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Not sure how much I'm going to blog anymore. I have a really bad neck, with four fusions, since 2010, and it's gotten a lot worse this year as I try to sit at a computer for more than an hour or two. I'm not even doing enough work to earn a living. At this point even opiates don't help alot, and the more I work the worse it gets. And I just get tired. But I'll never be able to retire here, so unless I move to another country I'm going to have to be miserly about spending time typing unless it's for pay. I'll drop in every now and again to post something I find interesting, about science or literature or something else, but I'm also not that interested in climate change anymore. I was only ever interested in the science, not the politics, but as the science seems more and more established it's falling out of my Overton Window. I'm not interested in every nuance of the AMOC ocean stream and polar ice and carbon capture, and certainly not whether the world will seriously address the problem [added 5/30: I retract that; I was having a bad day.] (which they haven't yet in 30 years, despite Kyoto and Paris, aided by immoral, even evil bloggers like Watts and Steve what's-his-name and Chuck W and that guy in Montana whose name I'm not interested enough to remember.) Ed-something, I think. (He's full of shit anyway.) They are all completely wrong, of course, but all too shameless and arrogant to ever admit it. And, the corporations have won, putting endless profits over the survival of society. Republicans have won, even though they're destroying the country & the world. And I certainly don't want to write about Trump, the devil incarnate--I hope he brings about the collapse of the US as soon as possible--it's been coming on for 50 years, and America certainly deserves it--so US regions can secede and start again. But I don't care about that either--I'm not married, I don't have any kids, so I don't have any stake in the future. [added 5/30: I retract this too. It wasn't the best day for me to be blogging.] And lately I really feel that. My fault for not establishing stakes, a major failure, but it's too late now. I'm mostly here to see my 15-year old cat's life through to its end. I'd just rather do whatever paying work I can in the hours I have then read novels the rest of the time and watch hockey when it's in season.
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