My apologies, I’ll concede I knew what you meant, but my poor brain tripped on the word ‘system’. Your comment was apt on a human-scale system of our planet - we are fucked. But it’s way fun and often useful to remember that’s not the only lens available.

We are still a product of nature in many ways and all our society could be viewed as nature featuring yet another bloom and collapse - and our blip as a species isn’t even special - check out the great oxidation (extinction) event whereby anaerobic organisms created so much waste oxygen that they killed of almost all life on the planet (organisms that live on oxygen and the air cycle we know today were ‘born’ from this event).

None of that changes the fact that I did deliberately misconstrue your statement; please excuse any offense I may have caused. I meant no harm.

I’m just needlessly waxing poetic, as is my wont. They said ‘system’ which is an ambiguous term.

I also considered noting that my local baskin-robbins gets delivered more ice cream than I’d ever want to eat.

But since I’m called out I’ll add that any person can only imagine so much, and as such a finite group of peoples’ collective imagination can only be arbitrarily large, not infinite.

But don’t mind me, I’m just a dog on the internet.

Strictly speaking, its unknown if we live in a finite system or an infinite one - but it’s certain that the local topology isn’t infinitely dense.

(We speculate one can technically go infinitely far in any direction of space or indefinitely backward and forward through time; but there’s not any infinite amounts of stuff here which is the problem.)

And why is she serving mold?

Not sure if you’re out of the loop or playing along, but this post is an allusion to a recent scandal regarding the coldplay concert CEO fiasco. The CEO was caught in an intimate embrace with a female employee who was not his wife.

Personally, as a polyamorous guy, I don’t see what the commotion is about (and it all seems suspiciously timed as an attempt to distract/bury bigger stories - release the Epstein files - specifically, I don’t think the CEO intended to get caught, rather some news media is giving this ultimately near-harmless scandal far more attention than it deserves.

I love IT, but my pet peeve is when others institutionalize my troubleshooting skills as the de facto solution to their issues.

At work I’ll often tolerate it - it can be sometimes argued that it’s what I’m paid for.

But in personal or family life the rule is the base price for my assistance is the story of what you tried before reaching out to me, and the price of my services is based on how “well told” that story is.

Tell me something unique and interesting and my services may likely be free. Tell me of your your attention to detail, and I’ll settle for a meal or favor. Tell me you couldn’t be bothered and I’ll tell you I can’t be afforded.