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  • But as I've either said or alluded to elsewhere here, do empathy and compassion even matter if their 80-year lives are over in the relative blink of an eye and they die, too? You can certainly still do it if you want, but no one can claim that it's a superior life versus a selfish approach if everyone's just gonna die anyway and all of what you're reading here right now, thinking, feeling, remembering, etc., and all individual-to-collective experience will eventually meet oblivion regardless of quality-of-life status. "Oh, their life was a little better for the brief moment they were on Earth." So what, when facing eternity in the eye?

  • I'm saying: why does that change matter if you won't even be there to experience it in full? (I'm assuming you're talking about legacy improvements to humanity after your death; if you would experience it in full during life, then by all means, go for it: I'd agree with that, at least.) Otherwise, I think I'd need an example of what you mean.

  • Not sure of why you deleted your comment as I thought it was fair enough; that's sort of where I've gone in actions anyway since making this post (just create our own meaningfulness), even though I may pout in words here lol. And yeah, post age is no big deal; we get notifs either way!

  • But why do you care about what happens to them given how you won't even be there to experience the fruit of your hard work and labor?

    Go even further and think really long-term: they will die, too. Whether you leave it in "a better shape" or not, everything will eventually die, even with perfect recycling programs, fusion reactors, etc.; I'm talking trillions of years into the future. The sun will become a black hole, everything will go extinct, and we'll continue to trudge along the path to total entropy until we're there and that's it for everything and nothing. So why does it matter if even billions of lives were improved for their brief 80-2,000 years (just to account for potentially how far life extension tech can go) versus the vast eternity of nothingness? Their better quality of life doesn't matter because they'll die regardless. A 100-year life of relatively less versus more pain: really? So what? That's nothing compared to the history of the Earth alone, and much more the entire universe. Why fight so hard if there is no life to come after this one?

    Now, in saying this, I'm not promoting total hedonism and pleasure-pursuing, but my point is that in light of the looming, endless void, you can't claim moral superiority in saying you lived your life better or more altruistically than a more selfish person. The flat plane of the extinction of all consciousness levels any claims of living a "better" life; if you want to help people, then by all means, go for it, but know that you're just doing it because you want to do it; there is no moral basis in any particular action being "better" or "worse" given how we're all destined for death and annihilation anyway, no matter what we do or don't, ultimately. And that sucks that reducing people's pain doesn't matter in the grand scheme of things, but we don't seem to get a choice in deciding that (aside from deluding ourselves over what "better," more moral living means; just because one feels it's right doesn't make it so, even as I continue to try to help my local community regularly).

  • When I say "forced," I mean that you shouldn't have to go into about:config to hunt for something that doesn't even say the phrase "time zone" in it to disable this. It should be openly in the browser's options. There should also be a warning about this; I read of no such notice when first firing it up. It came off as shady and an unwanted, initially forced "feature" that caused way more problems than it solved.

  • I feel like this is more the iOS experience, personally.

  • Sure thing! It's excellent in bite-size chunks, yeah!

  • Daaaaang, this makes me think of the game RimWorld: some colonists can have a random fascination with receiving prosthetics. So it's real...

  • Have fun with the forced time zone obfuscation, messing up your scheduled messages and timestamps. !waterfox@programming.dev is where it's at.

  • browser support to enter the address and credit card details makes a 1-time purchase less of a hassle

    Do not ever use the built-in browser credential storage; use an exterior system. - !privacy@programming.dev

  • Seeing this stuff freaks me out over the coming Orwellian state that will crush all free thought (in discussion boards like these, by shutting them down) through the might of its resources.

    I hope the defense is sustainable. Thanks for what you do.

  • Oops, Summit had said my comment had failed and offered to retry. Not sure of what happened there...

  • Unfortunately, I ended up disliking this one because of the mouse requirement (I'm unable to use a gamepad), which games like the Cook, Serve, Delicious!! trilogy or The Chef's Shift don't require. Sort of a similar vibe to CSD, though.

  • I don't understand; isn't the entire second half of this video showing typical kamikaze moves that the text claims to be minimizing?

  • What makes it the "best" over Ubuntu Touch, etc.?