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Unboxing 2022
4 years ago
Well, let's see, we have a new year on our desk here.
Like all of its kind, it holds promises, chances and risks.
Compared two its two predecessors, it comes with the secured knowledge ow how to handle various diseases, so that is a big promise.
Then again, as we saw last year, we have to be aware that many people are eager to misunderstand the facts, believe in approved quacks, and ignore repeatable, consistently prooved facts.
So, in theory great in practice we all know that 50% of humanity are stupider than the average, and we know where that average usually is at.
So, we can have some hope, but better prepare for snarky humor when you don't want to get frustrated over it.
As its predecessors in the last decade, it'll show the progressing worrying trends in regards to temperatures, precipitation and other things typically grouped together under the term "Climate".
As with the diseases, we know how to reverse it, we know how to stabilize it, but don't do it because its an effort and its costly.
That it is not going to get any cheaper, but rather scales exponentially in cost and effort to get the situation back under control will be, again, mostly ignored as long as a single buck ca nbe earned to old way of ignoring it.
Here I see however some benefit in that the fact that Corona showed us that home office isa real possibility, new opportunities that might positively impact this issue might come from the previous issue.
Like: "When you have a problem, you have a problem. When you have many problems, you have solutions."
Furthermore I hope that as society recovers from the pandemic of the last two years, a lot of people I know and care for and that are in economic straits will find employment or even better paying jobs, like I did.
Again, here the initially mentioned issue might show helpful.
Furthermore, politics is brewing all over the world. Egocentric maniacs are being elected or remain in power, and people who elected these egomaniacs still believe that somebody caring mostly for himself will make sure that they will have it better. That they were on the down slides ever since they elected these people they apply to all those that, once the egocentric strongman violated all contracts and all treaties, simply stopped fulfilling their parts of the voided contracts. I guess you , too, would keep on paying rent for a house you moved out a year ago in a town you no longer live in, right?
Anyway, That kind of shit has gone on in various places of the world since ever and just now spreads like a bush fire since more and more of these so called "Strong Men" are able to pat each others back in public.
Stoking local hatreds and bringing up the different interests group against each other or uniting them by pointing at others are methods well established, and who cares when the resulting genocides, civil wars or even regular wars will wreck country and lives wholly? The strong man and his clique will sit at sunny beaches and enjoy a Pina Colada, and thats why one did elect them for, right?
Finally, as I am banging my head since 30 years about it, is the troubles brewing in eastern Europe.
Russia dissolved the Warsaw Pact in 1990, but the Nato did not dissolve, as its auxiliary functions remained relevant to its members.
Now, it'd been a good gentlemens agreement not to encroach upon Russia. Politeness and all that.
However, Russia might spend a few minutes why countries such as Poland were most eager to join the Nato right away.
Maybe its because actions such as in eastern Ukraine and Crimea taste distinctly like CIA operations in Afghanistan during the Soviet-Afghan war?
If not for my general awareness of "Strong Men" in politics and their baby-like temper tantrums I would be puzzled, but there are simply too many parallels between high politics and Kindergarden as not to understand that when groups of Bullies run into each other, logic and courtesy are usually going to be absent.
So, in that regard 2022 holds a lot of Risk. Ever since Goebbels "War on Terror" was pulled out of the box by Bush Junior, international politics got a lot more volatile and quixotic, with governments the world over now labelling everyone not aliginging with their ideals a terrorist and happily following the example of the USA in regards what to do then with them.
Not that they wouldn't have done it anyway and i n the same vein, but now they proudly point to the West and say theyre just following our example.
I had thought that the german example in WW2 would have taught everyone that such stuff is idiotic and suicidal but, well, ... Humans dont change I guess?
Anyway: With al lthose ugly and stupid things out of the box of 2022, I stil lhope that itll be a good year. Sparc and Iter are progressing well, space cargo gets cheaper, the ARM architecture spreads to business laptops and I have a lot of hopes.
Maybe I may find a lady for me this year even?
Like all of its kind, it holds promises, chances and risks.
Compared two its two predecessors, it comes with the secured knowledge ow how to handle various diseases, so that is a big promise.
Then again, as we saw last year, we have to be aware that many people are eager to misunderstand the facts, believe in approved quacks, and ignore repeatable, consistently prooved facts.
So, in theory great in practice we all know that 50% of humanity are stupider than the average, and we know where that average usually is at.
So, we can have some hope, but better prepare for snarky humor when you don't want to get frustrated over it.
As its predecessors in the last decade, it'll show the progressing worrying trends in regards to temperatures, precipitation and other things typically grouped together under the term "Climate".
As with the diseases, we know how to reverse it, we know how to stabilize it, but don't do it because its an effort and its costly.
That it is not going to get any cheaper, but rather scales exponentially in cost and effort to get the situation back under control will be, again, mostly ignored as long as a single buck ca nbe earned to old way of ignoring it.
Here I see however some benefit in that the fact that Corona showed us that home office isa real possibility, new opportunities that might positively impact this issue might come from the previous issue.
Like: "When you have a problem, you have a problem. When you have many problems, you have solutions."
Furthermore I hope that as society recovers from the pandemic of the last two years, a lot of people I know and care for and that are in economic straits will find employment or even better paying jobs, like I did.
Again, here the initially mentioned issue might show helpful.
Furthermore, politics is brewing all over the world. Egocentric maniacs are being elected or remain in power, and people who elected these egomaniacs still believe that somebody caring mostly for himself will make sure that they will have it better. That they were on the down slides ever since they elected these people they apply to all those that, once the egocentric strongman violated all contracts and all treaties, simply stopped fulfilling their parts of the voided contracts. I guess you , too, would keep on paying rent for a house you moved out a year ago in a town you no longer live in, right?
Anyway, That kind of shit has gone on in various places of the world since ever and just now spreads like a bush fire since more and more of these so called "Strong Men" are able to pat each others back in public.
Stoking local hatreds and bringing up the different interests group against each other or uniting them by pointing at others are methods well established, and who cares when the resulting genocides, civil wars or even regular wars will wreck country and lives wholly? The strong man and his clique will sit at sunny beaches and enjoy a Pina Colada, and thats why one did elect them for, right?
Finally, as I am banging my head since 30 years about it, is the troubles brewing in eastern Europe.
Russia dissolved the Warsaw Pact in 1990, but the Nato did not dissolve, as its auxiliary functions remained relevant to its members.
Now, it'd been a good gentlemens agreement not to encroach upon Russia. Politeness and all that.
However, Russia might spend a few minutes why countries such as Poland were most eager to join the Nato right away.
Maybe its because actions such as in eastern Ukraine and Crimea taste distinctly like CIA operations in Afghanistan during the Soviet-Afghan war?
If not for my general awareness of "Strong Men" in politics and their baby-like temper tantrums I would be puzzled, but there are simply too many parallels between high politics and Kindergarden as not to understand that when groups of Bullies run into each other, logic and courtesy are usually going to be absent.
So, in that regard 2022 holds a lot of Risk. Ever since Goebbels "War on Terror" was pulled out of the box by Bush Junior, international politics got a lot more volatile and quixotic, with governments the world over now labelling everyone not aliginging with their ideals a terrorist and happily following the example of the USA in regards what to do then with them.
Not that they wouldn't have done it anyway and i n the same vein, but now they proudly point to the West and say theyre just following our example.
I had thought that the german example in WW2 would have taught everyone that such stuff is idiotic and suicidal but, well, ... Humans dont change I guess?
Anyway: With al lthose ugly and stupid things out of the box of 2022, I stil lhope that itll be a good year. Sparc and Iter are progressing well, space cargo gets cheaper, the ARM architecture spreads to business laptops and I have a lot of hopes.
Maybe I may find a lady for me this year even?
May you find your lady!