Not only is it stupid for exaggeration but for also glossing over the idea that it’s logical, sensible or moral for any person to own so much wealth that they would never be able to enjoy even just 1% of that during a single lifetime.

It’s completely absurd also from the thought that as one person owns enough wealth to pay for the lives of millions of people … millions of people are living in complete poverty and starvation.

We look through ancient history and laugh at the thought of our ancestors who worshipped kings, queens, god men, emperors and all powerful leaders … we’re still doing the same thing.

These thoughts don’t just reflect on people like Musk but on all of us for thinking and accepting that this is all normal behavior for what we all like to think is a modern sophisticated society.

Lol … society is suffering from the same short comings and ignorance humanity has always dealt with.

Our made up kings and queens believe they own the world and are surprised when they don’t have full control over anything or anyone.

Swappable hard drives

I have a ThinkPad with easy access to the hard drive. It’s one screw, remove a small panel and slide out the hard drive, slide in a new hard drive and reinstall the panel and screw. It all takes about a minute.

I have a drive for my Linux setup and another for windows.

I gave up setting up dual boot setups because I’m not as skilled or capable and I’ve lost entire setups in the past due to updates and changes and it was constantly frustrating for me. So I figured that just swapping hard drives was the easiest for me. No configuration, no changes and neither OS can interfere with one another.

I use my Linux as my daily driver for everything and windows when I need something from windows. I only ever use windows maybe once a month or once every second month. I spend more time regularly updating windows than in actually using it.

Mining CEO: is there a cheaper way to deliver this mineral rich material to the surface of the earth?

Mining scientist: YES! We can redirect the asteroid towards the planet and make it land on the surface!

Mining CEO: how much will this cost?

Mining scientist: probably billions of lives.

Mining CEO: … No no … I mean how much money will this save us and how much money will we make?

I do agree that we are very inventive, capable and imaginative when it comes to solving great problems.

Unfortunately we are also capable of becoming very destructive, ignorant, selfish and absolutely brutal to one another especially under a lot of stress and anxiety.

My greatest fear in the coming decades is mass migration and entire populations of people moving to places where they won’t be welcome, and people in places where everyone is relocating to worried that it will engage endanger their survival. The biggest problems we’ll face won’t be environmental… they will be political and social.

We don’t need a higher birth rate … we need a better quality of life for everyone.

Deniers are the people in the car who saw the sign and didn’t tell anyone

Scientists are the people in the car who told everyone about the sign they saw 30 minutes ago but everyone ignored them and didn’t believe them.

We can’t see or judge the tipping point anymore because we already passed it.

It’s like looking for that highway road sign without realizing you drove past it half an hour ago.

Emphasis on … OPENLY

There’s still plenty of individuals out there who choose to keep their sexuality, identity and preferences to themselves, either for personal, social, societal, political, or religious reasons.

I’m no fan of Russia … I’m just stating my opinion because I don’t want to die in a nuclear holocaust because everyone didn’t want to see reason.

There’s only one country in modern history that has spread global influence and threats in every part of the world, imposed, threatened, created and caused violence everywhere for decades while imposing their financial, political and economic powers on everyone everywhere for all of modern history …

… and it isn’t the Russians.

It’s amazing to see how down voted a contrary opinion can be in this subject.

It’s a little easier to understand if you reversed the situation.

How would the US react if the Russians supported Mexico in joining a military pact against the US, so that the Russians could build military bases and install short range nuclear weapons in Mexico and point then at the US? What would the reaction be if Russian then spent billions of dollars financing the Mexicans from any kind of military aggression from the US?

You can’t threaten someone with a gun and not expect them to eventually shoot you.

It doesn’t matter how anyone feels about my opinion but the more we posture with violence, lies on all sides, anger and an unwillingness to step back and find sensible solutions … the closer we get to nuclear war and the end of civilization.

Gather up as much plastic garbage as you can and burn it all in your backyard … get your neighbour to join in and have a neighbourhood bonfire … plastic only! … tires work great too because they last longer and burn stronger.

In ten years, we’ll all be looking back at how great it was in 2024

This isn’t an Israeli or American problem anymore.

It’s a world problem.

We’re all complicit in allowing one country to destroy another.

We’re all complicit in allowing a genocide to occur.

When the Jewish holocaust occurred, the world said never again. It will never cease to amaze me that the latest genocide is being perpetuated by the same people who keep reminding the world of how terrible it is for one group of people to dehumanize, disregard, dismiss and destroy another people.

The best part is that this is just run of the mill environmental imbalances for the planet. It’s faced far worse scenarios than this. Even if we caused nuclear holocaust, the planet has seen similar natural events in the past.

Even if the ocean dies right now, it’s happened before and after a few million years it all came back.

So in the scale of millions of years … the planet is just suffering from a flu.

It’s us that will be destroyed and eliminated in the process.

From the planet’s perspective, we aren’t a civilization, we’re a temporary infection.

It’s called a plutocracy … a system built on power and those who hold power.

Whatever it is … it isn’t a democracy.

And even if there were catastrophes and nuclear fallout somewhere, it would negatively affect life for a century or two in some areas but eventually everything would normalize again … and in a thousand years there would be a few signs that we had been here. And in a few thousand more, there would be no visible signs except for a few strange hills and humps. After that, archeologists would have to dig and study the soil to know that someone was here before.

We’re all going to be held hostage by these dumb wars until the US election is over.

They’re turning Palestine and Ukraine into forever wars now because they are convenient distractions for all of us from ever having to deal with the fact that we are zombie walking into our collective global environmental disaster.

Authoritarianism doesn’t just happen from the strong arm actions of a minority group in power.

Authoritarianism often takes hold because the majority of everyone just doesn’t say or do anything to stop it.

This is like looking at a distant mushroom cloud from a major nuclear explosion and telling the person next to you that “a bomb may have gone off”