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ThePdogThe fact that a once reliable website now regularly crashes also indicates that these Doge techies don't really understand the basics of website configuration and server needs. I feel sorry for anyone who is not already on Social Security. Trying to start your benefits now sounds like it will be very rough.<a href="https://www.rawstory.com/social-security-doge/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.rawstory.com/social-security-doge/</a>2/2<a href="https://mas.to/tags/SocialSecurity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SocialSecurity</a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Doge" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Doge</a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/cobol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#cobol</a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/website" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#website</a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/collapse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#collapse</a>

ThePdogThis is certainly disheartening. I was extremely concerned about Doge trying to modify or rewriting COBOL software. AI isn't going to be much help because bugs will arise and AI, which created the bug, will not be able to fix it without knowledgeable assistance. I don't think COBOL has been taught in decades.1/2<a href="https://mas.to/tags/SocialSecurity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SocialSecurity</a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Doge" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Doge</a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/cobol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#cobol</a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/website" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#website</a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/collapse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#collapse</a>

Tadzio MuellerDie <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/Verdr%C3%A4ngungsgesellschaft" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Verdrängungsgesellschaft</a> ist transnational:"The problem with the soft apocalypse is that it is still an apocalypse. It still ends in <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/collapse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#collapse</a>. We tell ourselves we have time, that the worst is always just ahead, that we will act when we must."From: the Indian Express.<a href="https://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/columns/middle-climate-apocalypse-we-really-care-9890542/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/columns/middle-climate-apocalypse-we-really-care-9890542/</a>

SPQRMao sent his young party cadres to attack “anyone who could think — ruling elites such as Deng Xiaoping, college professors, engineers, writers and journalists, doctors, etc. He wanted to dumb down the entire population so that he could rule easily and forever,” the former official wrote. “Sounds a bit similar with what is going on in the U.S.? I hope not.” <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Trumpism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trumpism</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/economics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#economics</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/collapse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#collapse</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#fascism</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/tariffs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#tariffs</a> <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/03/opinion/trump-tariffs-us-security-stability.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/03/opinion/trump-tariffs-us-security-stability.html</a>

SPQRMuch of Friedman's column is boilerplate US propaganda. However, this line is correct: "But if Trump turns out to be wrong, he will have sown the wind, and we as a nation will reap the whirlwind. But so, too, will the rest of the world." <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/USpolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#USpolitics</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/tariffs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#tariffs</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/economics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#economics</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/trade" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#trade</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/collapse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#collapse</a> # <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/03/opinion/trump-tariffs-us-security-stability.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/03/opinion/trump-tariffs-us-security-stability.html</a>

Kent PitmanClimate-threatened life will keep trying ... 'til it can't. Knowing, we owe more.<a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/haiku" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#haiku</a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/senryu" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#senryu</a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/poem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#poem</a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/ShortPoem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ShortPoem</a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/SmallPoem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SmallPoem</a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/SmallPoems" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SmallPoems</a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/climate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#climate</a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/ClimateChange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ClimateChange</a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/ClimateScience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ClimateScience</a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/collapse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#collapse</a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/extinction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#extinction</a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/ethics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ethics</a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/environment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#environment</a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/sustainability" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#sustainability</a>

Friend IcareCes chars d'assaut de ville, qui sont si écologiques... <a href="https://loma.ml/display/373ebf56-1067-f0cd-cfed-d66586922115" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://loma.ml/display/373ebf56-1067-f0cd-cfed-d66586922115</a>

SPQRThe three worst presidents in US history (Herbert Hoover, George W. Bush, and Donald Trump) were all hailed for their business background and skills. Time to retire the trope that businessmen know anything about running nation states. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/economics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#economics</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/depression" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#depression</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/recession" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#recession</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/collapse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#collapse</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/macroeconomics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#macroeconomics</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/USpolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#USpolitics</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/leadership" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#leadership</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/vandals" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#vandals</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/nihilism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#nihilism</a> <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/04/04/trump-tariffs-reason-advisers/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/04/04/trump-tariffs-reason-advisers/</a>

kali<a href="https://bsky.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/ketanjoshi.co" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@ketanjoshi.co</a> when <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/doomers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#doomers</a> refer to <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/collapse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#collapse</a> i think they often refer to the seneca cliff in which complexity breaks down a lot faster than it build up. but that is also a very specific mathematical model. it plays a huge role in the limits-to-growth model, but it is STILL JUST ONE MODEL.

kali<a href="https://bsky.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/ketanjoshi.co" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@ketanjoshi.co</a> i would say <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/collapse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#collapse</a> in systems dynamics describes a shift in dominance of feedbacks. in the context of complexity theory it is used to describe rapid breakdown of complexity. but it is never used in any of these professions as a technical term. they have their own, very specific jargon and definitions of different concepts of collapse.too many people <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/talkcollapse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#talkcollapse</a> who never read any <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/systemstheory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#systemstheory</a>.

SPQR“We have lots of bad economic policy in the world, but we’ve never seen anything this amateur or purposely destructive at the national level from a G7 economy,” says Gillezeau. “I think that there are pretty reasonable odds they cast themselves into another Great Depression, right?” <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/depression" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#depression</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Canada" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Canada</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/economics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#economics</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/collapse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#collapse</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/USpolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#USpolitics</a> <a href="https://www.thestar.com/politics/federal/donald-trump-has-pushed-america-into-a-golden-age-of-stupid-nows-canadas-chance-to/article_5e9cf651-5b7e-416c-ac0b-821bffec2e8c.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.thestar.com/politics/federal/donald-trump-has-pushed-america-into-a-golden-age-of-stupid-nows-canadas-chance-to/article_5e9cf651-5b7e-416c-ac0b-821bffec2e8c.html</a>

kalii'd have A LOT more respect for the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/collapse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#collapse</a> folks if you just said what you feel, which is you want the western world order to break before it breaks the biosphere. ffs i even agree with that. you have any idea just how many people feel you on that?BUT IT'S NOT A PLAN!

SPQRThere are people who think Trump is smart.“There has certainly been no piece of trade policy in my lifetime that is at this level of stupidity, right?” said Rob Gillezeau, an assistant professor of economic analysis and policy at the University of Toronto. “It’s not grounded in anything intelligent. Like, they’re kind of just like ignoring economics altogether.” <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/collapse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#collapse</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/trade" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#trade</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Canada" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Canada</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/tariffs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#tariffs</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/economics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#economics</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/USpolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#USpolitics</a> <a href="https://www.thestar.com/politics/federal/donald-trump-has-pushed-america-into-a-golden-age-of-stupid-nows-canadas-chance-to/article_5e9cf651-5b7e-416c-ac0b-821bffec2e8c.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.thestar.com/politics/federal/donald-trump-has-pushed-america-into-a-golden-age-of-stupid-nows-canadas-chance-to/article_5e9cf651-5b7e-416c-ac0b-821bffec2e8c.html</a>

kalibro see, this is exactly the problem i have with you guys lately. how often have we been thinking this in the last 40 years? last time because COVID?why don't you just spit it out already and say that you wish for it to <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/collapse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#collapse</a> bc it obviously sucked for the environment? jesus christ.and even then, systems can have multiple stable states? neo feudalism is one option for that?

Kevin Russell<a href="https://mstdn.social/@sglerman95814" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@sglerman95814</a> But those dust covered miners have been stealing from America by "selling" their diamonds to rich America for the Lesotho minimum wage and two sticks for a headstone.Childish, if it weren't cruel, brainless if it weren't designed as destruction, brainless if weren't mad.<a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/tariffs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#tariffs</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/collapse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#collapse</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/RepublicanFools" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RepublicanFools</a>

mofosynePretty interesting attempt at a minimal OS designed to run literally anywhere.<a href="https://collapseos.org" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://collapseos.org</a>> Winter is coming and Collapse OS aims to soften the blow. It is a Forth (why Forth?) operating system and a collection of tools and documentation with a single purpose: preserve the ability to program microcontrollers through civilizational collapse.<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/collapse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#collapse</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/apocalypse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#apocalypse</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/endtimes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#endtimes</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/technology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#technology</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/prepper" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#prepper</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/forth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#forth</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/operatingsystem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#operatingsystem</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/os" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#os</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/microcontroller" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#microcontroller</a>

๓ậṯëø Ᵽtრȡcreating ever more chaos has worked very well for him and he cares not who gets hurt. <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#trump</a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/tariffs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#tariffs</a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/saint" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#saint</a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/stupid" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#stupid</a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/economy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#economy</a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/collapse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#collapse</a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/pray" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#pray</a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/meme" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#meme</a>

kaliyou could have had all of this planned, peacefully and socially just.but you wanted your amazon order.<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/degrowth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#degrowth</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/collapse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#collapse</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/tariffs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#tariffs</a>

kaliespecially the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/collapseaware" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#collapseaware</a>-in-bio dudebros. you know that the bigger half the globe has lived though this since the beginning of industrial imperialism? you are not special. not even close. and you still have an 5-earth-overshoot-lifestyle.preaching living-with-less while jetting from <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/collapse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#collapse</a> conference to <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/collapse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#collapse</a> conference...you know who lives with less? 99% of humanity. ask sub-saharan africa about that one.

kaliand with "i mean you <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ClimateAction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ClimateAction</a>" i mean the white privileged dudebros who whined about their personal freedom during COVID while disabled people told them to wear a mask from day 1, who voted for jill stein when black ppl told them not to & the white privileged dudebro accelerationist who have exactly 0 to lose from <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/collapse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#collapse</a> but who won't shut the fuck up about it while everyone else loses their job.why are these people in your movement. clean up your room, or slide into irrelevance.

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