So “tragic” in the literary sense, not the colloquial.

There’s more living bacteria inside of you than you, and it will eat your decomposing corpse if you let it. Embalming or creamation will kill what remains of you after your brain dies.

Nah, that was just the top of the list when I signed up, and I don’t think it’s bad enough to migrate. But that’s the beauty of federation, you can start almost anywhere and connect with the stuff you like.

Liars.

Why would I take that personally?

Why would I want to be where everyone is? Have you met those people? No thanks.

Good enough for what? Obedient to whom? Deviating from what? What the fuck are you talking about?

My favorite moment from the old Batman animated show was when the rogues were sitting around telling their stories about how they almost got Batman. Actually, I wouldn’t do it justice, just watch it here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2UUr7bM1A6s

Of course there’s a twist at the end that changes the moment a bit, but it was still hilarious.

Batman is the world’s greatest detective. His villains need to compete on an intellectual level, and in fiction a doctorate is short-hand for “smart” and “an expert in the field.”

Practically every single major pop music writer has faced a legal challenge. The more successful a song, the more people come out of the woodwork to cash in.

There are no new notes, no new chord progressions, no new rhythms, at least not in the mainstream. People love songs that sound vaguely like something else they already know, because those melodies and rhythms are associated with emotions already. So popular artists are constantly trying to make new songs that sound like songs people already like.

This is not a new phenomenon, and it’s why music trends all seem to congeal around a singularity until people get sick of it. It happens in all genres, even experimental music like jazz, dubstep, and screamo, where people try to push the limits of taste and art. Eventually patterns emerge and find the repeating cycle of success, saturation, and surfeit.

And sometimes that works out for lawyers who want to get paid.

I always tell my kids, you can try your best and still fail. Sometimes you will succeed without any effort at all. Luck will affect the outcome of anything you do.

But you have to be ready for the luck. You have to work hard to be in a position to take advantage. Hard work can mitigate your failures, and any effort you put into doing your best is never wasted because you’re trying to be the best version of yourself.

That’s why you try. Not because you might win and get wealth and fame and glory. You try because you want to be the person who tries.

See also, honesty, kindness, generosity, forgiveness. These are not things we do to be rewarded. The universe (not to mention other people) is going to let you down more often than not. You should still be honest and kind and generous and forgiving and hardworking because that’s the person you want to be.

Firehose of bullshit.

It still requires due process.

In addition, there are plenty of kinds of information, technical or otherwise, that would be valuable for competitors like Tesla. Elon would be interested to know how production is going, how many employees are working each shift, what suppliers are making deliveries, how many cupholders they expect to put in each new model, etc. Corporate espionage is already a significant concern, and now the CIA works for the Nazi who owns Tesla.

Every crisis is an opportunity.

Bossman literally telling employees to “smile more.”

[Existential crisis threatening all human life] Oh no, the economy!

He’s a conservative. He only opposes the hate that personally affects him.

“Messages of hate, bigotry, and government control over people’s lives are not Republican or Christian,” Republican Douglas County Commissioner Abe Laydon said with a straight face.