? (does this guy think that anyone who is wary of people saying you just need to do X for a better future is a bot?)
To be fair, the world is not simple and a lot of people seem to think that it is.
You have some people out there that want to triple the national debt buying a bunch of stuff, and they use beautiful words about protecting the future for our children, but spending all that money is selling your kids into slavery -- you can't really be protecting the future for your kids while spending their money.
It's hard. There is no perfect answer, and anyone who tells you that they have a perfect answer is lying to you. There's a price, and sometimes that price is in blood rather than money -- if some people got exactly what they asked for today, there'd be coffins lining the streets.
At the end of the day, the final arbiter of Truth is no human being, but reality itself. Build a fictional world for yourself, and eventually the laws of physics will pull you back to Earth every time.
You have some people out there that want to triple the national debt buying a bunch of stuff, and they use beautiful words about protecting the future for our children, but spending all that money is selling your kids into slavery -- you can't really be protecting the future for your kids while spending their money.
It's hard. There is no perfect answer, and anyone who tells you that they have a perfect answer is lying to you. There's a price, and sometimes that price is in blood rather than money -- if some people got exactly what they asked for today, there'd be coffins lining the streets.
At the end of the day, the final arbiter of Truth is no human being, but reality itself. Build a fictional world for yourself, and eventually the laws of physics will pull you back to Earth every time.
https://www.cbc.ca/amp/1.7091774
Mike Holmes reminds me of some tradesmen I worked with who could talk some shit but never seemed to show any sort of comprehensive knowledge.
Mike Holmes reminds me of some tradesmen I worked with who could talk some shit but never seemed to show any sort of comprehensive knowledge.
But also there are countries where pretty much everyone got vaccinated and everyone got covid anyway.
By definition everyone that I work with got fully vaccinated(company fired anyone who refused including some management), and all of us have had covid, sometimes multiple times.
By definition everyone that I work with got fully vaccinated(company fired anyone who refused including some management), and all of us have had covid, sometimes multiple times.
There's a big difference between trying to be true and trying to be right. You can "be" the latter while failing to be the former, and that's not good -- reality doesn't care that you won a debate if you're just objectively wrong about something.
It's tough to be humble though, because you have to admit you were wrong when what you thought was right doesn't turn out to be true. Folks who work in hard science and engineering end up taking their licks at some point even if they're really good.
It's tough to be humble though, because you have to admit you were wrong when what you thought was right doesn't turn out to be true. Folks who work in hard science and engineering end up taking their licks at some point even if they're really good.
I'd be pretty good with a return to pre-ww1 size government, where most governments didn't even have an income tax.
When one of every two dollars spent is spent by the government and the biggest companies on earth are specifically ones that manage to get their foot in that door, it seems clear to me we're at a point where there's too much government.
It isn't like these mass increases in government spending have corresponded to an increase in the wealth of the people. Far from it.
When one of every two dollars spent is spent by the government and the biggest companies on earth are specifically ones that manage to get their foot in that door, it seems clear to me we're at a point where there's too much government.
It isn't like these mass increases in government spending have corresponded to an increase in the wealth of the people. Far from it.
https://www.theonion.com/starving-bandaged-bin-laden-offers-u-s-one-last-chanc-1819566261
Nikki Haley has this sort of energy.
Nikki Haley has this sort of energy.
Even geological timeframes on earth are essentially incomprehensible to humans.
The white cliffs of dover in England are made out of chalk consisting of the shells from thousands of dead microorganisms that collected over millions of years and eventually was driven up into the air. We can tell this by looking at the material under a microscope and we can see the little shells compacted together, it's incredible.
So the idea that universal timescales are even more incomprehensible is self-evident. Our bodies are made out of dead stars, yet our own star still has a long way to go and in the history of the universe will be considered somewhat insignificant.
The white cliffs of dover in England are made out of chalk consisting of the shells from thousands of dead microorganisms that collected over millions of years and eventually was driven up into the air. We can tell this by looking at the material under a microscope and we can see the little shells compacted together, it's incredible.
So the idea that universal timescales are even more incomprehensible is self-evident. Our bodies are made out of dead stars, yet our own star still has a long way to go and in the history of the universe will be considered somewhat insignificant.
tbf, scientific articles have little to do with science and everything to do with academia.
In a universe where most people feel like they're completely unimportant but at the same time have delusions of grandeur, I feel like the awe of being such a torchbearer promotes a sense of real importance but also a sense of humility. Every one of us has been given the same task, and over geological timeframes nobody may even know about anything you personally did but might see the line you continued regardless, and if you don't then it ends with you.
There was a sentence I wrote, "Many of your deepest-rooted fears and ambitions are written into your blood, in a library that was passed down by millions of generations of successful creatures going all the way back to the single celled organisms that first spawned within the primordial ooze." that really helped me realize we are the holders of a torch that goes back billions of years, and it almost feels like a violation against nature to selfishly and willfully extinguish that flame. Who are you, such a tiny speck of dirt almost indistinguishable throughout history, to make that decision for such a long line?
This viewpoint makes us both incredibly important right now but just one little pixel on a line that goes back further than we can imagine.
This viewpoint makes us both incredibly important right now but just one little pixel on a line that goes back further than we can imagine.
I switched from gmail to mxroute, and it was a good decision. I recommend it for anyone who wants decent email where you're the customer instead of the product. I believe they're on the fediverse as well.
At least when it was airports all we got were ball scanning machines and much slower lines at security...
It becomes self-evident. There are very few drugs a pregnant woman is allowed to use at all. The reason? It isn't considered medically ethical to test drugs on a pregnant woman since you're putting a baby at risk.
This isn't a fight between the right and anyone else. It's a fight between marie-antoinette figures in the elite class and reality.
We're just on the sidelines screaming "brioche is made with flour too!"
We're just on the sidelines screaming "brioche is made with flour too!"
It's a difficult balance. On one hand you don't want to go the Canadian route and have a disabled olympian athlete being told by the government to die because she wants a chair lift installed. On the other hand, there's a lot of bags of meat and suffering filling hospital rooms being kept alive due to the guilt and weakness of surviving family members who don't want to make a tough decision.