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There isn't a universal answer, I expect it depends a lot on your worldview and whether you got past your hangups earlier in life, and what your health, regrets and living situation are. I have anecdotal evidence both ways.

The left looks like Platonic relationship material unfortunately

Another fun tree fact I heard, the reason why coal exists was because trees existed on land for a long time before decomposers existed to digest their fibers. They just died and were buried intact. This actually caused a problem with sequestering so much CO2 that the earth went into an ice age.

Edit for clarification: decomposers did exist but they couldn't decompose tree lignin specifically so it just stayed around.

We normalized the idea that regulations on business that prevent them from springing us with shoddy products that harm us, or maliciously use our data to exploit us, are too onerous and anti-competitive, so let's just let the corpos put some magic words in an EULA/TOS/Privacy Policy to allow them to caveat emptor us to death.

We could use a revitalization of the consumer rights movement from the grassroots, but it's a real uphill battle and every year it gets harder.

I always thought it was crazy to wonder what the qualia of colors we can't see but other animals can is. It's sort of like being a cat or some other animal with limited color vision and trying to imagine what humans see. How would you prove to a cat that those colors exist?

Mostly feeling the vibes given the recent Australian report linking nicotine vapes to cancer and the anecdotal evidence I have for these strong vapes causing all sorts of negative mental outcomes or dependency for people I know who use them heavily. We still have a lot of space to learn about unintended consequences here and I'm pessimistic.

High THC cannabis vapes.

I've got the big 4 birthday coming very soon. I already have enough ailments to complain about but I'll wait for now. Not enough time in the day to be bitter about that.

I think you might have a little bit to go yet, enjoy your remaining youth!

Thanks for the recommendation, will add it to the list!

Re-reading the Sandman comic series for the first time in about twenty years.

Looking good Sandy!