Gaëtan Perrault

@hazelweakly both the last 250 years and the last 75 years have been historical anomalies as far as I can tell.

The Industrial Revolution bought the fastest set of changes in human history. The post-WWII world order brought some of the longest periods of relative human peace and prosperity.

In the 250 years since the industrial Revolution started, the human population has gone from 0.8 billion to over 8 billion. That's been "normal" for 10 generations, but it can't be normal for another 10 or 20 generations.

Every year we harvest more energy from the planet in the Sun. But again, we can't continue this rate for 500 more years, or we are just absorbing the entire Sun.

On a planetary scale, this is all incredibly rapid change, practically instant. But the exponential curve has to slow down.

And fundamentally, that's the anomaly we've been living through. It's just that we've been living through it for 10 generations and people are still treating it as "normal" instead of anomalous.

@tomjennings 579 pages!

It simultaneously feels like a lot and very little. I'm sure that more pages are written every year about a single popular JavaScript framework.

That journal is an incredible time capsule of a time when you could actually capture things in a capsule 😀

@blotosmetek @jwz @pl I love in Canada, all of my 4+ cards issued in the last few years, zero embossing.

@Ashedryden my partner and I have maintained that we are due up for a 1929 style crash sometime before 2029. In fact, we're actively planning our finances around such a thing.

1929 was the start of a pretty bad decade with a lot of hardship for a lot of people. But it was also the catalyst for the New Deal and a host of new government programs that put workers first.

Sadly, I don't know how we get out of this without something similar.