Re: [gentoo-user] \ \ \ 2021 / / /

["caveman رجل الكهف" <toraboracaveman@protonmail.com>]

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On Thursday, December 24, 2020 8:11 PM, <thelma@sys-concept.com> 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.