Macrobius on Nostr: #cruster #PeakOil My point about Peak Food (though that's a great pic to roll with) ...
#cruster #PeakOil
My point about Peak Food (though that's a great pic to roll with) wasn't so much 'Whole Paycheck Foods' or 'Traders in the col' col' ground Joes' but degradation of the Supply chain. I remember in 2020 local bakeries posting signs about how they couldn't get flour and would reopen when they could... we've moved on to 'and everything you can buy in convenience and 'super' markets is of degraded quality or trying to skim as a grift (the enshittification of everything as a business model)
Fossil fuels are obviously important, but in several different levels: 1/ the geopolitical level of 'we need greenland because thar's oil in that thar sea' and to keep the party going we need to fight over it 2/ the logistical level of, without oil, I can't float my boat, er container ship and do logistics of globalism and 3/ the human level of 'It's a three dog night and I don't have enough dogs, just NatGas'
tl;dr - wrangling over planetary resources, you can't invade Russia with oil but you need to invade Russia in Winter to *get* oil and ... who moved my cheese?
Last is an obscure reference to a book Boeing used to recommend when there were mass layoffs
The parody book was better though:
tl;dr 1/ you are a rat in a maze and think you are entitled to cheese, like Wallace and Grommit Were-Rabbit 2/ book length form of the series 'Arrested Devolopment'
It hasn't escaped my notice that since this fellow was invited here, and dropped, he has started to remember his 'Peak Oil' roots... https://charleshughsmith.substack.com/p/catch-20-the-20-dynamics-that-will
... quotation to follow
My point about Peak Food (though that's a great pic to roll with) wasn't so much 'Whole Paycheck Foods' or 'Traders in the col' col' ground Joes' but degradation of the Supply chain. I remember in 2020 local bakeries posting signs about how they couldn't get flour and would reopen when they could... we've moved on to 'and everything you can buy in convenience and 'super' markets is of degraded quality or trying to skim as a grift (the enshittification of everything as a business model)
Fossil fuels are obviously important, but in several different levels: 1/ the geopolitical level of 'we need greenland because thar's oil in that thar sea' and to keep the party going we need to fight over it 2/ the logistical level of, without oil, I can't float my boat, er container ship and do logistics of globalism and 3/ the human level of 'It's a three dog night and I don't have enough dogs, just NatGas'
tl;dr - wrangling over planetary resources, you can't invade Russia with oil but you need to invade Russia in Winter to *get* oil and ... who moved my cheese?
Last is an obscure reference to a book Boeing used to recommend when there were mass layoffs
The parody book was better though:
tl;dr 1/ you are a rat in a maze and think you are entitled to cheese, like Wallace and Grommit Were-Rabbit 2/ book length form of the series 'Arrested Devolopment'
It hasn't escaped my notice that since this fellow was invited here, and dropped, he has started to remember his 'Peak Oil' roots... https://charleshughsmith.substack.com/p/catch-20-the-20-dynamics-that-will
... quotation to follow