Get the fuck out of Ukraine and things will stop. It’s not hard.

That “spark” is whatever consciousness is in the end I think. Everything else is subject to direct inspection and can be found to be deterministic or emergent, not actually subject to any kind of “will”. I speak also from insights gained while meditating (or doing psychedelics 🤗)

Daily life is what daily life is all about.

I do think I’d potentially be happier with a partner who I could speak philosophy and politics with, but if we couldn’t also function simply navigating running a household and raising our family, then we really couldn’t be anything more than friends with benefits long term. Not that that would be a bad thing. It just depends on how you want to live your life, and whether you value a stable partnership over firey romance.

Some people are lucky enough to have a partner that fulfills the entirety of their intellectual, intimate, familial and financial needs, but such people are few and far between I’m sure!

Was not expecting Elon Musk.

She is great in the books. One of the most unique characters in fiction imho. CDProjekt did really well adapting the continuation of her story in the games.

What do you understand about the economic system? For example, how the money supply is created, and the ramifications of “interest” and “inflation”. What you’ll find if you do, is that the system is fundamentally broken if your goal is sustainability on this planet for any serious length of time.

Most of the current world order couldn’t care less, clearly or we’d have done things about climate change that weren’t just technical advancements buying us time if making any difference whatsoever.

Real austerity for the wealthy could pay for solving most of the world’s issues, several times over. And we have the resources to do it globally. It shouldn’t be a matter of “cost”.

But it’ll probably never happen, unfortunately.

We’re not disagreeing then. I’m just saying some date lines aren’t in the right place in general, but what really matters most? What are our priorities? I don’t think most light and most dark is better, even if it were possible to get every time zone just right.

I feel like having a life, and kids being able to play for longer after school without it being dark throughout the summer is pretty awesome.

It’s that or have school and work finish earlier. I’m all for that, lol.

Time of day is a human invention. We can assign the date lines wherever we like.

Like Japan was nuts. Dark at 3pm in winter. Light at 3am in summer. They’d benefit by shifting that shit two hours forward for sure.

I’ll take 7 hour workdays in summer instead.

More daylight in summer rocks. It would be equally rocking in Winter. The clocks shoud stay forward.

Neither does passivism though. If everyone around you is losing your mind, you either give up your freedom and very possibly your life, or you fight.

The only reason no other great power has needed a fully prepared military is because of US leadership. That can’t be trusted now, so here we are.

I’m going to assume you’re working class and actually reading the articles is a personal sacrifice on the tiny amount of free time you get in a day. So, thank you for your service.

Brock?

I’m assuming it’s people thinking it’ll go up again so buy it while it’s cheap. Momentum has to continue against the company so those who bought in now are punished.

But you’re right, the stock market is gambling that produces nothing for the world. Trickle down transaction fees at best, tempting retirees to waste their retirement money at worse.

Always has been.

Surprised so few people are aware of this. It seems equivalent to me when you give it the same permissions Ublock Origin had.

Hi, my name is ynthrepic and I’m a workaholic.

I have one of those jobs where holidays just mean double the work when you get back. None of the work goes anywhere, and there’s nobody else who can pick up the slack.

I actually love what I do, but…

I work in the public sector, and do heaps of unpaid overtime, to make life better for people who don’t understand the only reason we don’t do a better job is because the government keeps cutting our budgets, claiming it’s because we don’t do a better job with the money we were given the previous year.

We also do regular restructures which reduce morale and stoke fear, but the only people who lose their jobs are low level workers, or they just remove vacancies and claim savings on those, while moving middle managers sideways and not actually improving efficiency.

My job gets harder, I end up making more mistakes or have to cut corners to make shit happen. I complain I get in trouble. I have a kid.

I’m so fucking glad though I don’t live or work in the US. Y’all are so fucking fucked.

There is a little bit of an assumption of the mad scientist here. Most scientists and engineers are very compassionate and caring people, even if many are excentric. We care about a thriving humanities department.

The psychopath cohort you’re thinking of is the executive branch, or the people who made it to sales manager.

I mean yeah the internet has proliferated stupid. But I think everyone was always stupid, but just nowhere near power.

We need a meritocratic system that is also based on modern science and social psychology, and it needs to be diverse, equitable, and inclusive too…

If it’s always been that way, how did things ever get better?