That’s a heartbreaking title.

I’m impressed with Hegseth’s performance. I didn’t think Drunky McStumbles could make it to the podium let alone not slur his speech into oblivion.

That prediction markets even exist blows my mind. Every bet has to have a counterparty. What counterparty wants to go up against the asymmetry of insider information? It’s insane.

♬♫

Billie, you’re a genius

Enough to be a fool

A fool to gamble everything

And never know the rules

Some of us can only live

In songs of love and trouble

Some of us can only live in bubbles

♫♪

The Magnetic Fields - My Only Friend

winning

I remember reading an article is a pop psychology magazine talking about the emergence of what was dubbed “climate anxiety”. The APA decided it did not belong in the DSM-V because it was not a mental illness, rather a natural healthy response to an overwhelmingly damaging and intractable threat.

Or just dump them. (Drugs and Alcohol) /s

“Set nav straight into the sun. Maximum thrust!”

True. True. But to be fair, the old one wasn’t fit for purpose either. Lovely science, but still couldn’t do anything about it.

I’d rather see a full curve on a chart from 0-100, preferably with multiple curves for outdoor temp variance. -20, -10, 0 10, 20, 30. I don’t want cherry picked data. Give me the full picture, in one picture.

it’d be nice to have some idea of where might be a good place to move to, if this is as inevitable as it sounds.

Not as nice as you think. You could dodge harsher winters, an energy crunch and crop failures, just to move to somewhere with heatstress, drought and cropfailures.

We must not view climate as the thing to watch. It’s one part of a larger complex system of systems. Changes in the AMOC can trigger changes elsewhere, and more importantly, elsewhere is changing on its own too. Not just because of emissions.

It’s a lot to digest, especially if you don’t have a background in ecology, biology, environmental sciences or systems theory. But a solid easy framework is planetary boundaries.

It’s all 9 boundaries together (plus any new ones discovered) that’s going to pickle us. We are exceeding 7 of the 9 identified so far and there are and will be severe consequences for having exceeded our planet’s limits.

I worry about climate change A LOT. I worry about Ecological Overshoot and Collapse due to Planetary Boundaries even more.

Or join the draft (selective service). Honour the oath and defend the constitution against ALL ENEMIES foreign AND DOMESTIC.

For what? Using? Selling? Producing?Doping garlic butter that goes on your lobster tails?

Knowing what we know now, If you aren’t building to passivehouse levels of performance, you are building to catastrophic failure.

Building codes gotta change 40 years ago. Today is the next best time to upgrade building codes.

All True. But the severity of consequences, who feels them and how do we fix or replace the systems are all soft problems. They all have solutions, and aren’t any harder than we want to make them.

It’s worth delineating hard problems vs soft problems. A hard problem are things like climate change. Fundamental, unavoidable issues with systemic consequences for everyone.

Then there are soft problems. where man made systems abused by man made corruption become unstable. They really boil down to who is holding left holding the bag. The rich wants to be bailed out and leave the poor to suffer the consequences. The poor think the rich who shit the bed can lie in it.

Debt bombs are a soft problem. Nothing to get worked up over. Just be ready to practice what you preach when the soft problems come.

A trade partner of second last resort.

…twwwooo weeeeks…

Before I answer that, look at everything in your posessions and confirm you have nothing made in China. You practice what you preach right? You’re not comitting hypocrisy right? Right?

No one wants close ties with China. “Calibrated trade” is a wise move to diversify away from greater threats. It is also a small part in building resilient supply chains the removes existing strategic dependence on China.