Yup, that is the goal. Juuuuust short of desperate. That is where we are aiming for most of our population to live.

Thank someone you had the phase at all.

Dedication. In a world where not doing things is vastly easier than doing things, the fact that they would do anything is frankly, a marvel.

Didn't George Lucas's wife get an Oscar for editing Star Wars?

Ah yes, the classic exclusion post on 196

They could write a 300 page book of these short stories and it would sell like hit cakes if brought to a publisher with a brain. This stuff is popular on reddit because it is popular content. Content creators just have not been making money on their work.

Man, capitalism got me fucked up over this. Is value even the right word? Is value lost when someone dies? What about those who left some part of themselves behind vs those that don't? Does an artist lead a more valuable life than a ditch digger? Does a ceo lead a more valuable life than an artist? Are all lives equally valuable? Do we all truly have experience to share and beliefs to teach? Maybe. Society has never shown equal value to all, is it a worthy goal to value all life equally? Or is it silly to even make the attempt?

Lots of thoughts on this one that I'm not sure about.

As I understand it the keystone between left and right is that:
The left belief is that all people are created equal and should have equal authority to point out wrong doing. The right belief is that people should be in a hierarchy with people at the top exerting control downward.

I think they are actually just saying if you really believe everyone is equal you can't pick a group to target for mass murder. But if you are at the top of a pyramid tge people below you naturally look expendable.

At least that is my reading of this debate.

Correct, and my point was that they can't. If you view everyone as equal you can't make yourself a dictator. You can lie to yourself about your value, most people do for better or worse. But if everyone is equal you can't decide to boost one group over another. Or if you do decide that is better and you deserve to be in charge, then your views have shifted right. That is my understanding of left vs right in it's most basic form.

What about careers on the fringes like speech coaches for actors and things like that. Do we ever actually praise those people? Wouldn't be surprised to learn that was majority women too.

Thank you, I can never remember her name. Costume design is only recently starting to become valued as well I feel. Are there other areas where women struggle to be recognized in the industry? I assume stunt work is a big one.

Honestly, if I were a high-level caster in DnD setting, I would only use Alarm. What could possibly be a better defense than myself? And if I'm not alive to recast the alarm, what do I care for the fate of my lab?

Would probably take inspiration from Marvel with The Collector (I think?) And show them buck wild shit with no defenses at all. If they want to rob someone who puts no locks on a lab full of expirements on undead dragons and crazy artifacts just sitting on tge wall, go for it.

That is the kinda DM I am though lol

Replies to the upvoted call-out comment.

"Fucking echo chamber"

Another interesting thought. "Dehumanization of people" sounds like the title of a dissertation, it has so much depth you could talk about.

My first thought is, "can you even dehumanize someone" because I've never recognized this feeling as having "the features of humanity denied to me" by someone and properly identified it.

Looking back I have for sure been dehumanized at work so many times I can't get close to counting them. And I don't think that anyone could go home to their parents house and have their mom be a totally different person without being confused at least.

It is only recently that I would consider my co-workers as not interchangeable. Lower paid high turn over positions you just don't get attached to people, or at least I don't. People come and go so fast, but there are some that I only worked with for a few weeks that I remember to this day. Never considered that value before.

Yeah! I've been asking chat gpt to take care of my daughter every day and I've not heard her cry in months!

I read most of the manga under a similar premise of "taking the challenge" and it is sad how little it effected me. The plot is just so incredibly shoe horned together. Just the baseline of tge show being "he used his healing to travel back in time" like what? The main character sucks and I don't think you are supposed to sympathize with him, which was fine enough. But every choice in the narrative is just so laughable. It's mostly edginess for the sake of edginess in my opinion.

I was calling your comment dumb.

"Economics" is the answer in one way. And in another since large companies lobby for laws that help them and hurt progress.