I'll tell you when I discover it's a lie.
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Thankyou! Was excited about if someone would get the irony :D
I'm such a dumbo that I didn't get the point of the question...
"It'll get better, just gotta get through the week"
Hang in there, three unicorns
Whatβs the unicorn thing? Iβm out of the loop.
I just like unicorns
Yo I'm 43 and have no interest in unicorns but yours are awesome
I told myself the same lie, week after week, until some day I realised it wasn't a lie anymore.
Yap, hang in there. There are good moments too. Maybe we should concentrate on those.
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That we'll solve climate change and I'll get to live past 50
We probably won't solve climate change. We might be able to make huge air conditioned complexes with just a single basic bed for everybody with insect farms underground for us to eat?
That just sounds like Fallout with extra steps.
As long as the insects aren't radroaches we will be okay
No one knows what happens in the future. We can make assumptions and calculation based on statistics and probability. But ultimately we don't know.
There are some ideas to terraform the Earth to keep it habitable. It's just very expensive and challenging and if we screw it up, we'll be worse off than when we started. We likely won't get a 2nd chance and as a species we don't typically nail it on the 1st try.
βYou can buy a house with your own moneyβ someone told me when I was a kid.
Last week I calculated that if I save every penny and dont spend a thing for the next 47 years I might have just enough to get myself a small house (hoping of course that inflation doesnβt happen otherwise it would be a shame to save +500.000 euro π)
They didn't say where though. I bet in some country you can buy a house for less than 10k
Yeah, I recently bought my own house. I had to move to a rural area 2000 miles away from all my family and friends. But I did it.
Congrats! Did you do it with your own money? (So no borrowing! Not that that is bad)
Well, I borrowed from the bank. But I think just about everyone does that. Other than that, no money borrowed. My parents paid for my college 100%, which gave me a huge headstart in life, as I didn't need to pay off any student loans. After college I got a job at a startup, which gave me a bunch of stock, and then we sold the company, which gave me a really nice payday. My down payment and moving costs were entirely funded by that.
So it was a mix of luck between having parents that could pay for my college, luck getting a job at a company that sold, and then moving to a less expensive area. Of course, I don't want to downplay how hard I worked in college and at the startup to put myself in a situation where I could get lucky.
That if you work are, be kind, play fair everything will work out fine.
Oof. Yeah man.
That I have any sort of meaningful future or purpose ahead of me.
I hope things happen in your life that make you able to believe, that, what you said was a lie isn't one.
I can't stop picturing myself as a demolished beggar quite soon. Or a pile of mashed meat near a 10-story building.
That I will own a house big enough to raise kids.
That anyone should be allowed to vote.
I mean, obviously I believe in democracy, don't get me wrong... My idea is that you should have a chance to be allowed to vote. Like you have to at least pass a reading & comprehension test before you get like a voting license or something.
You don't get to drive if you're incapable to see the road, you don't get to vote if you're incapable to understand what a politician is saying to you.
I'm sorry
Edit: I'm not from the USA, so I didn't know that there was already something similar back then.
Still, I believe that basic comprehension is foundamental in the voting process and there should be a way to check it. Otherwise there is no failsafe to populism taking over
at least pass a reading and comprehension test
That's banned in the US under the Civil Rights Act of 1965 because it was used to cut racial minorities out of the voting process. I can also think of a bunch of other ways this could be abused.
You're probably already aware that there have been literacy requirements to vote in the past in some places in the US, but those were actually an excuse to disenfranchise black people. https://history.iowa.gov/history/education/educator-resources/primary-source-sets/right-to-vote-suffrage-women-african/voter-registration-literacy
Literacy tests were banned by the Voting Rights Act in 1965. There have been recent attacks on that law including the 2013 Supreme Court case Shelby County v Holder which overturned election oversight in jurisdictions with a history of racist disenfranchisement; and Allen v Milligan from a couple months ago was an attempt to overturn gerrymandering restrictions, but thankfully it failed. Combine that with continuing voter disenfranchisement (for example far too few polling places in Atlanta leading to black voters waiting in line many hours to vote), and there is no doubt in my mind that if literacy tests were legal again they would be used the same way they were in the 60's.
Personally I think history has shown that we get better leaders when more votes are counted.
Itβs less important because votes are averaged.
Itβs well established that smarter people are just as likely to get caught up in bullshit. Maybe reading is a handicap to voting.
If you have a low IQ you're not legally allowed to serve in the military, but you damn sure can vote for the president π
The hard part about this is who gets to decide what the criteria is needed to be allowed to vote? It can easily be taken advantage.
"Flushable wipes"
I'm at an age where moist arse wipes are a godsend, and I stubbornly cling to the lie that they're flushable and fine.
Just dispose of them in the trash
It really is bad to flush them
That there's good and honest companies in this world.
Iβve worked for companies that are good and honest
I ran a good honest company. Sold it to a less good and less honest one, though.
Well, not that I believe in it. Representative democracy. It's like, we have the right to elect representatives, who seem to more often than not represent corporate/money interests, not really the interest of the majority.
Congratulations. You now understand politics.
That I progressed past my teenage years and cake
I still listen to Cake, they're good.
That ill live past 50
Despite all logic pointing to the falsity of it, I cannot stop seeing the past and future as places that exist.
In a certain way of thinking the past still exists as light waves traveling away from earth. You just need an impossibly large telescope to see anything of detail.
That i'm gonna eat healthy. That i'm gonna learn how to play piano.
That woman, queer folk and PoC want too much space in this world.
That there are no obsticals for those groups, they just made them up.
I am not activly thinking that. But everytime i wish to speak my mind i am still asking myself "should i say something? Am i qualifyed enough? Maybe i get called out for being stupid π₯²"
I'm in my sixth decade. That burden lifted decades ago!