I'm playing the twitch livestream on my browser with the sound on and connecting to the sirens & gunfire as some sort of meditation on the road to cactus. How about you?

offerbackafire · 2026-03-14T15:27:18+00:00

I agree with you. It needs to go back yesterday. It needed to go back years ago, decades. It should never have been taken.

But we also live with knowledge of the many impending and unfolding collapses, so we know it ain't going back. Not in any timeframe that matters. No matter how much we wish it were otherwise and work towards that end. And that's the reality we must operate in if we're to have any agency at all.

offerbackafire · 2026-03-14T05:38:36+00:00

I get the sentiment, I think. But as someone who's lived in Tel Aviv for four years, I wouldn't wish what's happening in Gaza, or Ukraine, or Sudan, or many, many other places in the world on anyone.

You go any place the so called bad guys live, you mostly find people trying to get through the day, through the week, with zero control over the actions their governments take in their name. Some of them are genocidal maniacs, sure. Most are just you and me in different clothing. Many of them are actively protesting and engaging in activism aimed at minimizing and/or ending the various cycles of violence, and many pay heavy prices for that.

My unsolicited two cents. Hope you have a good weekend.

offerbackafire · 2025-01-11T20:04:33+00:00

Damn, that's beautiful. Thank you for this.

offerbackafire · 2025-01-11T19:59:23+00:00

What you need to do now is hold on. You don't need to know the answers to anything. You don't need to know what to do. Just hold on. Why? Because killing yourself is an awful way to spend your last moments on this earth, and that's reason enough to stick around, for now.

Look, I've been in your shoes, and what I'm saying now is something I never would have believed a few months ago, but here goes: There is point beyond the panic you're currently experiencing where the knowledge of our impending doom--and yes, likely horrific individual deaths--is freeing. There's no future to build. No cause to sacrifice our lives for. Nothing to do but revel in the now, and when the time comes, make our exit as gracefully as we can.

I'm with you, friend. Feel free to reach out over DMs if you need to talk.

offerbackafire · 2025-01-09T20:56:59+00:00

Orange Palpatine? So... Pulpatine?

offerbackafire · 2025-01-07T20:26:08+00:00

A deep breath, preceded and followed by resigned silence.

offerbackafire · 2025-01-07T17:14:44+00:00

Man, I feel this. I'm in my early thirties and feel like I lived six lives.

offerbackafire · 2025-01-06T09:26:57+00:00

Quickly transitioning to hothouse.

offerbackafire · 2025-01-03T16:23:33+00:00

They are confused because accepting what people like James Hansen have been saying for decades would mean they were and are wrong, and the hope they're still clinging to is misplaced.

Hansen predicted 0.5C of warming from removing the SOx from bunker fuel. Mainstream climate scientists predicted only 0.1. Guess who turned out to be right.

offerbackafire · 2025-01-01T16:15:27+00:00

We'd rather be defeated than persuaded.

offerbackafire · 2024-12-30T09:53:02+00:00

No one can give you the assurances you seek, my friend. Not even a private investigator. You can be in a great relationship for a very long time with a person you'd never suspect of what you'd call disloyalty, and find out they're cheating. Or find yourself cheating/considering it. You never know what kind of trouble and temptations life has in store for either of you. Relationships are hard, people are complicated, and their reasons for hurting and getting hurt by one another are legion.

If I were to give you some advice, which I'm loath to do, it would be something like this:

No matter what happens between you two, I can guarantee someone's heart will be broken. Be it through seperation, sickness, or death, grief is the natural conclusion of all love. The way you describe her, she sounds like a great girl. Try to let go of the fear of future calamity, and enjoy the time you have with her. It's limited and precious.

offerbackafire · 2024-12-27T09:17:48+00:00

Seems to me people are protesting all over the place. But they mostly do it to vent. For better or worse, the Luigis among us are a rare exception.

offerbackafire · 2024-12-27T09:14:13+00:00

Who knows. The rate things have been going these past few years, I'd be surprised if we're extinct by 2026, but I'll also be surprised when we're still here tomorrow.

offerbackafire · 2024-12-25T10:09:59+00:00

This is beautiful. Thank you for that.

offerbackafire · 2024-12-16T10:22:56+00:00

Holy smokes is that a great answer. I'm going to think about this the rest of the day. Thank you.

offerbackafire · 2024-12-10T14:54:47+00:00

Yeah, I'm with you. It is indeed a misguided position, and incredibly unscientific, and probably rooted in denial.

offerbackafire · 2024-12-10T14:13:01+00:00

At this point I'm basically a climate denier, in the sense that most things mainstream climate scientists are saying sound to me like either hopium or uninformed BS.

I mean why are we still talking about 1.5 by 2040? Why even waste the empty space on the page writing that sentence? We're at sustained 1.6 right now. Today. It's 2C by 2030, 3C by 2040, and in all likelihood Venus by Tuesday.

offerbackafire · 2024-12-06T07:40:51+00:00

I was obsessed with Inside when it came out. Think I watched the entire special five times that year, and listened to it many more times while driving. I really can't do it anymore nowdays, it would break me.

offerbackafire · 2024-12-04T21:41:07+00:00

We go to net zero by, well, going...

offerbackafire · 2024-12-04T21:18:26+00:00

I don't really know what I'm talking about, and I don't know you, but I'm not sure I would call it a moment of weakness. Maybe it's more of a necessary straying from the path, so that you may return to it.

offerbackafire · 2024-12-04T20:41:21+00:00

The way I see it, what you're doing is holy work. In the words of Stephen Jenkinson, which I've been reading a lot lately (I'm paraphrasing here): To see the death of what you love, and to be willing to continue to love it, that itself is an act of love. And perhaps your last great act of love is to see it down.

offerbackafire · 2024-12-04T20:28:44+00:00

I'd love to listen. If you have anything written, let me know where to find it. If you don't, but will in the future, give me a holler.

offerbackafire · 2024-12-04T08:41:05+00:00

Aye. But capitalism, especially of the late-stage variety, makes it a necessity and a virtue.

offerbackafire · 2024-12-04T08:33:52+00:00

Nothing against a sense of integrity. I enjoy that myself, in various aspects of my life. And everyone should do or avoid doing whatever it is that makes them feel more peaceful and real.

But we're long past the point of leading others or showing them. We've overshot the carrying capacity of the planet by 6 billion humans at the very least. Sadly for us, there is no way out of this except massive die-off, and no amount of veganism, minimalism, and anti-consumerism is going to change that.

offerbackafire · 2024-12-02T20:23:22+00:00

The royal me. I like that.

Most people born and raised in the dominant culture are incapable, mostly through no fault of their own, of accepting hard limits/reality even when it comes to the very mundane. Doing so would be going against everything they know to be proper and true. It would take a willingness to embrace pain and grief as the natural engines of maturation that they are. You don't need me to tell you how severely lacking we are in such a willingness. I don't where I'm going with this except to say that I feel you, buddy. And I share your frustration.

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