What the actual fuck?! America, it’s time to rise. When tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty!

Was wondering about this myself. But if we can save American democracy maybe we can limit the catastrophic planetary damage.

If Trump hasn’t felt threatened by Elon by now…besides, Elon is doing all the work for him, so why would Trump want to intervene when he can just do his favorite thing instead-sit back and enjoy the shitshow he created.

Snoopy fled civilization. Too bad civilization didn’t make it, but at least the grocery cart will come in handy while he’s on the The Road.

Newly detected near-Earth asteroid has astronomers’ full attention The risk of impact is likely to drop to zero as observations of Asteroid 2024 YR4 continue.

This would solve everything…not immediately, but with cascading events.

ChatGPT:

Worst case scenario for an impact in 2032? One of the most devastating disasters in modern history. Millions dead, wildfires or tsunamis, economic collapse, environmental devastation, but civilization would survive.

But wait! There’s more!

Trump

www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/u...

Trump told the crowd that Musk “knows those computers better than anybody. All those computers. Those vote counting computers. And we ended up winning Pennsylvania in a landslide. He was very effective... Thank you to Elon.”

HOW IS THIS JUST BEING IGNORED?

Trump twice says the 2024 election was rigged and no one cares?

Is it because:

Dems are afraid?
All politicians were bought out?
Legacy media is owned by billionaires?
Most social media is owned by billionaires?

Maybe I just answered my own question…

😂

Great discussion yesterday with my students about the advantages and disadvantages of practicing nursing and medicine while severed lol. Nice to meet ya at the Emhoff event near Philly back in November! Thanks for all your awesome work, Mr. Stiller!

A little list ...

One-quarter of freshwater fauna threatened with extinction - Nature A global multi-taxon extinction risk assessment of freshwater fauna for The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species finds one-quarter of species to be at high risk of extinction.

A detailed extinction risk assessment of freshwater fauna, covering more than 23,000 species, reveals that around 24% of the studied species are threatened with extinction. The analysis identifies major threats from pollution, dams, agriculture and invasive species.

www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧪

To summarize December, #Arctic sea-ice extent was the lowest on record (NSIDC), and Arctic sea-ice volume was the 2nd lowest on record (PIOMAS). Not a good start to the winter in the polar north.

The doomer concept of the day is acceptance.

It is the fifth and final stage of grief in the Kübler-Ross model. It entails the healthy processing of emotions after confronting a harsh reality.

For doomers, acceptance involves acknowledging our predicament and yet living with peace and compassion.

Sure! It's made their balance sheet better.

The headlines today would be alarming without the framing of overshoot.

👉Los Angeles wildfires explode in size

👉Temperatures down to -20°C in some parts of UK (nothing compared to AMOC collapse, unless…)

👉US on a rampage

👉Social media’s final collapse into chaos

Welp Trump wants new real estate and is happy to acquire it through any means.

Musk is using his endless trove of money to support extreme right wing politics in Europe.

Grab some popcorn, you’re invited to a front row seat at the collapse.

Zzzzzzzzz…(humanity)

Here as well!

Soldier Who Blew Up Cybertruck in Las Vegas Wrote U.S. Is Headed for ‘Collapse,’ Police Say (Gift Article) The police shared notes from a phone used by Master Sgt. Matthew Livelsberger, who fatally shot himself inside a Cybertruck outside a Trump hotel in Las Vegas.

Collapse aware soldier blew up the cybertruck

China's robot army shows WW3 would kill us all. YouTube video by Digital Engine

We wont make it long enough for civilization to collapse due to climate change. Or ecocide. Or mass extinction.

It’s going to be AGI.

Clickbait title, but well sourced.

It’s how some people choose to deal with an unsolvable problem. And why not? The majority are humming along ignorant/oblivious/unaware. When one flight in a private jet wipes out an average person’s carbon footprint for an entire year, then yeah, it’s time to enjoy ourselves, too.

🚫doomer shaming.

Silent invasion: How microplastics are disrupting land ecosystems While their impact on marine ecosystems has been widely studied, research on the effects of microplastics on land is lacking.

“When plants absorb micro & nano plastics, these particles can affect the interactions between plants & organisms, leading to cascading effects in food webs.”

Biodiversity is crashing in so many ways.

www.earth.com/news/silent-...

We’re rearranging deck chairs while scientists underestimate the size and impact of the iceberg.

Agreed about peak oil. I believe the resource depletion in World3 and LtG includes arable land, forests, minerals. We have definitely seen it across all of these areas, and I wonder about the impact of depleting resources that weren’t on the radar in 1972, ie minerals for chips, EVs, etc.

We tell hospice patients there is always hope, if not for a miracle, then for a “good death.”

If only we could hope for even that.

Happyish New Year 😒

Gaze fondly back at 2024, and realize that's the best the future holds. Do that from now on.
#overshoot

✌️😎🍄

A palm oil company, US financiers, and the destruction of Peru's rainforest — Business Insider Two of the largest palm oil plantations in Peru are located on the west side of the Ucayali River, which flows from the Andes to the Amazon. From above, the surrounding landscape looks like stirred pa...

~30K acres of rainforest cut down & replaced with industrial fields of palm trees, a swath of destruction that one indigenous leader called “eco-genocide.”

An incredible loss of biodiversity. A big FU by financiers to every living organism on the planet.

apple.news/Azh0P7tuxThm...

Happyish New Year 😒