A subsequent government could quite reasonably decide that rebuilding a stable, mutually beneficial trading relationship with Canada is in the US interest.
They could, but at any time another president can tear that agreement up and start another trade war. That's the whole issue — the US can no longer be trusted to adhere to agreements beyond 2/4 years.
May I suggest simple crafting, like whittling, ancient/native pottery, wood carving, paper basket weaving, origami, crochet (or the slightly more addictive and expensive knitting), braiding, weaving, macrame, yarn spinning, decorative knotworking, flower pressing, dyemaking, hand dying, flower arrangement, make walking canes, etc?
Or maybe an instrument? Someone mentioned guitar, but why not harmonica, ukulele, bongos, simple percussives, or why not take up singing, there's typically a choir almost everywhere, or you could try solo, or whistling, or yodeling.
Or maybe take up gardening/growing? In pots, hydroponically, maybe on a growing lot, or someone's yard?
Or take up community projects, like either sanctioned or guerilla gardening, greening, forestry, litter picking, maintaining communal spaces, volunteer, start a community project (pollination diversity, bee keeping, growing lots, food drive, food forestry)
Or take up a cause? Build community, take affirmative action, demonstrate, protest, coordinate, communicate, with an established org, or on your own?
Maybe the outdoors could entice? Take up walking, ornithology, watch bats, discover new insects, take up chabana/ikebana, learn to forage, learn survival skills, go hiking, stack rocks, track animals, learn trapping, get into scouting, make bark boats, learn to skip rocks, climb trees, jump in puddles, pretend (or practice) animistic rituals, feel rain on naked skin, sleep under a bare sky, pick skulls, horns and bones to craft with.
Perhaps create stories, tell stories, write poetry, learn magic, juggle, poi, take up clowning, go swing/country/folk/traditional/ballroom/social dancing, try Butoh, write sketches, join a theatre, start a business, take up decorating, or just embrace whimsy?
I can also warmly recommend trying a new thing every week/month/period and see what sticks and not.
You make a daily habit of writing down 5 things you did well each day and/or that you are proud of, and continue for at least a month.
I would recommend getting a separate notebook for this so you can look back after the month.
The size of things you're writing down can be as big or small as you like. You can be proud you chewed your food well, got a compliment, stood up for yourself or achieved world peace, just make sure there's five each day.
Remember that Trump is just a data point on a trend of GOP presidents since about Nixon. The next president is set to be to Trump as Trump is to George. W. Bush.
Finding a reason is hard, and implausibly so when you're already struggling with keeping alive.
It doesn't matter much how or what you've been, nor what you could or should be. You are currently struggling, and with a perception altering condition to boot. And as with most things we find struggling, we offer help, understanding, comfort and support, as well as recruit others to help. See if you can't offer yourself that, or find someone to help you get there (SSRIs are a crutch, not the healing).
Build up strength, support and resilience, and you'll have better control of the perception altering parts at least, and probably more energy to try, fail, learn and try again at what is a worthy reason for you.
Also, passion is overrated, most people develop passion for things that they manage to do over time. Figure out what is interesting and rewarding to do first, figure out how to do it sustainably as part of your life, including how you remind yourself to get back to it when you inevitably get distracted (my favorite way is to tie it to something I find important, like justice or caring for my environment). In a couple years, people will describe you as passionate, and after a while you might even feel it yourself.
This triangle makes so little sense. Typically these triangles sort things according to three axes, but here there seems to be only decentralised - centralised power over an arbitrary right - left axis.
Also the names seem put in with where the author places the person's political affiliation/branding rather than their own stances.
If you want clarity for the graphic - clearly mark your axes. If you want explanatory power - show your assumptions/methodology.
Alpine strawberries grow like regular plants, no funny cold stratification or weird co-dependencies needed.
I've mostly grown them in soil where they can be quite moody (poor germination until suddenly thriving half grown plants), and the one try I've done hydroponically I just germinated them on paper towel as per regular.
Some reading online seems to confirm that they have worse germination rate than many commercial seeds, and that they can take longer (up to a couple weeks) to germinate.
When I tried them in my hydro setup they behaved entirely normally. Same germination setup, growth rate etc. as the herbs and flowers I typically plant. Mine came out a little weak to support the hanging fruit, but with some wind agitation and/or supports you'll probably be fine.
The point however is that we're growing a lot more vegetables, because we need the food.
Human water consumption is also higher than data center consumption, the conclusion should be that the chart is dumb, not that we should kill humans to support data centers.
A good summary of all we know is in the freely available Astrobiology Primer (currently v3), Chapter 7 is about exotic forms of life and why we look at the bands we do. You'll find they comfortably cover all earth conditions including extremophiles, and they do consider exoplanet moons, although those are harder to observe.
It also has several chapters about why we look to earth like life, including that it's the entirety of life observed, the only we could currently discover, etc.
Have a read, it's quite interesting. It goes particularly well with touching some grass.
They could, but at any time another president can tear that agreement up and start another trade war. That's the whole issue — the US can no longer be trusted to adhere to agreements beyond 2/4 years.
If you can't trust a treaty to hold over time/presidents, each fair deal must be immediately transactional.
The Trump deal was already worse than the previous one, a new one will need be even worse.
Can't win by force, must try by terror
Cthulhu fhthagn?
That's why modern European buildings aren't just piles of rocks.
Most of Europe gets 4 seasons, most of Europe uses stone/brick/concrete housing, most of Europe is doing fine or better.
How is building a snowman a trap?
May I suggest simple crafting, like whittling, ancient/native pottery, wood carving, paper basket weaving, origami, crochet (or the slightly more addictive and expensive knitting), braiding, weaving, macrame, yarn spinning, decorative knotworking, flower pressing, dyemaking, hand dying, flower arrangement, make walking canes, etc?
Or maybe an instrument? Someone mentioned guitar, but why not harmonica, ukulele, bongos, simple percussives, or why not take up singing, there's typically a choir almost everywhere, or you could try solo, or whistling, or yodeling.
Or maybe take up gardening/growing? In pots, hydroponically, maybe on a growing lot, or someone's yard?
Or take up community projects, like either sanctioned or guerilla gardening, greening, forestry, litter picking, maintaining communal spaces, volunteer, start a community project (pollination diversity, bee keeping, growing lots, food drive, food forestry)
Or take up a cause? Build community, take affirmative action, demonstrate, protest, coordinate, communicate, with an established org, or on your own?
Maybe the outdoors could entice? Take up walking, ornithology, watch bats, discover new insects, take up chabana/ikebana, learn to forage, learn survival skills, go hiking, stack rocks, track animals, learn trapping, get into scouting, make bark boats, learn to skip rocks, climb trees, jump in puddles, pretend (or practice) animistic rituals, feel rain on naked skin, sleep under a bare sky, pick skulls, horns and bones to craft with.
Perhaps create stories, tell stories, write poetry, learn magic, juggle, poi, take up clowning, go swing/country/folk/traditional/ballroom/social dancing, try Butoh, write sketches, join a theatre, start a business, take up decorating, or just embrace whimsy?
I can also warmly recommend trying a new thing every week/month/period and see what sticks and not.
You make a daily habit of writing down 5 things you did well each day and/or that you are proud of, and continue for at least a month.
I would recommend getting a separate notebook for this so you can look back after the month.
The size of things you're writing down can be as big or small as you like. You can be proud you chewed your food well, got a compliment, stood up for yourself or achieved world peace, just make sure there's five each day.
You mean the buttplug village?
Remember that Trump is just a data point on a trend of GOP presidents since about Nixon. The next president is set to be to Trump as Trump is to George. W. Bush.
It's accidentally also a very poignant critique of current corporate hiring practices 🤭
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You're probably taking on too much at once.
Finding a reason is hard, and implausibly so when you're already struggling with keeping alive.
It doesn't matter much how or what you've been, nor what you could or should be. You are currently struggling, and with a perception altering condition to boot. And as with most things we find struggling, we offer help, understanding, comfort and support, as well as recruit others to help. See if you can't offer yourself that, or find someone to help you get there (SSRIs are a crutch, not the healing).
Build up strength, support and resilience, and you'll have better control of the perception altering parts at least, and probably more energy to try, fail, learn and try again at what is a worthy reason for you.
Also, passion is overrated, most people develop passion for things that they manage to do over time. Figure out what is interesting and rewarding to do first, figure out how to do it sustainably as part of your life, including how you remind yourself to get back to it when you inevitably get distracted (my favorite way is to tie it to something I find important, like justice or caring for my environment). In a couple years, people will describe you as passionate, and after a while you might even feel it yourself.
This triangle makes so little sense. Typically these triangles sort things according to three axes, but here there seems to be only decentralised - centralised power over an arbitrary right - left axis.
Also the names seem put in with where the author places the person's political affiliation/branding rather than their own stances.
If you want clarity for the graphic - clearly mark your axes. If you want explanatory power - show your assumptions/methodology.
To be fair, the actual campaign involved more players
Alpine strawberries grow like regular plants, no funny cold stratification or weird co-dependencies needed.
I've mostly grown them in soil where they can be quite moody (poor germination until suddenly thriving half grown plants), and the one try I've done hydroponically I just germinated them on paper towel as per regular.
Some reading online seems to confirm that they have worse germination rate than many commercial seeds, and that they can take longer (up to a couple weeks) to germinate.
When I tried them in my hydro setup they behaved entirely normally. Same germination setup, growth rate etc. as the herbs and flowers I typically plant. Mine came out a little weak to support the hanging fruit, but with some wind agitation and/or supports you'll probably be fine.
True.
The point however is that we're growing a lot more vegetables, because we need the food.
Human water consumption is also higher than data center consumption, the conclusion should be that the chart is dumb, not that we should kill humans to support data centers.
So tell me what we should look for and why, preferably with an estimation of how likely it is that we'll find something.
A good summary of all we know is in the freely available Astrobiology Primer (currently v3), Chapter 7 is about exotic forms of life and why we look at the bands we do. You'll find they comfortably cover all earth conditions including extremophiles, and they do consider exoplanet moons, although those are harder to observe.
It also has several chapters about why we look to earth like life, including that it's the entirety of life observed, the only we could currently discover, etc.
Have a read, it's quite interesting. It goes particularly well with touching some grass.