Got some troubling health news over the weekend. How can I manage an anti-inflammatory diet?! I have an unknown allergic response to something and no blood work or allergy test can diagnose.
Net Zero is not about "saving the planet". It's about building the machinery to ration your life.
Strip away the language of "sustainability" and "climate emergency" and look at what is actually being constructed underneath itโa system in which your energy, your travel, your diet and your spending can all be measured, capped, and switched off from the centre.
Smart meters that can restrict or shut down your energy supply remotely.
Personal carbon allowances that deduct every flight, every drive, every steak from an arbitrary budget set by faceless technocrats.
"15-minute cities" sold as convenience, which rapidly evolve into zones you need permission to leave.
Every single one of these measures expands the state's ability to monitor and restrict your basic choices, justified by a "climate crisis" you are never permitted to question.
How far you travel, how much energy you use, what you buy, what you eat.
They are not politely asking you to make more "sustainable" choices. They are building systems that remove choice altogether.
Net Zero is not really environmental policy. It's a management system for human beings, dressed up in green.
This is โnormalโ to a degree, but we have to hear it every night. ๐ซถ
I live in Orlando, Williamsburg area. Seaworld and Epic are literally at my doorstep. These two parks are surrounded by and are extremely close to peopleโs homes, who work.
When the fireworks are so close, it hits differently (itโs like canons going off) than say the fireworks over by Disney, which have more of a buffer to residential areas (resorts are closer to the action). Most of my friends on that side of town can hear them, but they are muffled, and not so intrusive.
In my neighborhood (5 mins from Epic, 2 mins Seaworld), the fireworks are a nightmare for my neighborโs dogs, and try getting any sleep for an early shift.
I visit all the parks in Orlando on a regular basis (thatโs the real normal of living in Orlando) and generally love all things Universal. However, the news of fireworks to the Celestial nighttime show was kind of a bummer. My only hope is that @UniversalORL will make sure they donโt fire them off past 10pm so we can have some normalcy at some point during the night.
Its crazy how much has changed here in Florida. The afternoon showers all but dissapeared in alot of places. We have more clouds than ever, way less rain and extremely violent storms. The natural process were used to has been completely disrupted.
Everybody talks about how nothing is affordable anymore, but nobody talks about how cheaply everything is made now. Cars, appliances, clothes, and so much else are designed not to last. Part of the affordability crisis is that weโre constantly forced to buy the same things over and over again.
@Matt_The_Welder Completely agree that these lands need to be kept away from developers. There has to be a way to bring back the citrus groves. It would be the biggest comeback ever!
This is a crazy timelapse by project sky archive. Look how that thing spreads out. Its crazy how different trails look sometimes. Wild how they just flatten out and create that ceiling.