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Remember that SPAC from Churchill Capital, the one that was supposedly looking to buy Lucid Motors? The price was going up, up, up, until yesterday, when they announced that no, they weren't in talks to buy Lucid. Then it went down down down.

I remember my dad went through a period where he was day trading derivatives. He subscribed to a newsletter, and supposedly had it all figured out... Except he kept losing money.

So far, I'm even. I haven't invested anything, so no gains or losses!

Also, GME is still at 80. Somebody is holding the line. But not me.

Did anyone read that piece in the Atlantic about our climate history? It did about as good a job as I've seen to explain the carbon dioxide situation in our atmosphere. The bottom line? 

In the past two hundred years, we've pumped up the CO2 in our atmosphere to a level not seen in 50 million years. At that time, sea level was 60 feet higher than today. Our recent injection of carbon dioxide has been very fast, compared to previous sources, like millions of years of life, or thousands of years of volcanoes, or even earth's crust shifting and magma igniting fossil fuels underground. (That has actually happened in our history...I didn't know either.)

They explained some of the things that happen when the climate does change, like say, between ice ages. Things like Eastern Washington and Oregon getting completely flooded by a wall of boulders and mud. Like the coastline moving. Like mile thick ice sheets overhead, or super storms. 

There were two big takeaways. First, we haven't actually seen the damage yet. We've released the CO2 so quickly, that the environment hasn't even noticed yet. And the second part was actually kind of hopeful, if far fetched: if we haven't seen the damage yet, maybe we can undo it before things go totally crazy. Maybe.

Do you know The DoDos? I think Milky Chance does.

Well, I fall into the category of people who think the growth-at-all-costs mindset isn't very good for our planet, but from human-centric economics perspective, why is it that half of America can't read this graph?

The tablet still won't upload pictures to Blogger. It's annoying, but I'm not going to do anything about it until Mercury Retrograde is over. I've wasted way too much time battling with tech during a Mercury Retrograde to bother now. 


So here's progress on Miley. I still haven't figured out the exact shape of the story i want to tell next, but I know I'll need to draw the characters, so I'm doing some exploring. I considered ditching the character for a boy, as I've been maybe stretching to write a girl, but after 60,000 words of backstory told in first person, I feel like I know her too well to leave her dangling out in space.

(Update: just tried again and it worked. Due to exactly zero of my efforts to fix the situation.)

Diamond hands, people, diamond hands!

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