This is probably the longest I’ve gone without flying in years... last was early February. A trip every few months kinda drove my medium-term life tempo. Airport routine + short break + hotel room is like a life paragraph break.
Now it’s one run-on paragraph.
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Feels like an asshole thing to say, but my point is the routine of breaks in routine, not the flying around spewing c02 into the upper atmosphere
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Everybody who liked or RTed the OP has probably been added to a guillotine list somewhere
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I guess people with less traveling work get their paragraph breaks with weekend trips?
That’s also shot now since we have an aging cat who requires a lot of care, and pet sitters are dicey now. Without the cat we’d likely be doing a lot of weekending.
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Up in the air —> the grounded game
It’d be fun to watch a sequel to the George Clooney movie where he plays the same character through Covid
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This reminds me of a point about a planetary physics point: habitability requires plate tectonics. Without quakes, planets don’t circulate many of the elements necessary for life. I think phosphorous and some others.
You need lifequakes or life becomes uninhabitable
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I can feel creativity drying up without airport-hotel phosphorous cycle
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Might as well compound the assholery... international trip every year or so was a nice part of globalist lifestyle. Nothing like a break in a foreign country to really shake up the brain. I think my last trip outside US was September 2018... so that’s 2 years now.
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So probably also the longest I’ve been in the US continuously in a decade. Damn.
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Actually no business trip outside of the west coast in 2 years. Seattle, Bay Area, Portland, LA, Sacramento 🤔
Personal trips elsewhere for family stuff, but work travel was one-dimensional. Now zero-dimensional.
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Nomad solastalgia. Homesickness for the itinerant lifestyle, paid for by others. This is probably the end of that lifestyle even after Covid. Air travel limited to essential family stuff and rare vacations. Good for climate, bad for my sanity.
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Solastalgia = solace+nostalgia+desolation
latimes.com/california/sto
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I’ll have to see the world in a grain of sand or some such shitty thing instead of on frequent-flyer points 😢
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Even Starbucks locally is off limits 😖😩
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A lot of people are going to be mourning lost lifestyles and a lot more are going to be enjoying grim schadenfreude in the next few years.
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My mansion will need a zeppelin-yacht
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The 1950s-70s mental state when space colonies etc were obviously part of the future and many were unironically sure they’d be going to Mars... must have been great. You can only enjoy golden age sci-fi as camp now. And even a single planet is getting inaccessible again.
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You’re not going to space. You’re probably not even going to other countries much.
This timeline really sucks.
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The Trumpies can have this future. This trashed timeline is exactly what they wanted anyway. Closed borders, stalled trade, burning California, Hollywood shut down, race wars, police state ascendant, window on climate action slamming shut. But pro sports back on and stocks ATH.
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ngl... the world we had was not just better than the shitshow we’re in but better than any lame utopia being peddled by the current roster of ideologues
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