Every moment in time is unique, every second that passes is a new second with a new world state. Yes there are similarities and patterns, but by shifting your focus you can always find a new way to look at the world.

Instead of trying to recreate Christmas morning 1995 for yourself, try to create Christmas morning 2025 for someone else.

Probably for the same reason I have a closet full of computer parts, except I can’t fit tractors and cars in my closet.

What’s up with all the heroes acquiring power over death? Must be some sort of conspiracy.

Everyone has a different amount of curiosity for different things. Just because someone doesn’t want to know how a carburetor works doesn’t mean they aren’t interested in other things.

Also curiosity can be a luxury. Some people are very focused on following the beaten path because they think it might be safer. Start asking questions and rocking boats and you might cause problems. Curiosity killed the cat and all that. Over a lifetime people settle into their own groove of curiosity and satisfaction.

“I wonder what happens next”

But I’m not in a rush, I’ll wait patiently lmao

Making me pay $80 for Mario Kart World impacts me way more directly than a company exploiting public water resources, ergo Nintendo is more evil than Nestle.

Nothing says “Friday” like the failure of a critical system!

Don’t use someone else’s yardstick to measure your success.

Mission Accomplished.

I’m afraid I’m going to have to ignore what you just said. :(

If it makes you feel any better, as an American I don’t judge people based on decisions made by their country. We’re all stuck on this planet together and I’d like everyone to have some good times if possible.

You’re totally right, lol

I was spelling from memory and I always pronounced it as “yerk” in my head because it rhymed with “jerk”.

I’m going to leave my mistake, I’m not ashamed to be imperfect.

Brain slugs from the Animorphs book series.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animorphs

The yerks are on Earth.

Yeah, that’s fair. I guess the hypothetical I had in my mind was if I’m at war and the enemy is torturing their POWs, I’m not going to start torturing mine because that would go against my morals. I was interpreting “going low” as abandoning my own values.

Yes.

“Growing a spine” is contradictory to “going low”.

Physics isn’t solved, so I don’t think it’s fair to call it ruthlessly inflexible. https://youtu.be/nn94mn8ozOI

“Dream” concept leaves us in total chaos without even a theoretical chance to figure out how things work.

I disagree. There’s no reason the scientific method (observe, question, hypothesize, experiment, record data, draw conclusions) can’t be applied in dreams.

Just because your dreams aren’t consistent or logical doesn’t mean it’s impossible to have a logically consistent dream.

My go to response is usually “what do you mean by that?” Generally people say stuff like that to imply it’s impossible to “know” anything. But does it really matter if this is a dream or not?

Either tbh lol