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    1. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Sep 13
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      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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    2. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Sep 13
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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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    3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Sep 13
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      Everybody who liked or RTed the OP has probably been added to a guillotine list somewhere

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    4. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Sep 13
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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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      Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Sep 13
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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

      9:53 PM - 13 Sep 2020
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        2. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Sep 13
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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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        3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Sep 13
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          I can feel creativity drying up without airport-hotel phosphorous cycle

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        4. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Sep 13
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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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        5. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Sep 13
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          So probably also the longest I’ve been in the US continuously in a decade. Damn.

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        6. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Sep 13
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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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        7. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Sep 13
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          Venkatesh Rao Retweeted Venkatesh Rao

          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.https://twitter.com/vgr/status/1305252776125947908?s=21 …

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          Solastalgia = solace+nostalgia+desolation https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-09-13/solastalgia-climate-change-induced-despair …
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        8. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Sep 13
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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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        9. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Sep 13
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          Even Starbucks locally is off limits 😖😩

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        10. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Sep 13
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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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        11. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Sep 13
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          My mansion will need a zeppelin-yacht

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        12. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Sep 13
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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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        13. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Sep 13
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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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        14. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Sep 13
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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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        15. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Sep 13
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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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