Quote from: TDoS on Feb 09, 2025, 07:56 AMWell, your interests on the internet have no bounds, but based on physical circumstances you have no alternative

Actually, my career as an internet discussion moderator predates my interest in collapse, and goes back to the earliest years of the internet.  I was an AOL chat room moderator and I ran Groups on both Yahoo and MSN back in the 90s.  Prior to AOL I was on IRC chat on the Delphi network.  I started chit chatting in cyberspace before the internet on the old Arpanet in college, which hooked together university computer networks in the Jurassic period.  I've spent a couple of hours a day on average surfing the net for half a century, even when I was ambulatory.  As a habit, it took over for TV, which I watched about 4 hours a day from my toddler years thru high school.

Other topics consumed the time prior to the financial collapse in 2007-8 so I wasn't chatting on any of those early Peak Oil boards like LATOC and that's why Peak Oil is not a focus for me.   My interests have always been very diverse, anthropology, sociology, psycholgy, sports and athletics, chess, arcchitecture...all over the place.  After 2008, it all coalesced around collapse though.

If I had got the retirement I had planned, I would still be on the  net writing about collapse, just not from an old folks gulag.  I would have been doing it from the cabin of a sailing yacht. Actually, for 7 years while trucking I ran my Yahoo groups from the cabin of my Freightliner.  My current physical condition isn't the reason I spend so much time on the net.  It's been part of my life as long as it has been in existence.

RE