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I congratulate you on writing a comment that I genuinely cannot tell whether it is supposed to be a parody or not; have a Poe’s law award!

His eyes are frequently not shut, it’s just that the artist often uses shut eyes in all of her characters as a form of facial expression.

It is worth mentioning that the artist still draws silly comics that are not about politics; they just aren’t the ones that get posted here very often.

There has never been a constitutional right to protest on private property.

I mean, I presumed that no robots were involved, but then again I haven’t used a modern AI chatbot recently so maybe the field has advanced a lot?

I don’t think that most people need it to be revealed that the woman had sex if she is currently pregnant, unless they are Catholic or something.

My secret is that I have found that one will rarely lose money shorting smiles.

Sure, so if the only thing he cared about was having more money, then there are ways he could go about getting more money. He has made it very clear, though, that is not the only thing he cares about—at least, ostensibly; it’s not like I know the guy personally or anything.

I mean, it is arguably a subjective and context-dependent measure as to exactly how “wealthy” someone is. From the perspective of someone who eats beans and rice every day of their life, anyone able to eat a “Western” diet is obscenely wealthy. That does not mean that it is not useful to distinguish between relative levels of wealth in the West.

People are not praising the comment for showing evidence of modesty and discipline, they are praising it for the attitude it advocates that there are better things in life to care about than merely the number of money points that you have. (Obviously this is only true to a point since being in poverty makes it a lot harder to be happy, but this post was in response to someone arguing that if he had chosen differently than he could have been a billionaire rather than merely a millionaire, which is important context.)

Why would he need to tell himself this in order to sleep at night?

Perhaps you could quote for me where he said he was poor?

I am feeling a genuine inner conflict between the part of me that thinks that is really cool and the part of me that remembers that this story is ultimately about a human life being taken (even though the soldier was on the side of the invaders).

I don’t feel strongly positively or negatively about Woz, but I agree with his message that, to the extent that life is about collecting anything, it is about collecting happiness points rather than money points. (Having said that, money does a very good job of taking away obstacles that get in the way of happiness.)

I suspect that, if you took away from his remark that he thinks of himself as being poor, then you may have misinterpreted it.

Thank goodness, I was sick of how woke my current X server software was!

I think that is a bit of a misleading way of putting it because the feeling being a “self” that is in charge of the body is an experience that is contained within consciousness rather than the essential nature of it; in principle, one could imagine having consciousness without any feeling of being a “self” at all.

If I had to define the nature of consciousness, I would say that it is essentially an internal simulation that the brain creates in order to aggregate information from various sources in order to facilitate processing and decision making. Just to be clear, this is not my own original idea, and more importantly I do not think that it is a particularly clever or deep way of thinking about consciousness, but rather the inevitable conclusion one reaches when one plays around with one’s own attention and awareness and sees what happens; the trick is just to do it like a scientist and be constantly challenging one’s own conclusions, rather than to invent one’s own version of chakras. I find it especially enlightening to watch what the mind does when one tries not to steer it into doing anything; with some practice, it is possible to watch the “self” pretend to be in charge while simultaneously realizing it is not, and this experience can be helpful (though frustratingly I have not found it to be as immediately life-changing as I might have hoped).

Agreed, but at least the two chairs you brought provided a nice table for that plant.

That’s fair, but my understanding is that Los Angeles is an extreme case rather than a representative example of a typical American city, in part because of its unfortunate location in a valley and in part because of its sprawl. The fact that pollution is particularly hard to control there is why California is legally uniquely able to apply for its own set of automobile pollution regulations that are stricter than the rest of the country.