Sure, Mr. Eugenics. Sure we could.
this post was submitted on 13 Jul 2025
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The problem is that people look at rules as the be all end all, but there is a lot which goes behind how the rules are made and enforced.
A lot of people don't take into account the systems created by the rules.
The story so far: In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.
edit everyone who upvoted this past 42 has insulted my grandmother
Douglas Adams was brilliant. I really should read more of his work.
As far as I've read, the HGTTG series is his best work, but I can still solidly recommend Dirk Gently
H2G2 is a better piece of work overall, but Dirk Gently is better work line-by-line, I think. I had to set Long Dark Teatime at least once per page to appreciate something I'd just read.
Even the ones with digital watches.
I too was 16 once.
Me too, decades ago. This is a bit tongue and cheek.
Just pretend to get over it, like the others who are so thoroughly asleep and let their lifes pass.
Or stay awake, and try to make a few things better while you are actually able to, and hope to find ways to accept all the rest.
Welcome to life.
Thanks!
May I interest you in the philosophy of Absurdism?
Nihilism: "Life has no meaning 😭"
Absurdism: "Life has no meaning 😃"
Already interested, but I appreciate the offer :)
Yeah but chaos is the heart of beauty. Without entropy to define the negative space around order, there would be nothing to admire (and there wouldn’t be any life or people). Everything is messy and complicated and that’s actually kinda wonderful.
"I reject your reality and substitute my own!"
I miss Mythbusters.
It's scary, but it's alright. Everything is finite.
All things in life are finite. You are finite. I am finite. This... is wrong tool.
Um... yes?
The universe is incomplete, which is why there is some rather than nothing. Some inequality that can't quite get worked out. It's the fly in the ointment. The rounding error that just won't quite go away.
In Stellaris there is a way to fix it. Make pi 3, no Entropy, etc.
Somehow, that one slipped off my radar despite being out nearly a decade. I'll have to try it sometime.
Man made rules tend to be paradoxical, inconsistent, contradictory and poorly designed. What about laws of physics?
What about laws of physics?
Inconvenient. I'd like to remote pilot a robot on Mars, but light speed is agonizingly slow.
Don’t use light then. That’s a limitation of our technology and understanding of physics.
If you find sailing boats agonizingly slow, you gotta upgrade to steam boats. First, you need to develop the appropriate machining technologies so that you can build pistons that seal reasonably well.
You had me at light pistons.
They too are paradoxical and inconsistent.
Study QED a bit. It all makes no sense. That's not a complaint, just recognizing that nature is absurdly complex.