If you’re retreating from social media, narrowing info sources to fewer “trusted” ones, and breaking up with friends who suddenly seem to have gone crazy,...
Congrats, you’re a casualty of infowar. If you think of it as mental health/self care, it’s worked even better on you
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I don’t know. I’m finally at least recognizing the scale and seriousness of the problem.
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I like to think my retreat is at least a tactical retreat
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No I don’t think so. The exposure is precisely on fronts where that’s weak. Unless you have your own CO2 stations on Mauna Kea and climate satellites, local info diversity won’t help you get independent facts about climate change
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It isn’t surprising for instance that Trump budget for NASA is overall up (it’s a crowd pleaser) but funding for climate monitoring instruments *already* in orbit is being targeted for cuts.
Give ‘em lunar bread and circuses. Cut data about earth.
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Bullshit. Nobody is immune. There’s only those who accept what world we’re in and those who are either in denial with head-in-sand, or consciously abdicating any responsibility to fight the good fight and retreating to personal concerns.
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