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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • I was kind of hoping it would be this story about this guy that is trapped living forever unable to die. His mind is uploaded and then used for thousands of years. Always the one that goes on risky missions. All his memories are synced and he remembers every death.

    It would be this kind of story about how this guy copes with his reality goes through all kinds of emotions starting with excitement then depression and nihilism and then ends where he embraces a form of insanity and absurdism.

    Instead it was just a narrative about trump in space.











  • No, that is a speciesist take. We are not distinct in the ways that are most important. Among many similarities non-human animals feel pain and don’t want to die. Those are the most important ways that we are the same.

    Do you think humans evolved in a vacuum? We share a lot of similarities in our brains with other types of animals that also have brains.

    It is not dehumanizing. Here’s a quote to think on: “When you’re accustomed to privilege, equality feels like oppression”