Social pressures I suppose.

Where’s my upstream explicit sync lads

“The veals”

I think they’re called calf’s until they leave the abattoir.

Wait, what?

That’s like saying you don’t have to drive faster to win the race, you just have to cross the line first.

I’m pretty much on board, though how much anyone can agree is a matter of relativity.

We know about the closest stars and the planets within them, and based off spectrometry, we’re confident the planets “close” to us haven’t had life, though they might be capable.

The chances of there being no mass extinction events in the millions of years following abiogenesis is arguably smaller than surviving the five or so we’ve had. Given everything we know about astrophysics, we owe the asteroids a few clean hits, we have been astronomically lucky, and that’s not even taking into consideration every other cause of mass extinction.

15 billion years is still considered early in the grand scheme of things, it’s likely that we are the early ones. A billion years head start is plausible, sure, but it’s certainly less plausible than our existence.

All of this is to say that life is rare enough without them being a stones throw away.

And this is all disregarding any possible intent behind a visit. Any being capable of space travel does not need our resources.

Unless they’re sex tourists, which would explain all the anal probing.

On second thought, I choose to believe.

The chances of extra terrestrial life to have visited earth is very, very small.

The chances of life to occur are small enough,

The chances of evolution to pass through multiple extinction events and producing a being capable of higher intelligence is even smaller,

The chances they have done this faster than humans is smaller still,

The chances they have evolved close enough to us to have visited is near impossible.

The universe is huge, there’s almost certainly life elsewhere - but to ask whether they visited earth is like speculating on whether ghosts exist.

Also the universe is expanding at such a fast rate that unless we develop faster-than-light tech, we will never reach another solar system.

For what it’s worth, I care if my partner isn’t “prepared”.

It’s not a disqualifying factor by any means, but it does prevent a perfect score.

“The” girl?

What are you implying? That the person being depicted is an object?

Get out of here you piece of shit.

Statistically better than the choices I’ve made thus far I suppose.

Two things:

1. It sounds like you are blaming yourself, which is hard not to do when everything seems futile - but how you frame things is part of CBT.

You are responsible for the choices you make, but there’s a difference between learning, and beating yourself up.

Once you understand the underlying causes for your decisions, you become a different person, and it becomes harder to associate those old thoughts to who you are now.

2. Don’t put all your eggs in one basket. Be cautious of anyone who will accept the task.

I used to think my parents had shit figured out, then I realised how dumb they were.

Then I thought I had shit figured out, then I realised how dumb I was.

Then I thought I found my own guru who had shit figured out, but then I realised how dumb they were.

If you get lucky and find someone who provides valuable insights, understand this is gambling - eventually they will give bad advice.

I feel pressure to participate in modern social aesthetics

“Yet, you continue to participate in modern social aesthetics, I am very intelligent”

Seems great in practice, but wait until someone with the slightest hint of paranoia misattributes a threat against their car, to a threat against their safety.

One of three things happen:

• Driver freaks out and freezes up.
• Driver freaks out and speeds away (possibly causing an accident)
• Driver freaks out and aims their car at you and puts their foot down.

And the texture, like a dry snowball?

Also it can affect people in ways they aren’t even aware themselves.

Fortune telling for example.

My friends mum sold her house because the fortune teller told her some vague nonsense she interpreted to mean the end of the world was approaching.

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I mean, unless you promted it to be an abomination, you would get a normal chick with a high enough denoise level lol

No, this is Patrick!