You are not a good person by default. Being a good person requires work, and that work starts by understanding who you are today and ends when you die.

You are shaped in a million ways by your parents, teachers, friends, bosses, media, algorithms, influencers, etc. It is not the mark of a good person to be passively shaped by their environment into a functioning member of society.

A good person considers how they’ve been shaped and actively works to change themselves to align with their personal values. Hell, examining the hodgepodge of conflicting values that society has pushed onto them is one of the biggest parts.

It is humbling, tedious, frustrating work, and many people go their whole lives without doing it. But it’s worth it for the peace that comes in being proud of the person that you’ve made yourself into.

TL;DR: go to therapy

Can you explain this a bit?

Why not just work to change the things you don’t like, and accept that you won’t do it perfectly?

Christ, that’s cynical

Yes!! I also recommend doing some basic joint strengthening and mobility stuff. I really like knees over toes guy and movement by David

I’ll go even further - you should welcome being wrong about things.

We are all making shit up as we go, and that means that you WILL make mistakes. Seeing those mistakes as opportunities to learn and make yourself better will turn you into a better person than someone who resists admitting their mistakes.

It also was one of the things that most helped my confidence.

I see confidence as the absence of fear of messing up.

You can gain confidence by practicing until you’re are good enough to not make mistakes… or you can just accept that you’re not a perfect person, that you’ll make mistakes, and try your best anyway.

You think the money going to private prison owners is gonna be spent on prisons???

My sweet summer child. That would be a colossal waste! You see, if instead we overcrowd and starve people, then our profits will increase. And profits MUST increase.

Yeah this should be up there with “stop, drop, and roll”

This is sick!! Would you mind sharing your config?

Don’t do that.

Don’t give me hope.

Right - the cost is your time instead of dollars.

I don’t like doing stuff, so I give my time an hourly rate of $100. Absolute BEST case scenario (for me) would be that this is a weekend project, so call it 10 hours.

So my best case break-even point would be 10K stars. Which seems like it’d be more than I’d need?

Absurdism in philosophy is "nothing matters"ism - see the exurb1a video above.

In art, though, absurdism is what you describe.

He’s Mr Grinch, so it’s at least his last name (and also explains him being THE Grinch who stole christmas). It’s possible that it’s also his job (see “Smith”), but prefer that grinching is named after him, a la Scrooge

Sounds like you need the 28 hour day!

https://xkcd.com/320

I tried it once! and it was… weird. But at least you’ll know when your waking hours are!

I imagine him looking like the Pringles guy

Thanks for posting the Besos interview!

Super interesting that they were already hoovering up user data as fast as they could in '97 - half a gigabyte per day.

Not to rail you in the ass, but why isn’t this making the perfect the enemy of the good?

The benefit to low-income families seems massive, and it’s hard for me to accept that taxing revenue instead of profit is enough of a marginal negative to outweigh that benefit.

Looooolll this guy still thinks wood is real

My pet theory is that it’s a reaction to the couch fucker thing. The left made up and ran with a story, and this is them trying to do the same thing. Obvious problem being that it’s racist, dangerous, and not funny, but that’s the right for you.

And I was then double surprised that being inside the sun for a nanosecond would be so devastating!

• 10^-5 J on the surface, when 5 J is needed for a burn
• Surface of the sun is a few thousand degrees, inside is a few million

So like a jump off 10^3. No problem, should still be fine.

Not even remotely! I didn’t look too close, but the equation he linked has temperature raised to the forth, so a temperature jump of 10^3 would result in 10^12 difference in energy.

Which would increase the 10^-5 J on the surface to 10^7 J. Which explains why you’d only have femtoseconds!

A real double whammy of unintuitive results.