The optimist in me is thinking about how fuel insecurity and pricing concerns might drive more green investment though.
People will act in their self-interest easily vs doing it for the environment.
Getting into a war with a country that has significant means to completely disable most of the world's oil supply due to it's geographical location for reasons that have not yet been made clear might have been a terrible idea... who knew?
Important to note as well, that is with enacting some of the most punitive restrictions to try and remove people from the benefit wherever they can.
So the actual figures of people needing support are likely higher.
Working with profoundly deaf clients and requiring a translator has motivated me to start learning NZSL.
It also made me wonder how accessible therapy is for deaf people due to the way it changes the dynamic to have a third party present. (I coach, so it's a bit different).
Having a lot of friends and clients in the tech sector, and what is happening now feels very similar to the 2008 financial crisis when I was in Sydney where we would have a BBQ anytime someone got made redundant, and it ended up being multiple times a week.
It is so grim.
Thank god we spent the last few years massively converting industry to renewables and incentivising household solar. We'd be in so much trouble right now.
Working multiple jobs... polyworking.
It's not fetch.
Why does it seem like there is a push to name acts most of us just did without having to give it a name.
Thinking of bed rotting etc.
Importantly for me, he strongly advocated for trans people and their rights, and was steadfast in his support throughout and after his campaign.
These 'culture war' issues are bullshit and strong leaders know that and refuse to compromise on their positions.
He didn't run on not being Cuomo, while highlighting his faults. He ran a campaign based on fixing the problems of his city.
He did it in a completely hostile environment as an "on-paper" candidate that seemed like he couldn't win the campaign - a young Muslim self-proclaimed socialist.
If you want to win on the left, just run Mamdani's campaign.
IE. Have values you don't compromise on, and have plans for making things better and stick to them.
Be authentically a person who is trying to do well.
In the top panel, a female doctor wearing scrubs and a stethoscope looks toward her male colleague, asking, "Remind me again why we picked this specialty?" In the bottom panel, the male doctor, also in scrubs, looks back at her and answers, "Because we all have ADHD, and anything else would be boring as hell."
Still love this scene:
The Pitt deserves all the praise it gets.
One of the best dramas ever written for TV with incredible character writing.
Hard to pick a favourite on this show because I love them all.
But Dana is just so complete and nuanced... and impeccably portrayed by Katherine LaNasa.
Having the worst people you can imagine in control of the most dangerous technology ever designed certainly seems to add weight to the idea we are in hell already.
AI fosters learned helplessness in a pretty extreme way, and it seems to do it across multiple domains - emotional, cognitive, reasoning.
Outsourcing key components of humanity to a lying machine is a recipe for disaster.
I talk about AI a lot because it's frustrating watching reckless people steer people toward bad outcomes for society as well as at the individual level.
I have a deep sense of dread about the inevitability of uptake.
The cognitive costs of using AI do not make up for the benefits.
Left wing politicians need to offer hope, material improvement and a reason to vote for, not just against to voters. They must also master the art of saying "get a load of this fucken guy" about their right wing opponents, many of whom fail to pass the uncanny valley test.
These Ted Faro fuckers are going to get us all killed.
I wouldn't be surprised if the school bombing was a misidentification of AI as it had similar buildings and was located near another military barracks.
Wild idea for the future - have things be less shit all the time.
This is an organisation that paid it's football players $324 million in 2024.
But it can't afford more than $15 an hour for the most well known cheerleaders in the US.
Basically, Dallas Cowboy Cheerleaders are paid a very low wage $15 an hour (, and do it usually on top of their normal jobs, sometimes working up to 40 hours a week.
They are informed that the prestige of being a DCC and the perks that come with that is compensation.
They fight back...
Seriously impressed with how well Netflix managed to detail how cult like and exploitative/racist/sexist the US is by default.
Wife was suggested to watch "America's Sweethearts" about the Dallas Cheerleaders, and it ends up being one of the most blistering critiques of American work/grind culture.
Will someone please read the exact purpose of the second amendment and then uphold the constitution.
"Let's make the most extreme form of neurotypical society"
My internet use is down about 60% since the rise of AI slop.
There are two websites I bother to check regularly.
AI is the death knell of knowledge and interesting information.
chat should we absorb our citizenry's most intimate data into a foreign country's widescale-human-rights-abusing extrajudicially-executing concentration-camp-running racial-pogrom street-abduction security apparatus
Chapter 1 of Moby Dick, page 1 The phrase ‘Call me Ishmael’, the first sentence of the book, is highlighted in blue, with careful highlighting on the very big C at the start. Above this, written in ballpoint pen ‘His name’
Love the glimpse into the beautiful mind that notated this used copy of Moby Dick I got
I did Na zi that coming.
