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Grinding.

When the game progresses naturally, and as you move through the game, you always find yourself in the right spot to overcome the next obstacle, that’s great. But the second I have to stop progressing through the game and go spend 6 hours killing goblins, I’m done.

I have always hated this line.

Yes, there is only success and failure, but “try” is the superposition that frames the attempt, demonstrating in this case how invested Luke is in the attempt. And more importantly, in many stories and real life, how many attempts will we make before giving up?

Framing it as only success and failure diminishes the determination needed to eventually succeed in the face of many failures. I get its a movie, and showing the try/fail cycle is boring and takes up too much screen time, but living by this principle in a vacuum is damaging.

“I think it’s worth to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment to protect our other God-given rights. That is a prudent deal. It is rational.”

Charlie Kirk sat under a tent that said “Prove Me Wrong” and got shot dead with a bullet in the neck. So either he’s right and his death is a prudent deal, or he’s a dumbass. The whole situation is so riddled with irony it has to be a joke.

Not sure why we’re surprised. And even then, it took a while for the “good” OSes to get good. Windows 7 is remembered fondly because it ended well, not because it started well.

Windows 95: OK Windows 98: Bad Windows 98 SE: OK Windows ME/2000: Bad Windows XP: OK Windows Vista: Bad Windows 7: OK Windows 8: Bad Windows 10: OK Windows 11: Bad

I think the rationalization of shitty behavior is key. Everyone is the hero of their own story, and there is no end to the mental gymnastics or cognitive dissonance people will go through to remain the hero.

It’s almost Occam’s Razor. It’s easier to believe someone is a selfish hypocrite than some kind of moral-less grifter.

That’s not to say there aren’t grifters, just that the vast majority have drunk the kool-aid and keep drinking it because of a warped sunk-cost fallacy scenario. If I stop drinking, I have to admit I was bad and wrong, so I double down and stay the good guy.

They do. That’s why they’re so hateful to anyone who contradicts them.

We’ve spent decades bleeding the middle and lower classes dry.

People get all up in arms about private equity groups buying up companies, extracting any value, saddling them with debt, and then skipping out, and understandably so, but that’s exactly what’s happening with the USA. It’s just at a larger scale. The principle remains the same.

For context, there are just over 500 commercial airports in the US.

Historically, you’d just add another wife and keep chugging along.

The answer I generally hear as to why people dislike young activists, not just Greta Thunberg, is that they overly simplify problems.

But this is usually an argument put forward by people who over complicate problems as a defense mechanism. If it’s complicated, I don’t have to do anything.

You have to remember that everyone is the hero of their own journey. So when a 90 pound teenage girl says you’re doing a bad job at something, you dismiss her, and when you can’t dismiss her, you villify her so you remain the good guy. You do this because denigrating a teenager takes only slightly more effort than doing nothing, and infinitely less effort than doing the right thing.

The truth of the matter is that nearly every problem is simple. The complicated part is getting everyone on-board with the same solution.

TSMC is Taiwan’s nuclear deterrent. Asking them to move half their production to the USA is an obvious no.

Ukraine has spent the past 3 years demonstrating what can happen if you give up your nuclear deterrent for a paper guarantee when you have a hungry neighbor who thinks your land is theirs.

With a Palestinian flag.

I am, of course, disgusted with this choice of Super Bowl halftime performer.

The obvious choice was to have Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce get married during the Super Bowl halftime, during which Taylor will not take the Kelce name, killing everyone watching over the age of 65.

TSMC is Taiwan’s nuke.

Global politics for the past 80 years has been busy teaching folks what happens to you without mutually assured destruction.

No, no companies are people. Buying and selling them is slavery.

it’s the same goddamn cycle over and over

This is the key. The people you can trust are the people who are going against that cycle.

Bringing up the Bible on Lemmy is generally a no-no, but I love Ecclesiastes. It’s a book about meaninglessness. Everything is the same as it has always been and there is nothing of true value; everything is meaningless. It’s the same goddamn cycle. While when it was written is debatable, it’s comforting and horrible to know someone thousands of years ago saw things the same way I do. Comforting, because I’m not alone in how I feel. Horrible in that people still feel this way after thousands of years.

The writer’s conclusion is to fear God and keep his commandments. The commandment is to love your neighbor as yourself. Loving your neighbor as yourself means being kind and empathetic. Kindness and empathy solve nearly everything.

So, even though it may achieve nothing, be kind and empathetic. Cling to people who are kind and empathetic. Be an oasis amid the hate.

It’s middle school biology!

Okay, but when you get to high school…

Needs a sponsorship. I like the sound of the Fanduel Cross to Bear.

Horst Wessel shot and killed at Utah Valley University event.

I need this Onion article.

That graph is shaped like a gun.