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Are they everywhere? https://genius.com/Jeff-wayne-the-eve-of-the-war-lyrics "The chances of anything coming from Mars are a million to one... But still, they come!" Or... https://www.definitions.net/definition/a+million+to+one "2. Benny Hill: The odds against there being a bomb on a plane are a million to one, and against two bombs a million times a million to one. Next time you fly, cut the odds and take a bomb."
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You think we are alone because you don't see them with your -no offense- ape eyes tweaked just good enough to see ripe fruits. But what about the "are they everywhere and we didn't notice them being the fabric of ourselves" hypothesis?
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Most likely, we are alone. Not room here to develop the idea, but I estimate that the probability for us being anywhere is already small enough that not even we should be here, or as someone else said: https://www.azquotes.com/quote/631594 "We're all worth it, man. We're all worth millions of planets and stars and galaxies and universes." Anyway, as Dr. Richard Stallman said: https://yquotes.com/richard-m-stallman/135931/ "I am a pessimist by nature. Many people can only keep on fighting when they expect to win. I'm not like that, I always expect to lose. I fight anyway, and sometimes I win." Or... Song largely created with LLM, which I don't recommend, but (subtitles incomplete): "It's enough just to be the hero in your own life story" - "Not a diamond, not a flame, not a knight with a shiny name. Not a hero, not a light, just a shadow in fight. I fall, I crawl, I stand, but I stall. [Chorus] I'm not here to save the day, forgive me. Forgive me, I pray, just doing my best to be me, amen, amen. Let me be free. [/Chorus] Not the armor, not a crown, not the king that won't back down. Just a heart with cracks and scars, just a wanderer chasing stars. I break, I ache, I give, but I take. [Chorus]" And maybe someone might explain to be how this video is desplayed here, because I can't download it with yt-dlp or even watch it at y****be.com, as it says "Please sign in" etc.
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Congratulations to MiDiaN on claiming a title I won 22 years ago, and with fewer victories than he has. The universe itself seems built for a single purpose: to erase itself in heat death. There must be a good reason for that. Players come and go, but the illusion of a timely victory stands the test of eons.
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Absolutely true Taxi and, competition, will be probably one of the main key about our close extintion. But there's nothing we can do to change this because is inside our evolution, inside the evolution of life. Yes our brain, in some few people, is able to understand that this is very deleterious as the same that we know we must die but we live as we will never die. This is probably what was designed by the Universe and maybe there's some reason we don't know or we could not know. There's nothing we can do, if we will survive, the next sapiens sapiens sapiens, triple sapiens, maybe will be better but there's a scientific important theory regarding the big filter that, staying on the logic of the things, probably we will not survive till the 3 sapiens. The supposition is determined by the fact that the Universe is completely silent also if we discovered the way to listen the sound of the initial big bang and see the primitive radiation. If the Universe is so silent this can mean only 2 possibilities in our knowledge. Or we are alone or the intelligent and technolocic life doesn't survive enough to crox each other in any part of the Universe. Considering that billions of solar systems are much older then our one, the second possibility is probably the most probable. You are competitive too Taxi because you cannot be different also if maybe you think to be ... just talking about not to be but you are.
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@Marco You just ~confirmed the quote that I put there - you don't find a sense, so someone else has to tell you what to do. Also, what you just wrote reminds me of what Mr. d******d wrote to me a while ago: https://zak.stunts.hu/index.php?page=newsarc&year=2026&month=9 "It means you don't consider those you relate to as human beings," where he continued with "but as resources to exploit." What I did so far is actually called cooperation. https://www.skillsyouneed.com/rhubarb/competition-vs-cooperation.html "Competition is everywhere in our modern world: in school, at work, on the road, in the gym, and more. [...] Emerging research shows that competition is deleterious in many ways." It's actually competition that makes some people consider other people just as resources to exploit, which capitalism has been showing us since long ago. https://historycrunch.com/child-labor-in-the-industrial-revolution/ "workers are often abandoned from the moment that an accident occurs; their wages are stopped, no medical attendance is provided, and whatever the extent of the injury, no compensation is afforded."
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Wow, the fight felt so live and close from the sidelines, that I'm actualy surprised the title solidified in mid-October 👏 I need to go and check what's happening for the 2nd-3rd-4th place slots now, I think there are battles still in play 🍿
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ah right because of the discards. Wow, Nice championship. Taxi , life has still not a known reason to exists. Anyway almost all the form of life excluding humans live simply for the surviving instinct . While Humans introduced a lot of unuseful things including competing on Stunts. Don't waste your time trying to find a sense to all because there's not.
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Thanks everyone for the congratulations! And a big thank you to @Victor_Narl for putting up such a great fight for the championship! It was a close and exciting battle! I'll do my best on the final two tracks as well!
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Off-topic (not really...): One idea I see in these conversations is that what's most important for people here is to be told "you're great", "you won", "congratulations", "the title" etc., so I will give a (translated) quote from a book called "La difficulté de vivre" written by Françoise Dolto - "Such a child will always need an external law, external calls and pressures to tell him what to do. Because he began his life like this, without knowing anything about himself: his mother knew it for him too...; it is a form of parasitism. [...] Children raised in this way are the ones who try, we often see them, to stick to a supportive group in which they are only a small element, like a child in the arms of a giant adult. Only then do they know what they want: they want what the herd wants. And the school does not try at all to modify this education from the beginning: it does not strive to make everyone think as he wants." The author of the book died in 1988, but: https://archive.org/details/ladifficultedevi0000dolt "PURCHASE OPTIONS". Apparently "abandonware" doesn't work everywhere... especially where it would be most needed.