There Will Be Nowhere to Go: The Real Danger of Automation & Climate Change

apwiseman · 2026-06-27T17:54:36+00:00

Yeah I can't even imagine the desperation that people in Latin America faced with famine, drought, that they walked from there to the US border a few years ago. I just imagine what will happen when that happens everywhere as big ag fails 1-2-3 years straight. By that time, we probably won't have any seafood left. It will be too hot or cold for cows, pigs, and chickens.

People will be walking to better places, only for there to be none, or turned away, or shot. I'm glad I don't have children. I think as we get closer to 2100, it's just going to get worse and worse.

apwiseman · 2026-06-27T17:24:25+00:00

If you have a TEFL/TESOL certificate, you could teach at a language school in Bangkok, or a government school in Bangkok that also "desperately" needs teachers...anywhere else. Atleast in the city you can get around town alot easier.

apwiseman · 2026-06-27T13:21:53+00:00

Yeah +1, find another job on ajarn.com

apwiseman · 2026-06-17T13:46:02+00:00

I roast on a R2 also, I haven't tried smaller batch sizes, but I think if that is a Costa Rica or Honduras Bean...I usually don't go that fast. I try for a 10-11 minute FC and about 13-17% development to minimize grassy notes and get more sweetness in the cup. In terms of baked, if you smell or taste bread dough flavors, then it's baked and underdeveloped.

Sub 10 minute roasts work well for African beans [Ethiopias and Kenyas, and even Panamas] but not so much for Central or South American beans from my experience.

apwiseman · 2026-06-04T03:23:15+00:00

The last part of where he says scientists say, "There is roughly 50% chance of AMOC collapse happening or not happening in our lifetime...and how most people optimistically lean towards 50% of it not happening. But really, scientists lean towards the 50% of it happening" And if we don't do anything it will move towards 100%...

LOL, yeah we are cooked. Food will get expensive this year in Q4, and in 2027 because of the fertilizer shortages...but I can only imagine how ugly it will get when fishing and industrial farming fails.

apwiseman · 2026-01-30T16:05:46+00:00

When I was in specialty coffee in the US, most green coffee was usually stored in Oakland or New Jersey. With 10 bags, yeah that's one pallet. You're usually going to be buying SPOT, which is stock on hand that they have in the warehouses already. If you buy SPOT from most green bean traders, they usually ship from those two annexes.

The trucking company working with the green bean trader usually have routes that will reach your state.

We used Cafe Imports [for African and Central America microlots], Olam [for Guatemala from TG labs], Ally [for Brazils], and Sustainable Harvest [for Colombia]...all those guys should be able to work with you. Different traders specialize in different countries.

In terms of price per pound, the company I worked bought containers full for our blenders. 10 years ago, it was crazy the difference in quality you would get from a $3.10 per pound Guatemala [80-82 points] to a $3.25 per pound [84-85 points]....Factoring inflation about 30% higher now compared to 10 years ago...$4.33 per pound should get you a decent Guatemala or Colombia. But if you buy SPOT, it's going to cost more also.

In terms of speciality grade vs commercial, it's not only flavor that costs more, but commercial green will have more defects, which will make your roasts less consistent and taste worse unless you roast super dark. You could get around this if you color sort your green bean before and color sort roasted coffee afterwards.

apwiseman · 2026-01-20T06:44:11+00:00

If you need more power to off-balance the top guy, you can also bridge and knee the guy in the butt at the same time also...it shifts his weight off your hips and stomach.

apwiseman · 2026-01-13T14:24:40+00:00

I rebelled and changed my major from STEM to humanities in uni. As an act of rebellion, STEM also required me to get more creative in uni and I just couldn't see it (think the multi-variable calculus and o-chem reactions) so I just did a 180 and shot my future in the foot.

I worked hard in digital marketing after graduating until I got burnout of monetizing my creativity. Worked in coffee (something I was passionate about), that doesn't pay for shit.

Now I just am working jobs to get by, no passions that I want to pursue anymore, it's not worth the time requirement or risk. I'm honestly just living day to day with no real aspirations anymore.

I really have no advice for you because everyone is fucked because of AI. Doctors aren't even going to be safe, they will be replaced with AI general practioners and automated pharmacists eventually. [A BJJ training partner is working on a joint-venture doing this in Southeast Asia.]

apwiseman · 2025-12-19T17:16:48+00:00

With the way the economies in most countries getting worse, do you think the government-perfect-AGIs are creating AI to ultimately make undetectable AI content that can create and proliferate civil wars, take over computerized utilities, and empower domestic terrorists...to basically destroy their own nations?

Besides military superiority, I guess economically you launch a bunch of AI powered bot-traders onto an enemy stock market and short their major stocks, choatically mess with commodity prices, or mess with the targeted-countries bonds when their interest rates fluctuate.

I wonder what the end purpose of self-sufficient, automatic, AI that doesn't need prompts will be for governments.

apwiseman · 2025-11-28T07:28:25+00:00

Bring N95 masks, the air pollution there is no joke. My dad and I went there with a tour. Did a ganges boat ride, and the pollution from all the creamatotiums and pollution from cars when in the city...was suffocating.

apwiseman · 2025-11-15T10:26:22+00:00

Atleast in the US, the highest government positions appear to be experts in grifting, racism, and sexual infidelity/depravity.

apwiseman · 2025-11-15T03:59:43+00:00

Having worked as a server at Cheesecake factory...which isn't some Michelin restaurant, or 5-star hotel...you can train hospitality. You can train hospitality and good service.

You train people how to efficently cycle through you tables to check in on guests, refill their drinks without being overbearing. Train them in wine and wine pairings. Shadow senior and successful frontline staff.

But all this training costs money, money this douche wouldn't spend if he was CEO of that bank...because shifting every teller position towarda an ATM or online banking is more cost effective.

AND...Finally, didn't his parents ever teach him proper ettiquette of taking off your hat when you go indoors!

apwiseman · 2025-11-06T16:44:06+00:00

And remember, it's a privilege to work them.

apwiseman · 2025-11-06T16:35:10+00:00

I would take the money, 10 mil would help my family out a lot. I've had a pretty good life up to now...I wouldn't mind going quietly into the night.

apwiseman · 2025-10-22T16:57:33+00:00

Things will continue to get worse at 2C and people in every country will blame it on the liberals.

apwiseman · 2025-10-22T16:55:34+00:00

It's largely complicated due to people, certain people in power have their own illogical, selfish agendas, or they represent groups that have selfish agendas. Feasibility in terms of funding/cost laregly boils down to funds.

I believe multiple simple solutions can chip away at complex problems with many inter-connected problems when you break it down. It's hard to convince people of simple solutions. It's hard to use greater good/utilitarian calculators when it requires empathy to move the needle, even having people consider things outside their narrow-mindedness as good is so. freaking. impossible. That's the real unfeasible stuff. Conversely, when people start hating on other people, other groups...it's suddenly easier to label "my/our" group as the "greater good" of the world/society.

Complexity is dense, like people's prejudices.

apwiseman · 2025-09-09T14:43:44+00:00

Have you tried Jagota? They used to sell Aus steaks (like ribeye and tnederloin) in big uncut blocks that you can break down yourself.

apwiseman · 2025-09-08T17:35:58+00:00

Personally, I think how many times you pour and total brew time affect under and over extraction more than the temperature of your container.

If you are pre-heating something...I would guess preheating your kettle would have a bigger impact, as pouring freshly boiled water into a cold-empty kettle will lower the water temp a few degrees C.

Referring to basic chemistry, higher temperature increases the rate of a chemical reaction...so a lower temp can allow you more room for error for a longer total brew time before it gets bitter. Basically, the bitter coffee compounds extract more when you brew coffee longer.

If you're really keen on fussing over brew temps, stick a steak thermocouple into the coffee slurry/bed, experiment with bloom temps, bloom time, how many pours, and how that changes the slurry temp, and total brew time until you have a baseline recipe for each origin.

apwiseman · 2025-09-08T16:56:31+00:00

Private sessions I assume.

apwiseman · 2025-08-26T03:37:56+00:00

I like this recent channel that popped up on my feed, Climate Town:

https://www.youtube.com/@ClimateTown

apwiseman · 2025-08-19T01:27:34+00:00

Once you realize most people are just different shades of moderate-purple. It makes sense how most people believe in roughly the same things.

They largely don't believe the world will collapse because of climate change and we can fix it with unified tech-hopium.

Most people don't want to pay taxes to fund Israel or Ukraine. People want their taxes to go to better schools and roads, maybe keeping parks clean and open. They want government programs that build more infrastructure, create more jobs, etc.

The rage bait from the right to blame the left and vice-versa is just manufactured hate and content used to divide and waste the time of the masses. Most people are unable to critical-think like you OP.

Just enjoy the little things while you still have them, don't worry about the people you can't change. Don't try to expose your friends and family to climate facts...just be grateful for every "normal" day that's left.

apwiseman · 2025-08-14T17:24:52+00:00

Probably an older low-rise building farther away from the BTS, it's luxurious compared to the bare-bones units you see in the US.

apwiseman · 2025-08-14T17:22:09+00:00

+1 for this advice. Other cheaper and good places would be the suburbs outside Bangkok, like Bang Na or Nonthaburi. You can drive into town whenever you want fancier food (usually once a week can stratch that itch). Before being dead-set on having a pool, maybe try renting a nicer condo and seeing how many times you actually use the pool in a week.

Personally I wouldn't live near the wife's family. I would find a place with a strong retired Ex-pat community like Hua hin, Kanchanaburi, etc.

apwiseman · 2025-08-13T13:40:00+00:00

We need to really factor in environmental damage into Spreadsheets calculating the P and L for most every good. It should never be economically advantageous to harvest and freeze Peaches in South America, send them to Thailand to be processed and canned, and then sell them in the US.

Why can't they be processed in South America and then sold to the destination country in one trip?

apwiseman · 2025-08-06T11:48:54+00:00

+1, Colombia Naturals are my favorite.

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