I wonder if she calls him “one of the good ones”.
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Literally why the world is ending due to climate change.
The wealthy know we're heading off a cliff, but they'd rather keep the system and frantically build bunkers and buy up farmland than change course. Doing so would mean giving up the system protecting their wealth.
They'd rather let the world burn.
Western brands in general are losing market share in China.
All these companies that outsourced in the 90s and 00s are having their chickens come home to roost.
As a Lebanese born immigrant to the US, the whole “Southern Lebanon, southern Beirut” thing is peak spin.
There is no Southern Lebanon. The country is tiny.
Just say Lebanon just say, Beirut .
I stopped using Adobe products when they went to a cloud based model.
Any professional software that’s subscription based is a nightmare.
This is what happens when science is done by governments and companies dedicated to the end result.
ITER and so many other projects are littered with graft and hampered by corruption and uninterested governments.
If China can build a reactor with a Q of 10, it’s game over. The west is already getting lapped on solar and EV’s.
We’re gonna be a backwater with a bunch of bombs. Buckle up y’all.
Full on Gen X. All we HAD was arcades. I mean.. the non-arcade versions of games like Pac-Man and Space Invaders was pretty janky.
Some of my fondest memories are spending Saturday afternoons at the arcade, back when $20 in quarters could last.
So many great games! First game I could ever finish was called Space Harrier. I figured out the pattern and could finish the game on a few quarters.
I admit I was sad when arcades started to shutter.
But at what cost?
I probably had it worse than most due to my raging neurodiversity. My brain 💯 does not have enough serotonin /dopamine.
Even so it could have just been my specific brain chemistry. But it’s worth keeping in mind because there’s a framing of “safe” antidepressants.
Don’t get me wrong, I needed something at the time. In hindsight, a career change and therapy would have been the better option. I have sensory issues that cause anxiety at the best of times. I was dealing with intense personal trauma and grief. Given my situation and choices, the chemical bandaid did help.
I got prescribed a lower dose until I had the lowest. Then i split that in half. Then took it every other day.
It maybe helped some, but I still went through hell once I stopped. It was like my brain was re-wiring. It was 4-6 months of brain zaps and extreme emotions until I finally started to level out.
This sounds so cruel and dystopian.
Surge pricing is just another name for price gouging.