Unfortunately, "They lacked due care" will be written on the tombstone of the Internet Archive. Not sure it makes it to 2026 at this rate.
She said "They're not gonna stop [...] and they should not"
As far as I'm concerned, that should be disqualifying but apparently not wanting my city burned to ashes by a bunch of white crackheads pretending they care about black people makes me racist against black people.
As far as I'm concerned, that should be disqualifying but apparently not wanting my city burned to ashes by a bunch of white crackheads pretending they care about black people makes me racist against black people.
There are a few things about evil that make it easier to have thrive than good.
Foremost among them that to do good usually requires wanting to do the right thing and making sacrifices to that end, whereas to do evil requires nothing more than acting in your own self-interest. Not all acting in your own self-interest is evil, of course, and not all evil is even self-interested, but the fact is, good requires people to not do things they might want to do and to do the things they might not otherwise want to do -- to choose to do the right thing, whereas evil allows people to do what they want to do and not do what they don't want to do regardless of the consequences. Without the check valve that is conscience, it is inevitable that evil is easier because you don't have to force yourself to do something you don't want to do or not do something you do want to do.
Next is the fact that it becomes incrementally harder to do good where you've already done what you can, but you can often add to the evil in the world without assistance. I've started picking up litter on the way to the park. Even if I care a lot and pick up all the litter, all I can pick up is the litter that exists. Someone who doesn't care about the state of the community can come right after me and make things worse than they ever were just by throwing some trash out the window of their car. It's infinitely easier to do great harm than to do increasing good.
As well, there's the fact that someone's good works can be turned easily to evil. As an example, many donations intended to help starving Africans get food end up in the coffers of warlords who are directly responsible for those people starving. Someone who wants to do good has to be careful about how they apply their good works. For example, let's say you find a man dying in a gutter, and so you lift him out, heal him up, feed and clothe him, and he goes on to be Pol Pot. You can say you were trying to do good, but the outcome is obviously evil. This appears to be a hypothetical that would never happen, and moreover it appears to be something outside of your control because how could you possibly have known. The selfish nature of evil means that when you offer help, the selfish are much quicker to grab for help than the selfless, and so many of the hands reaching out are just people who don't care and want free stuff, or even people who want to actively do harm and want you to pay to have them do it.
One final attribute of evil that makes it easier than good is often evil can paint itself in the imagery of good to trick people. Whereas good wants to be honest, evil has no qualms about being dishonest, and so can appear good. Rather than talk about modern politics, let's look at the classic movie "American Psycho" where the main character is a psycho, and we learn he is truly psychopathic and evil, but he pays lip service to the highest moral talking points of the day (In the movie, it's intended to be a reflection of the 1980s)
So why can good exist when evil is so much easier? The simple fact is, good is generally constructive or preservative on a long time horizon, and evil is generally destructive on a long time horizon. So while it is easier to to be evil than good in the moment, if you are consistently good you will find yourself with more then if you were consistently evil, and that's a pact and promise you make to the universe and uphold faithfully, because in the short term good wins out because it has built something and maintained things, while evil wins in the short term but tears apart everything it sees.
That being said, it must be said that we have the capacity for both good and evil because we require both to survive. We can't be purely good in this world. We can't be purely evil either. We need to find a balance that's hopefully more on the preservative and constructive side of things than the destructive and short-term side of things, but we must always remember the light can't exist without the dark.
Foremost among them that to do good usually requires wanting to do the right thing and making sacrifices to that end, whereas to do evil requires nothing more than acting in your own self-interest. Not all acting in your own self-interest is evil, of course, and not all evil is even self-interested, but the fact is, good requires people to not do things they might want to do and to do the things they might not otherwise want to do -- to choose to do the right thing, whereas evil allows people to do what they want to do and not do what they don't want to do regardless of the consequences. Without the check valve that is conscience, it is inevitable that evil is easier because you don't have to force yourself to do something you don't want to do or not do something you do want to do.
Next is the fact that it becomes incrementally harder to do good where you've already done what you can, but you can often add to the evil in the world without assistance. I've started picking up litter on the way to the park. Even if I care a lot and pick up all the litter, all I can pick up is the litter that exists. Someone who doesn't care about the state of the community can come right after me and make things worse than they ever were just by throwing some trash out the window of their car. It's infinitely easier to do great harm than to do increasing good.
As well, there's the fact that someone's good works can be turned easily to evil. As an example, many donations intended to help starving Africans get food end up in the coffers of warlords who are directly responsible for those people starving. Someone who wants to do good has to be careful about how they apply their good works. For example, let's say you find a man dying in a gutter, and so you lift him out, heal him up, feed and clothe him, and he goes on to be Pol Pot. You can say you were trying to do good, but the outcome is obviously evil. This appears to be a hypothetical that would never happen, and moreover it appears to be something outside of your control because how could you possibly have known. The selfish nature of evil means that when you offer help, the selfish are much quicker to grab for help than the selfless, and so many of the hands reaching out are just people who don't care and want free stuff, or even people who want to actively do harm and want you to pay to have them do it.
One final attribute of evil that makes it easier than good is often evil can paint itself in the imagery of good to trick people. Whereas good wants to be honest, evil has no qualms about being dishonest, and so can appear good. Rather than talk about modern politics, let's look at the classic movie "American Psycho" where the main character is a psycho, and we learn he is truly psychopathic and evil, but he pays lip service to the highest moral talking points of the day (In the movie, it's intended to be a reflection of the 1980s)
So why can good exist when evil is so much easier? The simple fact is, good is generally constructive or preservative on a long time horizon, and evil is generally destructive on a long time horizon. So while it is easier to to be evil than good in the moment, if you are consistently good you will find yourself with more then if you were consistently evil, and that's a pact and promise you make to the universe and uphold faithfully, because in the short term good wins out because it has built something and maintained things, while evil wins in the short term but tears apart everything it sees.
That being said, it must be said that we have the capacity for both good and evil because we require both to survive. We can't be purely good in this world. We can't be purely evil either. We need to find a balance that's hopefully more on the preservative and constructive side of things than the destructive and short-term side of things, but we must always remember the light can't exist without the dark.
"I still remember it.... Every day he'd say 'I'm going to be rescued... I'm The Mainguy', and those were actually his last words!"
The first generation to be raised online
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Is still living in Mom's basement.
Which is really pathetic at 40. Like... Your parents could die of old age at any time. Get out there!
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Is still living in Mom's basement.
Which is really pathetic at 40. Like... Your parents could die of old age at any time. Get out there!
Civ 2 was for windows 3.1, so I haven't really played it. I think I have the files for it on my PC right now.
The libertarian answer to the marriage problem seems the smartest to me. Marriage isn't a state ceremony, it's a religious ceremony. So let the religions do what they do, let God sort 'em out, and remove any reference to it in law (including tax law).
I mean, they aren't entirely wrong. Kamala was never a good candidate. She couldn't beat a wet paper bag (which I should remind you would still be of color and lack a penis)
If only we had a woman for president, she'd be so nice and things would be so positive. There'd be no fighting. (Said nobody who had ever been around women ever)
I have another recurring dream, but unlike some of them, I can't make heads or tails out of it.
I'm back in college, but I'm explicitly taking a course that isn't really going to do anything for me -- I already have a related and higher version of what I'm taking in the dream, so the whole thing is futile. But regardless, I'm struggling. Not because I can't do the work, but because of peripheral stuff like remembering to show up on schedule for the right classes.
Then I start trying to show up for classes, and it's a struggle, but then you show up 3/4 of the way through the class and it's really tough trying to catch up.
But there's a whole false drama about it all. "Oh my god! You might not graduate if you don't get this done!" but in my brain even in the dream I'm like "So? Graduating literally does nothing beneficial for me..."
I'm back in college, but I'm explicitly taking a course that isn't really going to do anything for me -- I already have a related and higher version of what I'm taking in the dream, so the whole thing is futile. But regardless, I'm struggling. Not because I can't do the work, but because of peripheral stuff like remembering to show up on schedule for the right classes.
Then I start trying to show up for classes, and it's a struggle, but then you show up 3/4 of the way through the class and it's really tough trying to catch up.
But there's a whole false drama about it all. "Oh my god! You might not graduate if you don't get this done!" but in my brain even in the dream I'm like "So? Graduating literally does nothing beneficial for me..."
Choose 20 games that have had a big impact on you. One game per day, for 20 days. No explanations, no ratings, no particular order. #GameChallenge (17/20)
Civilization
Civilization
You know, Mario using the ultimate taboo of trying to practice alchemy on the human body and losing his arms and his brother's whole body in recompense and all his adventures being his attempt at penance so he can someday get his brothers body back is really funny to think about.
I kinda want to play that mario game.
I kinda want to play that mario game.
I'm hoping for him to win the popular vote, totally shutting up the one thing we constantly have to listen to that he won the contest he entered instead of another different contest someone else imagined might be better.
I've written before on here about the ghost world I see: Go outside, go to the park every day during the Summer and in all the days you can in Spring and Fall, sometimes 2-3 times per day. You have the park to yourself. You have the streets to yourself. There aren't as many kids as there used to be, but there are still a lot of kids in a big city, but it's as if they don't exist at all.
History will be written by those who show up. The people who do have kids, do raise them, and those present kids who do show up themselves. There won't be many.
History will be written by those who show up. The people who do have kids, do raise them, and those present kids who do show up themselves. There won't be many.
In some ways listing the games from 1998, 26 years ago, is a damning indictment of the games industry.
"I shouldn't be here! I should be in school!"
Young girl comments on her abusive parents without realizing it
Young girl comments on her abusive parents without realizing it
Something odd about glasses...
So there's two main types of eye problem (There's lots, but these two cover what I'm talking about right now) -- short sightedness and far sightedness.
You might think they're similar, but they couldn't be more different.
A far sighted young person can focus on near things often, but it takes great strain and effort. As they age their eyes become more brittle and they may lose that ability, but focusing close-up can require really pushing your eye and your eye muscles even when you're young. When you get glasses and you're far sighted, it takes stress off your eye.
A near sighted person often has better than 20/20 vision close to them without their glasses, but their far sight is just wrong. When you get glasses and you're nearsighted, it is like a whole new world is revealed to you.
Anyway, I'm old and far-sighted, and doing glasses repairs is a nightmare. Trying to fix your eye fixers while your eyes are broken sucks! haha
So there's two main types of eye problem (There's lots, but these two cover what I'm talking about right now) -- short sightedness and far sightedness.
You might think they're similar, but they couldn't be more different.
A far sighted young person can focus on near things often, but it takes great strain and effort. As they age their eyes become more brittle and they may lose that ability, but focusing close-up can require really pushing your eye and your eye muscles even when you're young. When you get glasses and you're far sighted, it takes stress off your eye.
A near sighted person often has better than 20/20 vision close to them without their glasses, but their far sight is just wrong. When you get glasses and you're nearsighted, it is like a whole new world is revealed to you.
Anyway, I'm old and far-sighted, and doing glasses repairs is a nightmare. Trying to fix your eye fixers while your eyes are broken sucks! haha