October 11, 2023

This Maeve Higgins column wrt Musk has always seemed spot on

https://www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/columnists/arid-40861760.html

I don't get the fuss..He was born into wealth, piled on early to the electric car (kicking one of the two actual inventors out), does histrionic stuff with sinks etc. and posts a lot online.
He probably has a certain shrewdness wrt business deals and even there look at Twitter..I was never on Twitter-doesn't look appealing-but from what I can tell, such as it was, he pretty much broke it.
The adulation he gets seems ott.

Anyway he seems prepared to single handedly "repopulate" an already overcrowded planet groaning under resource wars (too..damn..many..people and mostly wanting too damn much-when it is an option anyway-not that I am not guilty of consumerism, though I do try..the planet cannot take it and the humans don't seem to exactly be getting along, but according to geniuses like Musk underpopulation is the real issue. Of course except for people like me, no one thinks about the effects on non-human life* which is always at the receiving end of our species' destructive trek through space and time)...the Trump of the tech world..Shrug..

*: We are basically turning the planet into one large garbage pile (not that anyone notices or cares)
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-3010-5

September 25, 2023

No way..she probably fell asleep in there ;-).nt

August 15, 2023

Hi Rhi

Good to be back..How are ya ..

August 15, 2023

That is sickening (quite literally too)

I purchased and via a Walmart affiliate (yes I get the irony, but well you use chemo to fight cancer don't you ;-/?) a couple of books on degrowth by Kohei Saito and Jason Hickels. It is the first solution I have seen for climate change that makes sense. Hell I support a lot of (typically smaller) industries-vegan food and medicinal plants (weed, psychedelics etc.), mom and pop stores if there are any around these days (it would be so mean not to) and I am at least open-minded to some entertainment as a buffer till we transition to a not sick society where we can entertain ourselves without giant deregulated industries telling us how. For all that in any scientific sense, if we have the sense to see that almost everything is finite, we should see past these moronic infinite growth policies.

The Saito books were so dense that I have not gotten past the first chapter in the first one.

I am surprised that graphic is still up. I would not have thought that that lout who runs Twitter would permit it.

Edit: And most of those nonhuman animals live in those horrifying factory farms while a lot of those humans live in poverty or under stress..a very sensible society the GDP and hyperscale obsessed morons have built for us. Shrug..I reject that style of thinking which is why I am very relaxed these days. Of course we are all bounded by the laws of finiteness one way or another...I do like self organized order over then chaotic, overcrowded world we have..

I support Michael Moore's Planet of the Humans, but a more appropriate term may be Planet of the Slums and Slumlords ;-/.

August 10, 2023

That is sad.nt

August 10, 2023

I have long felt that vaccines are not enough

The root issue is those inhumane damn wet markets and the next pandemic will probably come out of either those or those horrific factory farms.