latenightnoir
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- Comment on Pessimism is a vital component for any healthy society 17 hours ago:
Exactly! Thank you! Yes, I realised I’ve focused too much on Pessimism (guess I’d make for a good defence lawyer! or a poor one, food for thought…) and not the big picture.
Yes! It’s about reasonably establishing the risks and actually setting safeguards in place, whereas optimism should be allowed to roam free and dream stuff up! One tempers/uplifts the other!
Warning for crummy poetics: and in the synnergy of the two, Reality is born!:)))
- Comment on Pessimism is a vital component for any healthy society 18 hours ago:
Well, hey, fully valid that I may be biased in a similar way, but in reverse, having been surrounded mostly by people who refuse to see The Darkness even if it’s actively slapping them… In either case, I agree with you, it takes a balance between them, as always!
You’ve actually expressed my point way better than I have, so I guess that bias is at least present in the direction from which I approach expressing the idea:-?
- Comment on Pessimism is a vital component for any healthy society 19 hours ago:
Oooh, I got it now, sorry!
I’m not saying Pessimism can’t be taken to the extremes (same as some Optimists believe that Optimism is best, which is arguably why we’re still neck-deep in crap, but I digress). I wasn’t arguing for that, though, I was arguing for a healthy inclusion of Pessimism in our thought processes, just as we should do with Optimism.
Also, funnily enough, this is exactly why the thought hit me, I was thinking about just jow many people oppose Pessimism without even considering its worth, based on generalised preconceptions:))
- Comment on Pessimism is a vital component for any healthy society 19 hours ago:
I honestly don’t know which to which “you” you’re referring, it’s in neither the last, or the second-to-last paragraph. :-?
- Comment on Pessimism is a vital component for any healthy society 19 hours ago:
Sure, if you want to neglect the value of trying to picture a better and a worse.
Honestly, you seem to have a problem with Pessimism itself by default, in which case there’s nothing more I can say here.
And, to answer your question, how does one learn if not by first being wrong about things?
- Comment on Pessimism is a vital component for any healthy society 20 hours ago:
Well, that would be fair, except I’ve stated no preference for pessimism:)) In my view it is just as important as Optimism. Two sides of the same coin.
- Comment on Pessimism is a vital component for any healthy society 1 day ago:
But that was my point exactly, Pessimism isn’t meant to fully replace awareness of reality. It, just as optimism, are Hypotheticals at the end of the day, whereas I’d argue Realism, i.e. the ability to see things for what they are is a Concrete. Not even the same conceptual class from where I’m standing.
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- Comment on If you can't make it yourself, store bought is fine 2 days ago:
Shove it right up my eyeballs!
- Comment on [deleted] 2 days ago:
Well, I don’t use sun block, and I’m still depressed! How do you explain that, Mr. President!
- Comment on Hertz, showing the difference between science and engineering 2 days ago:
Look, I agree that from a purely logical standpoint, there ain’t nothing there. Personally, I believe the Universe is enough as far spiritual anchors go. But from an “I’m just breathin’ here” standpoint, I genuinely couldn’t care less. As long as people don’t hurt others out of their beliefs, they can knock themselves out believing whatever they so desire!
To be perfectly honest, I also think it adds a bit of flavour to the world as long as it’s benign, I’ve had the immense luck of meeting a few religious people who took the good things out of The Text (generalising) and forged their own very personal relationship with the divine! They were the kind of people who took Free Will as being the highest imperative at the end of the day, people who would have fundamentally tried to respect existence even without the pre-existing framework. I’m thinking here specifically of my godfather (raised in an Orthodox household), who’s a middle-management kinda’ Priest (I don’t know the ranks, I’m sorry…).
Having these examples in mind, I prefer all the more to live and let live, as long as they do so as well.
- Comment on Hertz, showing the difference between science and engineering 2 days ago:
I’m of the “I don’t know, whatever” persuasion=))
- Comment on Hertz, showing the difference between science and engineering 2 days ago:
Oof! One of those moments which kinda’ make one wish there wasn’t an afterlife…
Thank you for the tidbit, though, and fuck Fascists regardless!
- Comment on Hertz, showing the difference between science and engineering 2 days ago:
Did it Hertz when he realised the opposite, or did that happen after his time?
- Comment on I just realized that, due to EU's USB-C standardization, I as an Android user can't use the "I don't have an iPhone Charger" excuse anymore if someone asks. 2 days ago:
You can say “sorry, I don’t have chargers for Apple stuff.”
“Can I use your wall socke…”
“None of them are for Apple stuff, either, sorry.”
- Comment on Trump Mobile launches $47 service and a gold phone 2 days ago:
Eeeewww! I have never seen anything tackier in my entire life, and I’m Balkan!
- Comment on "Showerthought" is a condescending term 2 days ago:
Given the state of things around here, we’re all at the “we get what we can get” phase=))))
- Comment on Trump team leaks AI plans in public GitHub repository 3 days ago:
Definitely! Those “outside time and space”/“post-modern purgatory” vibes are strong nowadays. Every day feels like making busy until the storm hits.
- Comment on Study: Remote working benefits fathers while childless men miss sense of community 3 days ago:
Oh, yes! I sure do miss that community made up of ass kissers and people who are just as miserable as I am! Or those 2-3 chill people with whom I meet for a chat weekly anyway, outside work hours because I sure as hell ain’t in the mood for socialising while I’m wasting (at least) a third of my day and life doing busiwork for someone else!
- Comment on "Showerthought" is a condescending term 3 days ago:
Ok, you’ve convinced me! Today’s a wake’n’bake day!
- Comment on Trump team leaks AI plans in public GitHub repository 3 days ago:
This was the feeling!!! I couldn’t put my finger on just how this entire thing felt to me, you’ve cleared the skies and allowed the light of recollection to meet my shores!
It feels like 70s-80s slapstick!
- Comment on just beat it 3 days ago:
A daily shovel in the face keeps one’s sanity in place?:))
- Comment on Scientists spot ‘superorganism’ in the wild for the first time — and it’s made of worms 4 days ago:
Oh, no… I’ve seen this movie, it does not end well…
- Comment on How Do I Prepare My Phone for a Protest? 4 days ago:
- Comment on xAI Data Center Emits Plumes of Pollution, New Video Shows 4 days ago:
“Nonono! It’s, uuh… it’s like fairy dust, but from the AI!”
- Comment on just beat it 4 days ago:
Self-help for mechs! If only it were that easy for us as well…
- Comment on spin 2 win bby 4 days ago:
“rrraAAAaa-aaAAAaa-aaAAAaa!”
- Comment on Swallowtail Moth 5 days ago:
I wanted to say “motherfly,” then realisation struck.
- Comment on The grass is happy to see you 5 days ago:
Can relate!❤️
- Comment on Dyson Has Killed Its Bizarre Zone Air-Purifying Headphones 5 days ago:
For a second, my brain pictured these combined with the only dynamics it knows from Dyson - the air blade thingies. It had a good chuckle picturing me getting a vigorous jet of air right in my schnozz.
