I thought COVID would be an opportunity to refactor lots of things from noticing how much relief wildlife (esp. whales?) experienced from our "cooling our jets" to making telecommuting a reality for those who have no good reason to schlep their bodies (and oversized vehicles) to the workplace daily to refactor 2 income homes to 1 or 1.5 income homes. But it looks like we are backsliding on all of those if not actually making up for lost time? Maybe the "great Resignation" belies that...
I like to hope that the net effect of Putin's nonsense on the heels of Trump&Co's nonsense is that everyone else might actually get fed up with Authoritarian capriciousness and do what it takes to shove it out the airlock and get on with our lives w/o so much of the toxic something-ulinity.
On 3/2/22 10:07 AM, Roger Critchlow wrote:
I'm thinking that a way to escalate our response to Putin, without actually fighting him, is to build a "green war machine". Start a crash project to research, develop, and deliver the technology to liberate our european allies from their energy dependencies on russian oil and gas. And everyone else as a side effect.That this is all stuff that we *cough* should be doing anyway is bonus content. But what we can't seem to do for the "right" reasons might be easily done as a way to thwart an enemy who is so successfully making himself the most reviled man of our age.Longer term, the economic effects of the sanctions, the social effects of the ukrainian refugee crisis, and the demoralization of watching brute force in action are going to hurt our side a lot. That may be Putin's actual endgame for the "operation" while he pretends to be Trump. Better to be doing something positive than to be waiting around to see how it turns out.-- rec -- .-- .- -. - / .- -.-. - .. --- -. ..--.. / -.-. --- -. .--- ..- --. .- - . FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn UTC-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam un/subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ archives: 5/2017 thru present https://redfish.com/pipermail/friam_redfish.com/ 1/2003 thru 6/2021 http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/
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