The science is conclusive. All hail science, our new lord and savior. Blessed be those who walk under the divine light of the established scientific findings of the day. Heaven is attainable if ye shall but follow the path of the science, paved by whatever facts and evidence are most profitable this quarter. Amen 🙏

Do you really believe this? China has invested more than anybody else in renewables, high speed rail, electric cars, etc... They seem pretty damned concerned about global warming. They haven't shut down all coal power plants, but they're doing a lot.

But the other half also confuses me. First off, China's had a communist party, but its economic system been very capitalists for decades. Its government more closely resembles the kind of Chinese dynasties that have existed for thousands of years, than anything else. I don't want to live under that system, but let's be honest about what kind of system it is.

Lastly, we're facing climate change. It's caused by people. The science about that is conclusive. We don't know how fast the change will be, what the impact will be, or when it'll all happen exactly. And we definitely don't have any kind of consensus or even broad agreement about what to do about it.

What I think you're actually concerned about is authoritarianism. Totalitarian governments that restrict civil rights and centralize control of the economy. I also am afraid of those things and suspect we'd find common cause in opposing them. But how would addressing climate change lead to authoritarianism? By making us take trains? Taxing petrol a lot? Taxing carbon emissions? Our current system has millions of ways we both regulate and incentivize some behaviour over others. There is no serious proposal to ban private ownership of cars, or meat, or air travel, or really anything that extreme.

What's proposed, even the most ambitious policies of Green Party politicians and radical environmentalists are pretty much tweaks of the existing economy.

Most midwife’s are ran and controlled by the state.

You’ll get the same recommendations and treatment that you would get from an OB.

If your levels are outside the states set thresholds, your midwife will raise concern and apply pressure.

#midwifery #midwife #pregnancy #labor

How do zaps still work? Didn’t Apple put the kibosh on that?

Hung out with my grandma all day then got it in at the gym. Now a pound of the finest grass-fed of ground beef and chill. 11/10 day

My grandmother’s friends got married today. Her friend wanted to live with her boyfriend but he refused unless they were married. So they had a full church wedding. The bride was 80 and the groom was 87.

This dude is a backdoor PoS.

What are the best movies of the last few years?

what’s something (nuanced) about your family you didn’t realize until you were older?

Do you really believe this? China has invested more than anybody else in renewables, high speed rail, electric cars, etc... They seem pretty damned concerned about global warming. They haven't shut down all coal power plants, but they're doing a lot.

But the other half also confuses me. First off, China's had a communist party, but its economic system been very capitalists for decades. Its government more closely resembles the kind of Chinese dynasties that have existed for thousands of years, than anything else. I don't want to live under that system, but let's be honest about what kind of system it is.

Lastly, we're facing climate change. It's caused by people. The science about that is conclusive. We don't know how fast the change will be, what the impact will be, or when it'll all happen exactly. And we definitely don't have any kind of consensus or even broad agreement about what to do about it.

What I think you're actually concerned about is authoritarianism. Totalitarian governments that restrict civil rights and centralize control of the economy. I also am afraid of those things and suspect we'd find common cause in opposing them. But how would addressing climate change lead to authoritarianism? By making us take trains? Taxing petrol a lot? Taxing carbon emissions? Our current system has millions of ways we both regulate and incentivize some behaviour over others. There is no serious proposal to ban private ownership of cars, or meat, or air travel, or really anything that extreme.

What's proposed, even the most ambitious policies of Green Party politicians and radical environmentalists are pretty much tweaks of the existing economy.

How much happier would the world become overnight if every man and woman on earth took 2 hours out of their day to binge-watch those "Old people sharing their biggest regrets on their deathbed" videos?

So much insight packed in there, that slices through all the toxic sludge of societal conditioning everyone's so deeply confused by.

Nearly every man's answer: "I wish I would've been more fearless, attacked my goals harder, worked out more, built more things..."

Nearly every women's answer: "I wish I would've spent more time on myself, less on people who didn't care about me, had more kids, spent less time climbing the corporate ladder to nowhere..."

Universal across both genders: "I wish I would've spent more time building an amazing family."

The family unit used to be the glue that held society together.

Now, it's not just uncommon--it's LOOKED DOWN UPON by the sheep crowd. This is an unprecedented shift away from stability, and into NPC gray-blobbery, where everyone's identity, men, women and children, are simultaneously in flux.

It's dark AF out there right now...but I remain optimistic. The path out of clown world is gaining traffic by the day, and network effects will continue to accelerate the mass-awakening process.

Crazy stuff to witness in real time.

Hang in there, friends ❤️