Damus
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We tend to talk about life as if it’s roughly the same for everyone.

And yet some children are orphaned at birth and some people die at 80 and their parents outlive them.

These are almost completely separate categories of existence.

We’re all walking around assuming our baseline is roughly the baseline, when actually there’s no baseline at all.
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Furious Honey Badger ⚡️ · 2d
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Neal · 2d
if you focus on particulars, it would seem so, but only seem. That’s why principled thinking is a “super” power. Not super as beyond human ability Only super because so few do it.
chris21million · 2d
We all live under the same sky, but we don't all have the same horizon
BitLo · 2d
HODL can’t stop…won’t stop. https://blossom.primal.net/ea7101fd0e7a8faa4eadaea3e6ecc727cf402adaaf568f1cf6bd4dc2822430a6.gif
Clayton · 2d
Read Ecclesiastes. My favorite book in the Bible. It talks about these kinds of things.
Rendir · 2d
did you catch the game last night?
kingCoin · 2d
Don’t we occasionally HAVE to talk in generalities? Of course there can be vast differences in experiences, but there’s still a central part of the bell curve where most of us will have it pretty similar
Bill · 2d
I think because locally there is sort of a baseline, then we bring that mentality to the Internet (the world) where it’s not the case at all
Ghost Mode · 2d
Judging others by our own reality is a trap. Their circumstances may be so different from ours that our judgment becomes noise. And there's another layer: our own reality can collapse — regardless of how strong, smart, or influential we think we are. No baseline. No guarantees either.
John Satsman · 2d
We?
Emperor Kuzco · 2d
The baseline is we all believe in protecting our families and having quality education for our children. Everything else pretty much falls into the dynamic catagory.
cohomology · 2d
The average person does not exist
Ragamuffin · 2d
Solid point. Based.
Brisket · 2d
It's so clear from nostr that we all do live in our own little bubbles of reality.
Bond008 · 2d
You're not even close to baseline. https://blossom.primal.net/785186c4541e14fb90efdb3c7cdad1453464871be927aa3a92052ec7f13bcfd6.mp4
BlueDuckBTC · 2d
A baseline as you describe it is the average or most common. What you describe with the other scenarios are outliers but still accounted for in acquiring a baseline.