it’s really astounding how many people choose to believe that poor people and minorities are the REAL problem, despite the fact that rich people are consistently and quite obviously being cartoonishly evil
i maintain that cooperation is just objectively the best strategy on large scales, to the point that life on earth is fundamentally cooperative.
Like, imagine if species couldn’t eat each other, if mushrooms didn’t exist to break things down into digestible nutrients, we would have a fraction of the biomass and diversity we do now and life would be extremely vulnerable.
Cooperation inherently leads to more efficient resource utilization as species can specialize and resources are continuously recycled.
well i’d say that trees grow in both ways: the stem grows on the outside because it’s acting more like our bones, but the bark acts like our skin and indeed grows in the same way, new matter being created at the base and pushed outwards, hence why a lot of bark has tons of cracks in them from the stretching.
OP phrased it weirdly but what they mean is that trees have all growth happen at the surface, not in the middle.
which is actually the opposite of how our skin grows, skin cells grow at the bottom of the skin and are pushed upwards by the new growth and mature as they go, until they reach the surface and die so that they can protect us and easily be shed to make space for new cells.
which is why you’ll see hollow trees being perfectly happy and healthy, whereas a human with an empty space underneath their skin is going to be uncomfortable at best.
i mean wisdom is something you gain from experience so presumably later generations are always going to be wiser provided they study the past, that’s kinda how we got to where we are
“despised by those who aren’t” is kinda really fucking funny to me because i cannot think of any country but the USA where roundabouts aren’t bog standard and being angry at one is like being angry at a T-intersection
