massive_bereavement

Wait… What do you mean with shouldn’t injest… I thought it was perfectly fine: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_Lotito

Certainly they won’t use years of collected metadata from social networks about political sentiment, right? …right?

You stole my words. Though mine had more expletives.

I guess someone told Lang to Jack off elsewhere.

Exactly. How are we supposed to track him?

It’s like tex-mex, shrimp scampi, deep dish, etc… When a foreign cook tries to accommodate to their new home’s preferences and tastes with local ingredients, and then the recipe evolves locally, distancing from its origins.

More often than not, it makes no linguistic sense: scampi are small lobsters, salsa sauce is a repetition, and deep dish is just deliciously wrong.

Yeah, that part ducks.

I know nothing about philosophy, but the Absence of Myth is often a heavily discussed topic since last century, and iIrc there’s a school of thought that I adhere that says “if you take the gods from the hearts of men, they will make new ones*”.

The idea is that our brains are constantly trying to make sense of an otherwise chaotic world, and in doing so, we create (or adhere) to myth to help us keep being rational (and focus on the stuff that matters(?)).

So even those of us that don’t subscribe to organized religions still have some mythos going on. But I’m not educated enough to explain or understand well this point.

*e.g. technological progress, artificial intelligence (well mostly LLM bs.), nuclear era will save us all, internet era will save us all, new-age stuff, cosmology, predestination, if we upload our conscience to a computer = heaven, etc. etc.

A link: https://gettherapybirmingham.com/on-the-absence-of-idols-on-mythopoetic-meaning-making/

EDIT: I forgot! One of the most common religious activities that we often don’t recognize is playing the lottery. It seems odd, but it is a communal activity solely based in faith that a better life is possible, and it is around the corner. But this is a faith-based activity, as anyone with some cursory statistics knowledge will tell you the odds are nought to nada.

I have often been split apart between telling someone or keeping the “lie”, as it seems it helps them keeping hope there is a better tomorrow.

If someone mentions their neighbor won the lottery, I would remind them the difference between empirical and anecdotal evidence.

[…] but science’s best guess is it’s where you were before you were born. Nowhere.

May I have a slightly different interpretation: Everywhere.

We are made from the same stuff the Sun is made, traveling together for eons. When we die, we just roll back to the matter is our planet.

And once it dies, we will travel again together through the stars.

I’m not sure if I want to be in a party with Pol Pot, Goebbels and Kissinger.

utensils that are too long to reach their own mouth Cow tools?

Or maybe we don’t matter enough to be seen. I mean, beekeepers don’t know each bee individually. In the span of time and space, our existence would be so short that it would be like looking at an individual fleck of dust in the air.

oh, I’ve been to this city. Food was overrated.

Children are little attention vampires, no matter how much do you give, they will always want more.

That said, fucking phones always in our hands are a disrespect to them, so while I don’t give a lot of attention, mine is 100% pure*.

*Terms and agreements might apply.

Same experience here, there have been a couple of interesting devices to run double screen games (AYN Thor), but it’s rather expensive for having a dedicated device for just the DS and 3DS catalogues (with some hardware gaps).

Hopefully this means there’s no imminent invasion…

A cat me!? That’s meowbsurd!

Money will rule with an iron fist.

I’m starting to doubt reality.

Buddy, what you’re seeing happening here might happen sooner than you think in your country. Do you think that exceptionalism and police militarization is a US only thing? Let’s see what happens with all the right wing parties in Europe, from now onwards.

America is responsible for much worse crimes that occur virtually every day across the world.

Show me a rich country that hasn’t been doing crimes against humanity to gain profit from it (Ireland maybe?) and yet I wouldn’t blame French people for all the torture and misery they caused to Algerians or Belgians what keeps happening in Congo, koreans what South Korea is doing in Magadascar, etc. Etc. Etc.

The fact is even democratic governments like those mention here are within the spheres of influence of billionaires and it isn’t like poor mucks like me have any saying nor blame for it.

I’ll encourage you to transform your vitriolic hate in a productive endeavor.