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
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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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Dark euphoria yeah. It’s favela chic for the rest of our lifetime. The gothic high tech castle has finally collapsed entirely.

