School, anxiety, school anxiety
Anyway I think I'm pretty well useless for the rest of the day from the cortisol of this non-update, goodnight
School, anxiety, school anxiety
@karengregory either way this goes I'm probably going to have a nervous breakdown? But not until like, November.
@ken oh my goodness I'm so sorry Ken that's a lot of stress to have on top of heartbreak, fuck
School, anxiety, school anxiety
@danhon honestly why not I've tried a lot of angles here but not that
School, anxiety, school anxiety
The entire point of doing a PhD was to get some stability and in the absence of that this all starts to feel pretty pointless!! Maybe it is time to walk into the sea
@kit literally he goes to a gold mine and is like "whoa"
@pootriarch love to be an IP vampire
@teamseaslug @inquiline@union.place there's some cool shit with vampires later on but you mostly got it
To be fair this book is basically "an economist just found out commodities are real things from places" my expectations should be lower
So after the author goes all gee whiz concrete can end poverty, he gets into the carbon footprint of it and all the negative impacts which to me reads as very like "we can solve poverty or stop climate change but not both!!" Seems like a bad way to frame this!
Also has lines like "Sand is what will help us pull millions out of destitution and poverty" re: concrete and that "us" vs "millions" makes some interesting assumptions!! Also he's talking about concrete which, my guy