To Imane, pt 64

Greta just posted this: 

The president of the United States just said that a whole civilisation will die tonight, never to be brought back again, and no one is reacting.

Worst-case scenario: Iran gets nuked.

My conscience is clear. Like that scene from Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.

It also made me think of the end of Hogfather and the consequences of failure.

Until an ad apparently just turned on, my young female relatives were watching a movie. I have in the past tried to connect incentives to read with watching entertainment, or suggested that my brother and sister-in-law enforce these incentives. For example, having to write down the name of each video that they watch, or write down a few sentences every ten minutes about what has happened. It seems that one of my relatives, though, just needs to learn the alphabet, so the incentive that I would enforce would be that she has to write the entire alphabet before she can watch an entertaining video, even if it means she has to watch a video about the alphabet to learn it.

These incentives are not being enforced, so she is not learning to read, as much as I would like her to. Just like no one is sharing the idea, because they apparently don't have an incentive to.

Poll: Do you agree with all parts of this statement? "It's ok to do immoral things for money if you're poor, but not ok if you're rich"

Poll: In your next life, you are to be reborn as a single cell. Do you choose to be a cell in the face of a human, 4mm below the skin's surface, or an algae in the ocean?

 

did Detect Traps ever return to rogues? swirly ball

Benvolio
https://ignoranceisblixt.com/2023/08/rj-the-death-of-benvolio/
Benvolio senses them, however, and puts up a desperate fight. But he's unarmed and is quickly killed.

Skill issue: a week or two ago, some of the images I posted had no gap between them. This is because I had forgotten that shift-Enter inserts a line break, with no gap between the lines as with the copied text above about Benvolio, even in a text field like this one where pressing Enter normally creates a new paragraph element with a separation from the previous one.

The cowardly thing to do is to say "even if the US nukes Iran, I can pretend that I don't know about the idea and so there would have been no way for me to stop it." If you never lie, you don't have to think about whether lying more would be to your advantage.

Even though Greta used bad words in her latest video, I don't consider it to have been a lie when she said she would not: I just consider it an unanticipated outcome.

If Greta knows about this idea, and knows that you know about it, and you don't share it, then I want Greta to share it.