During sunsets you can see it easily

Absolutely not. Sometimes you say something stupid, and people make you feel bad about it. That’s healthy, that’s good.

Sometimes you say something unpopular but correct… You need to recognize that it’s unpopular, and learn to package the idea in a more palatable way or approach the topic less directly.

You should feel bad for rage baiting… Even if you’re unambigiously right, you need to read the room and meet people where they are if you want to change minds. You don’t need to change your views, but you need to adapt your framing or you’re just rilling people up

Negative social responses are a good thing, it’s required for a community. Social rejection hurts so bad because we so rarely feel it, and that’s sickness. Most people can have few or no negative interactions, because when money is involved, people will smile and take your money

It’s such a little thing, but it’s a very gentle form of rejection… Avoiding it is not good, and so from a public health perspective we should default to showing it

Liberalism in a nutshell.

We just want an insurance policy, not for anything to change. We want to protect what we’ve built, write off the horrors of the world as isolated events like a collapsing building or asteroid impact. They stop the villains from rocking the boat, even when the villains have a morally superior position because “you have to do it the right way”

But the heroes aren’t too morally superior… They can’t make us feel bad. They do something about problems in front of them, and then go back to their job. They don’t use their power to actually address root issues, they don’t try to lead, they just defend the status quo

But, then heroes started to get more complex. Batman is a billionaire who fights crime, despite having the ability to actually fix the crime problem in Gotham, he just fights. He suffered a random act of violence as a child, and so that instilled a sense of justice. He works with the police and uses his wealth… In any way except actually changing things

Spiderman learned the hard way noblesse oblige, that his power gives him the responsibility to use it well. And he does, he saves people around him while also actively working to make the world better at his day job - inside the system. He’s basically an activist

Then you have captain America, who puts his sense of justice above the system… But he mostly works inside it, but sometimes it’s infiltrated and he fights or it’s wrong and he stands against it

But when you get to more recent heroes, they start to get dark. The system is broken, so they work outside it as best they can. They don’t have day jobs anymore. They kill sometimes. They make sacrifices, they fail. They question themselves.

People scream at them “where were you when we needed you?” And they explain the answer to that question to the readers through character development, even though there’s nothing they can say to the victims

The heroes aren’t infallible, they aren’t strong or wise enough, they constantly struggle, and they fail. This isn’t a hobby for them, they don’t go back to work. But they keep trying, especially at great personal cost

And they carry every failure with them as penance for not being good enough to have saved us when we needed them

I always think back to this one quote, something like

You can tell the morals of a society by the myths they tell themselves. We tell stories of heroes who save the world then quietly go back to their day job until they’re needed again

I like the idea. I’ve even experimented with some on device algorithms by basically weaving together feeds, even something simple like makes a noticeable improvement

I don’t know what you mean exactly, but walking away at the right moment, while projecting the right feeling, is the best way to win most unwinnable arguments

Well, theoretically they’re just paying Amazon’s cut and taxes… Which isn’t nothing, but if their markup is high enough it could still math out

It’s illegal to jam cell signal… Blocking it would be a violation of building code at worst

I have no idea what a brain rot animal is, but somehow I agree

Pierbattista Pizzaballa (born 21 April 1965). Yes that is a real cardinal, and that is his name

Dude is meant for the job. Based as hell, needs a name change, his birthday is the day the last pope died

I follow laws mainly because of my own sense of morality - I don’t kill, I steal only when I feel I need to, and I don’t commit fraud because these things are obviously generally wrong.

I follow stupid laws (such as needing insurance, paying income taxes, or not speeding) out of fear of punishment. These are issues I’ll basically never have, because I’m good at driving and don’t make enough to affect state level operations

That’s really easy. Never let go of the joy of learning, and take pride in admitting your mistakes.

It’s that simple. When you’re told there’s another way, your first reaction should be curiosity

What’s going on with his leg? They look like they’re digigrade

I think in thoughts. It boggled my mind to learn this isn’t how everyone thinks

Like, I don’t have a running narrative in my head - words bubble up, but it’s just like muttering, just occasional words. I only try to put them into sentences when I’m talking or imagining talking - like everything I write.

I don’t read like this, which is part of why I’ll terrible with names - if I read a book, I don’t know how to say or spell a character’s name until I try

If I had to describe it, it’s like memories. If you think elephant, you might see an elephant, you might hear the word elephant - but on some level you also probably think about things related to the concept. Like memories of seeing an elephant, elephant facts, other African animals

That bundled concept is elephant to me - the word is how you say it, I can get the impression of looking at an elephant, I can hear their cry - but at the center of this web of details is an elephant

I build my thoughts by chaining these concepts together, and where they fit together is the main thread of the train of thought - I can then move my focus across this thread and the hanging threads to solve problems

Things just click together or they don’t

If you tell me you feel like an elephant (and I have no idea what that could mean) I’d take the two concepts and try to draw threads between them. I cycle through concepts that feel in between them - elephant in the room, large/imposing, unforgiving, powerful - these loosely fit from elephant to your mental state. And from the other side, ugly, isolated/seen as an outsider/problem, or maybe you mean you literally feel like an elephant in a human body

Threads link between them or they don’t, maybe I’m missing an intermediate concept I haven’t yet associated with either and I have no idea what you mean

And that’s how I think. If I had to link it to a sense, it’s like proprioception - I’m moving through my thoughts and linking together connections, but it’s my my own mind I’m moving through and around me

But ultimately, it’s not words - there are concepts I don’t know how to label, although words help me identify concepts

Yes. Because all my life, we’ve been frogs in a steadily warming pot, and the heat has been cranked up to max

People are angry. People are protesting, doing vandalism with a prison sentence longer then murder, people are raging at their futures being cut off

Everything creates a reaction. The worse is gets, the faster it gets worse, the larger the reaction.

The best future is the one where people get so angry we stop. That’s all it takes to kill the game - if enough people, even for a short time, stop playing - it all stops

The world is robust. Humans are robust. If we stopped killing both, everything could recover shockingly fast

Things will get worse, things are very bad already, but it’s not over. I feel lighter every time the stock market drops, because it’s imaginary but the hurt is real.

The more and faster the hurt, the more people will wake the fuck up and stop this

Crazy fucking robot body in my ass?

Because ultimately, digital goods are infinite.

They would make more money on a Mario game that costs $30 with no drm then a $90 game impossible to pirate

And when you need the grip to be able to leverage your full body weight into insertion

You’re also missing a big piece… You can’t fucking trust the reviews any more. Steam reviews are great, and game reviewers have been trying to insist “no, this trash game is actually great, don’t trust your fellow gamers” for years now

At this point, it’s blatantly obvious you can pay for good critic reviews, and there’s no walking that back… Especially since there’s better, more honest, options

LMAO XD I thought that was a typo, nah cows are herd based, I don’t think they even truly have territories the same way

But yeah, crows are dope