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Cake day: June 18th, 2023

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  • I’ve learned that people almost exclusively fall into holes of being good at heart or bad at heart. At this point in my life, I tend to pick up on how they think about others pretty quickly.

    I’ve found that people good at heart are generally capable of opening up kindness once they gain empathy for someone, e.g. realize what someone is going through, even when they were previously convinced otherwise. Sometimes they’re quick to anger, but they seem to get that we’re all people so they just want to be sure they’re mad at the right people.

    I’ve found that people bad at heart consider every interaction in their life to be a transaction, or a zero sum game. Unfortunately they’re easily convinced that the person next to them in line, or the generation they don’t understand, or the invisible immigrants or whatever are the cause of all their problems with money, healthcare, taxes;

    While ironically they’re reading that on Facebook, and corporations don’t want them to look at the history of their wages vs profits or whatever. There’s a big difference between someone who wouldn’t vote for Kamala because they thought she wouldn’t serve their interests, and someone wearing a “say no to the ho” t-shirt while actively supporting a rapist pedophile.








  • I’m from the northeast US. I studied abroad in Australia when I was 20 and we took a backpacking trip into the rainforest and hiked up a huge plateau (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Solitary). Certainly not like “in the middle of nowhere,” but far away from Sydney or any other major light pollution that the night sky was beautiful.

    I laid down on a cliff and saw the Milky Way for the first time. It was cold as fuck, but I had a light blanket and was just captivated. When our fire died down and everyone packed into their tents I still couldn’t help but hang out on that cliff for awhile.

    I’m much older now, with less ability to get up and travel without consequence, but I want to travel across the US, and I think while some of the Midwest may be boring, I’m most excited to find some dark farmland that will let me see the Milky Way again.






  • That would make sense, your brain definitely is trying to make sense of it because syllables, sentences, vocal emotion, etc are all there, so there are certainly patterns that can be picked up on, but none of it matches the existing language centers you have.

    As to why you might get more frustrated than others about it, who knows, brains are weird and I’m not a neuroscientist