Meanwhile, reading this on planet earth every few paragraphs is interrupted by an ad for a groin / body hair trimmer. Honestly, it puts things into perspective

Meanwhile, reading this on planet earth every few paragraphs is interrupted by an ad for a groin / body hair trimmer. Honestly, it puts things into perspective when considering the terror of the 'dark forest' hypothesis. If intelligent life is anything like us, they are just as stuck on the prosaic (arguing amongst themselves about invasive ads) as they are on the profound (ending other civs).