Kinda a thought that pops into my head from time to time about if people that lived well before writing wanted to leave an eternal legacy and at best we see their remains dressed in ornaments.

It's interesting to think that someone that lived 50k years ago paved a path for me in the sense that they probably exploded lands weren't known to their tribe or human at the, found new edible plants, or maybe created a new tool.

Crazy to think that there's billions of humans that I contributed to the life I have know and their names have long since been lost to time and that what I do today can still affect someone well into the future

I quite often have political thoughts in the shower, and also wish to express them; simply as being shower thoughts. However, rule number 3 prohibits this, or at least requiring me to dance around the subject; which feels somewhat limiting.

Despite this rule, there's still a significant portion of politically charged posts, which may annoy others, not interested in political topics. I personally wouldn't join the community, but rather visit it periodically; for an arguably healthier politics-life balance.

Therefore I'm not interested in starting a community myself; which is where some of you might be able to help out. I think this has the potential to greatly improve compliance to rule number 3, while still being able to express such thoughts, in a similar forgiving context.

Why censor truth when you can flood the comm channels with tons of misleading, fabricated, utterly bonkers conspiracy theory bullshit? If 99% is fake news, chances are the people won't belive that remaining 1%.

That's why Donny et all keeps yelling "freedom of speech" at the top of their lungs in Europe's general direction. That's what's at stake. If Europe imposes journalism standards on social media, it is that much harder to spin crap. Lying to get the power actually works. If Donnie gets his way, Brexit will in retrospect be a mere appetiser.

Left untreated, chronic affluenza can lead to serious social impairment, pedophilia, cannibalism, and a severe lack of consequences.

Meaning is not carried by the words, it's carried by your mind. We assume that we assign the same meanings, but that's a big assumption.

These online conversations, composed of words and only words, are arguably 99% us just talking to ourselves. Maybe even 100%.

It was the perfect scheme to farm for updoots I tell you

There are a lot of opinions I'll likely have until I die, but comparatively few that I'm willing to die for.

the clouds.. they have names

Just a thought. I feel people sweep a lot under the rug if the majority finds you beautiful/handsome.

For years I've considered investors and executives in the fossil fuel industry to be lazy and stupid. They could make more money in the long term with clean energy, and yet they entrench themselves in their ways and opt to poison our discourse and slow down human progress.

I apologize if this thought experiment is messy. I got out of the shower with these thoughts and started writing. To separate clean energy from renewable energy, I will define the following:

• Renewable items can be "farmed" on demand, using natural processes that exist on the planet
• Non renewable items are created slowly, at a fixed rate, and cannot be created on demand. This includes fossil fuels and precious metals.

Those entrenched in fossil fuels oppose the alternatives that take away their power. Since fossil fuels are extractive and non renewable items, there exists a fixed amount of it on the planet. There is value and power from controlling this scarce resource.

Renewable energy can be created on demand by anyone with the means to do so. Solar and wind energy cannot be monopolized as both can be harvested planet wide by anyone with the resources to set up a "farm".

In an alternate universe, if it was possible to harvest and store energy in the form of oil and gas, it would not be as attractive. Likewise, if it was possible to limit access to wind or sunlight, the rich and powerful would have an incentive to do that.

If people can recognize this difference, they will be more likely to ignore fossil fuel talking points and not act against their own self interest

I was listening to this series on audio book in the shower when this occurred to me. 'Gadara' is a fantasy species of wolfpeople's word for enemies that are respected and even trusted. A worthy foe sort of thing.

The idea is that the predatory wolf people believe friends can betray you, but an enemy can be trusted to act in their own self interest if they show themselves to be an honorable sort. Each party to the relationship maintains their status as enemies and expects the other to kill them if given the opportunity, but also can work together against threats to both. Being a gadara to someone also confers a bit of protection with your gadara's allies. A gadara can vouch for each other, and have laid claim to the honor of killing the other. So vouching for a gadara is saying "I want to be the one to kill this one, please respect that and leave them to me."

So to bring this around, an understanding between individual tankies and anarchists where both parties understand their ideals are incompatible, but the other can be trusted to work against fash would be a pretty useful arrangement. If we don't look past each other to the greater threat of fascism we won't be around long enough to get to have our fight in the end.

I feel obligated to say that in no way do I condone the actions of Jeffery Epstein and others like him.

#ReleaseTheEpsteinFiles #ActuallyDrainTheSwamp

You can't touch a single police officer without them throwing a hissy fit and shutting everything down.

So, I work hard, my ass off, 5 days a week, 11 months a year, and I pay 1/3 or 1/4th of it so that pidophiles dont pay taxes.
Income tax, VAT, property selling tax are all theft. There is no logic behind it.
The taxes that should exist is: Wealth tax, nature tax for the businesses that damage nature, and that is it. And no tax should be over 5%.
Wealth tax: 0%, income tax: 30% this is unacceptable. You either pay no taxes or you pay everything as tax.

I actually calculated it, and yearly 2.5% of wealth tax should be enough. And also, countries have a lot of resources, that also can help their budget, like mines or rented lands that are owned by government etc.

If we taxed wealth, not work, we could buy our houses way easier, we could buy land way easier, we could find a job way easier because we are not gonna pay income and vat, businesses will be able to hire people freely, and everybody can own a business easily. Nowadays, if you are poor it is so hard to create a business. You have a lot of expenses.

Context: Scandals are commonly appended by the suffix -gate, named after the Watergate Scandal

Say, let's admit consciousness is the result of a physical process.

Then say this process only goes "forward" when our time coordinate increases. Just like an egg gets cooked when it's temperature coordinate increases, but it doesn't get more or less cooked when it's temperature coordinate decreases.

This would mean that going back in time doesn't result in any perceptible change, since your consciousness hasn't evolved from it's "former" state.

Thus making it possible for us to be travelling through plenty of dimensions in varied directions, only ever experiencing the brief times when you happen to be moving in increasing time. Or whatever combination of movement along varied dimensions makes it possible for you to be conscious.

TLDR: i need to take shorter showers

There’s this meme from a while ago that observes the fact that the 80’s and early 90’s weren’t as colourful and flashy as most media make them out to be. In fact almost everything ranging from clothing to furniture to advertising was a drab shade ranging between dark brown to orange.

Every once in a while you’d get a toy or a household appliance that would be a bright neon colour and it would be considered hi tech advanced fancy stuff (until it broke the next day).

Nowadays you’d have to look hard for dark brown/orange drab stuff. They make dark brown/orange stuff but it usually is made of a veneer of fancy wood and it’ll cost you an arm and a leg. (And then it breaks the very next day)