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Enjoy it man. Truly. Mine are 10 and 13. 5 years until she's an adult. I remember when she started school at 5. I know it's cliché but time does go by. Make as much of it "all fun" as you can. Within reason of course haha.

That's true. I think the best thing anyone can do for themselves is mitigate as much of that as you can. Obviously you can be dealt a shit hand and get a physical or mental impairment as you get older that's out of your control. But if you can stay as mentally and physically healthy as possible you can definitely raise your chances of being one of those 70 year old tanks you see destroying the rock climbing walls and stuff.

And unless you get severe parkinsons or something I still think there are many fulfilling things you can do at home.

But at the end of the day it's about working with what you have. I understand it can be a huge adjustment when someone that has done the same thing for 40 years is forced into retirement and their world is turned upside down. I know it's not all simple. But I've seen a streamer that can only move their head playing COD with a mouth controller. I think just about everyone can find something if they try.

I substitute socialising with small streaming channels. Like the ones that have less than 5-10 people watching ever. You can come and go as you please and no one cares, and you can make real connections and have actual conversions with both the streamer and other viewers. People with channels that small aren't doing it for the money, they're doing it to have people to chill with while they play.

Some would say they aren't real friends but I think there's a point you can get to where I would disagree.

Guess everyone's different. I'm a stay at home dad with a wife that works and I'm incredibly happy doing chores for a couple hours then indulging my hobbies until school pickup. I have time to exercise. I have time to cook good meals (and learn to do so). It's been 13 years and no sign of getting sick of it yet. She has a high paying job that she's happy in and is someone that would tell me if she had an issue. This was suggested by her.

I don't know how anyone can get bored without work. There are 1000 things that you can do as "work" that surely there must be some that any given person would enjoy. Learning music, language, gardening, coding, makeup, design, art, games, woodwork, exercise I could go on and on and on.

I could somewhat understand 50+ years ago. But we have the INTERNET now. We have unprecedented access to entertainment and knowledge. Anything you could ever want to know or learn or watch is available to you. And if you find the online resources inadequate for learning to play that obscure instrument or practise speaking that language, I bet you you can find someone to teach you over video call.

Judge away but I'm happy and don't know how anyone could find working better. The only thing working truly gives you is money. Any sense of fulfilment or purpose I guarantee can be found elsewhere as well.

That's not to say work CAN'T be fulfilling or meaningful though. Just that it's not the only path or unique to working like people like to make out.

There's like 300 n64 games in existence. You can find it.

Wrong. The act of living in the USA at all is agreeing to recognise their laws and processes and outcomes of elections. You sound like one of those sovereign citizens that think they can get out of arrest/court/prison by "not consenting" to it.

I don't think Lemmy was really big enough to have THAT many bots. And at least of the ones I saw, if they were bots they're doing an incredibly good job of making them blend, since many had a history of generally normal commenting before that time, and have continued posting normally since.

I really like this example too:

"It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it." -Seneca

When we complain about not having enough time, we think of ourselves as being passively allocated an insufficient resource. But maybe the problem isn't that life is too short, but that we waste much of the time we're given.

I think this is relevant in these modern times more than ever. How much of our time goes to mindless scrolling, worrying about things beyond our control, or pursuing goals that don't truly align with our values? We should be thinking about the difference between being busy and spending time meaningfully.

And that's not to say all time spent should be something "productive". Leisure time can be meaningful. But I think it's worth even thinking about that. Are you truly happy with how you choose to spend your leisure time when you watch 100 short videos you probably won't even remember? Or when you sit there getting angry or depressed about article after article after article? I think it's worth thinking about.

So they were allowed to surveil you for any other reason, even if you were trans or gay? Because in that case this changes nothing.

Sure, but it won't sustain itself at any mass. A black hole with a mass of 500,000kg lasts about 10 seconds and is harmless. If you managed to compress 300,000,000kg into a black hole you'd have it last about 100 years and it would still be too small to do any damage to the earth during that time.

You're correct there's enough mass in the solar system to create a self sustaining black hole though. Anything around the mass of the moon or larger we should worry. A black hole the mass of the earth would definitely be self sustaining, and about a centimetre across.

I find it hard to believe any given post would have enough information to link it back to a specific person when viewed in isolation. Even "I'm Mary and going to visit my friend Sarah in New York City." isn't going to tell you who that belongs to if the profile and history itself is gone. It would have to be ridiculously detailed and all contained within a single post to actually reliably point to a specific person.

Containing personal information in general and even having an AI spit it out (which good luck, that's not really how LLM work unless there's something SUPER niche that essentially only you have spoken about) isn't enough to say it isn't anonymized. You also have to show it could specifically be linked to you by other people, in other words, that it can be de-anonymized.

GDPR permits anonymizing data instead of deleting it, provided anonymization is irreversible. They're keeping it one way or another. They don't need to know who the data belongs to to feed it to an AI.

I think there really needs to be a "long term" of some kind. I definitely have files and templates I only use once a year.

If it wasn't, it wouldn't be sold, moron.

I think more people should be concerned about their privacy, but I don't really agree with this premise. It's kind of like if there were diamonds in some peoples trash, so a company collected everyone's trash so sift through it and take the diamonds to sell. The fact that some people's trash is valuable enough for them to do this, doesn't mean mine is.

That's how these work, they hoover up everything and sell it in bulk. It doesn't mean any given users data is valuable. And that's why so many don't care.

As far as scam calls go, I have a number I have never given to anyone outside immediate family, who I know haven't shared it, and still received scam calls. They just call every number, even if you don't answer. Pretty sure if it rings at all they flag it as potentially active. Sure spreading it around may increase the number, but there's no true way to hide.

I've signed up to websites that had entry validation on the email field that flagged not having .com at the end as invalid. Literally someone that should know about technology decided it would be a good idea to make it that way.

He was born in 89 which is very close to my age. Most people my age that are kind of techy but don't do it as a job or main hobby probably tried Linux around 2010 or so, at which time it was rubbish for gaming, and wrote it off as impractical. It absolutely makes sense for someone that hasn't tried it since then to say "now" when referring to its ability to play most games well, because it's relative to when they last tried it.

Rainbow gets you to 7, which I can do without thinking: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet. 2 biggest non rainbow colours: pink, brown. Then you just need to name any of the more unique colours: teal, cyan. That's where I got to before I had to actually stop and think. You could probably add another to the rainbow by listing purple as distinct from violet. You should probably avoid black and white in case the person is being pedantic.

The rooms are all full by definition. You're literally telling him to walk until he dies. Just kick him out at that point, hell shooting him on the spot would be more merciful.

But the weird thing about infinite sets is they don't process over time as we perceive it. Things happen all at once. There's a classic situation where an infinite tub is filled with an infinite amount of numbered balls, and for every number that goes in, it's square root is taken out. So when 1 goes in, 1 goes out, when 2 goes in nothing happens, same with 3, when 4 goes in, 2 gets taken out, when 9 goes in, 3 gets taken out.

How many balls are in it at the end?

Intuitively it seems there must be infinite balls, as balls are being taken out at a slower rate than they're entering. But the actual answer is 0. Because the process happens all at once. So the question becomes, which balls get removed in this process? Well, the numbers that can be squared. Which is every number. If every number can be squared, every number gets removed. So if this infinite process were to play out, there would be no balls left in it.

But if we were to try to physically do this, it's impossible for it to actually play out. Infinity isn't a number at the end of a line, it's the concept of an entire unbound set. That's why things like the hotel are good to try to explain and visualise the concept, but break down if you try to imagine them as real world places that follow time and physics.

There are infinite types of infinity. Crazy right?