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[โ€“] Samvega@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

but, conversely, the cosmic timescale is so vast that it doesn't matter to us...

I agree, stories only matter because we lack objectivity.

[โ€“] silasmariner@programming.dev 3 points 4 months ago

I'm not sure that anything can objectively be said to 'matter'. So, yeah, I guess? Things only matter to us because we.care about them, sure...