That explains why I remember hearing about the dreaded zebra mussels for so long and then nothing for quite some time. Thanks for the info!

And let me guess, you’re a realist who always has the exact right amount of positivity or negativity that each situation requires.

Funny, I’m typically used to people leaning towards pessimism as the “smarter” perspective, and optimists being considered in naive or ignorant to “How things really are.”

And reading your post in that context felt like reinforcement of that concept.

To be perfectly clear, I’m more optimistic, and I believe that if someone’s pessimism is constantly bringing them down, then they should probably not lean so hard into it. But I wouldn’t say one is better than another, we need as many differing perspectives as possible to create real working solutions.

Realists are just people who refuse to believe that their perspective is skewed.

Imagine the arrogance to think that your life experiences are exactly what’s required to be right and completely objective all of the time

Pb&j?

I see what you’re saying, but perspective is not equatable to a math equation. An optimist and a pessimist can both have a complete understanding of the facts, but one predicts that things will get better, and the other predicts that things will get worse, and eventually, given enough time, they’ll both be right.

There is no such thing as a realist. That’s just what someone calls themselves when they don’t realize that their perspective is flawed and unique to themselves.

I just changed it.

Well, that would be fair, except I’ve stated no preference for pessimism:))

I’d argue that your tone throughout the post says otherwise, but if I misinterpreted that, the only word I would change is the “you” in the last sentence to “pessimists”. As not to point fingers, but the point still stands

More importantly than having bread on the outside is being handheld.

Yes, you can eat anything with your hands, but cake is typically a fork food.

The only difference between optimism and pessimism, is that you prefer one over the other. The only people that think pessimism is closer to reality than optimism are the pessimists, because that’s literally how pessimism works.

Optimists think pessimists are just depressing and further from reality.

Yeah, I find it hard to believe that they’d be THAT far ahead of the curve. I might believe that they had a computer to promote or sell their business, but to set up their own server? How would they even know?

How many people are actually watching the cameras in their house?

I think it’s a lot less than everybody.

This is fraud, right?

“Development is under control, we just need €100,000.”

After collecting €300,000: Whoopsies! No refunds.

You know what they say about that: When you fuck during teleportation, you never fuck the same person twice!

It’s true, my 6th grade teacher had HUGE titties, and everyone listened to him.

This again? They said NEW ideas!

I mean, you can keep doing it if you want to, some of uh, them, might not mind it so much.

“Maybe if I had a chainsaw…” 🤔

Elon just seems like the most out of touch person on the planet.

“Americans love memes and dogs! I’ll name my government demolition squad after a meme dog! They’ll love it!”

“Why don’t they love it?”

I remember trying to convince my mom that $200 for an SNES is significantly less expensive in the long run than quarters at the arcade. 😂