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@DemocracyMattersALot I think Disney own Nat Geo

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There is something very satisfying about a post-Metal band covering Tears for Fears #Music

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Found something remarkable (and also quite sad).

In 1997, Wired published "The Long Boom", a hyper-optimistic article about how we'd achieve Utopia by 2020.

The authors included notes on some "scenario spoilers"—negative events that might send is in a worse direction.

...and those spoilers turned out to be almost spookily accurate.

https://www.wired.com/1997/07/longboom/

10 Scenario Spoilers

The long boom is a scenario, one possible future. It’s built upon the convergence of many big forces and even more little pieces falling into place—all of them with a positive twist. The future of course, could turn out to be very different—particularly if a few of those big pieces go haywire. Here are 10 things that could cut short the long boom.

1. Tensions between China and the US escalate into a new Cold War—bordering on a hot one.

2. New technologies turn out to be a bust. They simply don’t bring the expected productivity increases or the big economic boosts.

3. Russia devolves into a kleptocracy run by a mafia or retreats into quasicommunist nationalism that threatens Europe.

4. Europe’s integration process grinds to a halt. Eastern and western Europe can’t finesse a reunification, and even the European Union process breaks down.

5. Major ecological crisis causes a global climate change that, among other things, disrupts the food supply—causing big price increases everywhere and sporadic famines.

6. Major rise in crime and terrorism forces the world to pull back in fear. People who constantly feel they could be blown up or ripped off are not in the mood to reach out and open up.

7. The cumulative escalation in pollution causes a dramatic increase in cancer, which overwhelms the ill-prepared health system.

8. Energy prices go through the roof. Convulsions in the Middle East disrupt the oil supply, and the alternative energy sources fail to materialize.

9. An uncontrollable plague—a modern-day influenza epidemic or its equivalent—takes off like wildfire, killing upward of 200 million people.

10. A social and cultural backlash stops progress dead in its tracks. Human beings need to choose to move forward. They just may not …

I think I need to move to a new instance, anything out there for endurance sports (#running, #trailrunning, #cycling ), fancy #Beer , and #music ?

@AnneTheWriter1 @beecycling Not the first time, check the names of the Rocinante drones

The season finale of Yellowjackets was some bullshit

@Patuleia get the record, at best it becomes decorative and worst case people can listen to it on a phonograph after the apocalypse

The hill repeat workout on the schedule sounded awful so I did 7 miles alone while the rest of the group crushed it

@Mtn_Fox Utah is much smarter about this sort of thing and has a variety of races that bus you to the top and let you run downhill

@HollyCo26588808 the craziest thing about the race is that second place also beat the previous course record.

My workout partner wasn’t into it this morning. 7 mile run around the neighborhood, 30 minute upper body class, and 10 minutes of core.

@carnage4life I work for a nonprofit whose mission I fully support and I never mention them on my personal social media.

Watching Season 4 of Fringe at the same time as Secret Invasion is fun

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#WesternStates
#running
#ultramarathon
Stunning endurance running.

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2023/jun/25/dauwalter-smashes-western-states-ultramarathon-record-by-78-minutes

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@threeio Starts at the base of Loveland ski area and ends in Idaho Springs. Lot of elevation loss but being over 10,000’ for the first few miles can be rough if you aren’t used to it.

Last night around 6pm I was looking up pre-race information for my half and started seeing “there is something going on in Russia”. This morning as I was eating my yogurt it was “Wagner mercenaries have taken over cities and are marching on Moscow”. When I got home from my half it was “It’s all over, they have a peace agreement”. That had to be the fastest insurrection-reconciliation ever, did the news channels even cover it?

Slacker Half Marathon. There is a significant amount of downhill on this course but this is still waaay faster than I expected #Running

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