Human self-importance.

We think we’re magic, despite the fact we aren’t built for high g dogfights at all.

Kind of the same reason us being space colonizers is a pipe dream at this stage in our civilization. We can get a dozen highly trained peak human specimens to grow potatoes on Mars as a symbol, and I’m all for that, but not regular people. One mistake everybody dead, one cabin fever victim in the right position everybody dead. We literally can’t even care for the almost infinitely forgiving habitat we evolved out of that’s perfectly suited to our biology, and all that would require is stop actively, recklessly fucking it up.

Lemmy for bootlickers.

if droids Spez could think, there’d be none of us here.

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I mean, the very existence of magic kind of nullifies the concept of math as a means to ascertain objective fact.

What good is 2+2 when 2 eyes of newt plus 2 legs of frog leads to random quantities of dancing forks with literally no respect as to the how because magic?

Math can’t quantify a world where physical laws are replaced by literal nonsense, and if math could ultimately explain the mechanics of magic and predict the outcomes of its applications, the magic wouldn’t be magic anymore, it would just be another great force of the universe like gravity or electromagnetism to be mapped by the scientific community.

Just as with climate change, they’ll just keep shifting back and forth between “but there’s nothing wrong” to “it’s too expensive to implement this solution” to “Just give us a few years, we’ll come up with something better” in order to derail the argument because the point is to maintain the status quo.

The poorer the poorest are, the richer the wealth class feels by comparison. Inequality, separating the capital society generates from said society into the owner class’s private accounts, is the entire point of capitalism.

Why would capitalists want to mitigate the central social ill they literally engineered for their explicit, sole benefit?

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Unless you’re also truly a clinical sociopath, high intellect amongst mass ignorance, with those in power totally drunk on intransigent, animalistic selfishness your intellect can do nothing about either means living in perpetual torment, or perpetual resignation. In the land of willfull ignorance and boastful stupidity, intellect is pain.

Trust me.

A strategist to save the Earth… from us.

I’ve always considered the “why” to be the most important question for me.

In our society, the answer is almost always money, which is a means and not an end, and so western culture seems to be miserably grinding itself into the dirt, usually without ever looking up and asking what the deeper point is.

It’s really very tragic to me.

There is a paradox of confidence.

The people most confident in their competence tend to be the least competent in practice.

The Dunning–Kruger effect.

Self-cheerleaders tend to be morons, the most intelligent people by their nature tend to second guess their own abilities. Idiots just stroll through life taking whatever credit they can grab.

“The only thing I know is that I know nothing, and i am no quite sure that i know that.”

-Socrates

"Throughout my life, my two greatest assets have been mental stability and being, like, really smart.’

-Donald Trump

See the difference? By genuinely doubting, aka examining your abilities, you are in more competent company.

I, for one, love that the physical reality is of course immune to human’s con man fuckery and can’t be bribed, threatened, blackmailed, assassinated, dissappeared, or otherwise coerced by humans, despite humans trying as if this was just another human on human problem that could be “solved” with snake oil propaganda, as we do with so many humanitarian crises we simply convince ourselves aren’t. Visit your local tent city if you need clarification.

The physics are determinate, the inevitable reaction to our careless, kick the can down the road actions. All we keep learning is that we keep underestimating those consequences. The bill comes due, always.

You go to bed with capitalists like Spez, you wake up with fleas.

And likely one less kidney.

I’ll just assume your family is penniless, sent you to poorly funded K-12 schools, and kicked you out on your ass onto the street the day you turned 18 with no warning or support of any kind, and you still somehow got a degree without debt.

Otherwise, you’d be a raging hippocrite born on third base crowing like you hit a triple! Clearly though that can’t be the case.

I’m sorry your family did you like that though, that’s rough.

I’ll answer your judgment with judgment.

The alternative is humans.

Have you met us? We’re no prize.

Promises promises.

I remember seeing a Mario 64 demo station at a mall Gamestop, my eyes going wide, and my adolescent brain screaming "My God… THE FUTURE!"

Nuclear winter fell way back in the pack, but it’s catching up to Climate Change, AI, and biological weapons as humanity’s self inflicted doom.

Damn, I was rooting for Skynet.

Yo ho matey, yo ho.

Excellent point.