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“This is not a peace. It is an armistice for twenty years!”
Ferdinand Foch, 1921
“This is not a peace. It is an armistice for twenty years!”
Ferdinand Foch, 1921
I do agree that in the grand scale of things we’re actually very early. That alone would explain a lot.
Unfortunately we’ve pretty much used up all easily available resources. Anyone ‘starting over’ would have a much harder time getting the things they need to really get the ball rolling again.
When humans first discovered gold they practically only had to scoop it out of rivers. You’ll be hard pressed to find any streams with such appreciable production anywhere in the world today.
Nah, I’m willing to bet there is actual physical life in our very own solar system (apart from all life on Earth, of course). Europa’s oceans for example have a decently high probability of hosting microbial life.
Of course, discovering primitive life all around us would be a bad sign the great filter is still ahead of us instead of behind us…
The most boring one: most species off themselves before they fully get off their starting planet. We will go the same way. Take your pick from climate change, war, pandemic, … or even a combination of several!
I’m a Reddit refugee from when they axed 3rd party apps. I was quite active in the ancient coins subreddit, but there’s simply no way I will ever grace their site with a click again.
There’s an alternative on Lemmy, which I’ve used, but there’s literally only one other active person. Two does not a community make.
I agree, all the evils of yesteryear are still there and active, just either well-hidden or people simply don’t care/pretend not to know (cfr football world championships in Qatar, …).
We’ve made enormous progress technologically, but humans are still the exact same as 2000 or 5000 years ago. We’ve changed exceedingly little in that time, and the few things that have changed could be reverted very quickly if shove comes to push concerning climate collapse etc.
Best I can do is a token effort as long as it doesn’t upset the shareholders.
I live with my SO and child and I’m still lonely as fuck. Not their fault, it’s not their role to be my therapist or w/e. But I sure wouldn’t mind being able to hang out with some people who share my interests. But ever since Covid, that reality is just… gone.
Depends on the capabilities. If i can automatically open my garage door with my mind or draw a bath, or control a cursor on a screen, then no. If it enables entire new ways of experiencing sensations or memories, or ways to share them, or fully immerse you in a virtual world indistinguishable from reality, then maybe. If it’s not from a company Musk has any hand in.
A few years ago, mid pandemic, I started collecting ancient coins. I was really passionate about it even thinking about finding ways to make it a small after-hours job or such, but I’ve since run into a few walls and have subsequently lost my drive. For example, I wanted to take very high resolution pictures of the coins and then compose a catalog of sorts, but while I have all the gear that I need (camera with a macro lens) my shots keep coming out wrong and I’ve since kind of given up on the idea altogether.
My entire life is one long succession of passionately started projects that got abandoned either midway or after heavy setbacks. If I ever find one that brings me lasting happiness, I’ll gladly share it, but for now I’m just as much on the lookout as you are.
For every right-wing tough guy urging his crying son to “man up,” there’s a voice from the left telling him that to express his concerns is to take airtime away from a woman or someone more marginalized.
AutoTLDR bot managed to capture the very essence of this piece. All you need to know is in here. A two-pronged assault on masculinity with no obvious (non-toxic) way out.
I don’t see it happening. I’ve been in this boat for like twenty years. I don’t have anyone who visits or hangs out with me. I only see my coworkers on the work floor, which is 1-2 days a week tops. Also, no one I know considers it an issue worth debating, let alone take action over. “Let them sort their own issues out”.
If I want to get drunk with strangers, that’s always an option, but it doesn’t really interest me so I pass.
Yay!
Gotta catch 'em all. Ain’t self-fulfilling prophecies grand? We get saddled with what are essentially debuffs for life, and as an added bonus we attract people who make all of them worse or even exploit them. And because we’re aware of this, it’s totally our own fault and responsibility to fix ourselves. If people keep taking advantage of us, well, that’s on ourselves for letting them!
Why the fuck are we even born in the first place? As NPC’s for “real” people to have their way with?
Lol, is that cockpit separated from the fuselage or is that just a trick of the light?
And yet when I run around the market naked while fapping, they lock me up, while this guy gets a freaking statue…
Divine right of kings simply morphed into capitalism. We didn’t get rid of jack shit, and we never will.
I posit that the human mind is made up of dozens, or perhaps even hundreds/thousands “smaller agents” that work together to create consciousness as an emergent property of the whole, which makes it impossible to isolate and say “this, THIS right here IS concsciousness”. That does not mean each of those has their own personality, per sé.
Down bad son?