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Cake day: July 7th, 2023

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  • My theory is that there’s TOO much for people to care.

    Remember when we DIDN’T hear about what the president was doing MULTIPLE TIMES A DAY? If one of those presidents had decided to undermine democracy, it’d be a pretty big deal and we’d talk about nothing else for weeks.

    But now, breaking news rolls out every hour or two, and it’s just too much to absorb. People are tuning out because if they miss 3 controversies, there will be a fourth by the end of the day. Maybe they’ll worry about that one.










  • Funny, I’m typically used to people leaning towards pessimism as the “smarter” perspective, and optimists being considered in naive or ignorant to “How things really are.”

    And reading your post in that context felt like reinforcement of that concept.

    To be perfectly clear, I’m more optimistic, and I believe that if someone’s pessimism is constantly bringing them down, then they should probably not lean so hard into it. But I wouldn’t say one is better than another, we need as many differing perspectives as possible to create real working solutions.




  • I see what you’re saying, but perspective is not equatable to a math equation. An optimist and a pessimist can both have a complete understanding of the facts, but one predicts that things will get better, and the other predicts that things will get worse, and eventually, given enough time, they’ll both be right.

    There is no such thing as a realist. That’s just what someone calls themselves when they don’t realize that their perspective is flawed and unique to themselves.