took another day off dashing and have been catching up on reading, laundry, etc. but the most pervasive problem is opening up facebook and getting drawn into flood pictures in the 'reels' part.
it is set up by algorithm to draw you into the reels and keep you there and that's why there's a lot of flood pictures there these days. nothing draws your eyes better than raging currents of water sweeping people or cars away, or trapping them on rooftops as the water rises.
the heck of it is they're from all over. it started with texas and there are a lot from texas. texas is familiar to me because i lived there and have been to kerrville. but every fifth or sixth one is from ruidoso and i know ruidoso even better. we used to go to ruidoso often and even stayed there a few times but then, there are more. one is from davenport, which is only forty miles up the road. a couple have been from oklahoma. and quite a few are from pakistan or bangladesh. those places have real problems, flooding that makes ours look like puddles.
what we see is very dramatic and the reels function is set up to perpetuate that. in short, it appears the world is ending, being washed away by torrents of rain all over the place. but, with the exception of texas, most of these flood events don't even make the nightly news.
i have to admit, and i'll only do it here, as it's not fit for polite company, that i take a perverse pleasure in raging storms, although of course i hate to see the loss of life, destruction of whole houses, upending of lives, etc. but in a way it's like the earth having its last stand against ignorance, humans who in spite of having the technology continue to ignore the warnings and not only keep burning oil but demand that we keep doing so infinitely. can't you see the damage you've done? perhaps the earth needs to show us/i> a little better that it's at its tipping point.
one can give the earth some agency in this - as if it is hurting, and it hurts us back deliberately - but it's not necessary. the earth is simply at its tipping point and it's going to hit us whether it has any awareness of it or not. it's just the havoc we've wrought upon ourselves and which will continue until we get a clue. let's just say we are going in the absolute wrong direction and it's absolutely the worst possible fallout from all the political events of the last year.
it's going to be a long summer - hurricane season is about upon us.
it is set up by algorithm to draw you into the reels and keep you there and that's why there's a lot of flood pictures there these days. nothing draws your eyes better than raging currents of water sweeping people or cars away, or trapping them on rooftops as the water rises.
the heck of it is they're from all over. it started with texas and there are a lot from texas. texas is familiar to me because i lived there and have been to kerrville. but every fifth or sixth one is from ruidoso and i know ruidoso even better. we used to go to ruidoso often and even stayed there a few times but then, there are more. one is from davenport, which is only forty miles up the road. a couple have been from oklahoma. and quite a few are from pakistan or bangladesh. those places have real problems, flooding that makes ours look like puddles.
what we see is very dramatic and the reels function is set up to perpetuate that. in short, it appears the world is ending, being washed away by torrents of rain all over the place. but, with the exception of texas, most of these flood events don't even make the nightly news.
i have to admit, and i'll only do it here, as it's not fit for polite company, that i take a perverse pleasure in raging storms, although of course i hate to see the loss of life, destruction of whole houses, upending of lives, etc. but in a way it's like the earth having its last stand against ignorance, humans who in spite of having the technology continue to ignore the warnings and not only keep burning oil but demand that we keep doing so infinitely. can't you see the damage you've done? perhaps the earth needs to show us/i> a little better that it's at its tipping point.
one can give the earth some agency in this - as if it is hurting, and it hurts us back deliberately - but it's not necessary. the earth is simply at its tipping point and it's going to hit us whether it has any awareness of it or not. it's just the havoc we've wrought upon ourselves and which will continue until we get a clue. let's just say we are going in the absolute wrong direction and it's absolutely the worst possible fallout from all the political events of the last year.
it's going to be a long summer - hurricane season is about upon us.
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