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Tomorrow may be too late. And even if it’s not too late, you’re going to be older and have less energy to get it done. Just… stop fucking about and get on it, k? Deal? Good! OK, now go! You rock! Make it fucking happen!

Damned right, Martin. Damned right.

Don’t get me wrong – Japan is tragic and fucking hard to deal with, and it’s scary, and so on and so on. But until something changes there is nothing significant happening here. They’re on it. Good work. Keep it up. We’ll do what we can to help, and that probably involves a bit fucking less media-led rubber-necking.

In Libya and Bahrain the people who are trying to overthrow their shitty rulers are being killed. If this continues to happen, they will not see another revolution for at least a generation since the key activists will be dead and the movement beheaded. A new generation will have to grow up to take their place, spending their lives fatherless, and being so pissed off that they have the appetite for revolution when they come of age.

Gaddafi, the monarchy in Bahrain, and the countries which would follow are getting off lightly, because we’re not watching.

This is a pivotal moment for something exciting, wonderful, and world-changing to happen: a popular, democratic uprising which can entirely shift the path for Islam, Africa, and the Gulf.

Unlike Fukushima, where unfortunately paying attention doesn’t change a damned thing about the critical mass, the attention we paid to the situation in Tunisia and Egypt helped create the meltdown moment by drawing a critical mass of people into the streets, creating the energy which made it impossible for the regimes to hold.

So, media editors of the world, if you want something to go critical, blow up, and change the world, get back to covering Libya and Bahrain please.

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By coincidence, it turns out yesterday   was the 151st anniversary of the first successful Pony Express delivery.

Imagine you’re a doctor. Can you imagine how it would feel be to know that if many of your patients had dropped in regularly, they’d not be sat in front of you right now ill or dying? Man, that must suck.

You can – and should – go to your GP   when you’re well for preventive care. You don’t have to have a specific question – they’ll be able to think of something good and useful for you to take away: tips for examining your boyfriend’s balls / girlfriend’s breasts for cancer, for example, would strengthen and lengthen many a relationship.

Go back to imagining you’re a doctor. Imagine how cool it would be if patients came in trying to help you help them. If they brought along any medications they take, and knew their own and family medical history… it’d be so very much better than it is now when people go to the Emergency Department with a sore throat.

Teach yourself and others more about how the health system works and you’ll get a better service, and save doctors everywhere a heap of time and frustration.

NB. Today’s GFI was written by a real GP who really wants you to help her do her job better. Since she’s become a doctor she’s realised that we aren’t taught how to help doctors to help us. One of the reasons our health system is so inefficient is that the patients and their families (“consumers”) often have no idea how to go about using the health system effectively.

If you’re a sociopathic thoughtless motherfucker, here are our top tips for building nuclear:

1. Build them before or during periods of great social and environmental change, ideally matched by geopolitical instability. This will ensure that no matter how well the proles overcome other problems, they’ll always have this to deal with.
2. Try to simultaneously let education systems run down so trained nuclear engineers will be in short supply.
3. Build them near the coast, because the unstoppable rising sea-levels will mean you get government money to build stronger sea-defences every few years.
4. Try using this line: “We need to keep the lights on, and nuclear is the best solution for that.” See if you can paternalisticly imply that it’s for their benefit, and one day soon they’ll realise that.
5. Find all copies of the Zero Carbon Britain report and burn them. This is crucial since if word gets out that there’s a much better alternative you’ll have to spend more money on bribes.
6. And finally some great research fresh from Japan: build them on fault lines. Epic work, Sensei Burns and Smithers-san.

Good luck to everyone in Japan. Our thoughts are with you. And when the dust has settled, you might like to reconsider the nuclear thing.. I mean.. your track record is… well you’re… I’m just saying that … there’s quite a … look nuclear just doesn’t seem to be your thing, ok?

You don’t have to own the park to enjoy the walk through it.

If we just fucking share / rent / collaborate more, we’d need to produce less, earn less, and have less shit to worry about. I know, right?! How cool would that be? Earning less with fewer hassles! Fucking bring it, bro!

Cars are a great example: fucking expensive and burdened by running costs at every turn but car share schemes are everywhere and fucking brilliant.   And did you know the average electric drill is used for only 14 minutes in its entire life?

The world population is still increasing, and resources are still fucking finite, dammit, despite what all those economists keep saying, so if you want to be wealthy and avoid having resource wars, join a sharing group today.