I’m not sure that it can be clearly delineated as a time loop or a causality loop, it’s honestly a mix of both - though you’d probably call it a causality loop, as each “instance of a person” only experiences the loop once.

What about stories about time travel that ultimately form a closed loop? There’s one that has people moving forwards and backwards through time, yet forms a closed loop at the end: >!Dark!<

You’re asking the wrong questions. Did they measure from heel to big toe? Or did they use the foot of one of those “second toe is longest” freaks?

Absolutely, I’m still regularly shocked how normalized those words have become. They are absolutely accurate from a corporate perspective, but why are we all using those same words? They reduce any creative endeavors to the positive effect on the extraction of wealth by the rich through influencing others into buying shit they don’t need or want. “Influencer” should be a pejorative, not a job title!

Don’t forget that macOS literally contacts Apple server for every binary you execute. When there was an issue with those servers, only Apple software was launchable.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25074959

Who the fuck wants Carmilla of Styria to win. She’ll never be satisfied, always clawing for more. There is no winning with her, only not having lost so far.

If not for cat why cat shaped?

Let’s go with the Cambridge definition:

a perfect society in which people work well with each other and are happy

The Oxford Languages definition is incomplete enough to not be a valid counter argument - “perfect” doesn’t mean everyone 100% gets what they want. The only sensible interpretation is “perfect” from a societal perspective.

But if yes, then as long as current conditions meet anyone’s definition of utopia, then we’re all living in one.

No, Utopia has a defined set of meanings. If current conditions meet someone’s definition of Utopia, but doesn’t meet the defined set of meanings, it doesn’t mean current conditions are Utopia.

“Utopia” doesn’t mean everyone gets what they want. People can want things to be worse while still living in a Utopia.

Well, a couple of years ago, but yeah: https://www.thebestsocial.media/de/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2018/12/Dr-Oetker-Twitter-Pizza-Hurensohn-gierig-300x300.png

You just reminded me of an interaction between some teen and a German frozen pizza manufacturer

Teen: “Your chocolate pizza tastes like son-of-a-whore”

Manufacturer: “Got too hungry and bit your own finger?”

This might be the best meme fusion I’ve ever seen

Did I ever claim something different?

How should I know? I don’t know chonglibloodsport enough to know how they’re going to respond to something even before they do.

Okay, so we at least agree that you can feel empathy towards someone without having to understand them well enough to know how they’re going to respond to something even before they do. I’m still confused why you brought that up, since I never claimed to have 100% true™ full chonglibloodsport-certified empathy for every person on the planet.

And I’m pretty sure only a psychopath would feel absolutely no empathy towards someone they don’t know - you will at least empathize regarding common human emotions, e.g. I don’t need to know some random chinese couple to feel happy if I see a husband running to hug his wife in an airport.

So what’s your point? You’ve already walked back that you need to understand them well enough to know how they’re going to respond to something even before they do.

Oh, so now people can have empathy for others without having to understand them well enough to know how they’re going to respond to something even before they do? Just a bit ago you declared that to be an absolute requirement for “true” empathy. Or is it fake empathy they are feeling?

So you’re claiming that most people never have empathy for other people… Sure, that sounds very realistic and not-at-all “holier than thou”.

I mean, I’ve seen plenty of examples where other people have empathized with me, but I guess I just happen to be surrounded by living incarnations of Buddha himself.

Yes, and I don’t need to know the details of someone’s life to do so. Do you? You can’t feel empathy for e.g. Floridians who recently went through that hurricane?

not to feel bad for them when they’re not doing well

That’s also a form of empathy. You get that, right?

No, I disagree. I have empathy for all humans, no matter who. When I hear that some natural catastrophe occurs, I don’t need to know details about those affected to feel for them. There was a time when I was a child when that wasn’t true, but since some point in my childhood it is.

That coincided with the point in time when I started leaning very left.