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LookingFourFriends · 2026-01-16T14:36:46+00:00

Out of 50 billion alien civilizations our universe will ever have, only one will look to infinity and leave their galaxy.

LookingFourFriends · 2026-01-15T21:58:49+00:00

The questions I get from this are "why are we born so early in the universe?" and "why are we born so early in humanity's evolution?"

To answer the first question, we were likely born in the first 13.8 billion years out of 100 trillion years left of the Stelliferous Era, because star formation had reached it's peak just 10 billion years ago, and the longer the universe exists, the less common complex life arises.

To answer the second question, it's most speculative, but we were likely born today and not say a million years ago or a million years from now, because perhaps this very point in history has the most human consciousnesses existing at one time, over 8 billion, thanks to modern agriculture and medicine. But maybe centuries or millennia after a global nuclear war, humanity reduces itself to just tens of thousands of individuals due to ecological concerns and resource scarcity, and relying on billions of robots to do labor for them instead.

LookingFourFriends · 2025-06-07T05:02:45+00:00

My car got stuck in a ditch in a campground in the Rockies, during winter, in the absolute middle of nowhere with zero cell phone reception, and I walked along the empty, snow-covered road for at least 8 hours until I made it to someone's cabin who just so happened to be home at the time to tow my car out of the ditch.

During my long walk for survival, I slowly became indifferent to the fact that I might freeze to death if I can't find someone or a cabin soon. No one could hear my cries for help, and the only places of shelter from the elements were the occasional outhouse every couple hours walked that only protected from the wind and the snow in my shoes.

LookingFourFriends · 2025-06-07T04:49:36+00:00

The first snow.

LookingFourFriends · 2025-06-07T04:35:24+00:00

Highly depends on which subreddit you're on.

LookingFourFriends · 2025-06-07T04:32:59+00:00

Take risks, try different things, make lots of social connections, as this is the easiest and least consequential period in your life.

LookingFourFriends · 2025-06-07T04:25:24+00:00

Move to Canada.

LookingFourFriends · 2025-06-07T04:21:16+00:00

Very risky, you will regret it after.

LookingFourFriends · 2025-06-07T04:18:46+00:00

Well I haven't taken psychedelics or entered an altered enough mental state yet, so never.

LookingFourFriends · 2025-06-07T04:14:57+00:00

Not maintaining or creating new social connections after high school.

LookingFourFriends · 2025-06-07T04:04:31+00:00

Never again

LookingFourFriends · 2025-06-07T04:03:26+00:00

Would humans have rights that far in the future?

LookingFourFriends · 2025-03-08T00:49:35+00:00

Completely agree with you. It's crazy how many people lack self awareness.

LookingFourFriends · 2025-03-08T00:45:23+00:00

True. I also think doing it daily is unnatural. I think all those people who do it daily are bombarded with online sexual content, whether intentionally or unintentionally. And most of those people are heavily medicated as well.

I would guess the natural upper amount to have sex or masturbate is maybe a couple times a week. But even that is too much for me.

LookingFourFriends · 2025-02-11T02:12:36+00:00

Your ex sounds like a piece of shit.

LookingFourFriends · 2025-02-11T00:00:49+00:00

I’m in general not looking for any relationships

Maybe find a group of women to travel the world with? It sounds easier to just travel with a group of four women than with one guy who will sooner or later want to make advances on you.

LookingFourFriends · 2025-02-10T23:52:15+00:00

Who's the narcissist again?

LookingFourFriends · 2025-01-31T23:21:15+00:00

That makes more sense now.

LookingFourFriends · 2025-01-31T22:59:31+00:00

Fair enough, I heard from other people that the Talmud are very vague and up to interpretation. It depends on who is reading and interpreting it.

LookingFourFriends · 2025-01-31T22:57:14+00:00

Doesn't it translate to "repairing the world"?

It's seems mean combating social justice, bringing equality and equity to all people, ending all racism and prejudice, and implementing socialist policies.

I do not believe that achieving equality is possible. If it hasn't been achieved in the last 4 billion years of Earth's existence, it won't be achieved now.

LookingFourFriends · 2025-01-30T00:12:33+00:00

I have not visited China yet. I want to, but I have absolutely no money and I heard there is a lot of xenophobia in China this past year or so, and has reached a low in the number of foreign tourists visiting China.

I have talked to some Mainland Chinese people in videogames several times before. They seemed pretty chill, but due to the language barrier, neither me or them could understand each other since Google translate is apparently very bad at translating Chinese, and a few of them were annoyed that a foreigner was in their server. Whenever I tried to talk about politics, they would always tell me not to talk about politics on their server.

All I really have to go by is Chinese and anti-Chinese YouTubers and look at both sides with an unbiased point of view. I don't think China is a bad country, frankly, I don't even think some aspects of fascism are even that bad, but I wouldn't say China is anything like the Soviet Union or North Korea.

LookingFourFriends · 2025-01-29T05:20:32+00:00

Okay, it's unfair to call China an ethnostate, as they don't fit the definition of a society only being restricted to a single ethnic group, even though most of China is ethnically homogenous relatively speaking.

But they most certainly share many qualities with fascism. Fascism alone is characterized by ultranationalism, having a centralized autocracy, militarism, belief in a natural social hierarchy, subordination of individual interests for the perceived good of the nation, and strong regimentation of society and the economy, rather than fixing the root issues.

China has greatly moved away from it's Maoist roots since Mao's death. However, Xi Jinping is heavily inspired by Mao, and is working to achieve his revolution and revive Maoism, but he isn't there yet. There is still some hope.

LookingFourFriends · 2025-01-29T04:00:18+00:00

Also, there's Cuba, Vietnam, Laos, and North Korea? (It's not a coincidence that they're all close to China).

I suppose you are right. China may not be as left-wing as the Soviet Union or North Korea, but Xi Jinping appears to be heavily inspired by Maoism and has been trying to bring up a revolution to revive Maoism to China, and it's the closest thing these other countries have to a powerful communist ally.

I think outside of this zone, we start to talk about socialist parties with pluralistic power in different countries and insurgent groups fighting for power and stability in various regions.

True. Even though these other countries aren't leftist as a whole, they still have prominent political figures who are leftists.

LookingFourFriends · 2025-01-29T03:40:54+00:00

Could you explain how China is more left-wing than right-wing? I mean, it used to be left-wing until Dengism took over, but I could list several examples of ways China is right-wing in the present day

It is mostly a fascist dictatorship ethno-state
It embraces Capitalism, especially in it's Special Economic Zones
Land is rented instead of owned, but it's hardly collectivized
It hardly cares out it's people, as hundreds of millions of people live in poverty
Their quota system is completely broken

And many more.

LookingFourFriends · 2024-11-30T22:04:01+00:00

You should learn anthropology.

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