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Cake day: June 10th, 2023

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  • Yeah but it’s gotten better. When I was a kid in the 70s/80s almost everyone just locked their dogs outside in the back yard and didn’t consider them family like they do now. I mean, it was their dog, yes, like sorta family, but these days almost everyone literally considering their dogs actual family, and most probably think of them in terms of being akin to children and best friends. They used to be just property and tools to a lot of people. That applies to lots of animals now, people are getting more compassionate and evolved with their theory of mind in animals. Insects, reptiles and fish are starting to sneak into that evolution as well.









  • I don’t have a crystal ball, but I do know this - oil reserves globally have been sinking fast, with levels predicted to reach near or actual zero by July, just in time for the traditional yearly mass travel period for Americans. Crops have been planted in half their usual numbers because of a lack of affordable fertilizer, and those crop shortages won’t be seen or felt until fall and winter at the earliest, but will be felt hard in winter and next spring, thanks to how crops and agricultural production works. Gas will continue to climb in prices, goods will continue to climbs in prices, until they’re unaffordable or there’s runs on necessary goods and perceived wants/needs. Then will come the lines. Then will come the anger when people go home without enough, or without any.

    So will they riot? Maybe not. But people have become much less social and community oriented since Covid, and since the attention economy has used algorithms to make people more extreme and more narcissistic than they were during shortages in the 70s and 80s, so i can tell you this - it won’t be pretty, whatever happens. It won’t be business as usual. Trust this old person. I know people, and I know the industries that are about to fuck it all up, after decades of warnings about just this kind of nexus of events in a perfect storm of shit.