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0 pointsjfengel2y ago0 comments

I get the frustration, but it also sounds like a whiny teenager. "Mom, I'm bored." "You could read a book, or play a game, or go for a walk." "All of those things are boring."

It always sounds like an excuse to me. They've picked a thing that they can't do and set it as the only meaningful goal, to avoid having to do anything that might actually matter.

I'm sorry that they got denied the thing that they specifically want to do. They can join the line with all the kids that fail to become movie stars and tech CEOs. It's a club called "everybody", and we meet at the bar.

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7thaccount2y ago

I don't understand what you're trying to say. Nobody is saying everything is boring, they're just saying the kind of exploration that was possible for most of human history and which may be possible in the next thousand years or so is no longer available to us. That's it. Just an observation and a longing.

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0 pointsjfengel2y ago0 comments

I get the frustration, but it also sounds like a whiny teenager. "Mom, I'm bored." "You could read a book, or play a game, or go for a walk." "All of those things are boring."

It always sounds like an excuse to me. They've picked a thing that they can't do and set it as the only meaningful goal, to avoid having to do anything that might actually matter.

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7thaccount2y ago

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