If you want a great example of how instantly otherwise good people become the worst versions of themselves almost overnight watch what happens when a rich person with a large family dies. I did a couple of years in the will writing sector. I'm telling ya... zero to Golem in no time at all. I've also watched good people I knew extremely well turn bad too many times to remember. It all starts with "I couldn't possibly have servants. How embarrassing!" and before you know it it's "Eduardo! I've told you a hundred times I need my watermelon juice chilled! One more mistake and it's back to Caracas!". People should have to undergo intense psychological training to be able to be rich and stay human.
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I've got a few that I can't really separate:
Dental hygienists are greedy charlatans who convince us we need an expensive hygiene appointment every six months when we really don't. That used to be true before the invention of the electric toothbrush but not now. I stopped going 7 years ago and I make sure I brush properly daily for two minutes with my electric toothbrush. I occasionally use inter-dental brushes for a deeper clean and my teeth are perfect. No soreness, gum bleeding and certainly no cavities. It's lies I tell ya.
AI is the most incredible development in human evolution since the invention of the wheel. I think it is the beginning of our next evolutionary step. It may even save us from destroying ourselves. It has brought me personally incredible results that have enriched my life in countless ways. I can't wait to see where it takes us. People who are angry about it are dumb (you did say "controversial opinion" lol).
Money is basically the ring from Lord of the rings. You can't have it without it changing you. I've had the dubious pleasure of knowing a great many millionaires and they're all miserable bastards pretending that they're not. Their families hate them, most of them are alcoholics and drug addicts. They hate themselves even more and their money doesn't mean anything to them so they use it to impress others or hurt them, just so they can feel something. It's all a disgustingly wasteful, tragic act.
He'll be released and probably be offered all sorts of book, talk show, movie deals. He certainly won't do anything criminal. That would would be cuckoo bonkers. CEO's of unpopular companies will increase their security and certainly not ever just wander around on their own outside in the street. He will be the subject of all sorts of controversial arguments which will be used to market him. Or... he'll go into some kind of anonymous relocation program and live a quiet life out of the public eye. Either way it's going to be one of the most interesting moments to watch in recent history.
Bus Simulator 21 was not a fun game. The environment and people just felt like your were in a giant dollhouse. Also, currently it's on Steam as "Mostly Positive" but if you go look at the reviews it's a sea of red thumbs downs. How does that even happen??
Anyway, it's the environment and people I'll be paying special attention to, cos I'm not getting burnt again. Specially with excellent alternatives out there like Bus Bound.
I'd say it's how you feel when you get up every morning. There's a few moments when we first wake up when our brains haven't had a chance to switch on all the filters, so we get the purest sense of our baseline happiness then. If you wake up every morning feeling deeply satisfied, I'd say you're probably living a good life, whatever you might define that to be.
Hey thanks for that. I hadn't heard of this one. Looks really good! Grabbing the demo now 🙂👍
Oh I loved Desperados 3! 😁 I paid £18 for it back in March 22 and spent 61hrs in it. Excellent game. Shadow Gambit is meant to be good too by the same people.
£70 for a game was never justifiable. In the last 5 years these have been my most expensive purchases:
£27 Eriksholm: The Stolen Dream (Finished it - Superb game!) £50 Assassin's Creed Shadows (Played 6hrs - REGRET! Won't ever spend that much on a game again) £26 Manor Lords (Played 4 hours - REGRET!) £28 No Rest For The Wicked (Played 8hrs - Will play more) £28 Tower Simulator 3 (Played 19hrs - Superb game!) £34 X-Plane 12 (Played 8hrs - REGRET!)
Now... people who PRE-purchase games for £70... That's truly mind boggling.
How do you mean?
Humanity has “lost the fight against climate change” ...because of a few stubborn, greedy governments who have done everything they can to get us all to believe it's because we didn't recycle enough.
No ordinary person ever had any power to change this. We could only make change happen if we all came together but we won't because apparently we're the problem.
Also worth noting that getting people to feel apathetic and fatalistic using messages like this post is actually a well known strategy to destroy motivation for change. The battle is definitely ongoing and we may yet win it. Don't give up hope or they win.
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My brain squirrels cannot sit still long enough to focus on an ordinary news/current affairs website. It's all so painfully slow and boring. There was (a long time ago) a java script wall of news from all over the world that updated in real time. It closed years ago and I never found anything similar. It was just a wonderful mosaic of headlines and stories that didn't sit still. The mosaic felt alive and if something caught your attention you better click on it before it turns into something else! You kind of see things like this in some movies, where they look at a wall of info on a big screen and everything is moving and updating. It's not waiting for clicks. You have to chase it! Is there anything like that or maybe a site that lets you construct a bunch of real time feeds that update constantly?
p.s. I realise that to many what I'm describing probably sounds like hell on earth but to my brain squirrels it would be heaven 🤣
(Update the first: Looks like the Feedbro Add-on in Firefox is the closest I'm going to get at the moment)
(Update the second: Thanks so much to geekwithsoul for finding that old javascript site I was talking about. I never thought I'd see it again. I've added a pic of what it looks like on my wide screen. Now that's what I call a wall of information ❤️)
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I don't think we're on opposite sides of any argument here mr argumentativemonotheist (great username btw 🤣). The only slight difference is that I'm saying that almost no one, in my experience, survives that test.