NotJustForMe @ NotJustForMe @lemmy.ml

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Heh, my wife makes more working for big tech one day per week from home, than i do working full time for service work at a hospital. It's a shitshow.

I'm pretty sure humanity would die out that way. Inspired to raise one? For most people, it just happens. I'd go so far and say that half of all pregnancies are unplanned. Inspired. What world are you living in? Sounds like a very entitled one.

If you have the means to raise a kid, you should. That's the whole purpose of your body. Seriously. The meaning of life.

You've been brainwashed for too long if you think that a kid could be a burden. Especially if you have time to be bored. That's the reason you are bored in the first place: you are not fulfilling your only true purpose.

What has society done to you that you believe reaching level 140 on mage or knitting a hat is worth more than raising a kid?

It's the "they don't even think about it" part that makes me feel this way.

With cars, it just leads to wasted space and resources.

Working in a hospital, that same thinking leads to Dialysis, Metabolic Disease and amputations. I see it multiple times per day.

Often intelligent people, but acting moronic. Not using their intelligence. That's quite apparent in SUVs. They cost a fortune, so it's usually not stupidity. It's just them being mindless. And without a second thought about others.

I stand by my choice of words.

Sometimes, yeah, an SUV makes sense. Then again, driving it into a congested city, that doesn't make sense.

If I saw someone driving it through a mountainous region, I wouldn't say anything. That's fine. :)

And having it being used by one person without any gear or load at all for 98% of the time.

Kinda like an immediate moron-indicator. Whenever a new neighbor moves in, or an existing one buys an SUV, we know not to interact with them. Saves time. Same with looking for work. If the boss drives an SUV, just move on. I love moron-indicators, but I prefer smaller ones.

What do people like about them? I get Americans. They have big roads and lots of space. Here in Europe, you have trouble parking a SMART.

Making new humans is the worst advice in the history of mankind?

Having a life with a level of security that enables you to be bored, Having actual time to care for your kid.

Yeah, sounds like a terrible plan. You might end up being a responsible parent.

Are you confusing being bored with having no life? Is learning how to knit better for mankind than learning how to raise a kid?

How is it the worst advice in the history of mankind?

It's the most elemental one for me. Shows that he's short-sighted, prone to take shortcuts and willing to ignore consequences. Doesn't even care about himself. A genuius, perhaps. But a feeble-minded one.

One could argue that a boring life is the best one could wish for. Perfect time to make some kids. That's natures way to cope with that situation. :)

He's got weight problems. Despite being intelligent and having every single option available to him, he's too stupid to eat. There simply is no excuse for that. And instead of learning how to properly feed himself, he's trying drugs to suppress appetite. Which, again, wouldn't be an issue with proper feeding. I wouldn't follow that man anywhere. He's got some grand ideas, but can't even manage the absolute basics. A trend these days.

Why would I trust anyone who can't even manage their own body?

In the end, how is that different from not praising all the library coders and open source parts?

Praise goes to the marketing guys. And rightly so. Without them, nobody of consequence would buy or use the code. ;)

Seems like I've responded to the wrong comment. It was about the musk one.

You do get searchable auto-transcripts of videos now, so that's a good thing. Some people work better with videos and find them more accessible. Best of both worlds. As long as they are not auto-playing and pre-caching, I'm fine with them existing.

I have never heard of alt+left, and I've been using the Internet since Mosaic was all the rage. Shame on me, it seems to be implemented in all browsers. How could I have missed it?

“Put that fork down. You can do it. The urge will go away in 30 minutes. Be strong. Wait a while. Eat an egg. Wait a while longer. Be strong. You are doing it. Love yourself being strong.”

That study is reinforcing the greed angle, isn't it? If those poor and unhappy people wouldn't all be trying to become rich, but would say "fuck it", let's just live and be happy, it would all be fine.

Nobody could force a few billion people to do slave work for questionable amenities. They just need to stop wanting to be part of the so-called rich and their vision of what progress is. They do it out of greed and wanting to have it all. Technology for everyone. A basic human right, internet and shoes with a name on them.

Nothing speaks against a collective endeavor for progress and science to better the whole. But making it a competition:

The OECD is part of the problem.

Economic Co-operation and Development. Developments for enabling rich people and them competing against each other for resources. Not for creating equal footing. But for creating a controlled slave-market disguised as a developed country.

What you are saying sounds romantic and all. I'd love to hear a single instance of any such example of earth-shattering discoveries that actually changed something in our daily lives.

I actually don't believe that ancient Mars aliens would change a single thing. The big players want to go there in hopes of finding weapons. After not finding them, we'll stop going there. No bases or colonies. We could have been on the moon, but there's no profit to be made. So we aren't.

I have no soul. That's great. That's why I ditched my work as a developer to work in a hospital to help people reduce their suffering. I thought for a long time that progress and science will save humanity. It has the potential. But romanticizing potential won't save anyone. Most menial jobs create suffering elsewhere, all to elevate one's personal status. Fantastic.

I am now convinced that it will be done by actually helping humans, saving the world, that is. Not having a soul feels great.

And I don't even have to degrade others to make a point. So enjoy your hobbies, enjoy your life. And continue to accept suffering and pain while seeking answers in the past, or by playing online games from the safety of your couch. That's fine. Just be aware that you do.

Morals are made up things, so are ethics and standards. It keeps most people from killing each other, at least. I'm texting and chatting online. Also, a waste of time and effort. We all need some distractions.

We could also use some more dullness and focus. At least until we don't have a billion people starving for food and water, half a billion waging war, and two billion facing obesity and metabolic disease resulting from not so dull lives. But that's my standard. That's just the ones that are immediately suffering. Right now.

If soul is responsible for all that ignorant bliss and suffering, you can keep it. But feel free to enjoy it. I can't. But that's just me.

You might be confusing soul and ego though.

Not what I said at all. Knowing about the basis of our attitudes doesn't change them. Hence, getting rid of the discipline would change nothing.

Of course, it's interesting. Ancient humans are fascinating. So are pyramids. Finding out how they were built would change nothing though. Egyptology is in the same ballpark. Interesting, yes.

Fundamentally changing? Not at all. We could find out that it was ancient aliens, and it wouldn't change a single thing today. Another discipline that could just vanish, and nothing would change for anyone except the people currently involved with them. Deep space sciences is another field.

There are many deeply interesting and fascinating fields of research and science that are completely irrelevant. At least in any practical sense.

The poor should be the standard metric.

How to make the world work with the least amount of employment imaginable.

The bobiverse ones are light fun. Read through them in one go. Very entertaining.

Just means that their ignorant and vague theories of the past are now shaken up, leading to new, even more ignorant and vague theories of the past. None if it has any relevance to modern life at all.

Just a self-sustaining cash-grab. You could get rid of the entire discipline and the effect on current events would be zero.