I mean, most beings never get immortalized at all so… there’s also that to consider as well:-).🦖

Shoulda asked him about the… you know.

Hehe. Thanks for sharing that.

In fairness, there are a LOT of kinds of people in the world - e.g. I would have thought that someone advocating to block access to medically necessary abortions would surely have been satire but… nope.

As with any form of message passing, the meaning depends on both the sender and the recipient - I would argue far more so the former, but some extremely selfish people would just as vehemently argue that the latter is all that matters to them.🤷

Was that the actual author, or a statement added on their behalf? I thought I recalled reading it as the latter, where it seemed they were just guessing.

Either way it could be a kind of trigger warning for someone who even knowing that wouldn’t want to read the text.

Hehehe, you haven’t even touched the book yet and are considered smarter already:-).

I dunno, looks like a good time to me:-P

Skill issue, search harder (/s btw:-P)

Life rarely falls into such easy categories of “no wrong” vs. “all the wrong, as in literally all of it”.

And even if it did, what good would that do us?

I’m saying that being pissed at something over which you have zero control seems maladaptive. Well, it’s easy to say, much harder for me to do anything about it myself, besides talk the good talk, but now let’s see if I can manage the walk as well!:-)

I hope our frustrations will at least lessen as we increasingly take control over what is within our purview.

I LOVE books that TRULY make you THINK.💗🧠

The author died >100 years ago, so the entire text is public domain if anyone wants to read it. https://en.m.wikisource.org/wiki/Flatland

I don’t like reading books on a screen but… it is hard to pass up free - then again, libraries also exist and THIS BOOK IS WORTHWHILE.

I could barely put it down the entire time I read it, it just consumed me.

Just a note, it is actually so offensive to a woman’s role in society that many (most? I have no idea) scholars think that it was so over-the-top that it must have been meant as a critique of the then-status-quo.

This book has fucking VISION, even centuries into the future.

Hopefully it won’t remain so for millennia as well - bc of the thoughts finally becoming commonplace in society; but even then it would remain as a historical milestone towards that fantastic end.:-)

And its successor SphereLand is, if not quite in the same league in terms of being ground-breaking (especially for its time), also neat.

The Matrix was cool bc it popularized such thinking, bringing it out to where it was comfortable to talk about it in more mainstream company. But it most definitely was not the first to expouse that idea that truth is partly what we make of it, as well as not that too.

Ironically, what if that’s how our actual reality is even? It’s at least plausible, not that - as you said - it would make any difference if true.

Moreover, there are postulated by string theory to be 11 dimensions (I mean… who knows whether that is true, but we are speaking hypotheticals here regardless of instantiation of any one actual implementation), yet we only occupy 3 spatial and 1 time. The other spatial, and perhaps more interesting the other potential time, dimensions all offer numerous possibilities.

The ancient book Flatland does a pretty great job exploring that concept imho.

I hear that…

Supposedly if every single liberal-leaning person were to vote Democrat, they (edit: some of them) would have become swing states.

But I think it’s more that people just want an easy target to punch, which makes people feel more in control. Like, it’s not our glorious leader™'s fault, it’s “those” people, over there. And the number of Internet searches for what happened to Joe Biden on the very morning of the election should legit be worrisome to us all imho…

Ngl, I was kinda impressed by storing told about Kamala’s campaigning and dedication. (Or was that simply part of the spin machine?) Maybe she could - no, surely she could have done better? But she also gave it as much as “the establishment” would allow, and came up short.

So now we can either roll up our sleeves and try to fix things… oh who is anyone kidding we’ll just take whatever handouts we are given, as always.

Or worse yet, he Brianed that up. Which is too generic & unfair to any other Brians, hence why the need for descriptive nicknames!!?!

Stop trying to make fetch happen - it’s not going to happen! At least not with that as a drone.

Not with a drone strike you’re not, apparently… 🙃

Be careful, conservatives may be coming for you next! 🙃

No way, birbs are not real bc drones. But proof that horshs are real: