We’re not disagreeing then. I’m just saying some date lines aren’t in the right place in general, but what really matters most? What are our priorities? I don’t think most light and most dark is better, even if it were possible to get every time zone just right.

I feel like having a life, and kids being able to play for longer after school without it being dark throughout the summer is pretty awesome.

It’s that or have school and work finish earlier. I’m all for that, lol.

Time of day is a human invention. We can assign the date lines wherever we like.

Like Japan was nuts. Dark at 3pm in winter. Light at 3am in summer. They’d benefit by shifting that shit two hours forward for sure.

I’ll take 7 hour workdays in summer instead.

More daylight in summer rocks. It would be equally rocking in Winter. The clocks shoud stay forward.

Neither does passivism though. If everyone around you is losing your mind, you either give up your freedom and very possibly your life, or you fight.

The only reason no other great power has needed a fully prepared military is because of US leadership. That can’t be trusted now, so here we are.

I’m going to assume you’re working class and actually reading the articles is a personal sacrifice on the tiny amount of free time you get in a day. So, thank you for your service.

Brock?

I’m assuming it’s people thinking it’ll go up again so buy it while it’s cheap. Momentum has to continue against the company so those who bought in now are punished.

But you’re right, the stock market is gambling that produces nothing for the world. Trickle down transaction fees at best, tempting retirees to waste their retirement money at worse.

Always has been.

Surprised so few people are aware of this. It seems equivalent to me when you give it the same permissions Ublock Origin had.

Death is undefined from the perspective of conscious experience. That’s really my point.

It is axiomatic that if there is something that it is like to be dead then you are not in fact “dead”.

Just for fun then, I agree with you in some respects. Panpsychism might be the way the universe works and is in fact my own sense of reality - but the kind of “consciousness” that may persist upon the disintegration of the brain and body, won’t answer to “you” unless there is in fact a soul or spirit that exists separate to the body. Of that, I am not so sure. I’m thinking consciousness is probably something spooky separate to the body, but the idea that this fleeting thing that answers to my identity could have its own potentially eternal or at least much more resilient contingency doesn’t really make sense. More like, we are all part of the same singularity of consciousness that is the universe, dreaming ourselves into existence as discrete conscious actors in a grand play. Something like that, haha.

Life is all we can possibly conceive of knowing. I can’t tell you that you ought to live, but I can tell you that there might not be anything it’s like to be dead. Is it worth the risk?

However bad life might be at any given moment, unless total non-existence sounds “good” to you, death isn’t a risk worth taking. After all, we are always at some risk of dying. It’ll happen eventually.