Clever girl … gets pecked in the shin

Sounds about right … mystery meat that may or may not contain “chicken” … and cheese, so much cheese

Don’t worry we’ll have a special day of the year to celebrate trump in the future … the day of the year he freaking dies.

I think a better way to decide on an instance is reliability.

What is the instance, where is it based, who runs it. I don’t mean to completely dox people but they should provide some meaningful background info to legitimate themselves.

Personally I wouldn’t trust instances run by individuals unless I knew the people personally and I could talk to them. Otherwise you will always run the risk of leaving your content in the hands of someone who may or may not want to continue running their instance.

Is it run by a single individual, a group or an organization? I’d rather trust a group or organization and the more info they gave about themselves and their team and messaging the better. A group or organization is less likely to fall apart if any one person decides to quit.

A well organized group who know how to raise and maintain funds will also be less likely to fail.

And the user themselves have to make themselves responsible as well. Once you find a reliable instance that you like … give them money, support them, donate to them. The whole system needs money to operate and the people who make it work should be paid for their time and effort. If we all paid a little for every little bit of the fediverse we use, the more reliable and stable it will all become. The little bit we pay to every little instance we use will mean that it will be less likely to devolve back into a monolithic centralized corporation that controls everything all over again.

Making as many mistakes, missteps, misunderstandings, misconceptions and misses as possible.

Pissing in water to dolphins is like us farting in the air

It’s their atmosphere they live in and if you emit a substance in that atmosphere (no matter how disgusting), you’ll sense it

Luck as in ‘lucky enough to have your entire species wiped out by a single unforeseen catastrophic event or climatic change’

Dinosaurs would have evolved into more exotic forms if they hadn’t been wiped out by an asteroid

We might unfortunately end ourselves through our own actions in a similar way

I wouldn’t worry about it … evolution is all about the survival of the luckiest and most fortunate

Sure it is survival of the fittest, strongest and most capable … but often through earth’s history … survival is more often left to the survivors, the lucky few who were just fortunate to survive.

With my dictatorial powers … my first action would be to seize and outlaw extreme wealth. No one would be allowed to own more than $1 million.

All the money collected would be used for government and providing a Universal Basic Income for everyone.

And I’d get a designer to make me a big fancy hat.

Is that you Mr Fawker?

You can say the same thing about people lining up at McDonald’s

My thoughts exactly … it will be an orbiting container that will be called a ‘hotel’ where rich people can launch up to, float inside for an hour and get delivered back to earth for $10 million

Usually for me its … I left it for tomorrow … but now its next week!!!

Shouldn’t your life be in danger? Like you just got bitten by a poisonous spider while you saw all of this.

Out of 2 trillion galaxies that we know of? … it was a lucky guess.

Beautiful … thanks for posting this … Carl Sagan has always been and will always be a great inspiration for me

Steel coat, dome hat
But I don’t worry ‘cause my sidearm’s fat
Black shades, iron gloves
Lookin’ metal, lookin’ for crime

It gets messed up really fast tho … so if you travelled at the speed of light 2 million light years to Andromeda and it only felt like a few minutes to you … then you travelled back 2 million light years back to our galaxy and it only felt like a few minutes to you … wouldn’t 4 million years have passed at your start point while you were gone?

Same here … I had those moments of awareness several times when I was a kid learning about all this stuff in school. Together with my background as an Indigenous Canadian (I’m full blooded Ojibway and it’s my first language before English) I was always taught by my elders to stay aware of my place in the universe and existence.

We lived in remote northern Ontario away from cities and towns and the sky was always a deep dark expanse, especially on a moonless night. One of the greatest spectacles I ever witnessed was heading out on the winter ice road near Moosonee on James Bay. My friends and I drove out for fun several miles north for fun. It was February and it was a frigid minus 40, no wind, no clouds, the air perfectly still. We stopped at a bit of a rise in the frozen mushkeg where there were no trees. The sky was so dry, so clear and so unobstructed by anything in the air that we could see every star down to the horizon. At that moment, for an instant realized I wasn’t looking up … I was looking at the universe from the edge of a sphere … it was almost dizzying because if I thought about it too long, I felt as if I were on the edge of a cliff ready to fall off.