GreenEngineer
Professional engineer and permaculture designer fascinated by the thermodynamics & metabolics of infrastructure and the built environment.
Humanity's future lies in cooperation with natural systems. Stop fighting with the planet - it is bigger than you!
- The OTHER most common failure mode is asking wrong questions because you CAN’T ask the right ones - because they have unpalatable political, social, or (usually) economic implications or consequences.
- Hey everyone. Will Stancil, as he does on occasion, just said something EXTREMELY important, insightful and smart. This is why the market hasn’t collapsed yet, despite the fact that it really should have. The traders are all drunk on animal spirits and are mainlining hopium. Read the short 🧵.
- This is such a good point. The markets are weirdly resilient because traders are behaving like degenerate gamblers: worried that the next bet will be the one that hits big, and they’ll miss it, rather than the fact that they’re betting their whole house on a longshot that’s looking worse by the day.
- And that’s what it’s going to take, because there is absolutely no case for a local newspaper under a free market incentive structure. The advertising model doesn’t work at that scale. It barely worked before Craigslist.
- Just your daily reminder that all this MAGA support for Israel is deeply and fundamentally antisemitic.
- There’s a direct, straight and quite heavy-scribed line between this and what President Muskkk is doing to the country.
- It’s either SkyDaddy or CloudDaddy. In the meantime, our way of life IS coming to an end, just not in the way or for the reasons they think. We are entering the Anthropocene, and nothing will ever again be as easy as it used to be. Thanks in no small part to these techbro asshat fucknuts.
- As I write in my newest article (linked below), some scholars refer to evangelical Christian Zionists as the "Armageddon Lobby." But there's a new Armageddon Lobby that's taken hold in Silicon Valley. These people embrace what Rushkoff calls The Mindset. www.truthdig.com/articles/the...
- Incredible that people think this is an either/or. Yes, Trump is uniquely awful, and we should absolutely criticize him as a matter of policy and political praxis. But he is ALSO a symptom of longstanding patterns of rot in our society and politics, and getting rid him is a start, not an end.
