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Late Night Thoughts

I've recently developed a new habit of waking up in the middle of the night and being up for an hour or two. Last night was a rough one and it took me a while to fall back asleep, but as I tried - I had two thoughts which, at the time, seemed profound enough to share.

If I ever go into a coma, I just know I'm going to play an entire game of dwarf fortress and wake up from the coma and begin to cry, realizing it was all a dream.

A joke on the supposed story of a woman who had a coma and in three years lived an entire life and had a family and everything. Now, I went researching to try and find out more about this story and it could very well be an Internet hoax as I couldn't find any verifiable information this morning.

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Happiness is our survival mechanism telling us we're living.

I fell down a rabbit hole where my tired brain backtracked the happiness through the feelings that define it, such pleasure, fulfillment, and contentment, as all being things our subconscious uses to pull us in positive directions. Which, in a world of survival, is a very good thing. Part of today's problems are that that has been weaponized against us such that we can literally have too much pleasure.

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April 9th, 2026

Automated Archives for April, 9th 2026

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Chess For the Day

Record: 3-0-3
Net Elo Change: +2

Games Played

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April 1st, 2026

Artemis II is heading for the moon

Artemis II lifting off from Kennedy Space Center

"We've got a beautiful moonrise and we're headed right at it." -Wiseman

Hearing them say that punched me in the gut. I grew up in Florida seeing shuttle and rocket launches and we haven't been to the moon in my lifetime.

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