There’s a significant emotional and mental difference between giving $100 to buy mosquito nets and directly helping resolve a topical conflict within a tribe you’re a part of. A lot of effort (on both sides) goes into bridging that gap.
So yes, absolutely do the good things you can at a distance. But also don’t be disappointed when that doesn’t make you feel better.
(And yes, I wasn’t very clear about that in my original point. Good job and thank you for making+helping me clarify)
Humanity is now cursed with knowing every bit of horror that happens all around the globe. 200 years ago you might only find out about atrocities months or years after they happened, if at all. It was much clearer then that there was literally nothing you could do about them. Nowadays if you want to throw your life away you can just buy a plane ticket to Ukraine. So now we’re being much more regularly faced with terrible things we’re not prepared to deal with happening somewhere.
And the truth is still that there is not really anything significant we can do. If it was happening in our backyard we might fight, but there’s only so many backyards and only so much room for foolishly selfless people to lay down their lives.
The weirdness you’re feeling is not a moral failing, but rather the strangeness of a world we’re not built for. As much as I and you might feel for any given fight or issue, the 99% of them are not our business, and it’s not morally expected of us to get involved. Lots of religions and moral frameworks and feelings say otherwise. Forget them.
When did the crypto bubble end? Bitcoin is at an all time high…
So that it’s easy to see that there’s a little bit of snow on it as it melts and know it might be slippery.
It’s going to be a really shit 4 years. There could be a point of no return anytime along that based on a variety of issues, but IMO the most likely point of no return is if/when Trump moves to take a third term in '28. If that happens it’s clearly dead no hope.
For people organizing protests and taking part in them, Maybe to Likely.
For people just posting things online, Very unlikely. They’ll have their hands full with all the immigrants and protesters first, and there’s far too many people who have said something leftist online.
Because it’s buried in that Wikipedia article:
Not a paradox. Tolerance is better viewed as a social contract - it’s not owed to those who don’t practice it themselves.
If only it were so simple
Because it’s tiny not because of the voting.
Wouldn’t want to live in that town
Mostly, they don’t
Where this isn’t true, it’s extremely effective propaganda
Like a pizza fresh out the oven - gooey and even sticky on one side, crusty on the other
Kangaroos don’t exist
Actually finished my first run of Baldurs gate after leaving it in act 3 over the holidays. Picked up Disco Elysium to give a bit of a break while I decide whether to do a second run or not
Noita, kinda. I’ve won a few runs and unlocked most of the secrets, but some of the late game quests just get absurd to the point of taking dozens of hours and even with a perfect god-mode setup there’s still ways to get instakilled.
I love a game with depth and secrets but noita definitely reached the point of “y’know, I’m not having fun anymore. This is just work”
It was lying right there
OOP was an oopsie.