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Cake day: October 23rd, 2024

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  • all the media on this has been interesting, and I don’t know how much to apportion to general slowfootedness, and being out of touch - and how much to blame the billionaires pushing narratives.

    Popular support doesn’t make murder right or just. But it is irrational for society to remain placid whilst being robbed of resources by a few bad actors.

    In other periods of human history, they would have been swiftly ostracised- if they were lucky.







  • The question is better but thus : what lead you to doomerism ?

    The answer will almost certainly not be your lived experience or the lived experience of your loved ones. Instead the answer will probably be media consumption.

    It is now well documented that news has both a negative bias, and also that excessive consumption is detrimental to health : https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7187375/

    So, :

    1. read less news.
    2. focus on your daily life in your community
    3. Learn meditate

    Secondly, and don’t take this the wrong way, but you mention the ‘the last moments of society’ which is a very privileged and arrogant view to take, when there are people who have lived through war, lived through famine, lived through brutal oppression and come out the other side .

    In fact, the dystopian picture you paint, is the lived reality for some people TODAY. So check your privilege.



  • I live on the route have used the train. I’m not an enthusiast, but it’s a beautiful piece of history.

    They offer regular events, ghost trains, Santa trains, 1940s weekends where everyone dresses up in period costume. They even had a tank delivered one year and it was so heavy it ruined the high street.

    Most of the staff are volunteers .

    Well worth a visit if that’s your thing, and definitely working preserving, regardless of cost .