I've always been partial to the phrase "the worst thing someone has experienced is the worst thing they've experienced". Someone elses experiences never invalidates that.
I've always been partial to the phrase "the worst thing someone has experienced is the worst thing they've experienced". Someone elses experiences never invalidates that.
I've always been partial to "sticks and stones may break my bones but words can really hurt me".
They tried it in France after the revolution IIRC. Didn't work all that well :)
Everybody knows that the dice are loaded
Everybody rolls with their fingers crossed
Everybody knows the war is over
Everybody knows the good guys lost
Everybody knows the fight was fixed
The poor stay poor, the rich get rich
That's how it goes
Everybody knows
That's the way. I've been programming for nigh on four decades, and it's almost a daily occurrence with junior devs going to stack overflow or chatGPT to solve an issue instead of just searching the code where nine times out of ten the problem (or a very similar one) is already solved.
What a funny way to spell "shine on you crazy diamond" 😉
An also a lot of middle-class western people. 1% of the world's population is about 80 million people.
You'd have to go down to 0.001% to only target the ultra-wealthy.
Plenty of philosophers over the centuries have thought long and hard about the free will problem, and not all of them have come out on the side of it existing. David Hume, for instance, had to resort to religion to solve his issues with it (God made us have free will), and several contemporary philosophers have come down firmly on the "deterministic but complex enough to look non-deterministic" side of the fence. in essence, that free will is an illusion, but a good enough one that we still feel like we have it.
Well, it was Zippo lighter fluid, so I guess my second mistake was calling it "gasoline" 😉
Watch out with that, I did it for years but eventually had to stop because I got sore skin from the gasoline in the Zippo. And I quit smoking so didn't need it any more 🙂
"Atheism is a religion in the same way that not collecting stamps is a hobby"