Bottom quoting in emails
this post was submitted on 07 Dec 2023
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Fallout 4 is a better game than New Vegas.
I suppose everyone is entitled to an opinion, no matter how wrong it is.
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Selfishness is coded into us by evolution. It's genetic. Lots of people will agree with me on this.
What I get a lot of pushback on, is that selflessness is the same. It has evolutionary benefits for a familial group, and so gets selected for.
Selfishness may have been selected for tens of millions of years ago in our evolution, but as pre-humans became social animals it's clear that selfless or other-centric thinking became strongly selected for as well. You otherwise couldn't have a species that's almost entirely other-dependent, throughout the whole life but especially for the first 10-15 years of it.
Humans can't sustainably exist outside of a society.
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I don't want to get rid of daylight savings, because it's still a better option than keeping either summer or winter time.
Edit: another one: not having kids does not in any way contribute to solving environmental problems, we need MORE young, educated minds who have a chance to figure it out (as terrible as it sounds to push problems on the new generation), and we should ensure that in the event that we do manage to stabilize the situation, we won't instead have fucked up demographics to deal with.
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