kali0x2a

kali0x2a, 11 days ago

@augieray is there any other way that americans learn than making the first hand experience? sincerly a german, asking for the rest of the world.

i mean, even the US left and academia is like brainwashed af? watch this guy in stanford.edu spreading literal russian propaganda.

some people don't learn until their own ass is at stake, so please end it already!

https://mahb.stanford.edu/library-item/114-chuck-watson/

kali0x2a, 26 days ago

@Some_Emo_Chick it is not just the right wing. this stuff is straight up russian propaganda and is hosted by US universities. https://mahb.stanford.edu/library-item/114-chuck-watson/

kali0x2a, 1 month ago

i could now drop some names and what particular madness the respective people have succumbed to, but i have done that a lot and am over it. systems matter, individual people don't. go on the website named theoildrum.com and google their names and google what they are doing today. there's a lot to unpack there.

#degrowth

kali0x2a, 1 month ago

and yeah i am saying maybe there is a pattern there that general despair burdens exactly these people. im mean: is that even surprising? you cannot deny that thinking about the long term future of human civilisation and the #environment takes a toll on people. and after all i have seen happening to all these people - it has a self-harm component to it, imho.

#degrowth

kali0x2a, 1 month ago

they are, since our forums like theoildrum.org went down, because social media, ON SOCIAL MEDIA analyzing and discussing events regarding the potential end of civilisation, every single damn headline, every single damn day. how on gods-not-so-green-anymore earth can that be healthy? it is not. it is in fact really bad. if you want to know how bad it is on the human mind - go on chris martensons twitter...

#degrowth

kali0x2a, 1 month ago

and what disappointed me the most of all things was that the #degrowth community around me was merely like: "yeah people go insane at times. totally normal thing to happen".

no man. that people with a background in earth science run around on the freaking internet spouting antivaxx and russian propaganda is NOT normal, ok. i have been in this long enough to be able to assure you: that is not a thing that has ever happened before. normally these people care about the science.

#degrowth

kali0x2a, 1 month ago

and some people literally have been sitting on the internet since day 1 of the all out russian invasion, every day lamenting about ww3 that is just about to begin. and even after this shitfuckry dragged on for almost 2 years now without any ww3 happening whatsoever - they are still sitting there doing exactly that.

and when they are not doing that they invite random internet people on their podcast to opine on the general apocalypse.

im not happy i have to chose such drastic words.

#degrowth

kali0x2a, 1 month ago

and at times, when they say things such as: "i am 100% sure that humans are delusional" - not as irony or hyperbole - but presented as scientific fact - i'm am sorry nate & co - but i can't help the impression that maybe subconsciously these guys crave for the world to fold up asap. which is, like many things regarding existential grief, emotionally understandable - yet still it cannot be justified.

#degrowth

kali0x2a, 1 month ago

like: if your are waffling on about uncertainty and complexity 80% of your professional career - here's a crazy idea: how about account for the crazy chance that the world is not gonna end in fire by tomorrow morning. seems to me that nate and the guys are not prepared for that one happening. genuinely not i am not even joking.

and if it's not the war with russia , then it's iran, or AI or inflation or any of that nonsense. but they want it & the internet delivers. every day.

#degrowth

kali0x2a, 1 month ago

and on X and youtube i see so many people right now THAT ARE NOT ME telling especially nate: dudes, dudes wait a minute, wasn't your podcast to be about systems ecology? and he just ignores them lmao. does not even reply. does not even reply. which is a fairly common behavior among people who are not willing to hear a thing.

#degrowth

kali0x2a, 1 month ago

how ever, the end result and total shitfuckery is that major scholars and activists in #degrowth have rendered themselves basically unshareable for sharing and believing fringe internet nonsense and lost most of their focus for daily events gossip on the internet which is ironically a behavior nate hagens always warned of.

kali0x2a, 1 month ago

with all of that being said, the plain realisation from this is simply: if you are doing any long-term depressing shit, #climatecrisis, #limitstogrowth, you name it: get your information consumption under control. don't think you are above this. obviously not even the smartest of us are above it. it can genuinely drive people insane.

#degrowth

kali0x2a, 6 months ago

@breadandcircuses @greeneralia @GeofCox @Ruth_Mottram @ed_hawkins @TXsharon @ZLabe @rachelschicksiegel

hey there. how is everyone doing? my community just broke apart when elon bought twitter. half of them have gone completely insane, lol.

kali0x2a, 9 months ago

@MichaelEMann now that you say that it seems really scary.

kali0x2a, 9 months ago

@rahmstorf Danke für die Erklärung.

kali0x2a, 9 months ago

@remixtures you can't make this stuff up. craziness.