https://hilariusbookbinder.substack.com/p/the-average-college-student-today
This is about college students today, but also describes us…
I think humanity is going to end not screaming and fighting AI terminator machines, but just slack jawed with half lidded eyes staring at our phones as we starve to death.
Even the far left liberals are sounding the alarm on the threat to our species from population collapse.
“Last year, strollers for dogs outsold those for babies. She said, “I’m not saying people value dogs more than they value children.” She paused to gesture to the other patrons: “But all you have to do is look around.””… read more “The End of Children | The New Yorker”
We are currently at an overall historical low temperature here on Earth. Sure, temperatures have ticked up slightly over the last two hundred years, but overall it’s near an all time low.
During earlier eras, the planet was far greener overall as the amount of carbon dioxide (plant food) in the atmosphere was far higher. Temperatures were much warmer, so water evaporated off the oceans in higher quantities and there was far more rainfall.… read more “World History Theory”
War is one of the constants of history and has not diminished with civilization or democracy. In the last 3,421 years of recorded history only 268 have seen no war.
https://geohot.github.io//blog/jekyll/update/2025/03/03/demoralization-is-just-beginning.html
Summarized from FB discussion in comments:
Demanding more funding is a common approach of dictators; stopping funding and returning money to tax payers gives the power back to the people. Then if you want to fund universities, you can. If I want to fund food production, I can. I like to make my own choices, don’t you?… read more “Far left ideology and it’s effects”