alignedchaos

This is really beautiful. I wish it was sized just a bit taller to be a phone background, because I’d use it!

O-oh, uwould youwu wook at the time! :3

This Is Not a Bowl of Sexy Fruit

I mean it feels weird and alien to us too.

All of it makes a lot more sense when viewed through the lens of who has money and who wants that money.

Speaking of proving the point lol

If their spam filter is “learning,” and if new signup verification emails are a consistent decades-old practice, how much longer should we wait before it’s okay to question whether Google’s filter could do better at learning?

The person who downvoted you for listening to someone else talk is a hilarious reminder of what kinds of mindsets are out there

Do you need a sign for every decision you make?

A funny thing about life is a lot of things happen unofficially, and humans do fine at adjusting to such situations.

Amazon promotes the shittiest, least honest reviews to the top of most products, though I guess if you know how to hunt for the rough 2-4* ratings you can technically find real reviews too.

“Objective worth” is a bit of an oxymoron, because worth is up to your value judgment.

If you’re questioning the “evolutionary imperative” that organisms want to pass on genes - one fairly human trait is that a lot of us can consciously diverge from that instinct, either fulfilling that need by passing on our legacies socially rather than genetically, or just not looking to pass anything on at all.

Something we have in common with other mammals is we prioritize whatever experience is in front of us. Anyone who’s directly affected by catastrophes and strife will have different beliefs than people who aren’t.

So if objective worth has no neat answer, what’s left?

I’d say it’s interesting to have so many different subjective experiences in one world, with a language-based society able to communicate and share many more varied experiences than most animals. Interesting isn’t inherently good or bad, but if nothing was good nor bad then nothing would be interesting.

So yea. Human life is entertaining. We’ve got that going for us!

P.S. If you’ve ever lived in a city whose infrastructure is strained by overpopulation, you don’t necessarily view declining/shifting populations as a bad thing.

who’s “we,” bub