the two main problems I see are (i) china, an authoritarian hell state, becoming increasingly powerful while its main counterbalance, the united states, is doing its level best to destroy itself; and (ii) I live in the united states while it is trying to destroy itself
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I think I have convinced myself that these are real problems and not just superannuated griping about how bands were better in the 90s
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living in the US while it destroyed itself would be less of a problem if I did not have a child and plans for more. I am resourceful and resilient but that is a lot of Circumstance to drop on children.
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on a car ride earlier tonight
@selentelechia and I discussed redlines for abandoning our city, our state, and our country intra-US moves depend on factors that may change quickly. outside the US, depending on other factors: certain South American stateshttps://twitter.com/Cererean/status/1372871302609002497?s=19 …Show this thread -
in a lot of ways im not that sure it matters, tho if the US goes down we're dragging the rest of the world with us
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Should have gotten into outdated visions of the future. There's always fresh zeerust.
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Pessimism also has super high social reward Just to make it worse
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get off my lawn
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Teach em mandarin!
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Life as a Chinese satellite doesn't seem too appealing tho - when I was learning English there was always the implicit promise that the West would let me integrate. China makes zero such promises to foreigners, no matter how much they embrace the culture.
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