We don't live objectively, we live subjectively.
Objectively, eventually the planet Earth will be swallowed by atomic fire as the yellow dwarf sun transitions into the red giant part of its lifecycle. Great. Does that fact change the feeling of falling in love, or the awe of seeing something amazing, or the pride of accomplishing your own personal goals? When you witness a great work of art or literature, objectively speaking that act is meaningless in the universal scheme, but does that mean it doesn't move you?
We are not objective creatures, we are extremely subjective, and moreover we are not universal creatures, we are very specifically humans.
Objectively, eventually the planet Earth will be swallowed by atomic fire as the yellow dwarf sun transitions into the red giant part of its lifecycle. Great. Does that fact change the feeling of falling in love, or the awe of seeing something amazing, or the pride of accomplishing your own personal goals? When you witness a great work of art or literature, objectively speaking that act is meaningless in the universal scheme, but does that mean it doesn't move you?
We are not objective creatures, we are extremely subjective, and moreover we are not universal creatures, we are very specifically humans.
I started reading "The Brilliant Healer's new life in the shadows", and found myself just chuckling away. It's great. Blasted through the first volume in a few hours.
It's hard to explain, but having an insanely OP main character works here because the fun part is the interaction between characters and the MC who really underplays his own powers.
Sort of reminds me of I only parry in that regard, which is another series I just love.
I feel like I wouldn't like it as much as an anime. Just seems like when I read stuff like this I can get the pacing just right for me, whereas anime moves forward at a rate set by the animator.
It's hard to explain, but having an insanely OP main character works here because the fun part is the interaction between characters and the MC who really underplays his own powers.
Sort of reminds me of I only parry in that regard, which is another series I just love.
I feel like I wouldn't like it as much as an anime. Just seems like when I read stuff like this I can get the pacing just right for me, whereas anime moves forward at a rate set by the animator.
I feel like Crooked Hillary wouldn't drink beer. It'd make her feel like someone who can't have people killed or nations levelled for crossing her, which she would describe in private as "icky".
Ugh... Imagine being on a platform with censorship, where you had to pick what you say carefully because you might offend a global megacorp.
I've come to believe that the meaning of life is having kids and raising those kids to become someone at least as good as you.
There's been no pursuit in my entire life I've derived more meaning from, felt more pride in, than being a father and trying to be a great father. It means being a great provider, a great leader, a great teacher, a great protector, and a great partner to my wife. In that sense if I succeed then it'll be the culmination of many of my roles throughout life and it's easy to screw up and be only good, or fair, or bad.
It's a broken postmodern ideology that says having and raising kids is evil, and it's an ideology that I expect to not exist in 50 years because everyone who has it will be dead with no heirs.
Even if I didn't care for myself, my son is half my wife, and my wife is exactly the sort of person I want the future to be filled with.
There's been no pursuit in my entire life I've derived more meaning from, felt more pride in, than being a father and trying to be a great father. It means being a great provider, a great leader, a great teacher, a great protector, and a great partner to my wife. In that sense if I succeed then it'll be the culmination of many of my roles throughout life and it's easy to screw up and be only good, or fair, or bad.
It's a broken postmodern ideology that says having and raising kids is evil, and it's an ideology that I expect to not exist in 50 years because everyone who has it will be dead with no heirs.
Even if I didn't care for myself, my son is half my wife, and my wife is exactly the sort of person I want the future to be filled with.
The key is to just get out the door. Once you're out the door, then every step you take away from home is another step you have to take to get back home.
Another thing is to set goals. Especially if you have time, find a place you've never walked to before and decide to go there. You want to be trying to push your limits all the time, and it's so surreal when you're walking places you've only ever driven. And then it becomes normal to walk to those places, and your world expands.
Helps too if you have a kid or a dog, they love being outside and it's healthy to go for a walk with them every day. They'll help you want to go out because they'll be so excited about going outside every day.
If you're worried you'll get bored, grab a podcasting app and download some podcasts while you're on wifi. There's more content out there released every day than there area hours in the day, so you can listen to something interesting for hours while you walk, meaning it's a physical as well as mental exercise and you don't even need to use data.
Another thing is to set goals. Especially if you have time, find a place you've never walked to before and decide to go there. You want to be trying to push your limits all the time, and it's so surreal when you're walking places you've only ever driven. And then it becomes normal to walk to those places, and your world expands.
Helps too if you have a kid or a dog, they love being outside and it's healthy to go for a walk with them every day. They'll help you want to go out because they'll be so excited about going outside every day.
If you're worried you'll get bored, grab a podcasting app and download some podcasts while you're on wifi. There's more content out there released every day than there area hours in the day, so you can listen to something interesting for hours while you walk, meaning it's a physical as well as mental exercise and you don't even need to use data.
One thing I still get a kick out of is Millennials attacking the boomers for "stealing from us" while voting for politicians who have quadrupled the federal debt in the US and doubled it in Canada in 8 years up here in Canada.
You don't intend to pay that money back, where do you think it comes from? "Oh, we deserve [social program]!" great, so you stole the money from future generations to get it.
Hah, just imagine the people who took out huge student loans to become part of the educated elite and now are demanding the future generations pay their student loans for them! Likely the same ones who claim boomers stole college from them!
Considering us old millennial fucks are going to keep voting to steal from future generations until we're stopped, it seems likely the biggest threat to democracy is our selfish asses. Why would the kids choose to keep democracy if this is what it looks like, especially when they can just kick our asses when we're old and weak and they're young and virile?
You don't intend to pay that money back, where do you think it comes from? "Oh, we deserve [social program]!" great, so you stole the money from future generations to get it.
Hah, just imagine the people who took out huge student loans to become part of the educated elite and now are demanding the future generations pay their student loans for them! Likely the same ones who claim boomers stole college from them!
Considering us old millennial fucks are going to keep voting to steal from future generations until we're stopped, it seems likely the biggest threat to democracy is our selfish asses. Why would the kids choose to keep democracy if this is what it looks like, especially when they can just kick our asses when we're old and weak and they're young and virile?
Democrats knew or should have known that their court decision was incredibly precarious, especially once they started forcing people to take untested experimental drugs to keep their jobs.
They had decades to set up a federal standard but didn't, because they just wanted the courts to do the hard work for them, and it eventually backfired. One can blame the president for replacing supreme court justices with ones he wanted, but the real blame obviously goes to the congress (who have had supermajorities and so could have passed anything they wanted but chose not to)
They had decades to set up a federal standard but didn't, because they just wanted the courts to do the hard work for them, and it eventually backfired. One can blame the president for replacing supreme court justices with ones he wanted, but the real blame obviously goes to the congress (who have had supermajorities and so could have passed anything they wanted but chose not to)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FixVzxAitDY
It isn't really debatable at this point -- the planet will be losing a lot of its population over the next 100 years. Many people are bragging about how they will be the ones whose bloodlines end. But what can our future look like? How should we prepare for it?
It isn't really debatable at this point -- the planet will be losing a lot of its population over the next 100 years. Many people are bragging about how they will be the ones whose bloodlines end. But what can our future look like? How should we prepare for it?
I mean, my homeland of Soviet Canuckistan is presently trying to convince people who need too much healthcare to Canadian Healthcare themselves to save money...
[admin mode] some downtime today in part because GoDaddy restricted access to their API I assume because they're allergic to money.
Man, what a broken looking metric. Just think about what was going on while apparently it was getting easier to get a mortgage!