems, and if you study human civilizations, you’ll see a pattern of “those who learn to keep the forest ecosystems survive for longer”. It becomes more obvious when you understand the role of forests in the water cycle over land. Those who cut or burned the forests tend to fail; cutting trees isn’t necessarily the end of a forest, but pastoralists ensure that forests end by coming in with herds of ruminants and spreading grasslands. Ruminants, fire, axes.

There’s an ancient war between forests and grasslands. https://www.annualreviews.org/content/journals/10.1146/annurev-earth-040809-152402

Humans are mobile jungle forest, that’s our ape origin. So it is depressing that we betrayed our niche. There are consequences.

It is a complicated relationship. I’ve argued before that we should not have betrayed the forest. This recurrent betrayal is a great way to map out our path to extinction.

But it’s worth mentioning how we got that fat grass : The Origin of Cultivation and Proto-Weeds, Long Before Neolithic Farming | PLOS One

Organ farming is certainly a real possibility, but I think that it requires a quality of human capital welfare to ensure a high quality animal product. It doesn’t work with poor nutrition, pollution, various diseases damaging the merchandise. There was an nice SciFi movie about this: The Island (2005).

It’s ethicswashing or humanewashing.

To be clear, extensive animal farming isn’t humane. People just DECLARE that it is. As someone from a “less developed”, I’ve seen up close the remnants of traditional extensive animal farming and it’s as brutal as the industrial version, often worse by “welfare” standards.

It’s all marketing, bucolic pastoralist aesthetics feeding nostalgia and protofascism.

And this “factory farming bad” shtick is even more perverse. Like the Carnivore movement, they hide the simple fact that it’s this conspicuous consumption is a status symbol. It doesn’t stop at “welfare”, it’s a race, they keep going… regenerative, grass fed, unvaxxed, hormone free, raw milk, hand milked etc. It will never stop.

More perverse still is that making this most resource intensive meat and milk into the most sought after food product is going to increase food insecurity, it’s going to cause famine and conflict. The more resources are used to please the rich consumers’ idea of a “pure and superior diet” and their fantasies of being God’s chosen rulers of the food chains, the less food there is to go around. Which is how I see conflicts like the invasion of the Amazon forest or the war in Sudan where the rich meat eaters of United Arab Emirates are demanding grass fed meat and empowering the RSF (pastoralist) militias to “cleanse” the black agriculturalist population from the land.

Fascism is carnism in decline.

from kurzgesagt

red flag

Workers need to learn about what a birth strike is.