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The rational reason to face the cavalry is it hurts less to die on your feet.
As an aside, it’s the only way to survive.
So your choices are:
- Cower and die a pain-enhanced death
- Stand and 99% chance of dying a pain-blunted death; 1% chance of surviving
People think the reason to fight is that 1% chance at surviving. But the other, more likely, outcome of fighting is also better than a coward’s death. It literally hurts less to die fighting.
Once you know that, it’s a no-brainer. Dopamine is an analgesic, and you only get dopamine when you stand up and keep moving. It makes the day suck less to try.
To relate it to our daily lives, where there’s no cavalry charging us, it hurts less to try and fail than it does to never try at all.
People think failing hurts, but it’s not a linear function. Dopamine is a painkiller. Trying and failing is like getting punched on novocaine; not trying at all is getting slapped without any painkillers. You’d think getting punched would be worse than getting slapped, but the punch comes with novocaine.
This is the reason to try. It immediately eliminates the most painful outcome, which is never having tried.
He’s fucking lit from below 🤣
1·18 minutes agoStupid person:
- Has theory
- New data comes in
- Changes theory
1·26 minutes agoMaybe they think a child abuser who has just received a beating is more likely, not less likely, to go on and abuse children.
Think about it: do you really think a man who beats his children is gonna be a better dad after he gets beaten up?
Violence is a complex subject, and people’s instinct to solve problems with beating up people they’re frustrated with is a curse of humanity, no matter how obvious a solution it may seem in the moment.
Some people, lots of people actually, and with good reason, think that violence begets violence.
What were your reasons to live before they got eliminated?
No. It’s all part of a scheme to make money. That’s it. People aren’t against you; they’re for themselves.
And I guess working on yourself and trying to improve aren’t exactly attractable qualities.
My dad always says to me: “If you want to find the right person, be the right person”.
1·7 hours agoThere’s a McCrae 🫴 John McCrae
There’s way more than ten Americans. False news.
And finally there’s “I think only people like me suffer so I want people who aren’t like me to suffer, for the sake of justice”
1·8 hours agoAll these years, and I still have to put the phone on speaker and set it next to my laptop and use the Audacity app on my laptop to record a call.
1·8 hours agoSo far, probably because of the cost of moving material to Mars orbit
1·8 hours agoInteresting that there’s a whole community for questions that can be answered with “Not The Onion”
1·8 hours agoThe generations that had midlife crises lived in a world where they bought their first house at age 22
4·16 hours agoIt’s Atlassian
2·16 hours agoIf it’s on a computer with a keyboard it would be fine. Not interested in a CLI where the keyboard is a touch screen UI element.
24·16 hours agoYeah the Rs aren’t doing that. You are correct. The “they” would be the Ds.
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