True, desiring it alone is bad enough, but demanding it on the threat of eternal torment is about as evil as you can get.

Come on, God, you need to believe in yourself!

I would submit that any being that desires worship is not worthy of it.

If you mean the Judeo-Christian god Yahweh, no. If you mean any sort of higher power, I don’t know for sure.

AKA “beating a good horse.”

Yes, but by that logic, I could say I remember the moon landing and it proves I lived through the 90s.

It was well-known to me in the 80s, at least. The fact that both those games are NES games makes it firmly 80s, in my mind.

That’s 80s.

No. The very tribalism that has allowed us to survive now works against us because we were too successful at survival. The solution is to be aware of and constantly fight against our base selfish instincts through things like what you said. The problem is that we seem to always go back to “fuck you, got mine” as a species. Perhaps the great filter is that a species that’s successful enough at survival to get to the point where space travel is possible will always be betrayed by the tribalistic behavior they needed to survive the harshness of life.

I don’t think so. I think the universe is too harsh for a complex, truly altruistic species to survive. But it is possible for us to get to a point where socially we’re better than our base instincts. We’re partway there, although we’ve been backsliding lately.

Intense US nationalism is by far a bigger threat nowadays.

I’m non-tech, but I was using the internet back in 1994 when you had to know more about how computers worked to get them to do what you wanted.

Boy, if their statement were true, we’d be living in paradise!

The problem is getting and keeping people in power who actually want to reign in capitalism.

Definitely both.

Occasionally, but always logged out and with an adblocker. It seems to get worse every time I check it.

Not an American, I take it?

Once the hospitals around here stopped requiring them in April this year, I stopped wearing them. I haven’t gotten covid yet (as far as I know) and I haven’t been vaccinated since the bivalent one last year since they haven’t approved another one for all groups yet.

I’ve seen “and at the worst possible time” added to the end of Murphy’s Law. Right away might not be the worst possible time.