Oh, great! Wonderful!

So, we’ll get to buy a doll which’ll need to be hooked up to a couple of car batteries to have it spew nonsense at our kids?

Edit: or will they go with the less nonsensical but even creepier method of just making the dolls a sender/receiver which talks to a central server? Wouldn’t it be cool to know that your child’s every word may be recorded (and most certainly used) by a huge Corp?❤️

Yep! Dead within three seconds, I chortled=))) I pictured that screaming seagull clip=))))

Hey, maybe! But if laughing at ostriches was caused by a concussion, then I don’t wanna be… uuh… right?

You and me both! Got pecked pretty hard in the forehead by one at a petting zoo when I was about 12, my only reaction was to start laughing.

Edit: no offence to either Gigantochicken, Woody Woodpecker’s great-great-great-great-grandma, or ostriches, love all of those doofuses!❤️

I still picture dinosaurs as the old designs in my head, purely by choice. I fully accept they are inaccurate, and will always say “yes, dinosaurs had feathers” if asked, but… like… I mean… how am I supposed to take Gigantochicken seriously? If I’d be sent to the past and end up being chased by one of the Woody Woodpecker lookin’ ones, I’d die laughing my ass off.

Exactly! Thank you! Yes, I realised I’ve focused too much on Pessimism (guess I’d make for a good defence lawyer! or a poor one, food for thought…) and not the big picture.

Yes! It’s about reasonably establishing the risks and actually setting safeguards in place, whereas optimism should be allowed to roam free and dream stuff up! One tempers/uplifts the other!

Warning for crummy poetics: and in the synnergy of the two, Reality is born!:)))

Well, hey, fully valid that I may be biased in a similar way, but in reverse, having been surrounded mostly by people who refuse to see The Darkness even if it’s actively slapping them… In either case, I agree with you, it takes a balance between them, as always!

You’ve actually expressed my point way better than I have, so I guess that bias is at least present in the direction from which I approach expressing the idea:-?

Oooh, I got it now, sorry!

I’m not saying Pessimism can’t be taken to the extremes (same as some Optimists believe that Optimism is best, which is arguably why we’re still neck-deep in crap, but I digress). I wasn’t arguing for that, though, I was arguing for a healthy inclusion of Pessimism in our thought processes, just as we should do with Optimism.

Also, funnily enough, this is exactly why the thought hit me, I was thinking about just how many people oppose Pessimism without even considering its worth, based on generalised preconceptions:))

I honestly don’t know which to which “you” you’re referring, it’s in neither the last, or the second-to-last paragraph. :-?

As far as my tone goes, well… how else could I make a case for Pessimism if not by using at least a quasi-positive tone around it?

Sure, if you want to neglect the value of trying to picture a better and a worse.

Honestly, you seem to have a problem with Pessimism itself by default, in which case there’s nothing more I can say here.

And, to answer your question, how does one learn if not by first being wrong about things?

Well, that would be fair, except I’ve stated no preference for pessimism:)) In my view it is just as important as Optimism. Two sides of the same coin.

Edit: and the current situation demonstrates that, in fact, reality itself can be horrible enough for the Pessimists to be right:))

But that was my point exactly, Pessimism isn’t meant to fully replace awareness of reality. It, just as Optimism, is a Hypothetical at the end of the day, whereas I’d argue Realism, i.e. the ability to see things for what they are is a Concrete. Not even the same conceptual class from where I’m standing.

Edit: to add, I’d argue neither Pessimism nor Optimism can exist without a basis in Realism. Optimism is what I wish reality would be, Pessimism is what I fear reality could be. Without a pre-existing Realistic perception, both would be nothing but unrelated delirium, and then we’d be talking about something else entirely.

Well, I don’t use sun block, and I’m still depressed! How do you explain that, Mr. President!

You can say “sorry, I don’t have chargers for Apple stuff.”

“Can I use your wall socke…”

“None of them are for Apple stuff, either, sorry.”

Eeeewww! I have never seen anything tackier in my entire life, and I’m Balkan!

Given the state of things around here, we’re all at the “we get what we can get” phase=))))

Definitely! Those “outside time and space”/“post-modern purgatory” vibes are strong nowadays. Every day feels like making busy until the storm hits.

Oh, yes! I sure do miss that community made up of ass kissers and people who are just as miserable as I am! Or those 2-3 chill people with whom I meet for a chat weekly anyway, outside work hours because I sure as hell ain’t in the mood for socialising while I’m wasting (at least) a third of my day and life doing busiwork for someone else!

Ok, you’ve convinced me! Today’s a wake’n’bake day!