The most shocking takeaway from today is that a large portion of the literate population genuinely believes that the world order is maintained by words and not by threat of force
Everyone on my Facebook is always appealing to this imaginary hypothetical reputational consensus. What is history going to think of us? What do Europeans think of us? How does this make us look on the world stage? Very hard to relate to.
@BovrilG What’s funny is there was some post on here about how they might be able to bring back a wooly mammoth and people were using Jurassic Park as an example of why you shouldn’t do it.
for the past month i’ve been desensitizing myself to notifications by having my phone send me random pushes
it hasn’t worked at all, but I do check my phone more and feel insane all the time
Nature's most competitive specimen is some by-now totally ubiquitous self-replicating microbe that we probably think is naturally occurring.
Strive for beauty, not replication.