Thanks to my family who ran me quite far in the world before I even noticed.
Thanks Mother Nature and The Sun, pumping water up the hill, cooling and nourishing all.
Thanks growers of food, I eat it frequently. Thanks anyone cooking, serving, doing the dishes, scrubbing, vacuuming, taking out the trash.
Thanks anyone who runs equipment, pours concrete, makes anything straight out of wood at all, digs earths, runs the blast furnace and the forge, pulls copper and winds it round and welds with that, anyone lost their 10mm, anyone refilling a grease gun. Thanks cutters of metal with other metal. Thanks operators of manifold industrial machinery few even know. Thanks anyone sweeping up. Thanks anyone using their body as a wear item to build and maintain.
Thanks scientists. Chemists, physicists, mathematicians, biologists. Leverage of humanity. To project the mind into nature and divide and be correct. Thanks math, seer of patterns, magic that might work.
Thanks all the computer hardware folks, yes all of you, I don’t know how to make a computer. Thanks networking folks, I hardly know ye, I plug in connectors and it works. Anyone who writes drivers thank you. Anyone who maintains an apt package thank you. Anyone open sourcing thank you. Thank you oncall.
Thanks dinosaurs, we burn your millions of years of living and dying in a great party since the mid 19th century, the monkeys have been partying so long they forgot it’s a party.
Thanks whoever or whatever made a few select cuts and stacks of rocks all over the planet that monkeys couldn’t make with all their diesel and steel. If I were so fortunate to be reborn in the next life as an intergalactic shitposter, cutting and stacking big rocks on planets supporting life is a bright star of an idea.