John Galbraith’s book Culture of Contentment will help explain why

https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691171654/the-culture-of-contentment

It’s not until people are very desperate; Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, India and even then we have Animal Farm as a cautionary tale

look at Ukraine, student protestors were being shot and killed in the Maiden uprising, Belarus similarly albeit theirs failed.

heaps if people are upset he’s not going hard enough with ICE

surely GDP will grow with all the work replacing those Wildberries and gas storage facilities.

have you seen sports fans, or the endless religious stupidity? How you can be passionate about some overpaid dickhead running around a field is the same stupidity as this.

how people become attached to some billionaires team defies my understanding, as does an AI girlfriend

Already, he knows the November elections are lost,

i suspect he knows something you don’t, like … he’s already counted the votes. and knows the GOP has won, after all if they don’t win, the election has been rigged, so they must have won already.

i quit work at 35, I’m now, 61. My only regret looking back was not quitting earlier.

To be fair though it took a near death experience at age 34 to crystallize what was important to me.

seriously? the US is literally killing children every other day in Iran and bombing fishermen in the Caribbean. On scale of shitty to MBS, Trump ranks much worse in terms of human rights, fucking women’s reproductive rights as well.

They’re all scum bags alas enabled by the shitty majority.

women in Australia have been jailed. for protesting climate change and supporting Peatine.

noy OP. but your argument is people don’t have agency.

on that we can agree, however, see Cipolla’s Laws on Stupidity 1, 3 and 5 in particular. You seem to have fallen for 4.

Coffs Harbour in Australia, fairly good weather.

try it the other way ? layer up the fingers, toes and nose and nude up everywhere else ?

why? yiu bought a home to live in right ? you can still live in it. thet they’re now cheaper for other folks who couldn’t afford a home before, is a good thing.

yeah, its the new form of climate denial

https://theconversation.com/the-new-climate-denial-using-wealth-to-insulate-yourself-from-discomfort-and-change-199101

The new climate denial? Using wealth to insulate yourself from discomfort and change

This is good news, it shows the laws of nature do apply to humans and scientists like James Hansen etal were right and Physics as we know it applies

but we’ve chosen to ignore it and it’ll get worse and perhaps this answers Fermi’s Paradox?

Humanity is the problem (for most humans and for most species) , climate change is the solution, we’re literally killing species off so fast it’s labeled the sixth mass extinction.

For a country that has been run by businessmen for the past 20 years we sure seem to have an awful lack of long-term vision.

Well thats why, why would they ? why would voters elect them

were in the sixth. mass. extinction …and we’re doing it and most of us don’t give a shit, quite bizzare really

elected by idiots

similarly to whats happening in Iran, except that’s amuck worse deal then the one he denigrated.

sure but you don’t have tomatoes all year, only a short time, even if you bottle some.

Being self reliant is mostly impossible if you cant also hunt and forage No ones growing their own wheat for example to make their own bread, let alone collecting the salt they need as well.

we lived off grid for a decade with a massive garden, chickens, ducks, heaps of fruit trees, made our own compost etc

there are zero toyota EV “trucks”.

Shit box utes (utility vehicles aka trucks) of this size are a thing in Australia eg Toyota Hilux Workmate