I tell myself that the grief is me feeling bad for myself.

How did they go? Was it mercifully fast or drawn out? Was it painful? Were they ready?

And so I try to channel my grief though empathy for their pain rather then focusing on my own feelings of mood

They can share details, just not your details. And if the details they share reveal a connection to your identity, they fucked up

Well, how about we just tax the shit out of them? That would be cool

Huh… Well this story is starting to increase in credibility

I’m trying to move to a better area, one where things can get better locally

Even if the country ends, we’re not all going to die. We’re going to have to organize locally, and I’d rather be somewhere where I can do that

There actually might be enough water to help if we warm it up. And that would also release some hidden gasses too

It’ll still probably need more, and there’s sands that make it hard for plants to grow, but it seems like there’s feedback mechanisms that would help massively

That’s Elon. He’s simultaneously reveling in the potential downfall of the cool kids who went to the island, but also upset he didn’t get invited to the lavish parties

They’re not religious, they’re rich demons who love to find fresh ways to destroy the country

Definitely, we’re all way more sensitive to stimuli.

All you can really do is do something to distract yourself, medicated cough drops are great too, the numbing kind. Just don’t overuse them, mix them in with the kind with no active ingredients if you need to

Feel better

I like to watch a streamer and skip through the stream for anything that looks crazy

I’ve definitely been watching less and less because less is happening, but I’m enjoying the highlights

Well put

Don’t treat them all the same! What? That’s so ineffective!

Are they morally on the hook for what they’ve helped bring into existence? Yes.

Should we treat them all the same? Fuck no, that’s crazy. You have adjust your approach. An actual fascist and an idiot who got taken for a fascist ride are worlds apart.

Fascists should be attacked when they reveal themselves, they’re just disgusting all the way through. Idiots can be convinced to be part of the solution, you just have to correct their behavior

I believe that orcas are out there having philosophical debates and singing stories of their history and mythology that dates back even further than our own. I don’t think they’re doing math proofs, but if they are I’d be curious what base they use

All the cutting edge science suggests we’re not special. We are not different in kind from animals

Since science became a thing, we’ve been drawing lines between us and animals since we could no longer gesture to the soul. We’ve progressively disproven every single one. I’ve had this debate over various lines so many times

It’s human arrogance

Someone I know at FEMA was talking about they have an old system for disaster claims that IBM wrote for them many years back, and how FEMA just signed a deal with sales force to replace it

I was like… Oh, buddy, you have a very custom fit solution and very complicated workflows…

Resistance does actually help, stupid or not

These Fascists are strong to the weak and weak to the strong. They only have as much power as people think they do.

Their gains have been from complying in advance, they’re actually incredibly incompetent. I’m not sure they’ve actually accomplished anything other than temporary chaos when people didn’t go along with their plans

But that’s exactly what I’m saying. There are elephants out there contemplating morality. Even dogs do it, even if it’s massively based on the rules we impose on them

Not math though. Math exists in the minds of humans, it doesn’t even exist in the universe. There is no two of anything, there’s one object and another similar object

What does exist are ratios and harmonics, and animals have no problem understanding them

Lol right? It’s crazy how far on a limb they go, despite interacting with dogs

How often do we talk about how dogs want this or that, how they’re thinking of doing something “bad”, how they look so guilty they tell on themselves

But yeah, nothing going on up there. It’s all projection, they’re just dumb animals and humans are super extra special

LMAO okay then. My comment will age like wine, your’s will age like milk

Meet back in 5 years?

What are you even saying? What evidence do you have?

That sounds like a bunch of unfounded nonsense to me.

Elephants seem to clearly understand life and death, cause and effect, who fucked them over and where they ran off to

I’d bet the average elephant has a better grasp on the meaning of life than the average human

Bullshit. You just don’t speak any animal language

I can tell you what a dog is thinking at any given moment. They’re so expressive I can dictate it in real time. They tell you where and how they want to be pet, they can understand time and remember names

Koko was barely special. She spoke a form of sign language, and she enjoyed interspecies communication enough to devote time towards it. That’s what is rare

Do you understand how much more they’ll have to say when we crack their language? Because it’s coming