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Based on having read this same SFGate article about five days ago, I made an online appointment for a booster shot at a Safeway store’s pharmacy, semi local to me in San Francisco. My previous booster was circa last November so it had been more than six months, and the recent news stories about a surge of covid detected in the city’s sewer outflows and also a general rising wave of cases locally seemed to give good reason to stay on the six month program rather than wait until it had been a year.

The appointment was easily made online, but the pharmacy telephoned me and told me their advice was to just wait closer to a year unless I was over 65 or immune compromised. Neither applies so I cancelled the shot.

Good for $25 off any elective procedure costing twenty thousand dollars or more!

Imagine congestion pricing hurting the city’s economy more than allowing public transit to fall apart will…

Along the same lines, let’s not forget L. Ron Hubbard, who founded Scientology some years after telling a sci-fi writers’ convention that starting an actual cult would be a great way to make far more money off science fiction than just by writing it.

Tim Watkins, energy-based economics writer from the UK, had some interesting observations about this in his blog today. Scroll down to the third/final subheading, “Advertising doesn’t work that way”.

https://consciousnessofsheep.co.uk/2024/06/07/d-day-dummies/

He was never fucking charming…

I mean, granted for sure he’s gotten worse, but I don’t trust people who gave him a pass before the past couple of years.

My favorite way to visualize the meaning of “asshat”: the person is such a sad waste of human life that their entire upper body is effectively just a hat for their posterior.

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The Guardian article mentions a likelihood that in the Amazon region the wet and dry seasons would trade places, making it nearly impossible for many species located there to adapt in the time frame at hand.

It’s going to hurt, this century and even this half century.

The population is in massive overshoot beyond planetary carrying capacity (i.e., its resources that we find useful/necessary and their natural rate of self renewal) by anywhere from 8:1 to perhaps 10:1.

For anything even remotely resembling a smoother landing in the inevitable population decline (i.e., a slower and more just+equitable process involving more natural attrition and less war, murder, famine, and pestilence) the humans currently enjoying the highest levels of technology/development/lifestyle would need to cut their consumption by 80-90 percent – they would need to start living as if it were (perhaps, approximately) the 1700s. This would need to be phased in both very soon and very rapidly.

Of course, those same population groups also have (for the time being, at least) the resources and might to resist that needed reduction by whatever means they can, including war and/or creation of closed enclaves that no longer allow immigration or participate in many forms of external trade. While blaming almost anything and anyone other than the real mechanics (simply massive and growing resource deficit relative to population) of what’s going on.

It’s just going to suck, this time ahead. We who are alive now have to bring this situation home and lay it to rest in the least awful ways we can, and we are rapidly growing very constrained in terms of remaining options.

They’re self-convinced, against nearly all studies and evidence and expert consensus, that capital punishment is an effective deterrent.

It’s getting really late to move toward egalitarian de-growth

But you have to be a trash human in order to become a billionaire.

It’s as if you were channeling William Burroughs

Amazing how “increase shareholder value” is in direct opposition to keeping the shareholders, their descendants, and modern civilization itself viable.

Thanks for posting. But I read the full article just now and saw zero reporting or analysis on the subject of why he’s leaving the position. Not even speculation! Did I miss something?

There was a short time around 1977, during which my wildest fantasy of the best and happiest thing that could possibly happen to me (short of truly fantastical and nigh-impossible things like going to Disneyland, which I wasn’t yet sure really existed) would have been to receive multiple packs of Fruit Stripe gum.

I just literally can no longer afford alcohol. It’s partly a relief to just no longer have to think about it or spend time on it, though I do miss the treat and the relaxation that it can bring. But like many others facing poverty, I sometimes feel a little angry at my fellow consumers who kept right on buying beer and everything else as food and beverage prices rose about 30 percent in five years. I wish everyone had been like “sorry, no, you’re not seriously charging that much, forget it.” Then again, as a child in the 70s I thought for sure consumers were going to reject the move to plastic food packaging. D’ohh.

Depressing that someone downvoted you for any part of that.

This, and also I downvoted for the inclusion of the utterly useless “Here’s what you need to know”.