Earths history has had many extraordinary climate changes, we already know of events like Permian–Triassic extinction.
I appreciate many people feel an obligation for humanity to minimise its effect on climate change, but the way I see it, change is constant. If we don’t cause an extinction event, earth will do it just fine without us.
The best result for humanity is if we get off this rock asap and improve our technology. The quicker we do this the better. If we have to ruin earth and its beautiful climate in the process, so be it.
> The best result for humanity is if we get off this rock asap and improve our technology. The quicker we do this the better. If we have to ruin earth and its beautiful climate in the process, so be it.
This is completely delusional; even if we nuked our planet with our complete arsenal as "efficiently" as possible, earth would STILL be more human-habitable than Mars.
I'm a little surprised to hear "Stop the Boats" come from Britain. As the BBC points out, this policy and messaging was previously created and honed by Australia [1].
What you realize when you look into any of this is that it's not about stopping migration. It's about stopping the wrong kind of migration, specifcally undesirable migrants. The US had their own version of this with then-president Trump referring to Africa and Haiti as "sh*thole countries" [2], both the Trump and Biden administrations hid behind health concerns to stop immigration (ie Title 42 [3]) and now we're being forcefed a manufactured narrative around a "border crisis", which simply isn't true. Fun fact: the majority of undocumented migrants in the US are visa overstayers not border crossers [4].
Many, many years ago I remember hearing a phrase that underpinned UK immigration policy, which is "Britain is for the Britons". It seemed like this has only gotten worse.
I’m a solo founder, bootstrapping a startup called zenshop. I’ve been working on zenshop since late 2019, a good portion of that full time. I have three paying customers, and I’m starting to seriously consider - am I making a mistake to continue building this? Customers of zenshop like it, I think mostly because it’s cheap to run, and easy enough to use. I have built an enormous amount of functionality (apps on mobile, desktop, Shopify integration, websocket updates, push notifications, automations, templating… the list feels nearly endless). There always feels like more to build, more features to catch up to (compared to competitors). I’m starting to feel exhausted from it (I have a high pain threshold… but it’s not limitless). Can I save it? What can I do? Everyone tells me to do more marketing, more sales, but every time I do this I’m also fighting off the feeling of all those features, bugs, all needing my time, I can never get enough time to spend on sales.
Seems to me like you have three options: keep on growing bootstrapped 100%, grow to 10k-20k mrr range and find investors to help you build a team to further grow and compete, third is to close the project and find better opportunities (a talented dev like you will not have a problem finding one). All of these options have expected rewards and risks, you must weigh out these alternatives compared to what you can currently sustain.
Option 2 will require you to focus on what are the 20% of tasks you can do that will have the highest short term impact to build traction.
That was my point. OP made it seem like China is an outlier because its 100% pro-science or something, when they have their superstitions and conspiracies just like the population of any other big country.
