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2022 is going to be balls to the walls geopolitical drama isn't it. The impact on food, fuel prices around the world from all the ongoing conflicts is going to

2022 is going to be balls to the walls geopolitical drama isn't it. The impact on food, fuel prices around the world from all the ongoing conflicts is going to cause even further instability.

newsclues 5y ago
It’s going to be more than a year.
- riggsdk 5y ago
  Suddenly having deja-vu’s from when Covid-19 emerged.
  - Trasmatta 5y ago
    Yeah, I'm remembering March 2020 and people saying this was going to be a multi year pandemic. I didn't want to believe it, but it sounded about right, given how pandemics go...and here we are, in 2022. You'd think COVID would have taught me some good coping strategies for disconcerting world events, and yet here I am, still anxious as ever.
    - steve_adams_86 5y ago
      Well in your defence, nothing has really changed to make these events less disconcerting and learning skills to navigate and handle situations of this magnitude isn’t a trivial matter. It’s important to realize, I think, that this stuff really is a big deal. It would be worse if we all became totally apathetic and had no sense of the significance of what’s unfolding around us.
      - Trasmatta 5y ago
        I don't want to become apathetic, but I need to learn how to better process what's happening and continue living my life at the same time. Right now I'm walking around in a near constant state of dread, and tossing and turning every single night (which was how most of 2020 was for me). Which doesn't help me or anyone else.
        steve_adams_86 5y ago
        Absolutely. You’re not alone though. This stuff can be difficult to process at the best of times. It’s a tired horse to beat, but I’d recommend breathing if you haven’t tried it. My mind races just about every night unless I read myself to sleep. When it’s really bad I’ll often do some sort of hyperventilating exercise combined with breath holds, like the Wim Hoff thing. The rollercoaster of oxygen flushing the system and adrenaline (I think?) winds up being a stellar reset button and I can usually relax well after.
  - monkeybutton 5y ago
    I remember claims at the beginning of covid that it'd realistically be 16 months to get through it which wasn't so wrong considering the timing of mass vaccinations.
- Arubis 5y ago
  Pax Americana was mostly nice.
  - whimsicalism 5y ago
    Too bad viruses didn't give it any mind!
  - throwawaylinux 5y ago
    An opinion that would have got you roasted at the stake by the intelligentsia 2 months ago.
    - monkeybutton 5y ago
      There's no shortage of post-soviet-collapse, pre-9/11, peak 90s childhood nostalgia from millennials though. That period of time is what I see whenever someone says Pax Americana.
throwawaylinux 5y ago
That's okay, a bunch of crooked politicians who became super rich on insider trading and other shady deals said increased gas and food prices was a sacrifice they were willing to make, and only traitors would question their generosity.
- haliskerbas 5y ago
  I thought oil was in a free market and the invisible hand of all glorious capitalism decides what’s best for us.
  - throwawaylinux 5y ago
    OPEC is an overt cartel. Why would you have thought that?
    - bobobob420 5y ago
      Sarcasm bro
      - throwawaylinux 5y ago
        So it really has nothing to do with capitalism or a free market then. The failure comes from state regulations, cartel behavior permitted by the WTO and other failed globalist bodies, and state warmongering. The solution is clearly to demonize individual choice and concentrate more power in corrupt state and global bodies!
        pasquinelli 5y ago
        in what way does capitalism curtail the impulse of those in power to break markets? having a bonfire in my house is fine, sure it catches the house on fire, but that's the fault of the materials my house is made from, not the bonfire. there are hypothetical materials that wouldn't catch fire, i'm pretty sure.
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dirtyid 5y ago
One day after nuclear India accidentally fire a missile at nuclear Pakistan. "Interesting Times" intensifies.

2022 is going to be balls to the walls geopolitical drama isn't it. The impact on food, fuel prices around the world from all the ongoing conflicts is going to cause even further instability.

newsclues 5y ago

It’s going to be more than a year.

riggsdk 5y ago
Suddenly having deja-vu’s from when Covid-19 emerged.
- Trasmatta 5y ago
  Yeah, I'm remembering March 2020 and people saying this was going to be a multi year pandemic. I didn't want to believe it, but it sounded about right, given how pandemics go...and here we are, in 2022. You'd think COVID would have taught me some good coping strategies for disconcerting world events, and yet here I am, still anxious as ever.
  - steve_adams_86 5y ago
    Well in your defence, nothing has really changed to make these events less disconcerting and learning skills to navigate and handle situations of this magnitude isn’t a trivial matter. It’s important to realize, I think, that this stuff really is a big deal. It would be worse if we all became totally apathetic and had no sense of the significance of what’s unfolding around us.
    - Trasmatta 5y ago
      I don't want to become apathetic, but I need to learn how to better process what's happening and continue living my life at the same time. Right now I'm walking around in a near constant state of dread, and tossing and turning every single night (which was how most of 2020 was for me). Which doesn't help me or anyone else.
      - steve_adams_86 5y ago
        Absolutely. You’re not alone though. This stuff can be difficult to process at the best of times. It’s a tired horse to beat, but I’d recommend breathing if you haven’t tried it. My mind races just about every night unless I read myself to sleep. When it’s really bad I’ll often do some sort of hyperventilating exercise combined with breath holds, like the Wim Hoff thing. The rollercoaster of oxygen flushing the system and adrenaline (I think?) winds up being a stellar reset button and I can usually relax well after.
- monkeybutton 5y ago
  I remember claims at the beginning of covid that it'd realistically be 16 months to get through it which wasn't so wrong considering the timing of mass vaccinations.
Arubis 5y ago
Pax Americana was mostly nice.
- whimsicalism 5y ago
  Too bad viruses didn't give it any mind!
- throwawaylinux 5y ago
  An opinion that would have got you roasted at the stake by the intelligentsia 2 months ago.
  - monkeybutton 5y ago
    There's no shortage of post-soviet-collapse, pre-9/11, peak 90s childhood nostalgia from millennials though. That period of time is what I see whenever someone says Pax Americana.

throwawaylinux 5y ago

That's okay, a bunch of crooked politicians who became super rich on insider trading and other shady deals said increased gas and food prices was a sacrifice they were willing to make, and only traitors would question their generosity.

haliskerbas 5y ago
I thought oil was in a free market and the invisible hand of all glorious capitalism decides what’s best for us.
- throwawaylinux 5y ago
  OPEC is an overt cartel. Why would you have thought that?
  - bobobob420 5y ago
    Sarcasm bro
    - throwawaylinux 5y ago
      So it really has nothing to do with capitalism or a free market then. The failure comes from state regulations, cartel behavior permitted by the WTO and other failed globalist bodies, and state warmongering. The solution is clearly to demonize individual choice and concentrate more power in corrupt state and global bodies!
      - pasquinelli 5y ago
        in what way does capitalism curtail the impulse of those in power to break markets? having a bonfire in my house is fine, sure it catches the house on fire, but that's the fault of the materials my house is made from, not the bonfire. there are hypothetical materials that wouldn't catch fire, i'm pretty sure.

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dirtyid 5y ago

One day after nuclear India accidentally fire a missile at nuclear Pakistan. "Interesting Times" intensifies.