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On Thursday, December 24, 2020 8:11 PM, <[email protected]> wrote:
> ....{@} * {@} * {@} Merry X-mas and a Happy New Year!
> {@} * {@} * {@} * {@} Wish you all extra ordinary good luck!
> {@} * {@} * {@}
> \ \ \ 2021 / / /
>
> And thank you all for the help you trying to provide.
> That is what distinguish Gentoo community from other forums.
hi. i just want to help a bit by sharing a
thought that i think is useful to the civilisation
of life forms in general:
- new year celebrations are wasteful in
several ways (e.g. waste on needless
purchases [aka gifts], useless fireworks,
useless trees with socks on them, etc).
- the vacation is nice to allow potential good
use of it. but even this is usually abused
by most people as they end up just wasting
it alongside their money for purely doing
silly things such as purposeless tourism.
- i hope that, one day, humanity won't do such
useless things, and --instead-- we re-direct
the otherwise-wasted resources into actually
useful things such as (not limited to):
* contributions to scientific
research.
* foss projects.
* ...
* purchase of scientific books/tools for
smart kids that love science, but live in
situations where their parents are unable
to afford as such to them.
i personally think this last point to be
the best investment in the long-run. most
likely today we lack potentially great
scientists because they simply got wasted
due to lack of funding during their
childhood. likewise today's science
potentially lags centuries behind what it
would've been if we had taken this point
more seriously centuries ago.
it's never too early to start acting better.
