Mushoku Tensei was fire today.
Hikikomori stories hit me right in the gut. For those not following the anime, his little sister came to stay with him and go to school but locked herself in her dorm room and it reminded the main character about his life before he got isekai'd as a NEET hikikomori.
I had a NEET phase myself for about 8 months after high school, but the time I felt most like a hikikomori is in college, ironically. Alone and broke in a strange city and spending all my time working or studying, I felt like the biggest loser spending all my time so isolated surrounded by a million people in the city. Especially being a weeb, you see these cute stories about anime waifus, and going to sleep alone in my strange bed in a strange apartment in a strange apartment building in a strange city hit hard.
For some people it's different, but I was built to have a family. I'm thankful for them every day, whether I'm at home or on the road -- Even away from home I know I'll be home soon.
Hikikomori stories hit me right in the gut. For those not following the anime, his little sister came to stay with him and go to school but locked herself in her dorm room and it reminded the main character about his life before he got isekai'd as a NEET hikikomori.
I had a NEET phase myself for about 8 months after high school, but the time I felt most like a hikikomori is in college, ironically. Alone and broke in a strange city and spending all my time working or studying, I felt like the biggest loser spending all my time so isolated surrounded by a million people in the city. Especially being a weeb, you see these cute stories about anime waifus, and going to sleep alone in my strange bed in a strange apartment in a strange apartment building in a strange city hit hard.
For some people it's different, but I was built to have a family. I'm thankful for them every day, whether I'm at home or on the road -- Even away from home I know I'll be home soon.
Kinda ironic considering I'm pretty sure NYC was one of the first cities in the world with widespread electrical infrastructure.
"Oh! We have a hugely popular game that is earning respect for not fucking anything up!"
"Great! Let's fuck it up!"
"Great! Let's fuck it up!"
How can we change the world if we know there's these problems? The answer might be that the question is wrong.
Brownian motion is a random movement of tiny particles in liquid or gas caused by liquid or gas molecules. It is caused by atoms hitting the particle. Brownian movement shows something small can change something bigger than it, but what if that thing is much larger, such as something in the macro world?
Well, an atom may push a speck of pollen, but it can't push a boulder. It may be possible to watch a speck move, but a bolder needs something substantial to move it.
In the same way, you can change things bigger than yourself, but eventually it's just too big. An atom cannot move a bolder, but a raging river can, but the individual atoms have no say in where the river goes. Even with great men changing history, the river chooses the path, and even the mightiest atoms are merely caught up in it.
People want to save the world but they can't even save themselves.
All that being said, doing stuff worth doing is hard, and you need to grit your teeth and keep a stiff upper lip and just push through staying true to your own virtues. Do that and you might not save the world, but perhaps you can save a slice of what you care about. Some the river can keep going but perhaps some atoms end up in puddles or evaporate and find themselves on a whole new path. It can even keep the other atoms in its molecule. If the river is going somewhere you don't want to, that might be the only option.
Brownian motion is a random movement of tiny particles in liquid or gas caused by liquid or gas molecules. It is caused by atoms hitting the particle. Brownian movement shows something small can change something bigger than it, but what if that thing is much larger, such as something in the macro world?
Well, an atom may push a speck of pollen, but it can't push a boulder. It may be possible to watch a speck move, but a bolder needs something substantial to move it.
In the same way, you can change things bigger than yourself, but eventually it's just too big. An atom cannot move a bolder, but a raging river can, but the individual atoms have no say in where the river goes. Even with great men changing history, the river chooses the path, and even the mightiest atoms are merely caught up in it.
People want to save the world but they can't even save themselves.
All that being said, doing stuff worth doing is hard, and you need to grit your teeth and keep a stiff upper lip and just push through staying true to your own virtues. Do that and you might not save the world, but perhaps you can save a slice of what you care about. Some the river can keep going but perhaps some atoms end up in puddles or evaporate and find themselves on a whole new path. It can even keep the other atoms in its molecule. If the river is going somewhere you don't want to, that might be the only option.
My dad said something similar a few weeks ago. He lamented how free he used to be and what we've lost.
At the time I was still more trusting if the establishment media, so I'm sure they were the ones I would have been getting my info from back in 2020, but it's been a long time now and I don't recall the specific theys. I do recall seeing a thunderfoot video about it (not saying he's establishment but rather than his video was in line with what the establishment was warning about)
Early on when we didn't know that much, they didn't really have a mechanism they just said that it was going to kill this massive percentage of everyone who got it, which turned out to be totally wrong.
I just wrote about something regarding this on another fediverse site, there were a lot of major actions taken, and at this moment I'm tending towards thinking it was the lockdowns rather than the vax that really caused the most harm.
For example, the stagflation I warned about in early 2020 ended up coming exactly as I said and everyone can see that -- it actually is a "bring out yer dead" scenario with tent cities popping up around the world in cities that typically never had them. We also saw many apocalypse scenarios with respect to childhood development and education turn out to be true. We also are seeing the "bring out yer dead" scenario regarding drug addiction and mental health.
For example, the stagflation I warned about in early 2020 ended up coming exactly as I said and everyone can see that -- it actually is a "bring out yer dead" scenario with tent cities popping up around the world in cities that typically never had them. We also saw many apocalypse scenarios with respect to childhood development and education turn out to be true. We also are seeing the "bring out yer dead" scenario regarding drug addiction and mental health.
Have you ever heard of Gentoo? It's really neat, it compiles every program you use from scratch!
One of the most important things I had to learn in school was that I needed to chill the fuck out.
I went around with a chip on my shoulder like a lot of nerds back before technology was considered cooler, and in part because I moved around a lot during the important formative years I didn't have a lot of friends (if it happens a few times that you make friends then you move and have to make all new friends it really sucks). I lashed out a lot for a long time at anyone who made me feel bad.
Eventually I learned to chill out and let things slide and just be myself and besides dropping both my blood pressure and the number of schoolyard free for all brawls I got into, it let me actually connect with people somewhat, solving the original problem anyway.
At least for me, teaching me that I was actually in the right and the problem is I wasn't lashing out hard enough really would have been counter-productive.
I went around with a chip on my shoulder like a lot of nerds back before technology was considered cooler, and in part because I moved around a lot during the important formative years I didn't have a lot of friends (if it happens a few times that you make friends then you move and have to make all new friends it really sucks). I lashed out a lot for a long time at anyone who made me feel bad.
Eventually I learned to chill out and let things slide and just be myself and besides dropping both my blood pressure and the number of schoolyard free for all brawls I got into, it let me actually connect with people somewhat, solving the original problem anyway.
At least for me, teaching me that I was actually in the right and the problem is I wasn't lashing out hard enough really would have been counter-productive.
So what if the real reason Jews wear the Yarmulke (the little Jew Beanie) is that everyone from that region of the world at the time just has male pattern baldness right on the top of their heads and wearing a little hat covers it up to make it seem like they have more hair than they really do?
I think it's important to be reasonable in this respect.... It's already been 3-4 years since many people got their first shot, and just like we didn't actually have carts of dead people in the streets from covid, we don't have carts of dead people in the streets from the covid vaccine.
Now don't get me wrong -- what I'm not saying here is that there's no effects from the untested experimental vaccines and that there never will be. What I'm saying is that we need to live in the here and now and look at what's actually happening rather than predictions from people who don't have the real world data to make extrapolations.
Early on I watched a video about COVID that suggested that billions would die, and while the videos were very convincing at the time, we now know they were entirely wrong. Even in countries that largely didn't have any of the interventions of the west such as in Africa, things were mostly fine. More deaths than usual, but not a black plague "bring out yer dead!" piles of bodies thing.
Now don't get me wrong -- what I'm not saying here is that there's no effects from the untested experimental vaccines and that there never will be. What I'm saying is that we need to live in the here and now and look at what's actually happening rather than predictions from people who don't have the real world data to make extrapolations.
Early on I watched a video about COVID that suggested that billions would die, and while the videos were very convincing at the time, we now know they were entirely wrong. Even in countries that largely didn't have any of the interventions of the west such as in Africa, things were mostly fine. More deaths than usual, but not a black plague "bring out yer dead!" piles of bodies thing.
I mean, she started on the Disney channel, so I'm sure she's had to make some pretty bad choices for money...
The thing that EMP would hurt the most would be transmission systems.
For a longer term example of it, there was a geomagnetic storm called the Carrington event in 1859 that caused a number of interesting effects including aurora so powerful miners started making breakfast assuming it was morning, and induced electricity so strong telegraph stations caught on fire. Some telegraph operators were able to use their stations without connecting the battery, the induced emf was so great.
It's assumed that most electrical infrastructure would be destroyed if a Carrington event level solar storm hit our planet today. Even if it wasn't all destroyed, enough damage to the grid at this point I think there'd be some serious questions as to how much we could recover in a lifetime.
For a longer term example of it, there was a geomagnetic storm called the Carrington event in 1859 that caused a number of interesting effects including aurora so powerful miners started making breakfast assuming it was morning, and induced electricity so strong telegraph stations caught on fire. Some telegraph operators were able to use their stations without connecting the battery, the induced emf was so great.
It's assumed that most electrical infrastructure would be destroyed if a Carrington event level solar storm hit our planet today. Even if it wasn't all destroyed, enough damage to the grid at this point I think there'd be some serious questions as to how much we could recover in a lifetime.