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In the grand scheme this is all fleeting. Humanity is fleeting. The earth will continue, it will heal, trees will eventually take over. The earth has patience, more than we can comprehend. Long after we're gone it will still be here, it will be green and lush and vibrant, life will be abundant again, and we will be little more than a few ancient scars on it.

That personally brings me peace. No matter how dark things get it's nothing on the immense scale that is out planets lifetime. 5 years? 10? 20? 100? 1000? It's nothing to the earth. Humanity's <10,000 years means nothing to the planet in the scale of millions of years. Even climate change, the effects to us will be horrendous, but to the earth it will keep happily spinning, and it will get over it and correct itself.

I’m having goulash this evening, and the next couple of weeks. The world could go up in flames and hell freeze over and I wouldn’t care.

A few somewhat recent ones of different magnitudes:

• Cancer, despite still being the leading cause of deaths worldwide, is seeing a downward trend in mortality rates across most subtypes
• The 2025 Nobel Prizes are currently being awarded
• The Greek Parthenon recently became scaffold free for the first time in 15 years, apparently restoration is using all original pieces as well
• EU has fairly recently revised the Energy Performance of Buildings Directive which will require new buildings to have zero-emission

History always repeats itself.

Things get bad, then they get REALLY bad, then usually violence solves it and things get good again.

I believe historically we are still at the most peaceful time in a global scale. Doesn’t mean things aren’t bad or getting worse, but I guess we’ve got that going for us?

The only way out is through, where there's a will, there is a way.

I don't live in the USA.

Humans die eventually.