Debating politics on the internet is like trying to perform microsurgery with a chainsaw while a crowd of people throws tomatoes at you for not using an ethically sourced chainsaw
"I'm depressed"
Your options:
Therapist: $200/session
Philosopher: Free, but you have to read
Religion: Free, but there are rules
Internet: Free, but now everything is 100x worse
You're here.
You're here, and you're probably not going to be a billionaire.
You're probably not going to be a rock star or a movie star or any kind of star at all.
Your Wikipedia page may never exist.
And that's okay.
guy who's really into stoicism but only the "control your emotions" part and not the "also you should probably accept death calmly and live virtuously" part and also sucks at controlling his emotions
Drug development costs $1-3 billion and takes 10-15 years to prove a drug is safe // effective, then 30% of Americans immediately decide it's poison because a guy in Macedonia pretending to be from Massachusetts said so on X...
The QWERTY keyboard was designed to reduce mechanical jamming in early typewriters.
We kept it for computers. Which don't jam.
How many of our systems are just preserved solutions to problems that no longer exist?
And how would we even know?