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  • If the risk of a plane crashing was as high as the risk of the AMOC collapsing, none of us would ever fly because they would not let the plane take off. And the idea that our little spaceship, our planet, is under the risk of essentially crashing and we’re still continuing business as usual is mindblowing. I think part of the problem is that people feel distant from the dangers and don’t realise the children we have in our homes today are threatened with a chaotic, disastrous, unliveable future. Talking about the risks of catastrophe is a very useful way to overcome this kind of false distance.

    https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/amoc.html

    ^ A basic explainer on the AMOC from the now functionally extinct National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

    Also a note on the article

    It depends. I talk about three different kinds of doomerism. One is the despair that arises from misunderstanding the science and thinking we’re absolutely on the path to collapse within 20 or 30 years, no matter what we do. That is not true.

    Citation Needed

    There is a difference between nihilism and truth, and the truth is it is far too late AND we are now accelerating towards the thing we were previously braking to avoid. I am done with empty centrist optimism, get your affairs in order, probably don’t have kids, and be real about how many years you have left with a reasonable quality of life because no matter your age it isn’t a lot.







  • A good example is ADHD. I have severe ADHD so I take meds to manage it. If I am driving an automatic car on cruise control I find it very difficult to maintain long term high intensity concentration. The solution for me is to drive a manual. The constant involvement of maintaining speed, revs, gear ratio, and so on mean I can pay attention much easier. Add to that thinking about hypermiling and defensive driving and I have become a very safe driver, putting about 25-30 thousand kms on my car each year for over a decade without so much as a fender bender. In an automatic I was always tense, forcing focus on the road, and honestly it hurt my neck and shoulders because of the tension. In my zippy little manual I have no trouble driving at all.

    Are you me? I love weaving through traffic as fast as I can… in a video game (like Motor Town behind the wheel). In real life I drive very safe and it is boring af for my ADHD so I do things like try to hit the apex of turns just perfect as if I was driving at the limit but I am in reality driving at a normal speed.

    Part of living with severe ADHD is you don’t get breaks from having to play these games to survive everyday life, as you say it is a stressful reality in part because of this. You brought up a great point too that both of us know, when our focus is on something and activated we can perform at a high level, but accidents don’t wait for our focus, they just happen, and this is why we are always beating ourselves up.

    We can look at self driving car tech and intuit a lot about the current follies of it because we know what focus is better than anyone else, especially successful tech company execs.






  • I agree completely

    I’d love to find somewhere to live that isn’t the US, but I have but one skill and ADHD is not on the desired applicants field for most emigration forms.

    …and also I am quite serious when I say that I will die before I am ever able to get through the paperwork of immigrating to another country even if I do possess skills that are considered valuable or there is the asylum potential for me to flee, people laugh or don’t take me seriously when I say things like that but if you have the kind of ADHD I do or similar you know I am simply being soberly serious, I will die before I ever get through that much paperwork. It is as simple as that, hopefullly I survive I am not being nihilist I just sure as hell know those aren’t lifeboats I can use.

    “You will do what you have to survive if you have to” - people will often reflexively say in response to me to shut down conversation about survival as if I wasn’t already doing that and the conversation wasn’t specifically about survival becoming an order of magnitude harder for me… No I won’t that is my point, believe me when I say it, I WON’T BECAUSE I CAN’T. Help me now or face the fact that this is in some way a goodbye. You are not obligated to help me, though I will not stand you being in denial about refusing to help me even as you do so with your deflections of my existential cry to details and hopeful plans that mean nothing to me because their timelines far exceed my plausible lifeplan.

    It is also frustrating how when I talk about this people so often act like I am being extreme, or reactionary or talking in existential terms that are unhelpful, and it hurts when they say it because I am not. I have lost friendships very important to be me because of the pain this causes me when friends have responded these ways repeatedly with a loving but unlistening intention. If I was where most people’s kneejerk reaction thought I was when I say these things I wouldn’t be here talking to you, people don’t want to come to terms with the fact that they are in a war already and I am tired of it. I realize I am, I am still here, for now, save your concern for the war not for me and for fucks sake stop being in denial about being in a war ughh.

    (I didn’t mean “you” as in response to you as a reply, I meant general “you” as in I am talking to the not so hypothetical types of people that have and will respond to me endlessly until I pass from this earth lol)