MuadDib

It's too hot for anything other than nihilism. I have been appreciating the effort, time and thought you put into this journal. I wanted to add some of my own thoughts on the global climate crisis that’s rearing it’s ugly head. I’ve noticed in the general zeitgeist “climate change” is mostly viewed as a far off nagging inconvenience future generations are going to have to deal with, and there is a lack of understanding of basic thermodynamics and systemic implications for the rise in global temperatures that have already accumulated. One of the core misunderstandings is the difference between temperature and heat as applied to systems. So when people hear “global temperature is going to rise by 2-5 degrees in the next hundred years” it’s mostly shrugged off as a couple more sweaty days in a year, maybe an odd deluge or tornado here and there and it’s just … whatever. Heat however is a measure of the total energy applied to the system. One example that helps people begin to grasp the scale of the issue is electricity bills sharply increasing when air conditioning is used in summer, or heating is used in winter. Your home is only being heated or cooled by a few degrees, yet the bill is considerably larger because the total amount of energy being expended to mediate that change is very large. When you then add that heating or cooling water takes substantially more energy than heating or cooling air, as is the case with boiling a kettle or running a refrigerator, to get a few small ice blocks and steam in tiny controlled spaces the issue becomes more apparent. Global ocean temperatures have risen somewhere around 2 degrees over the last century and while the temperature difference seems nominal, the total amount of energy now locked in the sea is almost incomprehensible. I believe it’s equivalent to something like 50 times all of current humans global energy consumption is stored in the pacific oceanwater above baseline levels. 50 times our collective energy use. Do you know how many nuclear bombs that’s equal to? This is just the pacific mind you, there are other ocean's out there. Add in unforeseen consequences applied to biological systems and a new horror emerges. An example that comes to mind from a few years ago was a mass extinction event of deer in Russia that only emerged because their gut bacteria was being affected by warmer conditions and several toxic strains were able to survive (where they hadn’t previously).

solo dance parties are lit. the physicality doesnt have to be extreme to have a good time.

Aemond is a mama's boy.

荒海や佐渡によこたふ天の川

Begging: I accept The blazing sun

the thief left it the moon at my window —Ryōkan

Learning to tumble turn is mildly traumatizing, ngl.

This was appreciated

I have a new job in a gym, and sometimes have to dj. Post songs you like to rip while doing cardio/strength/swimming. I can only play non explicit music, but I know the best songs often have filthy lyrics so share whatever here. Also curious what the ladies are into.

@Optimized Life I wasnt replying to you, but ok.

@oOo I understand the critique, but it’s presented as a totalizing diagnosis (“the forum is vibe-centric”) with jargon-heavy, unfalsifiable framing where disagreement gets treated as evidence. That makes it hard to engage productively, because it shuts down the dialogue it claims to encourage and implicitly preframes disagreement as a personal deficiency. Separate question, is it true you’ve been banned three times for threatening or unsafe behaviour toward forum members? If yes, how do you reconcile that history with claims about empathy, boundaries, and community health? I’m asking as someone concerned about people’s safety and peace of mind. Also, I'm curious what your motivations are for being here. Is it truth-seeking, the “hot witch girlfriend” meme, both, or something else? Vibes and truth seeking aren’t mutually exclusive.