David Smart

Big Picture Type Person

[David Smart @cleatisman2000]

@friedmanohio Hey, I pine for the days of Toy's R Us, but I'm never getting it back. As both globalization falls apart and oil scarcity takes hold, prices will rise. Electric will be the last form of personal transportation you will enjoy (or not, your choice). All in the next fifteen years.

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@CCPISASSH0E Of course the guy who fell of the roof is wearing a WSU Coug shirt. Go Cougs!

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It's Taco Tuesday, what did you think was going to happen?

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@ericnuttall We are using up all the $60 to $80 barrel oil, especially tier 1 shale oil. To encourage more shale or offshore drilling, oil needs to be $100-120 price range. But that will only come after a recession in developed/inefficient countries like the USA.

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@amiga_rochester I do, what is the website?

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@jzellis The massive depressions and economy destructions will induce a populist movement to bring back the lifestyle that westerners crave (or already is). Most likely at the expense of some other group. I'm not sure what will be worse, the causes or the re-actions to these predicaments.

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@jzellis So who is to say that Joseph Goebbles wouldn't have taken over the reigns of the Nazis and still perform the mass genocides that Hitler approved of. Kill one guy in a Time Machine. Another head springs up on the hydra. This is why Climate change and Energy are worrisome.

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@jzellis Genocides and mass killings are almost always pinned to a group or leader. But what is ignored or glossed over is the pressure or force giving these murderers support. The Nazis just didn't take over the German republic, they were voted in to bring back jobs and good life.

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Loans have become the enemy that destroys the very thing that it is asked to help. Initially they start out good, helping those less fortunate to pay for a good/service and then pay it back slowly. But eventually the industry depends on it like a drug.

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@jzellis It's both curse and gift. To me the worst part is that I want to talk peak oil, climate change, politics and empires. But I live in the world of memes, cat videos and kids do the craziest things. Yes, all entertaining, but meaningless.

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@jzellis I'm liking the emphasis the Ye Wengje character places on cut trees/ the environment. Is it a good reason to invite aliens, well really no. Native Americans showed that environmentally development can happen at a slow pace and still have the mindfulness not to do worse.

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@jzellis Happy 46th Josh.

[David Smart @cleatisman2000]

@bad_packet @jzellis My bad, apologies.

[David Smart @cleatisman2000]

@jzellis After resource scarcity shuts downs our military (oil,semiconductors,vehicles). We will fight endless civil wars, regime changes and suffer from drought/floods. Simply because we don't want to change. Civilization is an addiction. And withdrawal to a more limited lifestyle, sucks

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@jzellis My nihilism comes from the lack of acceptance from the common joe. If two hurricanes bowl over a city and no one changes their mind. If Florida can be hit by hurricane after hurricane every year and yet the ignorant masses must insist on moving to Cape Coral. Change won't happen

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@jzellis I'll admit, I'm a doomer. Maybe I've read too many history books about civilizations collapsing. Too much Tainter, Jared Diamond, etc. That few that survive, Japanese Shoguns, Chinese dynasties or ancient Egyptians, do so in isolation and eventually reform into the next evolution

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Will the insurance industry be the end of home building/purchasing in the sunbelt states? If private is ending home insurance, how long will public insurance last until the state tax payers rebel? How often should a house be rebuilt in Florida?

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@jzellis It is true that the meek shall inherit the end of civilization. At the end of the Maya documentary, the narrator pointed out that after collapse, the poor rabble that took over the temples arranged the hierglphyic blocks upside because they couldn't read. The rest were dead.

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@SonofScience Now if only we can get people to care