I think "full-dive" VR (think the matrix or ready player one) in 40 years might be possible with the right breakthroughs in neuroscience. I hope I live to see the day, that tech will change the way we live big time...
Dark chocolate has some caffeine, but if you're used to coffee don't expect it to do much. 90% at least if you want any effect. I just enjoy it for the cocoa, never really notice the caffeine bc I'm used to a big rush from coffee.
Don't rule out Nietzsche either, with his ideas on the creation of your moral system, becoming a "god" unto yourself, exercising will through art, and will-to-power by helping others (and thus altering their lives and will in a much more effective way than harming them as a "show of force" / what most think of as power). I highly recommend studying his thinking very deeply when anyone abandons the idea of god. And remember, even though god is dead, in thus spoke Zarathustra the character (representing one of us, who knows that god is dead) never told that to the monk, but rather envied his ability to believe. Believing in a god is by far better than taking that responsibility on yourself, but for us, it is no longer possible. We ought to envy that kind of belief.
But at the same time, any dogma that harms us or others (Christo-fascism, all forms of theocracy, etc.) is objectively bad except to those in charge of it. Which is no one except one who "speaks for god," and protestant Christianity has abandoned such a figure and taken on a life of its' own. It helps no one, not even a person in power, and thus should be abolished.
But as I said, I envy those who hold other beliefs. For now we must take the responsibilities of god onto our own shoulders.
Andromeda by Gene Roddenberry. It's an odd, unpopular tv series sorta along the lines of Star Trek, but the storywriting is so amazing it more than makes up for the low budget. Ran for 5 22-episode seasons, highly recommended.
Execution was a public spectacle just a few hundred years ago, and gory combat was just a sporting event in Rome... For the last few hundred years humans have seen less gore and dismemberment than at any other time in human history.
This is my policy if it's a sit-down restaurant with servers making minimum wage... I absolutely refuse to tip fast food. Because I work in fast food, and over time I've seen wages get more and more skewed towards dependence on tips. It's insane. Just give us a living wage, is that too much to ask of this capitalist meat grinder?
Or maybe if everybody stopped tipping and workers went on strike, businesses might actually be forced to pay a living wage instead of telling their employees to beg to get enough money to put food on the table?
$29 minimum!? ($18.40 in USD). In my state it's $7.50 (USD), and most fast food workers like me get $11 after tips...
Edit: For my line of work and hours it's $11 and $12.70 on weekends in Australia (converted to USD)... Still a bit more than most fast food workers get in the U.S...
A featherless biped...
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