Earth Abides

Its mostly slow. Apocalypse genre, without the insanely selfish caricature of the personal relationships between people.

Oh wow! I read Little Kiwi’s Matariki to my whanau all the time, but had no idea how to find it in the sky. When the clouds go, i’ll have another look!

Creepy. Looks a bit like Daniel Radcliffe?

Is it a book about how Russia becomes the world’s hegemon, or how it beats the US/West/Atlanticists?

What does it say in relation to East Asia?

Most interestingly China, considering today’s context, but thinking about the time it was written Japan might’ve been more pertinent in their thinking.

Only a communist deals in absolutes! … wait… thats not it…

Good luck getting insurance to cover that!

Yeah, but they need to be sneakier as they steal away through the grocery store doors. Those doors are a funnel for awkward moments.

What i hate is when someone gets offended i don’t initially recognise them when they’ve got half their face covered.

Take the fucken glasses off and say hi properly you awkward ass bastards! I got shit to do, and i don’t need to feel bad for the next half hour because you made me squint to recognise who the fuck you are!

What matters for an economy, and therefore the value of its currency, is the value they create–simply put, how much resources they exploit and how efficiently

Yeah, thats the way it ought to be, its actually slightly different, and is very important in the context of what a country does to undermine it’s own currency, or even a companies director does to the value of their company.

Value is a question of perception. How much are people/investors willing to tolerate and still perceive the value in a good or service or currency.

Its the reason the massive quantitative easing ended up spreading so widely as a tool in the last 15 years. In the beginning it was assumed that the massive ‘money printing’ would lead to massive devaluations, which didn’t really happen as expected. Thats because the reaction in value percieptions in those currencies ended being more flexible than central bankers and economists initially feared.

The perception of value played a role in how long it took for people in the US to recognise the real estate bubble exploding in 07-08. It plays a role in really any bubble, and is why prices drastically plummet instead of taper. The value perception changes en masse, and bang, everybody runs for the door.

One more interesting example is the value perception comparison of essential workers in the COVID19 Pandemic compared to normal times.

Oh wow! Okay very interesting, i’ll have to keep a look out when i’m bush walking.

Is that a wind direction indicator? Or just an ornamental cap for fun?

What will they do!? Cross the Rubicon?!

It can sometimes grow to quite a large fund for people.

Damian Gordon saved $46,000. He described it as a hobby for him. What a legend!

Yeah, to add a different perspective, but largely agreeing.

The Americans have unnecessarily squeezed this new regime in Syria for months more than they needed to, international aid agencies that could provide some stability in the country haven’t been able to enter due to these sanctions, Rest is Politics UK spoke in better detail about this a few months back.

Biden had a smallish wondow of a chance to give this regime a go, Trump has had ample time. In this case, it seems America’s corruption may have circumvented their stubborn prejudice and evangelism.

Bad action; good result? On balance at least?

Lot of good advice here about curation, thats definitely an option to leverage your subscribed feed.

Another option, is to remove yourself from the largest server (lemmy world), look at your options on other instances, theres hundreds. The label to the right of usernames should denote what instance people are connecting from.

Some examples are blahaj, midwest.social, sopuli, feddit…

The links below have lists of a lot of the available instances,

Lemmyverse.net

Fedidb

Advantages of Choosing a Smaller Server

The experience of the ‘Local’ tab seems to be genuinely different from Lemmy World.

Lemmy World probably doesn’t look too different whether you sort by the ‘all’ tab or ‘local’ tab, so you really only have the ‘subscribe’ tab to find and hone your niche on the network.

Going for a smaller, but active in its own right, instance means you suddenly have a ‘local’ tab that is highly differentiated from the wider lemmy network, andgoing along with that its often a bit less political.

I’d use my own as an example here, but we’ve just had a major election in Australia, so its been pretty political lately, i’m expecting that to subside now that the chooks are counted.

In darkness freedom dies.

Interesting, i’d have thought housing/cost of living would’ve been on a list like that. I thought it was a fairly big issue going into the Canadian election?

What is a piece of paper worth in this Age.

The Americans have just pissed on a lot of international trade agreements, and have had a soft stance of ‘rules for thee, but not for me’, for the whole post war period. The Russians, don’t stand by anything it seems. China has simply ignored their international trade agreements at times.

The planet turns, power fluctuates. Ukraine might not always be so reliant on the USA as it is. And the interests of their next partners may be far more closely aligned.

The worlds rules are changing as we speak. No idea where it ends up, it largely depends on the decisions of many national leaders, but i’m certain agreements made between countries in this time, means less, and is less enforceable than they were a decade or more ago.

So no Jewish peoples lived there before the State of Israel you reckon?.. hmm

Leaving the above aside, because its a dead end for both of us. The removal of any peoples, just like Israel is trying to do to the Palestinians now, won’t lead to a peaceful future.

Take it from a person whose a product of colonisations, invasions, and genocides. The marks aren’t erased by moving the opposing people on. History is always remembered, something Israel is going to learn the hard way.

The only options for the future are a form of historical pragmatism, or a continuing series of violent crimes against each other, with the turns of history favouring one population with more strength over the other at different times.

Colour me shocked, public transport? A thing? Gadzooks! /j

There is a weird internet cult about him, true. But the things he said were important, adding greatly to the body of thought that makes the world we live in today.

Its pretty flippant to disregard his words on the control of resources, just because he never sat behind the wheel of the 20th Century cart.