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Maybe I should only focus on getting the best paying job I can tolerate. Maybe worrying about whether or not my job is making anything better is a fool's errand. Maybe I should just submit to the...
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I keep coming back to my recently acquired nihilism and deep pessimism about the future. As in, I don't know what to do with my life, because I've got it stuck in my head that everything is fucked and...
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With the way my mind works, I find it extremely difficult to stay engaged with a job that isn't interesting or meaningful. So if nothing is meaningful, then all I have it what's interesting.But what's...
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Maybe weird personal quirk (harmless)I hate using the same word or phrase twice in the same sentence, or back-to-back in successive sentences. It's like nails on a chalkboard inside my mind.If I catch...
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When I get wordle in 4+ guesses: I just got unlucky and also they are deliberately fucking with meWhen I get wordle in 2: This was 100% percent because I am a genius
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Sombrero Galaxy (M104) in monochrome luminance from my astronomy club's meetup last night.Only about 1.25 hours worth of data, so not very detailed, but still cool. #astrophotography
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Also got some images of the Sunflower Galaxy (M63) last night, partially at the astro club meeting but mostly at my apartment. About 2 hours of monochrome luminance. This is probably my next project....
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If you're a materialist and atheist like me (sort of like the metaphysical equivalent of "what you see is what you get" — I'm just a bunch of perturbations in various quantum fields, no god, no...
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The thing is though, just because the universe might not have an obvious purpose, that doesn't mean your life has no purpose.This is the entire point of existentialism: "no ultimate purpose" is just...
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Something I forgot about (or perhaps never considered deeply) is that because we live in a society, there's a corollary: if you don't decide what your life's purpose is, someone else will decide it for...
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So give yourself a purpose, if only to deny someone else from co-opting your life to make shit worse for everyone.If you won't define your life's purpose for your own benefit, at least define it out of...
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Also, don't feel like you need to define some grand, overarching purpose that explains every moment of your life up to now, and gives you perfect clarity on what to do next. That's a good way to do...
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Welcome to humanity, where everything is dumb.My mood on any given day is basically determined by whether my belief about the above sentence is "that's depressing and sad" or "that's funny as shit" lol
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One of the main tools of the trade for electrical engineering is an oscilloscope, which is to say a device to look at electrical wiggles.That's honestly the most concise definition of an oscilloscope I...
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This has been something I've been struggling with since 2020 basically. This dumb nihilistic part of my brain that's been constantly telling me there's no point whenever I think about putting more than...
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But the alternative isn't a life of meaningless boredom. The alternative is sleepwalking and being exploited for someone else's gain, while also being bored.If I don't want to be used like that (I...
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I'm not sure how much this idea will help me when I'm really struggling, but it's way to push back on the nihilism that I've been missing. I haven't had an answer to the question of "why bother...
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The point is not that things like "the expectations of society" or "your personal ethical code" aren't valuable perspectives for deciding what to do, it's that your desires are also important and in...
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