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
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
@siracusa @atpfm Re: trying to make Photos Do The Thing With Faces, you are once again on the sharp end of being made to live in a world where some sufficiently advanced technology really has become indistinguishable from magic: https://kieranhealy.org/blog/archives/2016/02/06/a-kind-of-magic/
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
I just. Think. If you want to write about silica just say that!! Calling it sand is sloppy!!