Change is the Only Constant
adaptivism, climate, science, society
Change is the Only Constant
A Mole Infiltrated the Highest Ranks of American Militias. This Is What He Found.
Joshua Kaplanpropublica.org
Fascinating
“Sometimes people let the same problem make them miserable for years when they could just say, "So what."
"My mother didn't love me." So what.
"My husband won't ball me. So what.
"I'm a success but I'm still alone." So what.
I don't know how I made it through all the years before I learned how to do that trick. It took a long time for me to learn it, b
I wish, sometimes, briefly, I wasn’t so aware, informed, sensitive, self important, arrogant, compassionate, and (obviously) emotional. It is very painful to be a highly sensitive person. I’ve spent many years actually trying to dumb/numb/slow myself down.
I call this the high price of awareness.
I wonder what the experience of life is like for all t
... See moreYou actually can contemplate creating a new (cognitive) foundation for the world, something that vast numbers of very different people will actually want to count on. It’s been done before. It doesn’t require anything literally impossible. It’s not wilder than stuff respectable people discuss freely like “building AGI” or “creating a new and better... See more
How does one prepare for a reorganization of the way we organize as a society? Culture? Nation? Species? How many OTHERs will be lost in the process?
Kids - the end of our way of life as we know it is fast approaching - in our lifetimes. Adapt now for long term survival.
If your loved ones wondered how much you value them, now they know.
youtu.beOoomph. Liberal rage, but kiiiinda justified.
Biodiversity loss is a climate change multiplier. Every species we lose, every ecosystem we destroy weakens the planet’s resilience capacity.
Diverse forests store more carbon than monocultures. They're also more resilient to extreme weather events. Even soil biodiversity determines how much carbon remains locked underground rather than in our atmos... See more
Diverse forests store more carbon than monocultures. They're also more resilient to extreme weather events. Even soil biodiversity determines how much carbon remains locked underground rather than in our atmos... See more
open.substack.com
Existential pain on max
“There is nothing quite so useless as doing with great efficiency something that should not be done at all.“ -P Drucker
The ultimate tool for corporations to sustain a culture of this sort is to develop the 40-hour workweek as the normal lifestyle. Under these working conditions people have to build a life in the evenings and on weekends. This arrangement makes us naturally more inclined to spend heavily on entertainment and conveniences because our free time is so ... See more