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Cake day: November 12th, 2024

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  • So I always imagine it a bit like this.

    Imagine you are playing the SIMS, lo and behold you are your own SIM. But the objective in the corner doesn’t specify money, it specifies well-being and happiness.

    Your SIM is only programmed to take care of their base necessities, but those will only get your well-being and happiness bars up about 20%.

    What do you do to fill them up the rest of the way? Mind you, some ways to fill the bars will be counterintuitive, like exercise, or learning a new skill. Though it needn’t be those specifically.

    And to make it harder, there is a diminishing return even on things that work, so you have to be sure to add variety, just a little, to keep the bars going up.

    The most important thing, is you need to genuinely want what’s best for yourself. Not what’s most comfortable, but what’s best. There is no answer anyone can give you to what that best something is, you have to answer that for yourself.

    And if all of this seems like stupid bullshit to you, well this is just my own opinion, to which I make no claim has it’s origin in the mind of greatness.






  • Oh, okay, well I just checked with all the “Vote Blue No Matter Who” people, and everyone repented. Crazy I know, but every single one. Completed the repentance ceremony and everything. So we can all agree to work towards the greater good now right?

    What’s that? Still no!? Is that because you were never arguing in good faith? Wow, I sure am shocked.

    Look friend, I’m not interested in dying on pointless hills. Not while there are still things worth fighting for. If you have found your hill, I wish you luck holding it.







  • I get your points and they are well taken. Just be careful not to swing at ghosts so hard that you hit those who would have made great allies.

    Not every one who voted Blue is a “fair-weather friend”. Frankly, I bet you would be surprised with how many would be willing to push for something better if given the opportunity.

    And sometimes, people just need to be given the chance. The disagreements are meaningful, but the shit slinging is not. And I’m afraid we have traded in meaningful discussion for pure shit slinging.


  • To be fair, for many the choice to save or sacrifice Palestine never felt like it was on the table. For those people, the choice was between making a deal with the devil to save as many marginalized groups as possible, or sacrificing said marginalized groups to keep their “hands clean”.

    I believe both sides of this argument felt like they were pushing for solidarity the best way they knew how. And due to the emotionally charged nature of this choice, we wound up losing all solidarity ironically.

    If you truly believe in solidarity, then try to see the human on the other side of the screen and be the first to reach out and mend the cracks.