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
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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.https://twitter.com/vgr/status/1305252776125947908?s=21 …
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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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The world we had is what sowed the seeds of the world we have now. All those international flights were racking up carbon and rolling dice on pandemics. Not to say you shouldn’t have taken them—but their easy availability is part of how we got here.
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The utopian visions I’m interested in are the ones that maximize quality of life while keeping us off self-destructive paths. If they’re lame, it’s because that’s the cost of getting off this ride before it crashes.
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