indie<p>_A Premonition about the Unregulated Industrial Futures_ </p><p>My sleeping mind last night conjured up a picture of the future that was incredibly bleak for humans. </p><p>I was standing in line to get on a passenger bus. But this was no regular bus, it was a semi-truck sized industrial bus, and it contained many seats crowded together. Some faceless person near me commented that while the busses _were_ getting bigger, the seats on the busses poor people were using were shrinking in size. But airplane seats in commercial jets were getting bigger to accommodate the bigger asses of the rich.</p><p>And my seat was small. It was crowded very close to another seat, maybe 4 seats across and one facing sideways on one side of the aisle, and mine was beside the one facing sideways. </p><p>The bus driver carefully checked each ticket, which for some reason looked like those tickets people use in raffles, and told the boarding passenger to go sit in the seat number with the last 2 digits on it. My seat had a plaque on it "Donated by the (something something) Youth, Class of '17): "Speaking for the Youth".</p><p>Probably an artefact of Drumpf's first presidency.</p><p>All around me, PoC on the bus were getting on and looking out the window which was about as high off the road as you'd expect being in an 18 wheeler that had been converted to bus.</p><p>After the bus started moving, I could see out the window on the other side of the aisle (no window seat where i was) that the bus route was paralleling train tracks. </p><p>An indeterminable time later, I'm standing in line with some people who are buying backpack-sized metal containers of what I understood to be gas or fuel. The people would get their petrol wrapped in a metal container and carry it back to the bus.</p><p>One person' who had just exited a church (don't ask me how I knew this in my dream)... this person was handed a petrol backpack leaking fire (kind of like how a natural gas stove makes that flame). And we griped in an annoyed way, as if this was a common happening for these backpacks.</p><p>We extinguished the leaking flames and proceeded back toward the bus. </p><p>But, way across the way, where the train tracks were, a very dark black plume of black black smoke rose. As I got closer to the train tracks, I could see rail cars passing by slowly, like total chaos and disorder... one train cart had industrial poisons beside one carrying produce beside one carrying someone trying to use a rail car as a food truck, hoping to sell to the throngs of people.</p><p>The black smoke had come from one of the industrial cars, and at that moment, I understood we were in Ohio. Someone had commented about how Ohio had jumped on the deregulation train first, because it was a Red state, and that the industrial mfgs could basically do whatever they wanted, they weren't regulated any more. </p><p>And so there were chemical spills everywhere, stacks of black smoke, people trying to consume food beside hazardous waste poisons, and a general bleak and sickly feeling of grief and impending doom. </p><p>2-3 years ago, I'd watched only the first few minutes of Mad Max before deciding it wasn't something i wanted to waste hours of my life on, but the dream atmosphere was kind of like that.</p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Deregulation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Deregulation</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MadMax" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MadMax</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Industrial" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Industrial</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PoC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PoC</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ABleakFutureForYourSpawn" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ABleakFutureForYourSpawn</span></a></p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoMatterHowMuchMoney" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NoMatterHowMuchMoney</span></a></p>
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Jetzt passend zum Wetter und zur Weltlage Vroooom vroooom DONT GET ADDICTeED TO WaTER we are all broken JIPPIE. https://www.arte.tv/de/videos/119946-000-A/action-sand-und-endzeit-die-mad-max-saga/
ARTEAction, Sand und Endzeit: Die Mad-Max-Saga - Die ganze Doku | ARTEEin halbes Jahrhundert liegt zwischen dem Erscheinen von "Mad Max" und "Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga". In dieser Zeit wurde die wilde Steampunk-Filmreihe, deren Ursprünge im Trash- und Exploitation-Kino liegen, immer populärer. Heute gelten alle fünf Teile als Meilensteine der Filmgeschichte.
Oooh, Mad Max techniques
BBC: Jihadists on 200 motorbikes storm Niger army base
"...More than 200 gunmen on motorbikes have attacked a Niger army base near the border with Mali, leaving at least 34 soldiers dead, the country's defence ministry said. ..."
www.bbc.comNiger attack: More than 200 gunmen on motorbikes storm army base in BanibangouAt least 34 soldiers were killed in the latest attack by Islamist groups, Niger's military leaders say.
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@hess_photo looks like a warbug. #madmax
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This, but for a Bike Bus? 
(maybe skip the flamethrower)
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Yo, mich fasziniert ja gerade, warum selbst etwa nach dem Jom-Kippur-Krieg von 1973 und dem folgenden OPEC - #Ölboykott auch in #Deutschland keine wirksame Auseinandersetzung mit dem #Fossilismus erfolgte.
Die Leute damals waren doch auch klug und politisch, die Zusammenhänge lagen auf der Hand, es kamen sogar Filme wie #MadMax auf. Und dennoch setzte sich auch die fossile Finanzierung der #Sowjetunion einfach fort... Das versuche ich zu verstehen... https://scilogs.spektrum.de/natur-des-glaubens/erklaert-die-rentierstaatstheorie-nicht-nur-die-krise-des-islams-sondern-auch-den-langen-bestand-der-sowjetunion/
Natur des Glaubens · Erklärt die Rentierstaatstheorie nicht nur die Krise des Islams, sondern auch den langen Bestand der Sowjetunion?Am letzten Tag des vergangenen Jahres veröffentlichte SWR2-Wissen einen Podcast mit einem Vortrag von mir zu “Islam in der Krise“. Bald schon erreichte mich eine große Zahl von Zuschriften von Hörerinnen und Hörern, andere diskutierten …
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Getting Middle Kid to stay awake for a 30 minute TV show is usually a win, so having him stay awake for a full two hours of Fury Road is spectacular.
Having beefy motor vehicles on screen 95% of the time certainly helped.
(Cinema Kid also joined us, cause he loves the movie so much)
We’re showing middle kid a film titled..
Mad Max: Fury Road
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@Grantscheam so lange dauert das nicht mehr.
Bei der Geschwindigkeit erwarte ich nicht, das DT zum Erntedankfest noch im WH sitzt.
Wir haben #houseofcards schon hinter uns gelassen und befinden uns gerade beim #CivilWar. Als Nächstes kommt dann #Fallout und danach #MadMax.
Trump ist einfach ein großartiger Cineast, der seine Bevölkerung die herausragenden Filme selbst erleben lässt. Wunderbar!
Wurde auch heute mehrfach auf meine früher "nervigen" Warnungen vor der #Wasserkrise gerade auch in den #Alpen angesprochen.
Habe hier in Text & einem kurzen #Video erklärt, warum sich #Gebirgsregionen besonders schnell erhitzen und was das für die Zukunft von #Deutschland insgesamt bedeutet. Wir stehen zwischen #MadMax und #Solarpunk, meine ich. https://scilogs.spektrum.de/natur-des-glaubens/auch-die-alpen-zerbroeckeln-wie-die-klimakrise-zur-wasserkrise-wird/
Natur des Glaubens · Auch die Alpen zerbröckeln - Wie die Klimakrise zur Wasserkrise wirdDr. Michael Blume erklärt, warum Gebirgsregionen besonders schnell erhitzen und was das für die Alpen und auch Deutschland bedeutet.
Danke, aber von einer #Apokalypse im religiösen Sinn würde ich noch nicht sprechen. Falls sich #Fossilismus und die Verdrängung der #Wasserkrise aber weiter fortsetzen, kann ich (leider) empfehlen, sich die #MadMax - Dystopien einmal anzuschauen...
@elefan @mad @ElisabethK https://scilogs.spektrum.de/natur-des-glaubens/science-fiction-dialoge-unsere-zukunft-zwischen-arche-staedten-und-mad-max-regionen/
Natur des Glaubens · Science Fiction-Dialoge. Unsere Zukunft zwischen Arche-Städten und Mad Max-RegionenDr. Michael Blume erklärt, warum der nichtreligiöse Science-Fiction-Autor Isaac Asimov ein Bibelbuch schrieb & was sein Jüngster hofft.
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Danke, @mattze & ja, das #MadMax - Szenario, das ja aufgrund der damaligen #Ölkrise in #Australien entstand, ist eigentlich eine solide, dystopische #Energie- & #Wasserkrise - Warnung. Hatte bereits 2023 dazu gebloggt…
@Der_Pfleger https://scilogs.spektrum.de/natur-des-glaubens/science-fiction-dialoge-unsere-zukunft-zwischen-arche-staedten-und-mad-max-regionen/
Natur des Glaubens · Science Fiction-Dialoge. Unsere Zukunft zwischen Arche-Städten und Mad Max-RegionenDr. Michael Blume erklärt, warum der nichtreligiöse Science-Fiction-Autor Isaac Asimov ein Bibelbuch schrieb & was sein Jüngster hofft.
Ah, nothing screams "professionally silly" like a 33-minute dive into the 
fascinating world of wasteland vehicle #logistics. Apparently, history's greatest minds have been silently begging for a scholarly analysis on the fuel efficiency of Mad Max's ride. 
https://acoup.blog/2025/05/23/collections-the-logistics-of-road-war-in-the-wasteland/ #professionallysilly #wastelandvehicles #MadMax #fuelEfficiency #scholarlyanalysis #HackerNews #ngated
A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry · Collections: The Logistics of Road War in the WastelandThis week, we’re doing another ‘silly’ topic, but this being me, it is a silly logistics topic, because – as the saying goes – amateurs talk tactics, professionals tal…