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Cake day: July 12th, 2023

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  • Ya know, I’m gonna say that humans are capable of pretty horrific shit without needing to get caught in the weeds like that. Yeah, religions don’t have a great track record, but neither do most institutions above a certain age. We really like turning people who aren’t with us into people who are against us, and we’re biologically programed to then be able to hurt them. Tribes fought and this that wouldn’t, died. So, it’s basically in all of us on some level.

    But before you think we’re cruel or horrible, it’s not that. We’re mostly the result of evolution’s whims, like most things on earth. Humans usually innovate not by thinking things through but by trying whatever comes first and winging it from there. It’s why the scientific method was such a breakthrough. We didn’t get better at finding better ideas, we just wrote down and shared the stupid stuff we did. Then, it was just a matter of time before people iterated enough to find truly beautiful things.

    It’s why the internet should be a beautiful thing, but assholes want to own it and that means it had to eat up our every waking moment.