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  • Life is self-emerging. There is no higher or predefined purpose. You can live without one, or define your own, which may or may not change over time.

    Regarding death as the ultimate conclusion; you can make of it what you want. You can consider what you leave behind. You can see life itself as worthwhile, without a need for an end-goal that follows after.

  • Cashew - Feature rich financial app

    How does Cashew compare to GnuCash?

  • Linking for anyone else interested; Zim

  • I'm very interested and involved in the free software space. I wouldn't say I'm surprised by any being free.

    There's some powerhouses of great or big or powerful free software, but I know that and know why they are or can be free.

    Usefulness does not correlate with price.

  • You say that you believe most people can differentiate between good and bad, but note that people often think they are doing good while doing evil deeds. The human mind is exceptional at reasoning even against logic or facts when it is to preserve a positive self-image. You mention being brainwashed; often, people "brainwashed" themselves.

    Defaulting to tolerance, goodwill, and expecting good is a good start, but tolerance must end somewhere. Excessive tolerance will inevitably lead to it being used/exploited. At various costs.

    Flexible morals make sense. Different contexts require different adaptions. Considering them flexible or not may also be a matter of not including enough data points/context that sources moral conclusions.

  • What you need... is a lawyer

    Publish what you have the right to publish. Is you question what you have the rights to? About the technical hosting or distributing? Referencing or quoting other works? Whether you need a legal entity or author disclosure?

  • Experts in the field may be more knowledgeable, but there seem to be multiple attack vectors to me:

    • Fight and advocate to reduce social injustice; people who feel powerless or left out vote right [even against their own interest]
    • Support quality education that critically explores fascism and history, that improves media literacy, and logical fallacies etc
    • Support social programs that help people in the scene get out
    • Support social programs that prevent people from drifting into that scene
    • Be a voice in criticism and watchdogging media, orgs, and [public] people
  • Is this a reference to something?

  • that pressure tho

  • A passive, careful engagement is very different from crossing swords with heavy hits and swords sliding along each other or blocking.

  • When I see armor fights I always think of how exhausting it would be very fast. I'd love to see exhausted people gasping for air. :P

    Still, blunt weapons can still be 1-hit KOs or heavy hitters. But you don't see that either.

  • Recently, I've been mindful of how long fights are in movies.

    Sword fight? Fanning at each other, crossing and smacking swords. Maybe even walking around each other. I don't think that's how a real sword fight would look.

    Fights where it's mostly talking. Talking and talking. Nobody would fight like that.

    Fist fights without a smack and dead. It's fancy movement - only because of the shaky camera and cuts of course. Give me back Jackie Chan or smack them once and they fall over.

    I also dislike noticing the wire-guided movements. Fast acceleration and you can see them balancing in the air lifted by wires. Wires removed after-the-fact, but it's such unnatural movement.

    And of course, the classic gunfight where nobody hits anything.

    Or any monster chase or fight. If a giant monster chases you it's faster and instant-kills you. But not in movies.

    It's certainly prevalent.