Oh holey moley. That is a big windmill! I need like… a rooftop windmill, or… a couple rooftop windmills.

I am super interested in wind, but not sure if my house gets enough. My city is pretty windy in some areas, but I don’t often get a ton.

Do you have them yourself?

Yep, the ‘payoff time’ on mine is long, but I am betting they last much longer than that, and that energy prices won’t scale normally. I really want sodium ion batteries to work out, but they are sounding less promising.

We have a big natural gas shortage looming here, and most homes are heated with it. Such an obvious thing to be trying to prepare for, sure heat pumps won’t heat all winter here, but… If I can generate heat using my free electricity 2 or 3 of the months needing heat a year, that is a permanent discount, that only gets better as costs go crazy. People around me don’t really seem to be thinking this way.

I am investing in ways to make my future costs lower. For example, I have solar on my house. It covers about half of my bill, and will for the foreseeable future. I am looking into additions to solar, as I live in Alaska, and need to figure out winter times.

I am looking into heat pumps, they aren’t great for dead of winter, but they might eliminate shoulder season heat costs.

We buy the best quality, and locally produced food and goods we can, to help support our health and our community resilience.

Buy once, cry once, whenever we can, because replacement of stuff will be harder.

We live beneath our means, and take the money we save being boring and pay off debt, so that we truly own what is ours, because someday, paying a mortgage or for a vehicle, might be too difficult.

Practice using what you have, instead of buying stuff to solve your problem. Ingenuity is something that can be learned and practiced, but isn’t something that comes naturally to people.

Learn to make stuff, or about your surroundings. If you live in a place you can forage, learn about what you can eat in your area to supplement what you have to buy.

Plan to be a poor person, because that is a situation that is likely, and that you can survive.

Most people will not make it, if we wind up in a situation where you are dependent on what you plant, and goods you stock up on. That stuff is just prolonging the inevitable. Total independence is just not a thing most people are prepared for mentally, or have the skills to pull off. So, prepare for a future where luxuries are limited, material goods are in short supply, and you have to figure out how to make do with what you have.

I read the other day about a protocol called Gemini.

https://geminiprotocol.net/

It might fit what you are looking for, if you goal is just to publish interesting content, or get the experience learning something new and different, but not for you if you want to monetize.

It is an alternate to the internet. You can self host there, also, but they have built Gemini to be unable to support applications, bots, malware etc… it goes much deeper, if you are curious, you should read, I am fascinated.

It was a little popup that opened the first time I clicked the link. It does not open on subsequent link clicks.

Hey. That link said first name last name (presumably yours) shared that document with you.

Might want to clean that up for privacy sake.

The platform, aka El Hoyo

It is about a futuristic prison, where food is distributed to inmates in a vertical prison. They have elected to be there, on promise of reward on release. They are fed on a vertical table, the descends, level by level.

IMO, it is really about humanity and the choice between self service and a greater good.

It is a great movie. The sequel… Eh.

Less curious about cluster b personality disorders, specifically, and more interested in the practical understanding that (in this case) sometimes, the reason behind someone not valuing another is really about them trying to protect themselves.

The connection between contempt, grandiosity, and shame; it makes sense intuitively, but it is interesting to spell it out that way.

What about other big emotions, how many others are really outputs of another?

Is their a field of study that focuses solely on the behavior, and the root cause, in the way your third and forth paragraphs does? Or, like, a flowchart of emotions and root causes? That was an interesting way to dissect why people might behave in that way.

It might be.

I am surrounded by kind, decent people, but same. They don’t think about, or engage in, these sorts of thoughts, and I try. They just shrug and say their little impact, isn’t enough of an impact to try. Meanwhile, I am over here having a daily existential crisis about all the stupid packaging on my second hand jeans.

I think it is because code switching goes beyond just the words someone uses, and more into how the words are used, and the cultural expectations that come along with the way those words are said.

A lot of those cultural expectations are very American in flavor.

maybe you also experience the same, I am not sure, but I do think it is deeper than just language.