Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

Actions reveal the ugliness of the heart.

Ducks think they some cool shit.

Swans are hot, but crazy.

Natural curves are psychosomatic triggers that alter our biological response to external stimuli.

They’ve rebranded. It’s N.ICE now.

It’s all good until it’s not.

Ai will be able to do that without getting drunk.

I agree that even if the continent turns into a nuclear wasteland, there will still be people shouting this kind of thing pointlessly into the void.

The Y2K was a different kind of virus, a virus of the mind.

It’s a bit more complicated than that. Current society is flawed as it requires conformity in individuals to serve it when instead it should serve the individual.

The base flaw is authority. It requires the individual to act in a specific way that is consistent with its needs and that will suppress other inclinations. Added to that is nature itself, which doesn’t give a shit about anyone and cares not if any needs are met in any way, at all. Which is further compounded by the simple fact that not every divergence plays well with all the others. So conflict will eventually become unavoidable regardless of the development path.

A complicated part is that not every divergence is good for the individual’s development or survival. So it then becomes a matter of balance in regards to personal freedom in acting as such even though it might be harmful to oneself or others, having the necessary support that allows an individual to make an informed choice on whether to maintain that freedom or suppress it and living with the consequences of the choice and finally, whether to fight against nature’s own form of ruthless culling in order to preserve and develop all the variances that might emerge or allow it to run wild.

It can get very sketchy once you dive into the gritty details and every aspect of the possible ramifications when trying to find a reasonable approach that takes everyone into account.

I barely remember this username and I’m looking at it every time I post something.

No, no… It’s the proper denomination favoured by our kitten overlords. They whisper it into our ears as we sleep so that we may subconsciously start using it without getting suspicious.

It usually happens only when they plan for long-term associations.

Hey, your cat thinks you’re underwhelming as well, but she’s fine with that as long there’s food and scritches.

Fake news. That’s sprayed tan. Can’t deceive me!

Time dilation occurs when the affected equipment is made out of cheap materials in order to cut costs.

How about:

“Imagine you have ADHD, but you’re forced to sit in place.”

Would that work?

And if you go near her, you’ll smell that elonmusk as well.

Distraint or distress is “the seizure of someone’s property in order to obtain payment of rent or other money owed”, especially in common law countries.

It’s an older word, but I used it poorly.

Funny(?) bird story:

There was this bird chirping constantly, flying here and there, even close to me while harassing some nonchalant cat licking or nibbling on some food it found. I’m thinking maybe the cat caught the bird’s partner, hence the distraint, so I chase the cat off. Then I search for remains like some feathers, but find nothing. I say sorry to the bird and move on with my day quite sad.

Couple hours later, same bird comes back, beak full with twigs for a nest and a partner sporting the same. They look around and chirp for a bit, then fly off together.

So now I can’t help but wonder, did the bird use me to scare the cat away from their nesting area?

True. However the fringe “influencers” often are the most vocal against the government and usually default as the “voice of reason” by simply being there.

Actual objective and unbiased information needs a visible and relatively trustworthy representative regular people can latch unto. Which is difficult because they will be attacked from all the sides who will be hampered by such a presence.

But you would need to be a mechanic or at least mechanically minded to know exactly where in the engine that noise is coming from what part it is what part needs to be fixed how best to go about getting said part that needs to be replaced installing the part and then charging for labor.

You say this as if people who aren’t mechanics or mechanically minded are physically unable to learn these things or deduce them on their own. Is the human brain/mind that limited and obsolete in your view?

Should I also assume you’re in favour of stratification in a sort of caste system where people who are disinclined in a domain shouldn’t be allowed to participate because in your eyes they simply can’t and they are innately wrong to do so? Or is that me overreaching?

And while it’s true that any one individual is not infallible usually when you get a collective of experts in their field they’re not all going to be wrong at once in the same way.

As social animals, it has been proven repeatedly that we will make the wrong choices in order to be a part of a social circle. So regardless of any individual knowledge and actual beliefs, emotional interference can and does have people in a group decide to be wrong at once in the same way.

I’m sorry but somebody doing armchair research from their computer at home is not going to be able to suddenly stumble upon the answer that a panel of experts completely ignored.

Disagree. It’s extremely unlikely, but not impossible. A clear and relaxed mind with an outside perspective can notice details an involved and burdened mind will subconsciously ignore.

The armchair expert won’t be intricately aware of all the know-how and it’s highly likely they will be wrong in most aspects, but as small as it is, there is always a chance they will understand a correct piece that is otherwise dismissed out of hand.

Top of their fields are still human. They have flaws just like the rest of us and the ones who can boast continuous ethical integrity throughout their presumably long careers are very few, if any.

Even though they are the best in their line of work, no domain is spared by deviant interests such as corporate, political or even personal.

And though unlikely the average person will unlock the secrets of the universe, it’s still possible, even if they won’t realize it at all. Dismissing the plausibility fully is in itself a flawed decision made in part by our own lacking abilities overall.

They make it make sense in the way the reader wants it to make sense.