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Weird dream last night. I was coaching XC skiing, and North Korea kept dropping propaganda pamphlets on us. The wet paper gummed up our skiis. WTF?

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I feel like a little bit of an outsider in all the worlds I move through. This is certainly beneficial in some ways, but it can also be taxing to rarely feel fully at ease.

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Seems like everytime I open the X app I end up watching a video of someone dying. I don’t need that. Deleted.

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https://youtu.be/LbZXAY6XLSs?si=fPKzxJ0Xs_nMZ3jb So excited about the rewilding projects in Europe: horses, aurochs, bison, lynx… maybe even lions one day. It could be seen as degrowth aligned, but I see it as accepting our responsibility to manage the environment more thoughtfully and intentionally. Build where we need to build, wilderness where we need to be wild.

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Alternating current from alternating currents!

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We need to let go of striving for what is or is not natural. But what does targets does that leave us with for stewarding the land? Beautiful, healthy, diverse, thriving might each be a good starting point.

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Bison in the UK! https://youtube.com/shorts/oqt5wn2KPJ8?si=0Y-fAEBkfWDC6qxZ

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Endorse https://x.com/defenderofbasic/status/1833865971775279518?s=46&t=QiZu_7RbzbjKl7eMyW7XRA

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Ok, here is something about me, and it somehow feels embarrassing to say, but I think the conversation is returning to earnestness again, so here goes. I grew up attending a United Church every Sunday, where the dogma is relatively chill, and things like questioning the age of the earth were acceptable. But still, the Bible stories were the cornerstone of it. My family said grace before dinner each night, but the wrath of God wasn’t used a cudgel. More New Testament than old. Sometime in high school I became an atheist, and that felt freeing. But at some point something flipped. Eventually I came to feel like something was taken from me. I can’t go back now. There’s no point pretending that Santa Claus is real. But that doesn’t mean the belief itself is without value.

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Holy shit I got 5 usdc

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What’s the equivalent of NIMBY-ism for LEO?

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I have a deep sense of romanticism about the oceans, forests, glaciers and earth in general that makes me sad about pollution. No such feelings about space, I'm purely interested in it as a resource/destination. Disperse enough debris, and we just won't be able to use space anymore. Interesting for me to see a context where my environmentalism is solely pragmatic rather than romantic.

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Imagine the trend line https://x.com/rezendi/status/1826299346239009263?s=46&t=QiZu_7RbzbjKl7eMyW7XRA

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Proof irrationality (my own at least): I feel much less dummy after a work out. Nothing about my knowledge of the world has changed, but something about sweating, and my heart beating faster, significantly modifies how I process it.

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