The final book of A Song of Ice and Fire.
Stopping Climate Change.
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The final book of A Song of Ice and Fire.
Stopping Climate Change.
Metroid Prime 4
Immortality. The tech is going to be too far away. Maybe my grandchildren.
Getting the job that I want in the field I dream of.
If you want to see an independent win the presidency, vote for the only candidate in this election who has a reasonable chance of defeating the orange fascist, then put all your energy into campaigning for an end to FPTP
That said, I've given up hope on this country every treating fascists and white supremacists how they should be treated
It feels pretty pointless to write a first book now - everyone will assume I had an LLM do it for me.
I mean if you only enter wanted to write because it would get you writers clout then sure. You can still write to engage in the creative process and make something actually meaningful
That we're gonna do something real about the whole climate change thing. We're doing a bunch of window dressing, but there are too many entrenched interests fighting it.
My current hope is that my kids (and their kids) can make the best of whatever a +2C or +4C world looks like. And we manage to survive despite any ecosystem collapses.
It's worse than that, and better at the same time.
I can't help noticing that Americans seem to see "climate change" and "the environment" as basically the same thing. That is: if you can just fix the first, you fix the second too.
But that's just not right. Climate change is only one of the problems we're facing. We could hit net zero tomorrow, or even net-minus-10% (i.e. draw down carbon), and it would do nothing at all to solve the myriad other semi-unrelated challenges. For example: deforestation, topsoil loss, freshwater depletion, overfishing, microplastic pollution, nitrogen and pesticide pollution, and of course the overarching issues of habitat loss and collapsing biodiversity.
Climate is almost a red herring. The real issue is our entire model of civilization, based on massive disruption of all kinds of natural processes.
The good news, ironically, is that the climate problem is at least somewhat fixable: just stop burning stuff (and then try to reverse the process). And despite the pessimism, we are actually making progress on this! Emissions are peaking earlier than predicted, the future temperature forecasts are better than they were a decade ago. Few people seem to know this good news. BTW: it's thanks mostly to China, without the Chinese green-tech revolution we would be in deep trouble.
The less good news is that solving climate will not solve the other problems. There are many of them and they are serious.
I've lost hope that things will ever get better. This is it, this is all life has to offer. If you don't like it, well, suck it up.
That giving of yourself and being discerning, you could make sure to find balanced relationships.
People lie, to you and to themselves. Everyone wants to say they're going to be their best person when times are tough. Reality can be quite different when the pain kicks in or dynamics change.
But at this point after countless emergencies while being the one to stand up in the end to carry the sisyphean boulders, the truth is people are going to stand back in a panic when shit hits the fan and I'm going to be the one to figure things out.
Best compromise I have settled on is surrounding myself with people who will help when I ask. It's up to me to ask, plan, and keep all our heads above water, which is exausting, but they won't blow me off.
It's the best I have been able to find of the available optional combination of traits in people i find attractive. 🙃
True human connections
Society unfucking itself.
It seems like if things get bad enough, we'd adjust, but the air became poison and still is poison from covid, something that actively affects literally everybody right now in the present regardless of grouping, and we don't just fail to address it, we sprint as hard as possible back towards trying to make things the way they were, which isn't possible with poison air, so we get...this.
It's not that covid was, it's that covid still is our dry run for climate change, and we see what people are going to do: keep shooting you and themselves in the foot, and when you point out what's going on, stab you in the face and go right back to working overtime to continue ruining things, and trying very hard to imply that they're being reasonable.
There's a really great video by Filmcow that explains how hope is a poison for the mind. I think we're living in a pretty hopeless world, and trying to desperately cling to the pretense that things will change without action from ourselves is dangerous and naive. If there's something about the world that you passionately want to change and you're not working to correct it, you will only disappoint yourself by hoping someone else will change it for you. Give up hope and embrace action.
I’d like to point out that you have only talked about hope without personal action to support a statement about hope as a whole. A better term for that would be wishful thinking. While I agree that not acting while hoping for change is foolish, I believe acting on hope can drive a person to perform beyond what would normally be achievable.
If the world is truly hopeless, then why would anybody put any effort into saving it? It seems to me that at least some level of hope for a better world or life would be a prerequisite toward making that world or life a reality.
Prior to the 2016 election, I was hopeful that the freedom caucus and the rest of the far right was getting too crazy for the general public, and that its support would collapse leading to a bit of a normalization of politics.
Wishful thinking, in retrospect.
Who'd have thought the Tea Party would look relatively sane at this point?
Some of us had that hope going into the 2004 election, but Bush got re-elected.
And we had an idea then that no matter how shitty you are as a person, run Republican and you'll somehow have a chance.
that my health will improve enough to live anything resembling a normal life. the doctors already gave up a long time ago
Until a man is twenty-five, he still thinks, every so often, that under the right circumstances he could be the baddest motherfucker in the world. If I moved to a martial-arts monastery in China and studied real hard for ten years. if my family was wiped out by Colombian drug dealers and I swore myself to revenge. If I got a fatal disease, had one year to live, devoted it to wiping out street crime. If I just dropped out and devoted my life to being bad. Hiro used to feel that way, too, but then he ran into Raven. In a way, this is liberating. He no longer has to worry about trying to be the baddest motherfucker in the world. The position is taken. The crowning touch, the one thing that really puts true world-class badmotherfuckerdom totally out of reach, of course, is the hydrogen bomb. If it wasn't for the hydrogen bomb, a man could still aspire. Maybe find Raven's Achilles' heel. Sneak up, get a drop, slip a mickey, pull a fast one. But Raven's nuclear umbrella kind of puts the world title out of reach. Which is okay. Sometimes it's all right just to be a little bad. To know your limitations. Make do with what you've got.
-Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash
gestures broadly at all things
Humanity in general. People are jerks. Maybe Agent Smith was right all along.
Other than that... Half-Life 3 ever being made.
The bullies have won. Biff Tannen is about to get elected again, and there is hardly any empathy left.
The more I aged, the more "hopes and dreams" I gave up on. I guess that's the normal human experience. You might want to be a pro in sports or a dancer or a famous doctor...but then you grow out of the age where reaching those is possible (dancing goes first...).
Other than that, I've given up on so many hopes, only to then later get back to them. Like the hope of connecting to people, or to make art, to teach,...those and more are things I gave up on and later readopted.
So give up hope, but it might just come back :)
Being young and the possibility that comes with it, I suppose. I'm not unhappy or anything, but there are times where I see the rest of my life laid out in front of me, and I'd be stupid to change it. And that's fine, but I do miss the possibility space that came with not having your shit together.
The days of having a good user interface for electronics or programs is long gone and is never coming back. To many people don't even know how to look at a user interface and know if it's good or bad. They just buy bad ones and claim it's good out good enough.
That the US will never have net neutrality as a whole. A few states might implement it but no where near enough.
The year of Linux on desktop
To it's credit, Linux at least broke the glass ceiling of that 1% and managed to get 2%.
It's something, took them almost like three some odd decades, but it's something.
Just in time for the coming irrelevance of desktop computing, you might say.
It was never going to surpass Windows or MacOS, but it has been steadily growing in usage rate. I think now it's at 5% of the market, largely off the back of Valve's Steam Decks which may or may not count as desktop by your definition.
It's just too technical to catch on for mainstream users, and that's honestly fine. I think everyone would prefer Linux offer freedom instead of simplicity.
I feel it's closer now than ever, with Steam bulldozing ahead for gaming and windows 11 being.... gestures vaguely
Next year!!!
Nothing really. There are things I don't have much faith for, and some of those are ones I used to be more hopeful of before but I haven't exactly given up on anything.
Bernie Sanders, who originally did run as an independent for the presidential election in 2016, had to turn to running as a democrat
And then he stepped down to officially endorse Hellary. I often wonder how many family members did they threaten to murder if he didn’t step down and back her.