Mr. Encyclopediamrencyclopedia@retro.pizza
Aug 3, 2026, 6:53 PMIt's actually pretty easy to get people to say nice things about you when you die. Simply be someone worth mourning.
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Charlie Strosscstross@wandering.shopAug 3, 2026, 8:58 PM@mrencyclopedia @digitalraven I figure this is a subset of an important rule of thumb: "try to leave the world a better place than it was when you entered it."
Noodlemaznoodlemaz@mstdn.gamesAug 3, 2026, 9:00 PM@cstross @mrencyclopedia @digitalraven the whole world? Tall ask. I'll settle for a few lives I'm active in... Feels like most of the world is out of my hands :/ always has tbh
Everyday Cyborgdigitalraven@retro.pizzaAug 4, 2026, 7:33 AM@noodlemaz @cstross @mrencyclopedia Ah, but if through your life the ultimate outcome of all your actions makes life better in a tiny way for just one person? You've overall made the world a better place than it was.
Small actions, big impacts and so on.
- Noodlemaznoodlemaz@mstdn.gamesAug 4, 2026, 7:46 AM
@digitalraven @cstross @mrencyclopedia I'm incapable of being that rose-specced I think
This is why I don't watch the news 🙃 - Everyday Cyborgdigitalraven@retro.pizzaAug 4, 2026, 7:34 AM
@cstross @mrencyclopedia True. I'm also a fan of "be the kind of person you want there to be more of in the world."
Aug 3, 2026, 11:24 PM@mrencyclopedia no one had anything bad to say about Bonnie Tyler when she passed away, she got a heroines funeral and street procession through her native Wales and statements of condolences from all over UK (including from Prime Minister and Royal Family) and beyond
Her life had 0 scandal in it, and she was still happily married to her first husband when she passed away..