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Cake day: January 28th, 2024

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  • This is exactly the information I was looking for.

    It seemed like the key points from the medium post were:

    • Nebula creators don’t actually own any of the company, but are promised a portion if the company is ever sold.

    • They are likely funded by venture capitalists, and are masquerading as a form of co-op

    • The sales pitch to subscribers is disingenuous because content creators are claiming to have 50% ownership, when they actually have 0%

    I think you summed it up well. According to that post, they are a better option than YouTube, are friendlier to content creators, but are in serious lack of transparency




  • That second link is perfect!

    Skimming through it, I have come to the realization that it probably would not have affected my most recent conversations.

    They were talking about it like Kanye fans talk about his episodes. They ignore the insanity and keep on enjoying life as if it never happened.

    The immigration policies don’t affect them, the coronavirus debacle is over to them (and largely blamed on Biden). The cronyism is looked at as part of politics

    Roe versus Wade is the only one that directly had an impact, and now is taken as a fact of life.

    I don’t know what it will take, but I will keep the visual list of atrocities in my back pocket whenever the need arises.

    Thanks!


  • In current conversations, it is hard to point towards potential future economic policies when inflation and the cost of living was so extreme in the Biden administration.

    In a conversation I had just prior to the election, one of his supporters commented to me “things were just better before Biden. I could afford groceries back then…”

    You and I know there is nuance to this. Economic policies and infrastructure investment both have delayed effects to see the benefit, often not occurring until the next president is in office. That, and the fact that it’s hard to hold corporate greed and Wall Street accountable without a super majority.

    None of that helps to keep in your back pocket during casual discourse though.



  • Insidious is a good word for it.

    Though, I worry that we are not as resilient as you might imply. America left World War II with half the world’s wealth, a healthy middle class, and was responsible for half the world’s manufacturing.

    As a result, even with all of that wealth being transferred, we were wealthy enough as a country that the full effects of the wealth transfer have not been felt in its entirety.

    With The US ostensibly transferring into late-stage capitalism, and the consequential income inequality, I am not as optimistic as you in our recovery from despotism.





  • Not that I necessarily agree with it, but having listened to a lot of Alan Watts, he gives the impression that he somewhat believes in a just universe.

    To him every experience and every challenge is an opportunity for growth, especially the most difficult experiences.

    He posits a belief in a karmic universe, where every lifetime of experiences and choices leads into the next lifetime of experiences and choices.

    It rubs me wrong, because that type of thinking, to me, stems from the childish belief in a just universe, that good things happen to good people, and bad things happen to bad people.

    Therefore, if terrible things are happening to you, then you must deserve it because your karma created your lifetime of circumstances…





  • Have you tried an activity you actually enjoy? I know that sounds a bit curt, but I gave up jogging for mountain biking and hiking, and now it is substantially easier to convince myself to get out and get started because I actually enjoy what I’m doing!

    That shouldn’t have been as revelatory for me as it was, but the current paradigm is that jogging, gym time, or other monotonous activities are what we should be doing, and that really just sucks the joy out of physical activity.






  • Easy problem vs hard problem of consciousness .

    We have a general idea of the basic biological systems associated with consciousness, but we don’t actually know what awareness is at its fundamental level.

    Given that your brain is just a system of biochemical reactions. We don’t know why it feels like something to feel anything at all.

    You know you are conscious, because you are experiencing it, but it is very difficult to prove that you are not just an example of the Chinese room problem . After all, what would it look like if you were not conscious, but automated to perform as if you were?

    We do not know what types of information processing eventually constitute something being conscious. We barely agree on any nuanced definition of consciousness.

    Given how difficult it is to prove that humans themselves are consciousness, I assume the argument continues the less a life form can communicate it’s awareness, and the less information it processes.

    I personally believe most of us intuit that other species are conscious, and it has been a long time since I have explored the academic arguments otherwise. I have been out of University for over 2 decades, so it has been a while since I’ve heard any of the arguments…