Tootfinder

Picture the human body. Zoom in on a single cell. It lives for a while, then splits or dies, as part of a community of cells that make up a particular tissue. This community lives together for many many cell-lifetimes, each performing their own favorite function and reproducing as much as necessary to maintain their community, consuming the essential resources they need and contributing back what they can so that the whole body can live for decades. Each community of cells is interdependent on the whole body, but also stable and sustainable over long periods of time.
Now imagine a cancer cell. It has lost its ability to harmonize with the whole and prioritize balance, instead consuming and reproducing as quickly as it can. As neighboring tissues start to die from its excess, it metastasizes, always spreading to new territory to fuel its unbalanced appetite. The inevitable result is death of the whole body, although through birth, that body can create a new fresh branch of tissues that may continue their stable existence free of cancer. Alternatively, radiation or chemotherapy might be able to kill off the cancer, at great cost to the other tissues, but permitting long-term survival.
To the cancer cell, the idea of decades-long survival of a tissue community is unbelievable. When your natural state is unbounded consumption, growth, and competition, the idea of interdependent cooperation (with tissues all around the body you're not even touching, no less) seems impossible, and the idea that a tissue might survive in a stable form for decades is ludicrous.
"Perhaps if conditions were bleak enough to perfectly balance incessant unrestrained growth against the depredations of a hostile environment it might be possible? I guess the past must have been horribly brutal, so that despite each tissue trying to grow as much as possible they each barely survived? Yes, a stable and sustainable population is probably only possible under conditions of perfectly extreme hardship, and in our current era of unfettered growth, we should rejoice that we live in much easier times!"
You can probably already see where I'm going with this metaphor, but did you know that there are human communities, alive today, that have been living sustainably for *tens, if not hundreds of thousands of years*?
#anarchy #colonialism #civilization
P.S. if you're someone who likes to think about past populations and historical population growth, I cannot recommend the (short, free) game Opera Omnia by Stephen Lavelle enough: https://www.increpare.com/2009/02/opera-omnia/

Tow Center identifies eight X bot accounts that use X's AI Note Writer API to write between 5% to 10% of the Community Notes visible to the public each day (C.J. Robinson/Columbia Journalism Review)
https://www.cjr.org/analysis/x-twitter-ai-

X is using AI fact-checkers.
Eight AI bots contribute about 10 percent of the platform’s “Community Notes.”

Concrete is a mix of several different materials:
water, fine aggregates (or sand), coarse aggregates (or gravel), chemical additives,
and, most importantly, cement.
Cement is what binds all of these ingredients together to give concrete its durability and distinctive, grey appearance.
Cement production, however, also generates most of concrete’s emissions:
🔥In fact, cement accounts for around 8% of all CO2 emissions worldwide

Concrete
Concrete is among the world’s most consumed materials—second only to water. It also produces large amounts of heat-trapping greenhouse gases.

Commanders QB Jayden Daniels exits with left elbow injury vs. Vikings https://www.nfl.com/news/commanders-qb-jayden-daniels-left-elbow-injury-vikings

Commanders-Chargers takeaways: Jayden Daniels returns from injury to rally Washington https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6691946/2025/10/05/commanders-chargers-score-result-takeaways-nfl/

Jayden Daniels leaves Commanders-Vikings game after reinjuring left elbow https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6870517/2025/12/07/jayden-daniels-elbow-injured-commanders/

Sources: No surgery for Commanders QB Daniels https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/46882135/sources-no-ligament-damage-surgery-commanders-qb-daniels

NFL says referees erred with intentional grounding penalty in Broncos-Commanders https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6869980/2025/12/07/nfl-broncos-commanders-incorrect-intentional-grounding-call/

Back in L.A., 'composed' Daniels jolts Commanders https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/46504364/jayden-daniels-returns-sparks-rally-commanders-victory

Goff: 'Added motivation' for Commanders rematch https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/46862305/playoff-exit-gives-lions-added-motivation-commanders-rematch-says-goff