Tell that to my cat who keep trying to go outside when its freezing and its winter. Wtf
this post was submitted on 02 Feb 2025
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Thinking about slow-moving effects, I have a theory that exposure to fiction is one reason people feel inadequate and depressed. For most of human history our idea of what it meant to be normal came from real people around us. We didn't know any fictional characters except for a handful of stories told around the fire. After radio was invented we got to know a lot more fictional characters, a lot faster and more intimately than we get to know most real people. Then television made it more vivid because we could see them. We think of many of these unreal people as our friends. Some of them have more impact on us than real people do. It's a lot easier to feel boring and inadequate than it was when we didn't feel like we knew people whose lives are so much more dramatic and interesting than ours. I think this is a large part of why it feels like failure to have an unremarkable job or date average people. It's a very slow-moving social change nobody would have seen coming.
It's still not warm enough for population over a tipping point, you are just more aware of the boiling apparatus. I believe humanity will jump once it gets warm enough, much like a frog does, even in a slowly boiling pot of water. I trust humanity, after all we've survived so far, our ancestors overcoming much much worse. Can you imagine living in feudalism? Or sword fighting in medieval times? Or when we had to hunt?
We'll definitely jump when it gets hot enough, the question is if we'll jump before the logistics and mechanics of solving the problem take longer than it takes the world to become uninhabitable.
“The guy trying to help me out of a pot is a different type of left than me, so i don’t want his help, and that other guy below me is also a different type of left so fuck him. Anyone who is slightly right or left of me is a fascist and I’m gonna enjoy watching them boil”
-the American left in 2024
yeah pretty much.
They say education is the most important thing.
I'm inclined to agree, but we might honestly be past democracy in a post truth world, i'm not sure we deserve the rights we have.
I'm trying! I'm working towards proving I'm Polish-by-descent, then I'll be able to hold an EU passport. It's slow going.
And in the mean time, I'm in a trans-friendly state, can pass as cis and hetero, and I'm white. I have a go bag and a US passport that matches my birth gender. My next steps are improving my food stores to protect against tariff impacts.
The only things that tie me to this country are my friends (who are also looking into exit plans and whom I talk to online more than in person) and my dog (I imagine moving to a new country with a dog is even harder than finding an apartment with a dog). Oh, and I really love my job and my coworkers, but my job might go away with all of the societal upset.
Just short FYI, I don't know exactly your situation so I won't go to deep into it, but moving to another country with a dog is no big deal. If you are worried about the dog, they just want to be with you, where ever you go.
Thanks :) I'm probably a bit wary after by watching friends jump through hoops to move to Japan with their pup. Japan has many hoops because they're rabies-free, which, I didn't think Europe has the same concern.
My pup is also 16, so sadly I won't have to worry about him forever.
USA != America
i don't know US pedons being obideint dogs is anything new... look nazi germany and look at russia. same basic premises, daddy worshiping and oligarch bootlicking.
in other words, this is the human condition because normie needs to feelz good.