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+author: Jean Hsu
+link: https://jeanhsu.substack.com/p/ask-vs-guess-culture
+done: false
+date: August 22, 2023
+rating: 4
+image: https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/5d15f5ae-994c-49b5-99a6-5efff02b7eca_1456x816.png
+---
+# Ask vs guess culture - by Jean Hsu - Tech and Tea
+#self-help #psychology #relationships #communication
+
+Have you had someone ask you for a favor that seemed unreasonable — a referral you didn’t want to make, a long-term stay at your place, a sizable cash loan? But because they asked, you felt obliged to seriously consider it, to try to meet their request, even if it put you in a space of discomfort? Maybe you carry out the favor, but it sours your relationship, and when it all comes out, that person says, “Well why’d you agree to it? You could have just said no!”
+
+But you feel resentful that that person even put you in a position to have to say, “Sorry we’re a bit busy that week so don’t have space for you to stay with us,” or “I can’t loan you that money at the moment”?
+
+Congratulations, you’ve just encountered a clash between ask culture and guess culture.
+
+The idea of ask vs guess culture was [shared online](https://ask.metafilter.com/55153/Whats-the-middle-ground-between-FU-and-Welcome#830421) in 2007 by a user _tangerine_ on Metafilter. When I first read it years ago, a lightbulb moment went off, and many frustrations and conflicts I had while growing up made much more sense in this framework.
+
+Despite this idea’s longevity, I find that it’s still a new-to-many and incredibly useful concept to revisit, so here’s a little exploration of ask vs guess culture at home and at work.
+
+Ask culture and guess culture are _vastly_ different in behavior and expectations. Here are some highlights:
+
+- Ask for what you want, even if it seems out of reach or like a big unreasonable request
+- Take care of your own needs, and others will take care of theirs
+- It’s fine to make requests that people will probably say no to
+- People say yes to requests that you truly feel good about, say no to ones they don’t
+- Only ask for something if you’re already pretty sure the other person will say yes
+- Read an abundance of indirect contextual cues to determine if your request is reasonable to make
+- It’s rude to put someone in a position where they have to say no to you
+- If the appropriate feelers and context are set, you will never have to make your request at all.
+    
+
+It’s easiest to understand the differences between ask culture and guess culture through examples, so here are two examples with a moving situation — you’re moving soon and hope to save a few bucks with the help of your friends.
+
+You post on Facebook sharing that you’re moving and make a list of things you could use help with: moving boxes and tape, packing help, usage of a truck/van, and physical labor on moving day. You reach out to a few local friends asking if they’re available on moving day. A few people respond on Facebook with moving supplies, and a friend comes over to help with packing, but no one is available to help on moving day, so you end up renting a moving van and hiring a few movers.
+
+Your friend is typically free on the weekends, so you ask them if they’re available to help you on moving day. You ask another friend what they’re up to, and they have family visiting, so you don’t mention that you need help with moving. Another friend has access to a pickup truck, and you dropped off some soup recently when they were sick, so you mention that you’re moving next weekend. They ask if you’d like to borrow their truck, which you defer saying you don’t want to inconvenience them, but when they offer again, you accept.
+
+Depending on whether you gravitate more towards ask or guess culture as your default, one of these scenarios may sound very uncomfortable.
+
+If you’re more a guess-culture person, asking people for help without knowing their circumstances can feel rude or intrusive. Broadcasting publicly your need for help can feel awkward and vulnerable.
+
+If you’re more of an ask-culture person, the guess-culture example of juggling everyone’s specific scenarios and the historical context of favors probably seems exhausting. Dropping hints in the hopes that you won’t even have to make your request can feel extra passive and manipulative.
+
+I probably operate somewhere in-between ask and guess culture — defaulting to guess culture when I’m low-functioning but aspiring to be more and more ask-culture.
+
+I was raised deeply in guess culture, as many Asians and Asian-Americans are. The Japanese proverb that “the nail that sticks up gets nailed down” reinforces the idea of social collectivism and keeping your individual needs and wants to yourself — values that are shared by many Asian culture. My parents rarely had to make explicit asks of me, because the expectations around values and behavior were communicated through indirect messaging, often by tone of voice or through stories about other people.
+
+Western society is very much ask culture. A classic example can be found in proverbs. “A squeaky wheel gets the grease” is an American proverb, enforcing the ideas of individualism and that asking for what you want will benefit you.
+
+The generational clash between ask and guess culture can be frustrating and exhausting. Years ago, my brother and I were in San Diego visiting our aunt and uncle. The plan was for my grandma to come down from Los Angeles, so we could all spend time together, but our grandma had last minute minor surgery to recover from and had to stay put in LA. “So we should drive up to see her, right?” my brother and I discussed. But all of the older relatives insisted we did not, suggesting that instead we see the sights in San Diego, that we take the kids to Sea World, that the traffic would be awful and that a 2 hour drive would turn into 5 hours, that it’d be dangerous.
+
+This all seemed ridiculous to us, so instead we drove the two hours, keeping our plan _secret_ until we pulled up into our grandma’s driveway, so that no one could resist and thwart our plan. We had a lovely visit, and my mom later thanked us for making the drive.
+
+This is guess culture — and it’s a lot of saying not really what you actually want, and it’s a lot of reading between the lines to try to figure out what people want.
+
+Deciding what to eat for dinner with guess-culture people isn’t as simple as asking people what they want to eat for dinner, because they will not tell you what they **actually** want to want to eat for dinner. They will say “oh, whatever you want,” or “whatever is easiest.” And when you insist that you really really want to know what they want to eat for dinner, and if it’s too much work, you’ll do something else instead, the response you receive will already be a compromised version of what they want, taking into account the preferences of everyone else in the house, what the kids will eat, and the leftovers in the fridge.
+
+Thoughtful? Yes. But frustrating if you actually want an honest answer of what someone wants. You may be better off listing options and gauging their response to each one.
+
+For guess-culture people, thinking about what it is you want can feel absolutely foreign, and for me, it’s been a years-long practice to continue to tap into and understand what I want, before I then try to take others’ needs into account.
+
+At a high level, western corporate work operates almost entirely in ask culture. But people working at these companies often operate in or were raised in guess culture, which as you might expect, is ripe for feeling misunderstood and frustrated.
+
+Last week, I shared about normalizing [sharing we want in life and at work](https://jeanhsu.substack.com/p/do-you-keep-your-wishes-secret), so that they might actually be supported in coming true. Ask vs guess culture is another lens at looking at asking for what you want at work.
+
+Being guess-culture in an ask-culture work environment looks like hoping someone will tap you to become a manager because you’re clearly the best person for the job.
+
+It also looks like being frustrated when others loudly express enthusiasm about taking on a new project on the roadmap and are given the opportunity to lead it, when you were also interested in it and maybe dropped some hints about it being somewhat interesting.
+
+At a certain point, guess culture is not going to work for you, and you’ll feel under-acknowledged and overlooked. If you want to get more of what you want out of your work situation, you’ll have to lean more into ask culture.
+
+But ask culture is vulnerable, because the requests you’re making are ones that feel out of reach, and requires being ok with people saying no to you, often. It requires putting things out there that you want help with, and trusting that people will say no to you instead of helping you resentfully.
+
+Maybe just understanding the framework is already helpful, but here are a few small ways you can start to nudge yourself into ask culture.
+
+-   Ask for help on something you’re feeling stuck on. Guess-culture people will worry that they’re interrupting someone, or someone will be annoyed if they’re in the middle of something. If it feels more comfortable, you could say, “Let me know when is good for a half-hour working session today or tomorrow.”
+    
+-   Want to publish something on the company blog or give a talk at an upcoming event? Try asking. If “Hey can I give a talk at the next event?” feels too uncomfortable, try “Hey I’m really interested in giving a talk at a future event. What are you looking for?” or “I’d love to give a talk about <topic>, what do you think?”
+    
+-   Get more comfortable with people saying no to you. If people are not saying no to you, you’re probably still only asking for things that you already know people will say yes to (which is guess culture). Ask for more budget, ask for an uncomfortable amount of PTO, ask for professional development budget, ask to purchase only vaguely-work-related books on your company card.
+    
+-   Ask yourself, [“If I could have my way…”](https://jeanhsu.substack.com/p/if-you-could-have-your-way), which is a useful hack to bypass thinking about others’ needs and honing in on exactly what you want. Use this to think about your role, your next project, your work schedule, your title, your salary and equity, your team. From that thought exercise, ask for some things you want.
+    
+
+_Does this framework behind ask vs guess culture provide any clarity to you around past or current frustrations? When have you experienced clashes between ask and guess culture?_
+
+[Leave a comment](https://jeanhsu.substack.com/p/ask-vs-guess-culture/comments)

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+author: Michael T. Klare
+link: https://www.thenation.com/article/environment/civilization-collapse-climate-change/
+date: August 22, 2023
+image: https://www.thenation.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/Caldor_fire-getty.jpg
+---
+# We Are Witnessing the First Stages of Civilization’s Collapse | The Nation
+#climate-change #history #collapse
+
+Will our own elites perform any better than the rulers of Chaco Canyon, the Mayan heartland, and Viking Greenland?
+
+In his 2005 bestseller [_Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed_](https://www.amazon.com/dp/0143117009/ref=nosim/?tag=tomdispatch-20), geographer Jared Diamond focused on past civilizations that confronted severe climate shocks, either adapting and surviving or failing to adapt and disintegrating. Among those were the Puebloan culture of Chaco Canyon, N.M., the ancient Mayan civilization of Mesoamerica, and the Viking settlers of Greenland. Such societies, having achieved great success, imploded when their governing elites failed to adopt new survival mechanisms to face radically changing climate conditions.
+
+Bear in mind that, for their time and place, the societies Diamond studied supported large, sophisticated populations. Pueblo Bonito, a six-story structure in Chaco Canyon, contained up to 600 rooms, making it the largest building in North America until the first skyscrapers rose in New York some 800 years later. Mayan civilization is believed to have supported a population of more than 10 million people at its peak between 250 and 900 A.D., while the Norse Greenlanders established a distinctively European society around 1000 A.D. in the middle of a frozen wasteland. Still, in the end, each collapsed utterly and their inhabitants either died of starvation, slaughtered each other, or migrated elsewhere, leaving nothing but ruins behind.
+
+The question today is: Will our own elites perform any better than the rulers of Chaco Canyon, the Mayan heartland, and Viking Greenland?
+
+As Diamond argues, each of those civilizations arose in a period of relatively benign climate conditions, when temperatures were moderate and food and water supplies adequate. In each case, however, the climate shifted wrenchingly, bringing persistent drought or, in Greenland’s case, much colder temperatures. Although no contemporary written records remain to tell us how the ruling elites responded, the archaeological evidence suggests that they persisted in their traditional ways until disintegration became unavoidable.
+
+#### More on Climate Catastrophe
+
+These historical examples of social disintegration spurred lively discussion among my students when, as a professor at Hampshire College, I regularly assigned _Collapse_ as a required text. Even then, a decade ago, many of them suggested that we were beginning to face severe climate challenges akin to those encountered by earlier societies—and that our contemporary civilization also risked collapse if we failed to take adequate measures to slow global warming and adapt to its inescapable consequences.
+
+But in those discussions (which continued until I retired from teaching in 2018), our analyses seemed entirely theoretical: Yes, contemporary civilization might collapse, but if so, not any time soon. Five years later, it’s increasingly difficult to support such a relatively optimistic outlook. Not only does the collapse of modern industrial civilization appear ever more likely, but the process already seems underway.
+
+#### Precursors of Collapse
+
+When do we know that a civilization is on the verge of collapse? In his now almost 20-year-old classic, Diamond identified three key indicators or precursors of imminent dissolution: a persistent pattern of environmental change for the worse like long-lasting droughts; signs that existing modes of agriculture or industrial production were aggravating the crisis; and an elite failure to abandon harmful practices and adopt new means of production. At some point, a critical threshold is crossed and collapse invariably follows.
+
+Today, it’s hard to avoid indications that all three of those thresholds are being crossed.
+
+To begin with, on a planetary basis, the environmental impacts of climate change are now unavoidable and worsening by the year. To take just one among innumerable global examples, the drought afflicting the American West has now persisted for more than two decades, leading scientists to label it a “[megadrought](https://www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1073/pnas.2006323117)” exceeding all recorded regional dry spells in breadth and severity. As of August 2021, [99 percent](https://www.sierraclub.org/sierra/great-western-drought-explained) of the United States west of the Rockies was in drought, something for which there is no modern precedent. The recent [record heat waves](https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/31/us/phoenix-heat-july.html) in the region have only emphasized this grim reality.
+
+The [most recent report](https://www.ipcc.ch/assessment-report/ar6/) of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change offers many examples of such negative climate alterations globally (as do the latest headlines). It’s obvious, in fact, that climate change is permanently altering our environment in an ever more disastrous fashion.
+
+It’s also evident that Diamond’s second precursor to collapse, the refusal to alter agricultural and industrial methods of production which only aggravate or—in the case of fossil-fuel consumption—simply cause the crisis, is growing ever more obvious. At the top of any list would be a continuing reliance on oil, coal, and natural gas, the leading sources of the greenhouse gases (GHGs) now overheating our atmosphere and oceans. Despite all the scientific evidence linking fossil-fuel combustion to global warming and the promises of governing elites to reduce the consumption of those fuels—for example, under the [Paris Agreement](https://www.nrdc.org/sites/default/files/paris-agreement-climate-change-2017-ib.pdf) of 2015—their use continues to grow.
+
+
+According to a [2022 report](https://iea.blob.core.windows.net/assets/830fe099-5530-48f2-a7c1-11f35d510983/WorldEnergyOutlook2022.pdf) produced by the International Energy Agency (IEA), global oil consumption, given current government policies, will rise from 94 million barrels per day in 2021 to an estimated 102 million barrels by 2030 and then remain at or near that level until 2050. Coal consumption, though expected to decline after 2030, is still rising in some areas of the world. The demand for natural gas (only [recently found](https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/13/climate/natural-gas-leaks-coal-climate-change.html) to be dirtier than previously imagined) is projected to exceed 2020 levels in 2050.
+
+The same 2022 IEA report indicates that energy-related emissions of carbon dioxide—the leading component of greenhouse gases—will climb from 19.5 billion metric tons in 2020 to an estimated 21.6 billion tons in 2030 and remain at about that level until 2050. [Emissions of methane](https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/13/climate/natural-gas-leaks-coal-climate-change.html), another leading GHG component, will continue to rise, thanks to the increased production of natural gas.
+
+Not surprisingly, climate experts [now predict](https://www.cnn.com/2023/05/17/world/global-warming-breach-wmo-climate-intl/index.html) that average world temperatures will soon surpass 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) above the pre-industrial level—the [maximum amount](https://www.ipcc.ch/sr15/chapter/chapter-3/) they believe the planet can absorb without experiencing irreversible, catastrophic consequences, including the dying out of the Amazon and the melting of the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets (with an accompanying rise in sea levels of one meter or more).
+
+There are many other ways in which societies are now perpetuating behavior that will endanger the survival of civilization, including the devotion of ever more resources to industrial-scale beef production. That practice [consumes](https://www.foodunfolded.com/article/can-beef-really-be-low-impact) vast amounts of land, water, and grains that could be better devoted to less profligate vegetable production. Similarly, many governments continue to facilitate the large-scale production of water-intensive crops through extensive irrigation schemes, despite the evident decline in global water supplies that is already producing widespread shortages of drinking water in places like [Iran](https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/21/world/middleeast/iran-drought-water-climate.html).
+
+Finally, today’s powerful elites are _choosing_ to perpetuate practices known to accelerate climate change and global devastation. Among the most egregious, the decision of top executives of the ExxonMobil Corporation—the world’s largest and wealthiest privately-owned oil company—to continue pumping oil and gas for endless decades after their scientists warned them about the risks of global warming and affirmed that Exxon’s operations would only amplify them. As early as the 1970s, Exxon’s scientists [predicted](https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abk0063) that the firm’s fossil-fuel products could lead to global warming with “dramatic environmental effects before the year 2050.” Yet, as has been well documented, Exxon officials responded by investing company funds in casting doubt on climate change research, even [financing](https://blog.ucsusa.org/elliott-negin/exxonmobil-claims-shift-on-climate-continues-to-fund-climate-deniers/) think tanks focused on climate denialism. Had they instead broadcast their scientists’ findings and worked to speed the transition to alternative fuels, the world would be in a far less precarious position today.
+
+Or consider China’s decision, even as it was working to develop alternative energy sources, to [increase](https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/20/business/china-coal-climate-change.html) its combustion of coal—the most carbon-intense of all fossil fuels—in order to keep factories and air conditioners humming during periods of increasingly extreme heat.
+
+All such decisions have ensured that future floods, fires, droughts, heatwaves, you name it, will be more intense and prolonged. In other words, the precursors to civilizational collapse and the disintegration of modern industrial society as we know it—not to speak of the possible deaths of millions of us—are already evident. Worse yet, numerous events this very summer suggest that we are witnessing the first stages of just such a collapse.
+
+#### The Apocalyptic Summer of ’23
+
+July 2023 has already been [declared](https://public.wmo.int/en/media/news/copernicus-confirms-july-2023-was-hottest-month-ever-recorded) the hottest month ever recorded and the entire year is also likely to go down as the hottest ever. Unusually high temperatures globally are responsible for a host of heat-related deaths across the planet. For many of us, the relentless baking will be remembered as the most distinctive feature of the summer of ’23. But other climate impacts offer their own intimations of an approaching Jared Diamond-style collapse. To me, two ongoing events fit that category in a striking fashion.
+
+The fires in Canada: As of August 2, months after they first erupted into flame, there were still [225 major uncontrolled wildfires](https://cwfis.cfs.nrcan.gc.ca/report) and another 430 under some degree of control but still burning across the country. At one point, the figure was [more than 1,000](https://www.cnn.com/videos/world/2023/08/06/exp-canadian-wildfires-indigenous-community-mandy-gull-masty-intv-080603aseg2-cnni-world.cnn) fires! To date, they have burned some 32.4 million acres of Canadian woodland, or 50,625 square miles—an area the size of the state of Alabama. Such staggering fires, largely [attributed to](https://www.nytimes.com/article/canada-wildfires-what-to-know.html) the effects of climate change, have destroyed hundreds of homes and other structures, while sending particle-laden smoke across Canadian and American cities—at one point [turning](https://tomdispatch.com/living-on-a-smoke-bomb-of-a-planet/) New York’s skies orange. In the process, [record amounts](https://phys.org/news/2023-06-canada-co2-emissions-year.html) of carbon dioxide were dispatched into the atmosphere, only increasing the pace of global warming and its destructive impacts.
+
+Aside from its unprecedented scale, there are aspects of this year’s fire season that suggest a more profound threat to society. To begin with, in fire terms—or more accurately, in climate-change terms—Canada has clearly lost control of its hinterland. As political scientists have long suggested, the very essence of the modern nation-state, its core raison d’être, is maintaining control over its sovereign territory and protecting its citizens. A country unable to do so, like Sudan or Somalia, has long been considered a “[failed state](https://www.britannica.com/topic/failed-state).”
+
+#### More on Climate Catastrophe
+
+By now, Canada has [abandoned](https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/09/world/canada/canada-firefighting-capacity.html) any hope of controlling a significant percentage of the fires raging in remote areas of the country and is simply allowing them to burn themselves out. Such areas are relatively unpopulated, but they do house numerous indigenous communities whose [lands have been destroyed](https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/29/world/canada/canada-wildfires-indigenous-communities.html) and who have been forced to flee, perhaps permanently. Were this a one-time event, you could certainly say that Canada still remains an intact, functioning society. But given the likelihood that the number and extent of wildfires will only increase in the years ahead as temperatures continue to rise, Canada—hard as it might be to believe—can be said to be on the verge of becoming a failed state.
+
+The American West’s megadrought has been accompanied by another indicator of abiding environmental change: the steady decline in the volume of the Colorado River, the region’s most important source of water. The Colorado River Basin supplies drinking water to more than 40 million people in the United States and, according to economists at the University of Arizona, it’s crucial to [$1.4 trillion](https://abcnews.go.com/US/happen-colorado-river-system-recover-historic-drought/story?id=98475953) of the US economy. All of that is now at severe risk due to increased temperatures and diminished precipitation. The volume of the Colorado is almost 20 percent below what it was when this century began and, as global temperatures continue to rise, that decline is likely to worsen.
+
+The floods in China: While American reporting on China tends to focus on economic and military affairs, the most significant news this summer has been the persistence of unusually heavy rainfall in many parts of the country, accompanied by severe flooding. At the beginning of August, Beijing experienced its [heaviest rainfall](https://apnews.com/article/china-beijing-rainfall-floods-1a8f968799bd539d11f3421010b8f2a9) since such phenomena began being measured there more than 140 years ago. In a pattern found to be [characteristic](https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/16/climate/hurricane-sally-climate-change.html) of hotter, more humid environments, a storm system lingered over Beijing and the capital region for days on end, pouring 29 inches of rain on the city between July 29 and August 2. At least 1.2 million people had to be [evacuated](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/aug/04/anger-in-china-over-plan-to-use-cities-as-moat-to-save-beijing-from-floods) from flood-prone areas of surrounding cities, while [more than 100,000 acres](https://apnews.com/article/china-floods-heilongjiang-jilin-shulan-typhoon-doksuri-9095f00ffee5e1e7bf1c8ce4d230d514) of crops were damaged or destroyed.
+
+It’s not that unusual for floods and other extreme weather events to bedevil China, causing widespread human suffering. But 2023 has been distinctive both in the amount of rainfall it’s experienced and the [record heat](https://apnews.com/article/china-heat-wave-beijing-alert-51441f6afb6b23a35d26936c544621d2) that’s gone with it. Even more strikingly, this summer’s climate extremes forced the government to behave in ways that suggest a state at the mercy of a raging climate system.
+
+When flooding threatened Beijing, officials sought to spare the capital from its worst effects by diverting floodwaters to surrounding areas. They were to “resolutely serve as a moat for the capital,” [according to](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/aug/04/anger-in-china-over-plan-to-use-cities-as-moat-to-save-beijing-from-floods) Ni Yuefeng, the Communist Party secretary for Hebei province, which borders Beijing on three sides. While that might have spared the capital from severe damage, the diverted water poured into Hebei, causing extensive harm to infrastructure and forcing those 1.2 million people to be relocated. The decision to turn Hebei into a “moat” for the capital suggests a leadership under siege by forces beyond its control. As is true of Canada, China is certain to face even greater climate-related disasters prompting the government to take who knows what extreme measures to prevent widespread chaos and calamity.
+
+These two events strike me as particularly revealing, but there are others that come to mind from this record-breaking summer. For example, the Iranian government’s decision to [declare](https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/01/world/middleeast/iran-heat-shutdown.html) an unprecedented two-day national holiday on August 2nd, involving the closure of all schools, factories, and public offices, in response to record heat and drought. For many Iranians, that “holiday” was nothing but a desperate ploy to disguise the regime’s inability to provide sufficient water and electricity – a failure that’s bound to prove ever more destabilizing in the years to come.
+
+#### Entering a New World Beyond Imagining
+
+Half a dozen years ago, when I last discussed Jared Diamond’s book with my students, we spoke of the ways civilizational collapse could still be averted through concerted action by the nations and peoples of the world. Little, however, did we imagine anything like the summer of ’23.
+
+It’s true that much has been accomplished in the intervening years. The percentage of electricity provided by renewable sources globally has, for example, [risen significantly](https://www.thenation.com/file:///C:/Users/mklar/Downloads/Statistical%20Review%20of%20World%20Energy.pdf) and the cost of those sources has fallen dramatically. Many nations have also taken significant steps to reduce carbon emissions. Still, global elites continue to pursue strategies that will only amplify climate change, ensuring that, in the years to come, humanity will slide ever closer to worldwide collapse.
+
+When and how we might slip over the brink into catastrophe is impossible to foresee. But as the events of this summer suggest, we are already all too close to the edge of the kind of systemic failure experienced so many centuries ago by the Mayans, the ancient Puebloans, and the Viking Greenlanders. The only difference is that we may have no place else to go. Call it, if you want, Collapse 2.0.
+
+##### [Michael T. Klare](https://www.thenation.com/authors/michael-t-klare/)
+
+[](https://twitter.com/mklare1)
+
+Michael T. Klare, _The Nation_’s defense correspondent, is professor emeritus of peace and world-security studies at Hampshire College and senior visiting fellow at the Arms Control Association in Washington, D.C. Most recently, he is the author of [_All Hell Breaking Loose: The Pentagon’s Perspective on Climate Change_](https://www.panmacmillan.com.au/9781627792486/all-hell-breaking-loose/).

Media/articles/The Strange Case of Dr. Ho Man Kwok.md

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-_Since the initial reporting of this story, information has come to light calling into question Howard Steel’s role in the MSG controversy. For more on this fascinating story, listen to [This American Life episode #668](https://www.thisamericanlife.org/668/the-long-fuse)._
+_Since the initial reporting of this story, information has come to light calling into question Howard Steel’s role in the MSG controversy. For more on this fascinating story, listen to [This American Life episode 668](https://www.thisamericanlife.org/668/the-long-fuse)._
 
 The letter was just a few paragraphs long. Published in the _New England Journal of Medicine_ (_NEJM_) under the heading “Chinese-Restaurant Syndrome,” it began: “For several years since I have been in this country, I have experienced a strange syndrome whenever I have eaten out in a Chinese restaurant.” It went on to describe symptoms including “numbness in the back of the neck, gradually radiating to both arms and the back, general weakness, and palpitation.”
 

Media/movies/Another Round.md

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+---
+date: September 24, 2020
+image: Media/movies/images/another_round_cover.jpg
+author: Thomas Vinterberg
+---
+# Another Round
+![](Media/movies/images/another_round_cover.jpg)
+#comedy #drama
+

Media/movies/Asteroid City.md

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+---
+date: June 8, 2023
+image: Media/movies/images/asteroid_city_cover.jpg
+author: Wes Anderson
+rating: 3
+---
+# Asteroid City
+![](Media/movies/images/asteroid_city_cover.jpg)
+#comedy #drama
+
+# Review
+
+The cast is STACKED, Margot Robbie, Tom Hanks, Steve Carrel, Tilda Swinton, Scarlett Johanson, Jeff Goldblum, Bryan Cranston, Edwart Norton
+
+Hmm, but the story was a bit too complex and tried to do too many things at once. The last wes anderson movies were also all a bit mellow, but overall still captivated me. This one for some reason did not manage to do that.
+
+I mean its wes anderson so the asthethic is on point.
+
+Some parts are pretty funny. Also was that Road Runner?

Media/movies/Blade Runner.md

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+---
+date: June 25, 1982
+image: Media/movies/images/blade_runner_cover.jpg
+author: Ridley Scott
+---
+# Blade Runner
+![](Media/movies/images/blade_runner_cover.jpg)
+#sciencefiction #drama #thriller
+

Media/movies/Citizen Kane.md

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+---
+date: April 17, 1941
+image: Media/movies/images/citizen_kane_cover.jpg
+author: Orson Welles
+---
+# Citizen Kane
+![](Media/movies/images/citizen_kane_cover.jpg)
+#mystery #drama
+

Media/movies/Eyes Wide Shut.md

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+---
+date: July 16, 1999
+image: Media/movies/images/eyes_wide_shut_cover.jpg
+author: Stanley Kubrick
+---
+# Eyes Wide Shut
+![](Media/movies/images/eyes_wide_shut_cover.jpg)
+#drama #thriller #mystery
+

Media/movies/Gladiator.md

@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+---
+date: May 4, 2000
+image: Media/movies/images/gladiator_cover.jpg
+author: Ridley Scott
+---
+# Gladiator
+![](Media/movies/images/gladiator_cover.jpg)
+#action #drama #adventure
+

Media/movies/Hillbilly Elegie.md

@@ -2,10 +2,9 @@
 date: November 9, 2020
 image: Media/movies/images/hillbilly_elegie_cover.jpg
 author: Ron Howard
-date: November 12, 2020
 rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️
 ---
 
 # Hillbilly Elegie
 
-\#drama
+#drama

Media/movies/North by Northwest.md

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+---
+date: July 8, 1959
+image: Media/movies/images/north_by_northwest_cover.jpg
+author: Alfred Hitchcock
+---
+# North by Northwest
+![](Media/movies/images/north_by_northwest_cover.jpg)
+#mystery #thriller
+

Media/movies/Se7en.md

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+---
+date: September 22, 1995
+image: Media/movies/images/se7en_cover.jpg
+author: David Fincher
+rating: 5
+---
+# Se7en
+![](Media/movies/images/se7en_cover.jpg)
+#crime #mystery #thriller
+

Media/movies/The Green Mile.md

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+---
+date: December 10, 1999
+image: Media/movies/images/the_green_mile_cover.jpg
+author: Frank Darabont
+---
+# The Green Mile
+![](Media/movies/images/the_green_mile_cover.jpg)
+#fantasy #drama #crime
+

Media/movies/The Intouchables.md

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+---
+date: November 2, 2011
+image: Media/movies/images/the_intouchables_cover.jpg
+author: Éric Toledano
+---
+# The Intouchables
+![](Media/movies/images/the_intouchables_cover.jpg)
+#drama #comedy
+

Media/movies/The Lives of Others.md

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+---
+date: March 15, 2006
+image: Media/movies/images/the_lives_of_others_cover.jpg
+author: Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck
+rating: 4
+---
+# The Lives of Others
+![](Media/movies/images/the_lives_of_others_cover.jpg)
+#drama #thriller
+

Media/movies/The Pianist.md

@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+---
+date: September 17, 2002
+image: Media/movies/images/the_pianist_cover.jpg
+author: Roman Polanski
+---
+# The Pianist
+![](Media/movies/images/the_pianist_cover.jpg)
+#drama #war
+

Media/movies/The Shape of Water.md

@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+---
+date: December 1, 2017
+image: Media/movies/images/the_shape_of_water_cover.jpg
+author: Guillermo del Toro
+---
+# The Shape of Water
+![](Media/movies/images/the_shape_of_water_cover.jpg)
+#drama #fantasy #romance
+

Media/movies/The Shining.md

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+---
+date: May 23, 1980
+image: Media/movies/images/the_shining_cover.jpg
+author: Stanley Kubrick
+---
+# The Shining
+![](Media/movies/images/the_shining_cover.jpg)
+#horror #thriller
+

Media/movies/The Silence of the Lambs.md

@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+---
+date: February 14, 1991
+image: Media/movies/images/the_silence_of_the_lambs_cover.jpg
+author: Jonathan Demme
+---
+# The Silence of the Lambs
+![](Media/movies/images/the_silence_of_the_lambs_cover.jpg)
+#crime #drama #thriller
+

Media/movies/Videodrome.md

@@ -2,7 +2,6 @@
 date: February 4, 1983
 image: Media/movies/images/videodrome_cover.jpg
 author: David Cronenberg
-date: February 3, 1983
 ---
 
 # Videodrome

Media/series/Atypical.md

@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 date: August 11, 2017
 image: Media/series/images/atypical_cover.jpg
 author: Robia Rashid
+rating: 5
 ---
 # Atypical
 ![](Media/series/images/atypical_cover.jpg)

Notes/index.md

@@ -1,5 +1,16 @@
+# Ruumio Papercuts
+Wenn man über POIs läuft gehen die direkt auf und blocken einen
 
-[[KrimiDinner]]
+Man kann POIs nicht direkt identifizieren, könnte mir vorstellen wenn es viele Links sind wird schwierig, eventuell gruppen benennen?
+
+
+
+# Karl Antworten
+
+- Frische sachen -> Tomaten
+- 
+
+[[Notes/KrimiDinner]]
 
 Raum betreten -> Video Call
 POI betreten
@@ -18,3 +29,15 @@ Netcologne Kundennummer:
 14038827
 Netcologne Telefonpin
 1459
+
+# Meeting mit Rafael Gonzales
+
+Dikontento Agentur
+Gitarren Designer
+
+Überlegen konkreter wie wir pricing machen -> Wie viel können wir für ADs ausgeben und wieviel müssen wir reinbekommen damit es sich noch lohnt
+
+ROAs -> Return on ADs
+
+
+