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What you do when you don’t have to, makes you who you are.
Seriously though:
A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools. — Douglas Adams
From “The Good Place”: If soulmates do exist, they’re not found. They’re made.
I believe Seth MacFarlane said something similar in “The Orville”.
A great reminder from two great shows.
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I miss Orville
I miss TGP. But it ended exactly where it needed to end
They are currently filming season four!
Are they going to make it funny again? Or will it be as exhausting as season 3?
I never even considered it a comedy tbh.
Probably it’ll just get worse. I have yet to see a series that dug itself out of a hole it made past the pilot season.
I just started watching it, when should I stop so I still like it?
IMO, season 1 was the best, season 2 started going down hill, season 3 shouldn’t have been made or given another year to write a better script.
Right, I think I’ll go to the end of season 2 then. Thanks for saving me
Exhausting? S3 was awesome and ST:TNG-like!
“The thing about happiness is that you only know you had it when it’s gone. I mean, you may think to yourself that you’re happy. But you don’t really believe it. You focus on the petty bullshit, or the next job, or whatever. It’s only looking back by comparison with what comes after that you really understand, that’s what happiness felt like.”
-Conrad Kellogg. Fallout 4.
I remember that. And the literal horror show you had to watch first in order to get to that point.… That was a good game.
just wait til you kids discover literature.
Joking here but your comment made me think of this so I’m posting it.
Yes put down the gaming controller and go interact with reality instead.
I refuse.
Said the pompous dork on the internet
no you show me and don’t put that controller down, that’ll show me
It is possible to commit no mistakes and still lose. That is not a weakness, that is life.
I find that this is particularly difficult for conservative, “pull yourself up from your bootstraps” types to understand. Some people think poor people, or those who have fallen into misfortune, were makers of their own tragedy. While it may sometimes be the case, I believe that more often than not, these people were just unlucky enough to born at the wrong place, at the wrong time, into the wrong family, neighbourhood, or country.
There are poor people inventing incredible things every day, but nobody around them has the power nor connections to make anything out of it. I watched a video of people who made a bike out of wood that could carry half a tonne, down an unpaved road at relatively high speeds, while metal bikes in developed countries have ratings for people under 150kg. But because those poor bike-makers were born where they were and had to toil in order to survive, day in and day out, there was never enough time for them for make their inventions a product to be produced and sold to the masses. Yet somewhere, there’s a conservative prick saying these people are lazy or aren’t smart.
First thought that came to me as well. Thank You Captain Picard…
This could have also been said by any speedrunner in a game with even a single RNG event.
Two quotes/ statements from a book named “The Midnight Library” ;
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“If you aim to be something you are not, you will always fail. Aim to be you. Aim to look and act and think like you. Aim to be the truest version of you. Embrace that you-ness. Endorse it. Love it. Work hard at it. And don’t give a second thought when people mock it or ridicule it. Most gossip is envy in disguise”.
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“Never underestimate the big importance of small things”.
Regarding the former: I’m autistic and have a lot of experiences telling me that I should hide parts of myself from others to be acceptable. It doesn’t work. It’s better for one-off social interactions, and I should rein in my info-dumping in some scenarios, but it’s easier to make better friends if I just share myself with others.
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You won’t know if you don’t ask.
People fear rejection or embarrassment for asking other people questions but once you realize that it’s the most efficient way to navigate life it really helps. Saves you time and energy. Often saves you emotional energy as well in the long run.
If you like someone just ask them.
If you want to know where someone got something or learned a skill just ask them.
Curiosity is important and I feel so many people are so socially anxious that they will just try and Google and Google as opposed to entering into a simple verbal exchange with a stranger or something.
Almost every horrific thing that humans engage in stems from fear.
… and the rest, greed.
Greed stems from fear if you really stop to think about it.
There’s this quote early in Good Omens: “It may help to understand human affairs to be clear that most of the great triumphs and tragedies of history are caused, not by people being fundamentally good or fundamentally bad, but by people being fundamentally people.”
It’s an awkward one these days, but it sounds Pratchett-esque enough to salvage.
Experience is a lantern lightning only it’s carrier
What is better: to be born good, or to overcome your evil nature through great effort?
Does it even matter if you wind up being a good person either way?
When my dad was teaching me how to ride a bike, I kept falling.
He noticed that I was paying so much attention to the road that I couldn’t focus on riding the bike.
Finally he picked me up, looked me dead in the eyes and said, “You rule the road. Don’t let the road rule you”.
Somehow that phrase immediately gave me the ability to ride a bicycle.
I have shared it with other people learning to ride a bicycle after they have fallen down at least once.
It freaking works.
“Look where you want to go, not where you are.” worked for me.
Similar sentiment.
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“If it weren’t for my horse, I would’ve never spent that year in college.”
I don’t know what it means, but it has changed my life.
‘Be Kind; Everyone You Meet is Fighting a Hard Battle’
Sometimes that grumpy old man really is just having a bad day.
I think about that one often. It’s too easy to dismiss people because their attitudes don’t line up with our personal ideals, but even those people have some internal struggle going on. We all do. Not that it ever justifies terrible behavior, but it does warrant consideration.
100%
“Compound interest is the eighth wonder of the world. He who understands it, earns it; he who doesn’t, pays it.”
Then why aren’t we all getting rich from it? Hint: not just because we don’t understand it.
Yes I believe Jesus referred to it as usury in the Bible.
