Streptember

Highway 145, mile marker 78.

Ultimately, the ideal (but incredibly unrealistic) solution would be a global, coordinated effort to immediately remove from power everyone who abuses their power along with a dedication to continuing to do so whenever another pops up, regardless of the personal cost. Bringing them down with us is only slightly less unrealistic.

I ultimately have no desire to see them suffer, I simply want them out of power, and I think that for the sake of the future, it's worth any cost that they might pay.

As John Brown said: “I, John Brown, am now quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away but with blood. I had, as I now think, vainly flattered myself that without very much bloodshed it might be done.” And he was right about that. If we cannot achieve a better future with little bloodshed, then we owe it to the future to achieve it with any amount of bloodshed necessary.

No amount of suffering that those in power experience could ever match the amount of suffering that forever failing to remedy the problem will cause to the quadrillions of humans that could exist in the future or even just the billions that exist now. If we humans unable to band together to eliminate threats, even those from within, then we will suffer like this forever. It's better to try and fail than to passively allow it to continue for the rest of history.

If all there is is suffering for us, then why not ensure that those in power are along for the ride with us?

It is.

Lack of sleep and leisure time will do more damage in the long run than the short term benefits of 16+ hours of learning a day will ever do good.

"The devil you know" and all that.

Yeah, when you start off with "Everything we say is always right", then any change of stance or admission of error immediately brings everything else into question.

Cool, don't care.

It's better than the alternative.

Scammers could make normal looking posts until they make a popular one, then edit it to a spammy link.

You're 10k years off the Pleistocene.

Yeah, not a big stretch to add a poo sock.

I remember when Steam the software was the worst piece of software on my computer. And it stayed that way for long enough that it became a meme.

My point is that owning games was never any good because there was always some severe limitation on your legal rights since the game itself is a piece of software and there's no universal way to guarantee your ownership of a piece of software.

The disk could always break. If there was any online component, they could always take down the servers. Or if the game was broken from the start or became broken at any point, they could always just never provide the necessary update to make it playable.

I've never really been one to sell my games because I'm always wanting to go back and play them later, so I can't really offer any input on that fact.

I just prefer the system that gives me at least a paper thin guarantee over the one that's less convenient and has absolutely no guarantee.