Random Thoughts IV: the Abyss Gazes Back

[Takhisis]

I'm working on it.

I hope that it works.

I think I have a good reason to be especially terrified of it.

Sadly, that is probably true, but what can we do about it?

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

Try not to think about it too much, I suppose.

 

[Timsup2nothin]

There's been some recently developed research about this. Apply favorite search engine to 'dementia risk lifestyle changes' and choose your preferred source.

 

[rah]

Really? Like you've newer stood at a buss station waiting and just thought about how easy it would be to take that one step forward and find some rest?

again, NO
I've considered how easy it would be to die if it happened, but never as a consideration to find rest.

 

[Gori the Grey]

Occasionally dwelling on death is supposedly good for you (in very small doses), as it helps to prepare the human psyche for our inevitable demise.

I'm like Shakespeare's Prospero, my every third thought is of my death.

 

[PPQ_Purple]

again, NO
I've considered how easy it would be to die if it happened, but never as a consideration to find rest.

Than you've probably newer gotten up before sunrise only to return home after work when its already dark in ice cold weather and with got knows what poring down from the heavens at a rate that makes you feel like you're sitting under a faucet. Like, I work inside AND I actually enjoy my job (as much as that's a possible thing anyway) and I was still miserable all day.

 

[rah]

Than you've probably newer gotten up before sunrise only to return home after work when its already dark in ice cold weather

I get up to go to work at 5 a.m and don't return till almost 6 p.m. so in Chicago this happens at least 4 months of the year. Rain and Snow is also part of the midwest experience. It's called life which I still consider better than the alternative. (but my knowledge of the alternative is lacking)

 

[SS-18 ICBM]

I don't know if I'm being too sensitive, but the way a trailer for Ralph Breaks the Internet shows a portrayal of the Dark Web just makes me feel uneasy. There's got to be something wrong with a children's movie treating a platform used for child pornography and other similar crimes so casually. There's also the other face of the Dark Web, which is a safe haven for democracy activism in repressive regimes which I doubt would have been shown.

 

[PPQ_Purple]

I get up to go to work at 5 a.m and don't return till almost 6 p.m. so in Chicago this happens at least 4 months of the year. Rain and Snow is also part of the midwest experience. It's called life which I still consider better than the alternative. (but my knowledge of the alternative is lacking)

That's the thing though. You don't really know. None of us do. Because we haven't tried. So we don't know.
And it's just not good practice to leave for later what you can do right now.

I don't know if I'm being too sensitive, but the way a trailer for Ralph Breaks the Internet shows a portrayal of the Dark Web just makes me feel uneasy. There's got to be something wrong with a children's movie treating a platform used for child pornography and other similar crimes so casually. There's also the other face of the Dark Web, which is a safe haven for democracy activism in repressive regimes which I doubt would have been shown.

Honestly I think the whole pedo porn scare is overplayed. Like, pedos exist and they are nasty. But if it really was such a huge and pervasive problem as the media makes it out to be, there would be quite enough of them that they wouldn't have to hide. And we'd know if that was the case.

 

[rah]

That's the thing though. You don't really know. None of us do. Because we haven't tried. So we don't know.
And it's just not good practice to leave for later what you can do right now.

The cost of being wrong makes it easy to delay the investigation.

 

[Gori the Grey]

The undiscovered country from whose bourne no traveler returns.


[That] makes us rather bear those ills we have
Than fly to others that we know not of

 

[PPQ_Purple]

The cost of being wrong makes it easy to delay the investigation.

True that. But were it not for those who rebuked such thought we would still be lodging in caves.

Than again t'would do the world much good if we set off without first figuring out a way to signal back our findings.

 

[Takhisis]

I don't know if I'm being too sensitive, but the way a trailer for Ralph Breaks the Internet shows a portrayal of the Dark Web just makes me feel uneasy. There's got to be something wrong with a children's movie treating a platform used for child pornography and other similar crimes so casually. There's also the other face of the Dark Web, which is a safe haven for democracy activism in repressive regimes which I doubt would have been shown.

It's the Disney approach to things, man.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

My mother's been watching Hallmark Christmas specials all week. I swear they're all the same movie but the people have different names.

 

[mitsho]

I just read this article in the guardian and thought: "What do Americans think when they see Hillary Clinton described as a Centrist figure?", but yeah, that seems about right from an European viewpoint.

 

[GoodSarmatian]

I just read this article in the guardian and thought: "What do Americans think when they see Hillary Clinton described as a Centrist figure?", but yeah, that seems about right from an European viewpoint.

I can't speak for the rest of Europe, but in Germany she'd be pretty far to the right. Bernie Sanders is the centrist.

 

[PPQ_Purple]

I can't speak for the rest of Europe, but in Germany she'd be pretty far to the right. Bernie Sanders is the centrist.

Same here. Only I'd not characterize even him as centrist as much as the next rightest thing.

 

[Timsup2nothin]

I just read this article in the guardian and thought: "What do Americans think when they see Hillary Clinton described as a Centrist figure?", but yeah, that seems about right from an European viewpoint.

For myself, I think "Contrast this with @onejayhawk and his dismissal of any and every Democrat as far left."

 

[Kyriakos]

Yesterday i sold my first 3d model- it was one of got's Sept of Baelor. Got paid 20 euro, which in the end was reduced to 14 due to paypal and bank fee.
I think i should have the model at turbosquid asap, to avoid the person who bought it re-selling

 

[Snerk]

Directly comparing two distant political landscaped with each other is tricky at best. Even within Europe it could be hard to do meaningfully.