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One doesn’t graduate from Juilliard and just leave without a flourish

Also therapy. Getting it out in one way or another helps too - ugly crying and a heavy bag has been a welcome addition, but I like journaling too. Thought I could outpace it with endurance running or endurance drinking, but neither my knees nor my stomach could keep up lol. So everything in moderation unfortunately. Also weed lol.

Yeah it’s been worse lately for sure, menty b’s used to be an annual/biannual thing but now are much more regular- for the same reasons others have mentioned- grief for a world in pain, grief for powerlessness, grief for seeing capital warp some and crush others. What’s helped? Idk. Been getting into philosophy/theology a bit and my takeaway has been, “existence is suffering, our purpose is to lessen that suffering for those around us in whatever way we can”. At its minimum that’s carrying a lighter or cash so I can share with someone who asks, and that’s led to lots of interesting conversations with people…and often hearing fun new ways how they’re being fed headlong into the woodchipper :/ BUT it’s reinforced my connection and commitment to exactly who we’re hoping to shape a better world for.

TLDR: life is an endless cycle of suffering, but as you have the capacity, you can be a port in the storm for others and thereby find solace in their camaraderie. It doesn’t fix the suffering, but it gives a small ember of hope.

Ptarmigan are ptotally ptubular

Hey nice to meet you folks, Ray Tracing here - director of photography- nice to see my work appreciated

Shit someone please remind me to find the newspaper clipping I dug out of the walls from the 1930s - it’s essentially “hmm this hitler guy seems like bad news but let’s see where this goes”. (This isn’t a bit I keep meaning to post it)

Yeah it’s grifters all the way down I think. Crabs in something or something?

“I’m going to actively grift you okay?” “Sure okay- but you’ll let me profit too though right?” “Mhmm” gets grifted “Whaaaaaaaaat” “Just according to keikaku” (plan)

They cracked the code- your autistic child isn’t non-verbal they’re just getting a head start at going no-communication with you down the road lol

Hell of a toll on the expressway though, but at least the metra goes all the way

Cmon France surely you have better ideas for addressing corruption….

Just mediating here - you’re both getting at the same point - albeit from different levels of optimism - so I don’t want either of you catching strays.

Unfortunately, peppersky is correct, we’ve absolutely blown past the understood “point of no return“, and not just in a minor way like “ahhhh we eased off but didn’t quite make it to the 2c goal” but in a major way that we’re continuing to accelerate to this day - but if we stopped science at the “understood” we’d never get anywhere. So in order to survive the present moment and make it to the next we need: science, policy, and the abolition of capitalism by any means necessary. Science to inform ways to capture carbon, desalinate drinking water, adapt food systems, etc to try and halt the exacerbation of ecological destruction/protect communities. We need policy (very broadly speaking) to protect vulnerable groups- otherwise the crises of the coming years will be used to exploit them and extract wealth in unprecedented ways. Lastly, to ensure any long-term stability in the science and policy, capitalism needs to end, overconsumption needs to end, sacrificing the many for the comfort of the few needs to end - it has thrown off the natural balance of the biosystem and will be the death of us all.

At present- it’s a matter of resource allocation. Do we spend time and money in science? Policy? Overthrowing capitalism? Movements have been co-opted, capitalist government efforts are dismantled by capitalists, policy-makers and scientists have relented to funders or been silenced through other means. So at this point, I’m hammering on option number 3 as a means to support number 2, and understand both are needed to have success with 1. Science under capitalism is not going to achieve the conditions necessary for its survival, but its high priests will continue sacrifice us and our futures in the hopes that it will. Frankly there need to be actionable steps that can be taken by the international proletariat independent of their governments - at a personal level (so it can not be co-opted) but an organized, global scale (so it can not be quashed).

There are lot more people who suffer from the biosystems demise than there are who profit from it. And while those who profit will sacrifice us time and again - if we stand together …. Idk I won’t say we’ll succeed necessarily but we’ll do whatever we can for each other (regardless of setting) - and that’s life