Don’t blame me. I voted for dog.
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She was a good girl. Some say the bestest girl.
This,
It is the joke at the end of all the human suffering and destruction of the planet.
It is done so a few people can live like gods.
And they are fucking miserable.
... all because they don't have sticks?
Fucking idiots.
They can buy billions of sticks, but they'd be useless, because they didn't get them the right way. I myself would not appreciate a stick that I bought regardless of how much money it cost.
Once you understand this, you can also find rocks and seashells worth more than trillions of money.
So you can argue about the quality and/or sentimental value of ownership of sticks, but that's also not the point.
It's your own appreciation of the stick that makes it valuable. You can not get that, unless you just get it.
Can't buy it, can't sell it, can't even give it away, but it exists and you get it. It is real.
I have a lot of shit. I also have a piece of cardboard shaped like a fish that I appreciate. On my deathbed I will not ask to touch my latest car or the cobber stringed guitars. I'll ask for the cardboard that I value the most, because it was gifted to me. And that's just sentimental value.
A good stick is even beyond that. My appreciation of a good stick is such that I cannot even claim to own it. It's not sentimental value or ownership or history or quality. A proper good stick is one that you want to pass on.
I have a bunch of them, so theoretically I'm the richest man alive. At least currently, because like I just said, they don't really belong to me. I have to give them away to realize the value of the asset. Just like stocks and money.
I don't get how they're so bitter and hateful. Happiness is some chemicals in the brain and money can definitely buy all of those.
They have the money and leverage to get whatever medications they want and hire a team of doctors to monitor them and keep them safe while abusing them to be the happiest people ever.
And they're buying a 12th yacht and another castle instead? Lame.
I think what we call happiness is comprised of more than what drugs can stimulate.
Life satisfaction, purpose, reciprocated love and connection, etc. - these are all things that are more cerebral than what even the best chemical cocktail can offer.
It's a nice sentiment, but in the end those things all boil down to chemicals in the brain.
I'm not saying that administering a constantly rotating chemical buffet is the ideal way to experience life or happiness. But if you have hundreds of billions of dollars it certainly seems like it would be a better alternative than being a miserable prick.
Oh, for sure. For a lot of these guys, being sedated might be the better than their current state.
My point is just that even the best meds out there can't make you feel like your dad is proud of you, or that you have a loving family, or that your day to day work is meaningful to people. It's beyond the scope of modern psychiatric medicine, even though all of our mental existence is chemical.
Which is why it would be fantastic to be able to fund neuroscience research. I wouldn't say no to a discovery of the chemical that causes a strong feeling of "My dad is very proud of me even though I became a computer nerd instead of a car guy."
He's in his 70s so I was a bit too early for the stage where parents supported it as a money making career. I was just the goofy nerd with the taped together glasses living like a hermit playing midi files of songs I liked. There wasn't a lot of that proud parents feeling. :)
It would be the best selling drug on the market instantly, lol. I bet even dads of that gen felt similarly with their dads.
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Meata, lol
Happiness is some chemicals in the brain and money can definitely buy all of those.
Eh, that's a maybe, if you're rich. Not saying medication can't be useful, but the sane reaction to an insane world is also hard to deny.
If you're rich enough to have your own pharmacists and neuroscience research division along with doctors to monitor your health? Very definitely. You could set up a crop rotation of chemicals to keep you all sorts of happy without worries of major addiction to or mounting tolerance of any individual chemical, all while more are devised and tested.
It'd be some mighty blissy bliss. Tough to find much to complain about livin like that.
I'd like a nice stick too.
For the dog happiness comes from within.
For the billionaire happiness comes from making certain amounts of money.
Be the dog.
Drops Kong toy filled with peanut butter smothered dog treats and carrots in front of dog with stick...
It's wild how much my dogs like carrots.
I tried a Kong toy with my dog & he was not impressed. "WTF is this nonsense? Just give me the treats!" To be fair, he wasn't into sticks either.
I think your dog is detective. You might take it back for repairs. Could be a faulty dewhicky.
As the old saying goes: 'That dog won't hunt'.
Not saying your dog is broken or useless, but rather their personality isn't aligned for hunting, sticks or kong toys. And there's nothing wrong with that!
My parents had a large Catahoula mix who figured out how to step on the Kong toy and squish the treats out…
One jet and 12 yachts is totally out of balance. Cut one side of the stick off and the dog will be grumpy, too.
Not true! Now my dog has two sticks she is quite happy bcz she's a small dog and now it's easier to carry around.
Now he's got two sticks!
And I got to do yard work with the human! I hope we get to do yard work tomorrow!
Oooh new and different stick! Yay!