What's science fiction without the machines?
I mean, we could speculate and explore the strange future and stuff. Just without that tired trope of "well, science and technology progressed a bunch and then we got this really great machine".
I mean there's gotta be another way. Examples?
So like, chronic stress?
I know it makes me crazy when I work too much. A few years of that would definitely send me over the edge.
I was thinking maybe testosterone and estrogen.
I think the place that you go when you die and the place you go when you sleep are the same place or maybe overlapping.
99% sterility. Virus transmitted. Long incubation. People would freak out.
It took the world a million years before it figured out how to digest cellulose. It used to be like plastic. Just piled up.
What causes the most insanity?
This might be what I've been looking for.
What I mean is, I used to be really into Java, but I've gotten fed up with its chunky ways, And its unmodernness. I want a modern succinct elegant oop language. Pref repl.
And maybe even not oop I don't know. Maybe I'm over that
I am a simple man. I can only embrace or reject. Nuance is not part of my vocabulary.
ah, my mistake.
Not as bad as you, but ya, a little.
My pet peeve is interrogative greetings : how are you? how's it going? What's up? etc.
It's like a preemptive attack.
Part time construction? Fence building. Don't need to talk much, or have much skill.
I'll bet she couldn't carry as much meat as a man tho.
You are saying "fuck you" like 3 times there. I can see how you might feel cynical.
What you are saying is that we are all children and we are governed best with children's rules.
I'm gonna go ahead and disagree with your initial premise there.
See, now you are saying "fuck you", and framing it all snarky, "You’ll sure show us, won’t you!". That's actually worse than "fuck you".
I think that the problem might actually be bullshit. There's a ton of "fuck you" going around but it's disguised, so it can't be rationally addressed, but we still feel it, the awfulness, so to escape the awfulness we subconsciously slide into these safe conversations, where conflict and the invisible yet toxic fallout don't exist. But the safe conversations are not very satisfying.
Most of the people that I've met who habitually reach for "fuck you", frame it as a question or an argument. Which is arguably worse. And somewhat common. Well, common in the conversations that I like to have.
looking for meaning
If it doesn't feel right then it's hard (impossible) to give a shit. I hear that a lot here.
Money, grades, the advice of revered authority. None of it works. I just blow it off. And suffer of course. But I'm still poking along.
But a couple of things have felt right. And those things go very well. I can draw, I can write software. I can successfully give my attention to a project like that.
One such thing is meditation. Whatever's going on with ADHD, meditation messes with it. I found the button in the center of my head that makes ADHD happen. It feel 100% right. It's like I found a magic thing.
So if you are an ADHD guy then maybe it would feel right for you too.