things are difficult during times of increased solar activity, but on the other hand, those who have cultivated their inner strength do better.
everyone is having more accidents and making more mistakes, having trouble sleeping and feeling more irritable right now. typos, forgetfulness, confusing the meaning of what people have written, irritable.
everyone is. i'm seeing it in almost every other note i read on my nostr feed. internet outages, power outages, physical accidents, accidental destructive actions on development, writing and performances disrupted by mood and arousal issues.
how people cope with this increased strain shows a lot about their character. one of the sweetest things about this stuff is it makes evil people make more mistakes and get more likely to be caught out. this is going to escalate for a month or two at least, i think. i mean, even looking at news stories and events going on, it's obvious that people are not functioning at their normal capacity for the last week or so.
saying i'm making excuses when actually this is forcing me to knuckle down and tighten up, just because i'm talking about what is happening, and denying the existence of these effects when dozens of papers have analysed all kinds of statistics of the effect of geomagnetic storms on history are, as far as i'm concerned, at the point of incontrovertible now.
and i'm bending when this wind blows. stopped drinking. stopped smoking weed. stopped drinking coffee. consciously applying a lot more concentration around dangerous things like this renovation work i'm doing and just even climbing the stairs safely.
if you aren't doing the same, what is your excuse? this isn't gonna get easier for a while. maybe a couple of years. and then if we are lucky you get a rest for a few years and then it will be on again, and will likely get even worse next time. power grids have managed to not totally crap out except for spain/france/portugal so far in this solar max of cycle 25, if engineers have been taking the lessons playing out, transformers being fused by a spike in atmospheric electricity will reduce if they shield and ground the shields on them, and they will accelerate upgrading infrastructure to this end, and the same with data centers.
this test is coming to an end in the next year or two, and then everyone better have done their homework for the next test, because it's going to be brutal.
