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Cake day: July 4th, 2023

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  • Ya, but your life experiences change you and the way you think. If you’re software developer it becomes really difficult to watch any show with “hacking” in it. Firefighters and other first responders find it really difficult to watch anything that involves “rescue”. There’s a YouTuber with over 5 million subs who got his start on YouTube by being a firefighter who made fun of firefighting shows.
    Now magnify that be a couple hundred years. Your experiences, the things you would have lived through, the basic changes in technology, the world and just the way people live… Your way of thinking would be so radically different from someone who’s only experiences have been in school, parents, and modern life that it would be insanity try to pretend to be one.
    I have enough trouble finding common ground and stuff to talk about with those old friends of mine that decided to never have kids or buy a house. I can’t even conceive of how I would go about “blending” in with high schoolers for the rest of eternity.


  • You are kind of right but your focus is way too narrow and short-sighted. The better off people around me are, the better off I am. Society is what brings me the comforts and freedoms I have today. Without society I would likely be some peasant living in a hut and trying to farm some desolate piece of land until I died at a very early age.
    By donating to medical research, I am able to improve medical care for all, and that includes myself. By donating to the arts I get to see art that I would have never been able to see otherwise. By donating to the poor and things like education, I reduce crime and violence where I live.
    So yeah, basically everything you do is self-serving, just try not to be such a basic bitch about the scope of your actions.

















  • Only if you are super poor enough to qualify, and have time and the capacity to jump through all the hoops to get one, and you live somewhere that there is a provider that has coverage, and ect, ect., then you can get a discount on your cell plan. For some people who are “lucky enough” to be super poor enough, the discount can actually be enough to make the phone essentially $0.


  • I once had it explained to me in a way that finally clicked:

    What if beings from the 42nd dimension wanted to observe life on our planet? The problem is that they’re from the 42nd dimension, so they can’t just sit and “watch” us in our basic four-dimensional world. However, what they can do is stir up electrons in our atmosphere until they start a lightning storm. Then they can “observe” the lightning. It turns out that they can learn a lot from the lightning itself, but at the same time it may have some effect on life here on Earth.