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[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

What's the inaccurate but useful thing? 7 good memories to balance out 1 bad.

You stub your toe on the table, you remember that more than the six times you caught yourself from falling because it was there.

Human brains place greater emphasis on bad things so that we can avoid them in the future. Alas, some brains decide that the bad is all that exists