Th3 Core

Yes, and time is running out. People are only now starting to realize that there's a big lag time on all this and even if we drop to zero tomorrow, things will get worse before they get better.

We basically need to get close to zero GG emissions AND develop carbon capture AND do it all very quickly.

It's unfortunate that Exxon, who had all the science on this back in the 1970s, opted for a campaign of delay and obfuscation, copying Big Tobacco. Small changes in 1980 would have made this process a lot easier. Now, we're pretty much screwed. If we don't see decisive action on this within 5 years (really BIG, decisive action), it will be game over. We are in triple overtime and the clock is ticking on this.

That's brilliant. It's a great fit for Shopify and their clientele.

>>It’s disconcerting that we’re still seeing elevated losses after over a decade of survey

This. This is the scary part

My experience has been that most Slack channels I've been invited to die for lack of interest.

I found it worked great the first time I used it to encourage collaboration in a seminar. Worked so-so the second time. I'll probably try it again, but it's all group dynamics. You have to have a few active users and my seminars only have 8-10, so there's always a good chance nobody will take to it.

I suppose when you have a company of 30 you force onto it, then you're sure to have a few active users and sure to have it ruin your life.

US beekeepers lost 40% of honeybee colonies over past year,

Haven't we been seeing that basic headline for years now?

Beekeepers can tolerate up to 15% losses of colonies over winter, but the US is massively above this threshold, having lost 28.1% of colonies over the 2015-16 winter.

http://theconversation.com/ten-years-after-the-crisis-what-is-happening-to-the-worlds-bees-77164

But those slaves are getting paid!

Listening to a Cal Newport interview and he tossed out this label to describe us and particularly teenagers who are coming awake to the fact that that is the role carved out for them by the big media companies

He says the thing that makes him happy lately is that more and more saying “I’m not on social media” is cool and counterculture for teens. It’s this generation’s punk rock.

Not familiar with this source BUT drugs play a large part...

Around here there are two big factors
 - affordability crisis
 - drug addiction

The affordability crisis is ultimately one that's easier to see a path to solution. The county is looking into buying land that would be long-term leased, changing zoning for higher density and developing off-the-shelf small home plans to avoid design and engineering costs. These all seem like smart solutions to get families into houses. EXCEPT when they're alcoholics or meth addicts... and that's a huge problem here.

I used to talk the a homeless guy a lot in Berkeley. He would stand in the rain begging for 12 hours and I would think, "Wouldn't it be easier to have a job?" The guy would literally put in 60-70 hours weeks. But then, he'd go on a bender and disappear for a month, come back looking like crap, and start begging 60 hours a week again. He had an incredible work ethic. But he was addicted to alcohol, and that meant that about twice a year he would take an action that no regular employer would tolerate. Thus he was jobless and homeless, even though he typically "worked" as many or more hours than I did.