costsNall

Sorry to hear that.

I went through the same in my 20s, grieved and moved on.

For what ever reason, reconnecting to it just makes me mad and depressed now. He’s not dealing with environmental collapse, political unrest, economic inequality, racism...

I find leaning into my anger over reality now leads me to be more productive than ennui over people no longer around to concern themselves with those issues.

As someone who has saved no chat logs, and just deleted pics, letters, and such from a long gone marriage; IMO, they’re not that important.

In fact, shedding that memory shed cognitive distraction I did not know I had.

If I want to connect to people I do it here and now. Talking to the past in my head is unhealthy.

I’ve not heard of Telegram’s crypto criticisms, and I follow tech. Why would I know to just go read it?

It’s almost as if your cognitive time series is not the same as everyone’s.

(why the parens)?

Hyundai who also recently bought Boston Dynamics.

That could be very interesting if things go well with Apple.

This is exactly where a lot of “cost” comes from.

Coddling legacy builders sense of value.

Paraphrasing James Madison, he wrote the future owed a debt to the past for their achievements.

I disagree, and align more with Thomas Jefferson; the dead do not rule the living.

Having to shoulder the burden of war and industrial debt on a “generational distributed ledger”, which is so clearly biased to favor entrenched power is unsustainable.

Indeed, that’s is, IMO, why most empires fail, and revolutions take place.