At five, a child has few tools (or even words) to deal with and describe their strong emotions of frustration, disappointment, etc. Dropping an ice cream cone isn’t that big a deal to a 25 year old adult. But it literally may be THE WORST thing that has ever happened to the child. They are also learning what boundaries are for the first time. In the moment of “I hate you”, just don’t take that first gut reaction; pause, think about the moment for them, and then try to find a way to emphasize with them, and maybe even getting them to catch their breath and empathize with you. Teach them what the emotions are called, ask them to try to explain why they are upset, or state why you think they are upset and ask them to confirm. Use and provide your wisdom and context from your years of experience. Don’t flee from your boundaries, but enforce them softly with redirection and reframing rather than hard consequences that the child can’t make the connection with. One phrase I used a lot was “We can’t control everything, sometimes we can’t even control our feelings. But you can try to control your breathing (long, deep breaths have a physiological calming effect). And when you control your breathing, you can get control back of your body and mind.”

The only piece I think you missed is that nation states and surveillance corps will buy up foreclosed data centers for pennies on the dollar to use them to power a surveillance/police state.

To me it seems like all of the corporations and western governments are in a race to the edge of a cliff. All of them see the cliff and all of them know the race is going to end in disaster. But they also refuse to slow down because then they will lose the race.

100% the cheapest, most green choice is keep driving what you already have. But when I did my own math on my projected ownership of 10+ years, going electric was a no brainer on deciding between ICE and electric, and I’m betting that math will only get more in favor for electric on the basis that manufacturing petroleum products is dependent on a limited resource while green electricity is only getting bigger and cheaper. Especially if you’re able to get your own solar power generation.

Zoom out. BYD models are $10k cheaper than comparable models, you’re saving maybe $1k+ annually on gas, and you’re throwing in the towel on $150 tax? They are not available in US because of anti-competition and “national security” concerns, but if they were, the US manufacturers would be getting murked. As it is, we’re just going to massively lose global market share.

Nah, keep throwing those slop grenades. It helps me identify people who think for themselves and people that provide little more than headcount metrics