I want to write gnocchi code, where each little nugget is good on its own and they still blend together perfectly in the sauce. But I still end up with mashed potato-code if I don’t watch myself.

Dont worry, I have the brainpower to spare today and so I felt it’s worth it. It aligns with how I want to face the world, you know?

Having faith in people even for a moment gives me great cognitive harmony, so even when I lose, I win!

I don’t even think people need to be pushed, rather it’s natural that the minds of people who spend a lot of time together start to align. In what way they align is where leadership and peer pressureand propaganda plays a role… But I’d love to check it out. Do you have any specific material to start me off?

Btw, I really appreciate that your writing is more calm and focused on connecting and helping me understand you, rather than coming off as antagonistic, these past few messages. Thank you.

I’d like to recommend a book that kick-started my journey into thinking about and understanding humans as social animals and why we gather as we do. The deeply ingrained need to eat, dance, and gossip, and how that might translate into modern times by marching together. And also how important compassion and empathy is for our survival, and why it might feel more distant the bigger our world has become.

Dawn over the Kalahari : how humans became human by Lasse Berg.

There are other books in the series tackling more modern times that I haven’t read (I haven’t found them in a language I speak well enough) that might actually be even more relevant to where you are today if you can find and understand them… but even the first book, particularly towards the end tying it all together and the social shift from gatheres to farmers, was a great philosophical jumping off point for me.

The first half is quite dry and I’m sure there is better material out there but this one did it for me back in the day. Hopefully it holds up still, and perhaps you’ll find it interesting.

So I’m guessing the context is war and it’s the fact that soldiers are depicted that triggered you?

If you just put something like “I hate how this glorifies the navy/army/ww2” before your rant, I’m sure people would understand where you’re coming from and be more receptive to your message.

This patronising and disconnected type of commenting is not going to make any meaningful impact on the people receiving it - quite the opposite; you make people want to ignore you when you’re being hostile out the gate for no reason.

If your goal is to make people turn off their ears and ignore anything you try to tell them, you’re doing a splendid job though.

I’m sorry, you still haven’t given any context for this type of rant. Is the cat supposed to be Hitler, or a lamb on a bandwagon? What set you off about this picture?

We can’t read your mind, so you need to explain why you’re going into a tirade, because it just makes no sense here… and I’m sure people are willing to understand if you just make the effort to be understood.

Literally the kind of response I expect from my schizofrenic acquaintances when they’re off their meds - sure the sentence structure is there and the words fit together, but it’s utter nonsense and completely out of context.

Yeah, you’d think it’s kill or be killed… but it’s more like kill and be killed.

Evolution doesn’t require each individual to live to a ripe old age when they can successfully spread their genes by producing litters of 4-6 babies up to three times per year, starting before they’re even one year old.

Even if they slowly poison themselves and die at five years old they’ll have plenty of genetic descendants that might also think poison tastes good.

Or they’ll run into plants that arent native to their ancestors environments.

Or they have a deficiency for something so they’re compelled to eat plants they might not had they not lacked a nutrient.

Or they’re just menaces, munching up the neighbours flower bed for kicks.

They don’t.

Not every cat chews on any plant, but if you’re unlucky your outdoor cat is munching on bad flora and slowly wearing down their organs.

Some cats are like this. I’d like to add a speech bubble to the last frame: “You may be leaking but I still trust you fully, I know you’re safe and reliable. You always have my back, see?”