Ben Hur Horse Race @ JudahBenHur @lemm.ee

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fair enough.

honestly if i had my way i'd still use windows 98 and AI would have never been developed. same with facebook.

why did you go w only office instead of LibreOffice?

huh! shit. thanks

thats fucking weird man. the sound is very distinct and pretty loud

yes.

Im from the states and live in Ireland. Here, people unplug lamps when they leave for the weekend. Dozens of times, I've had to plug lamps back in when coming into the office over a weekend or things like Christmas break.

I've also had to explain to at least 5-6 people that something that does not draw power by being plugged in, such as a toaster, electric kettle or light fixture (unlike a computerized device that has a stand-by mode) is not "wasting power" unless you unplug it or turn the outlet switch off.

I had a person at a party tell me their father was an electrician and taught her to turn the switches that lead to anything such as lamps OFF when they're not being used because it costs electricity to "keep the wire charged". True story.

Mainly they exist because there weren't central fuse boxes for a while due to wartime copper shortages.

it was ill-advised !!!!

Burning Chrome is normally published as a collection of a few short stories (burning chrome is one story in the collection). There is an assassin that uses monofillimant wire somewhere in one of the stories.

William Gibson, who coined the term "cyberspace" in Burning Chrome, is generally regarded as the pioneer of cyberpunk

you could also read Burning Chrome...

total classic

it is also delicious

where the fuck you live that a monster costs nine dollars

so the "we" in ya'll are the owners of Meta, and the "what we did" was block the search term #republicans, which never happened, do I have that right in terms of understanding what you meant by this?

I mean I dont disagree with anything youre saying. Wait, I actually disagree that human suffering is worse than a global extinction event. I often play druids when I play d&d though, so there you go

thats all fair. just to say, my wife doesnt enjoy the flexibility that I do, I just shoot off for 5 days at a time. not having kids to co-parent makes it not be a big deal

When you say that's "not good" do you mean economically or environmentally? I am concerned about biodiversity die-off, deforestation, ocean acidification etc etc.. I am not concerned about economics. I know the latter can effect the former, but nothing will effect it like levelling the amazonian rainforest so every person gets to eat the beef they believe they're entitled to

Thats all fair. I wrote what I wrote for OP, though, and I'm truly confident my wife and I made the right choice for us. I've also never felt babies or toddlers were cute. Yesterday, I went shopping for dress shoes, and there was a family there with a kid who was maybe 7, and he flopped down on a bench and shouted "PHONE" and his father handed him his iphone so the kid could watch youtube videos.

We're going to Tenerife for 10 days in a week or so, and we're looking at a 2 berth campervan to shoot off around Ireland in as well. l also just booked 5 days going to Valencia, Spain and then up to Barcelona by train to see my favorite band, Bad Religion play a show in both of those cities. I have a full time(ish) job that I actually like and also have time to try to make money doing my creative things, which is actually growing year on year.

I am also very aware of overpopulation. The planet has twice as many people now as it did in the 70s. It cannot endure continued human expansion when everyone wants their own house and car and swimming pools.

While you can point to neurological changes to signal "adulthood", in my experience, a true shift to what is identifiable as adulthood occurs somewhere between 28-32 years of age.

I guess I am talking ethics. I guess I have a vague sense of hypocrisy with the 'open letter' taking a vague moral/ethical high ground while it's author has ripped off the design of a different piece of software (at least the UI) pixel for pixel

So my wife and I are child-free by choice. I'm in a rare position that I wind up speaking to many people in-depth about their lives, and the folks who have children talk about raising their kids all the time.

If I'm honest, many, many days I think "the moral of the story here is do not have kids, foks".

That's not to say that it's all bad for everyone, but it is very bad for a lot of people. Essentially, their lives become exclusively about managing their children's problems. Everyone thinks their children will be well mannered, sweet and thoughtful little guys who will fill their hearts with joy and purpose. The reality is many children are little nightmares with behavior problems that don't seem to improve no matter how much work they put into seeing child psychologists and play therapists- every single day they spend 3-4 hours trying to calm their kid down as they fly into an uncontrollable rage, overturning tables and swinging their arms as hard as they can at the care givers and their parents. They want to help their kids learn how to control their feelings but they can't. It's really sad. The parents live in hell a little, every hour of the day is spent trying to manage their screaming, raging child.

I will also tell you that many people have tried to convince me over the years that we should have children. Family members, neighbors, co-workers.. I also once had a neighbor (who's kids were little terrors, I once saw one take a swing at his face because he was being punished, and they also once threw BIG rocks over the wall separating our properties without seeing where they'd land) say to me: "You just get to do whatever you want, don't you?" when I was getting in the car to leave to go work remotely out in the countryside for a week.

My point is people don't often tell you how hard it can be, most people lie and say that it's great. At least half a dozen times I've had parents say "now I don't wish that my child was gone or would never have been born as such, but I do often long for a life where I didn't have to take care of them all the time". Like they DO wish they never had kids, but they have to be careful to say they don't want their child to disappear because its too dark of a thing to say.

yeah fuck that noise.

ive seen signs at cave mouths that are mostly skulls