Random Thoughts.....What Are You Thinking?

Multiple reasons behind an action can co-exist on the same time. But Does it even matter what's the real driving force behind the action? If the end result is the same, that's all that matters.

I don't really care if someone invest in cancer research for moral/empathy reason, money reason or PR reasons. I only care if this research has successful increased average human lifespan as a whole.

If someone wants to contribute because empathy, great for them. Doesn't erase the contribution of people who contribute for different reasons.

oh interesting. you made the argument that the billionaire is more likely to contribute to humanity as a whole, and when I responded in kind stating the empathy-based billionaire is more likely to chose that type of action to contribute to humanity as a whole, and the same point no longer seems to hold weight with you.

Is a higher chance important to you or not?

Without putting much thought into it: Musk. The Sacklers. The Krupps. If I can name corporations the list would be much longer.

Huh? I didn't deny the power of empathy as one driving force. But I don't know if someone takes an action, it's 100% empathy based or 50% profit based + 50% empathy based or other combination like 30:70 or 60:40. This kinda of things can't be measured with data.

I only said when someone takes an action, it's frequently because multiple reasons. Someone can research for profit and empathy.

One thing that I know for sure, if you hire a talented researcher and give him 0 or little money to work on the next cancer research project. They may feel motivated to work in the beginning because of empathy, after months and years they may eventually burn out.

IMO, other benefit is still an important driving force for actions.

What'd Musk do that exploit millions and made them suffer tremendously?

All I see it's just him posting political ***on X and fire employees, is listening to his political ***really "tremendous suffering for millions people" lol?

The dog implores us to talk about other things! Like kibble or perhaps bacon.

https://www.twitch.tv/ashcrow232

DQ10 maybe we play caisno with the LS soon

Cloudflare turns AI against itself with endless maze of irrelevant facts

New approach punishes AI companies that ignore "no crawl" directives.

They have invented the anti AI AI tool. I can see this degenerating into a recursive spiral of an anti anti AI AI programing duel. And do remember that AI is doing coding now ...

Wife wants cranberry juice and it shouldn't be this damn hard to buy

I just want to buy some cranberry juice, it doesn't need to be fresh squeezed, from concentrate it's fine. But I dont want a trillion grams of added sugar, or a trillion grams of sugar replacements, or a blend of 5 fruits, come on grocery store chain jesus


Just let me buy straight cranberry juice with nothing else added already

The only reason they are doing this is because AI companies suck text out of websites for training, and they want to sell it (or just save bandwidth). This is just cloudflare trying to sell the ability to stop AI companies doing that.

Every post on XIah has been sucked up by all the AI companies for training for example.

My mother just creeped me out..

She told me she was trying to remove her lens yesterday.

But it was being somehow harder to do than normal.

She tried to force to remove the len of her eye when she noticed her lens was already over the table.

It really runined my day this story. I just hope she didnt hurt her eye too much, past the point of self recovery.

She said her vision is cloudy. I told her to look for a doctoer next week.

You'll prob need to goto a health food store or something, supermarkets are only gonna sell it with added sugar.

Maybe it can make sense of who the actual world first of every master trial is.

The answer is cranberry juice concentrate.
Sorry. Its either that or buying your own cranberry bog.

When you said that young lady I pictured, "okay I can just buy it in the frozen aisle like the cans of frozen orange juice concentrate. I will check that different aisle next time" but the link was like "try me ***, 54 dollars."

Oh! nevermind that *** garbage. They make a Pure version. It is literally just cranberries and water. This is what I want now!

5 freedom bucks at walmart

i get the wally world brand of that zero sugar cran, good stuff

Heh, haven't heard Wal-mart referred to as Wally World in a while. :)

Why do these ppl think we solo every content with trusts still? I think we now have our own version of boomers that climbed up the hills in snow to get to school

Curious which arc you stopped reading at.

Regarding the Gon character analysis, I think this take is reading too much into Gon's character (and I understand that a lot of people enjoy that in fiction). He's not intended to be that deep. Check the timestamped part from an interview with Togashi (10:23 if the timestamp doesn't work):



HxH spoilers:

My opinion on HxH took a nosedive after going through the latest arc. He needs an editor to rein him in.

Edit: indeed, timestamped URLs don't work.

wow I did not expect walmart for this lol

Back then, chimera ants was ongoing so I stopped right at the end of Greed Island, when Gon meet Kaito.

According to the spoiler, that Gon dark side worsened when Kaito was caught by Neferpitou, and when after that, I was definitively creeped out when I saw Gon expressions, actions and thoughts. He was definitively broken the the outcoming of Neferpitou and Kaitou, that manifested throught the fight he was definitively not ok in his mental, and I dare said if this was not a shonen, he would be lost forever.

About reading too much, I think the greatest stories are the ones who allows for multiple ways of interpreting it, and is written so good that every interpretation is feasible and valid. Definitively HxH is a masterpiece of story, you can watch it as a basic shonen, and that is fine, then when you reread it when adult you start seeing another interpretation, so its like watching another story with the same story,

At first glance, all main cast can be read as basic shonen heroes, Gon being the innocent and dumb kid, Killua being the cool bad boy and Kurapika being the smart and cold guy. But its also valid each of them had situations that, in real world, would definiively leave psychological scar in real humans: Gon was abandoned by his father and is so obsessed to find him that he is willing to give up his integrity. Killua is abused by his family and seek in Gon the psychological support to suppress his depression. Kurapika had his entire village killed, and he also gave up all his own existence to his vendetta.

It's literally one of THE MOST common shonen manga trope that hero's friend got killed, then the hero gained great power from his rage and sadness.

I wasn't surprised at Gon's transformation in chimera ants arc one bit, because that's the most natural character development in a shonen manga. My reaction at that time was more like "oh boy, not this trope again, cliche!" (And this was also the most common reaction in hxh community back then.)

The presentation of the transformation was still done well imo, so there is nothing bad with it. I just wouldn't call it a surprising development.

Fixed.

That guy just thinks the crappy private server is dying and he is trying to save it, whether it or not isn't the point. He thinks it is, he thinks it's bleeding players and he is trying to save it by shilling for it. Nobody shills this desperately unless they are afraid.

Sadly he is a moron, becasue he doesn't even know Mrhappy has ties with Square Enix so he cannot make content on illegal pirate servers anyway.

Which spoiler? The one you came across? Mind sharing so I can follow your train of thoughts?

Eh, I'm not entirely on that team when it comes to evaluating literature's worth, at least not without nuance (that I feel lazy to formulate in points - I'll just say that "necessity" and "sufficiency" are not to be conflated). You're entitled to you reader's response and how much significane you attribute to a story or how much you wanna read into it, but I'm more concerned here with the author's intention that he made clear: make Gon simple & easy to write, and what's evident from 400+ chapters: that the manga is more about the world and the supporting cast that Gon himself. (Ironically, the "most common shounen manga trope" Afania mentioned is used as an excuse by Togashi to kick Gon out of scene for over a decade, lol)

Huh, I actually like how Gon's story just ended that way(hopefully, at least) after he pulled his shonen manga trope trump card.

At least that made hxh kinda different from the rest, lol. If he just recovers and continue to grow in subsequent story, then hxh is really no different from other shonen titles.

If Gon comes back to action after current arc ends then Id be disappointed....