Optimapessim

Optimists tend to live 2-7-12 years longer than pessimists.

An optimist might say that having the right outlook is healthy. A pessimist might say that they're losing 2-7-12 years of life and are therefore quite right to be pessimistic.

Optimapessim

Optimists tend to live 2-7-12 years longer than pessimists.

An optimist might say that having the right outlook is healthy. A pessimist might say that they're losing 2-7-12 years of life and are therefore quite right to be pessimistic.

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I've been sponsoring kids through Childreach for the last 10 years or so. Normally it lasts until they're 18, but my current sponsored child's community has met its objectives and Childreach is leaving to avoid creating a sense of dependency. So now I have to decide whether to continue with some other kid somewhere, or stop and pay off debt/buy more pizza instead.

I've never been good at writing to the kids, so I always feel guilty about that. Presumably I'm improving their lives, and that's why I chose to do this originally instead of just giving money to less personal things like Amnesty International, where there's no visible connection between what I give and any particular human.

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I've been sponsoring kids through Childreach for the last 10 years or so. Normally it lasts until they're 18, but my current sponsored child's community has met its objectives and Childreach is leaving to avoid creating a sense of dependency. So now I have to decide whether to continue with some other kid somewhere, or stop and pay off debt/buy more pizza instead.

I've never been good at writing to the kids, so I always feel guilty about that. Presumably I'm improving their lives, and that's why I chose to do this originally instead of just giving money to less personal things like Amnesty International, where there's no visible connection between what I give and any particular human.

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Also, I want to get messages from the universe thusly:

Get a true random number generator (based on radioactive decay, or cosmic rays hitting a detector), and use that to create a stream of bits. Unzip the stream to reveal the software. Install.

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Also, I want to get messages from the universe thusly:

Get a true random number generator (based on radioactive decay, or cosmic rays hitting a detector), and use that to create a stream of bits. Unzip the stream to reveal the software. Install.