Another single basic mechanism (for some in the world, anyway) is: acceptance.
Not saying you have to like death. But it’s all around us, and people who live closer to nature get to see death regularly, from carnivorous animals (little choice) to plants which green, bear fruit, and fade away in fall. Most people don’t ever need to embrace death, but recognize it’s part of the natural order.
Denial points us away from the real and is mentally unhealthy. Acceptance releases us from that potential fear and stress. It also encourages us to truly appreciate what we have, especially while we have it, and ever afterward for our good fortune while we had it. Life is change.
Acceptance reminds us to ‘drink life to the lees’, like Omar Khayyam. Not to waste our time on adverts, or fashion trends, or fretting about things we can’t do anything about, or worrying about what might be. When we’re sure we’ve done our best in this wiggy world, we need ask ourselves no more. Compassion for ourselves empowers us to share that with others.
Wouldn’t that be ‘ping’ ?
GOSH I’d like to see that be 2 times longer, and have some price-ranges.
Ask the people of Vancouver, BC … they’ve had a 50-mile ‘Skytrain’ since 1985. The 2023 ridership was 141 Million.
“Works perfectly” huh? That’s better than most can claim before freezing! ACT NOW! for a BIG discount!
The 2003 event produced the biggest-ever solar flare ever measured, an X45. That year, several BIG transformers exploded in South Africa. This event’s biggest so is 8.7. A lot depends on where it’s aimed at … but anyway , no, we are not prepared.
" We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe." — von Goethe
Powerful message. “Brought to you by DHHS, National Cigarette Foundation, Department of Education, Cigs4Kidz, and Viewers Like You.”
Don’t remember any PSA’s like that back from when they were doing atmospheric testing of atom bombs down in Nevada for weeks on end. But they weren’t planning on smoking them all the way.
That place always reminds me of Nichigecki Theatre in Tokyo, https://www.pinterest.com/pin/nichigeki-music-hall-tokyo--459156124481152401/ where rock first took-off in Japan back in 1958 (sometimes called ’ rokabiri ').
Different strokes! esp. depending on which orbit you’re in.
Always have a good time when I run into this channel. Gotta be scary for drummers, but I’m not, maybe that’s it!
Seems to me that 1) no one (who doesn’t realize what we’re up against) wants to be the one to give up anything. 2) Many are hoping that tech will come up with some magical cure. 3) Nobody has really spelled out well - for big audiences - what the benefits will be.
It could flip back to blue! it once was in my lifetime (I remember the lady democrat governor. It’s as though what happened to Boeing also happened there.)
I know there are many fine, sane people there … with some world-class class! and Texas has also been pretty-badly beaten up by film and television … and I wouldn’t want to be a part of any Gates fantasy either.
If I had to pick one, I’d have go with Rubber Soul for best music. But I don’t. Sadly, I’ve heard all their stuff SO many times, I’m past the ‘enough is enough’ threshold.
Wow. It was only after reading comments on this post until that I remembered WHY I was more than happy to leave Reddit behind. Too bad so many of these diseased children moved over here.
It took just one comment: ’ What is “4000ac”? ’ to start the drool-fest.
Not that believe most of this, but posted here for your responses.
Got a neuralink? One word you never wanna hear: ‘Oops!’
Wind and solar need land. Red states aren’t building it … they’re where land is.
Yeah! Did that once, many years back. took a couple weeks. Used a ripper program that went out on the net and got all the metadata, saved to a HD (now on the third one). Put the CDs in Logic cases (no-wear), recycled the jewelboxes.
Over time, started to drop album folders into VLC, save the playlists, at ur fingertips.
Really! It didn’t hurt when I didn’t exist before. And there remains a chance that we -will- get back. May it be in some time that is … less senseless.