I am trying to make my kids happy to the best of my abilities, and hopefully, in time, they will be as curious as I am.

I should definitely think about teaching self reliance when they get older.

Letting go is the hard part. When I am feeling good, it is a lot easier. But my mental health has been rough lately.

In GrapheneOS, Settings -> Battery -> Charging Optimization.

I like to think that this isn’t a binary problem. Everything I do to reduce my footprint matters. But lately, it has been hard to reconcile my life with the reality of the climate crisis.

I am not made for politics. I love politics, but I am an anxious person and could not deal with the life of a politician.

I would like to teach some day about my field, and give it a sustainable twist. But for now, I am concentrating on survivingy day to day for the next year.

Thanks for the response, I am in a better mood today and your response gave me some good feelings.

I had my vasectomy, so no more kids.

I often work on my control influence with my therapist and what you wrote really hit home.

Deep down, the crux is the issue is control: I can’t control everything, so I must focus on things that I can control. Taking local actions is something I can do to make me feel better and make the life of people around me slightly better. I should take solace in that to make me more optimist.

I like to say that life is banal and exceptional at the same time.

Billions of people live and have lived, so my existence isn’t that special. But to me, this is the only life I’ve lived and it feels very special.

I agree that most of human history has been hard, but I cannot substract myself from my life and I haven’t lived other, harder lives. So it is hard for me to emotionally understand how bad it was throughout human history and make me feel better.

I do truly believe that humans will survive as a species, but it doesn’t change the fact that my children will live hardship and that it makes me really sad.

I appreciate your input, thanks.

I still have a very young kid, so sleep isn’t good and my energy level is low (contributing to my pessimism), but I am trying to build my community where I can.

I think the next step would be to be more involved in local politics, or more involved in the community at large to feel that at least, I can impact a few people.

I love my children to death and will do what I can within my means to make their life better.

However, I do feel that my regrets are valid. I chose to have children when I was optimist about the future, but my optimism has waned.

They didn’t ask to be born, they didn’t chose me, so having children in this day and age is a selfish want.

I do not share your vision but I appreciate your support.

I am not in the US so I cannot comprehend how bad it is for people that didn’t want that to happen, but I do empathize with your situation.

The Maslow pyramid apply here and your concerns take priority over the climate crisis because the threat is immediate.

I wish you good luck with moving your family.

I still feel optimism, but right now it is drowned by my eco-anxiety and regrets.

It feels exactly the same as when intrusive thoughts about what if one of my child has a serious illness or injury. We can only do so much and hope for the best.

But the feeling is really hard to shake off.

Yeah lots of news lately and my eco-anxiety is part just-anxiety from the news.

It is hard because the choice I make don’t seem to make a difference when I look at everyone around me not really giving a shit. I am not perfect by aby means, but I really worked hard to reduce my footprint and still put effort daily to reduce it more.

I try to teach them to be curious but careful with nature. They are still young, but my oldest starts to pick up a lot of things, so this is a new subject that I can start to talk about with her.

We live in a city, so nature preservation is harder to teach, but we could definitely do better to help insects and flora with our little space of backyard. And it is a fun activity.

I’ve read a lot about eco-anxiety lately and one of the coping mechanisms is through community action and what you said falls into this to me.

Even though I don’t feel any better in this moment, I appreciate the thought and it will definitely help me when I will be in a better head space.

Thanks

React tutorial are like that. You create a simple HTML page with a script and the script generates everything.

I had to do a simple webpage for an embedded webserver and the provider of the library recommended preact, the lightweight version of react. Having no webdev experience, I used preact as recommended and it is a nightmare to use and debug.

There was a video a long while ago where a cyclist got a ticket for not riding in the bike lane.

So he filmed himself riding in the bike lanes and crashing into the parked cars there and one of them was a cop.

It’s clear that politicians don’t give a fuck about cyclists.

Absolutely. Fuck payment processors

Someone’s gonna process the payment between the two banks, adding an intermediary between both banks won’t help much when it will be denied processing as well.