tiredofsametab @ tiredofsametab @kbin.run

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Religions that support reincarnation is one, though most would say you get reincarnated as something more/less favorable depending upon the life lived.

By no stakes above, I was mostly referring to an eternal amount of time to do anything, supposing a bit that one could accomplish a lot in many of the version of afterlife I've heard of. I wasn't thinking of it in a 'no morals' or similar way, but I can see how it could be read as such.

science has probably proven there is no god / afterlife

Well, for one, you "probably proven" doesn't make a whole lot of sense unless maybe you've got a paper waiting on peer review confirmation. In any case, it is exceedingly difficult to definitely prove something isn't for cases like this. Does every bit of evidence point to 'no'? Yes. However, it's still technically not proven to be false/absent.

Anyway, that's not the actual important part here. One human lifetime is generally a long time. There are lots of meaningful interactions that a person can have in that time. I would argue that, since it's not an eternity, the pressure is on to do something better with your life. That doesn't require gods or afterlives. Volunteer, meet up about hobbies, find a social group, etc.

we inherently know this and want there to be something after death, because it feels right, or more meaningful

I disagree. For one, if you get do-overs on life or an eternity to do whatever, isn't it inherently LESS meaningful since there are no stakes? Secondarily, I personally don't like the idea of trying to exist for an eternity; that sounds like it always ends in boring monotony... at least so much as something 'endless' 'ends' anyway (English be silly).

I think they meant the location at which the photo was taken and not their positions within the photo?

98 still had plenty of jank, but it was worlds better than 95. I would add 3/3.11 to the "good" list if only because that was basically the only other option for a lot of people and it did what it needed to. I don't recall personally seeing windows 1 or 2.

edit: I guess I could throw NT mostly into the good section, but I mostly just did tech support for it rather than using it.

An egg came first, but it came from something genetically extremely close to a modern chicken (you can't hatch a chicken from anything that is not a chicken egg and there's no compelling evidence that one suddenly mutated itself in all the right ways to become a chicken before laying that egg).

Anyway, on the actual topic, yeah, I think I agree with everything you've mentioned here. I think it would take YouTube doing something profoundly stupid to give enough of an opening that any alternative (which may not necessarily even wind up being PeerTube -- people may end up going to even something like PornHub instead (and I think all the others like DailyMotion are (mostly?) dead now)) to get a chance. I don't see companies like Nebula ever going the route of opening up like YouTube .

That is a statement I definitely can agree with in some ways. I think some of it is cultural difference and expectation being different between many western consumers versus Japanese. I think Japanese are far more used to certain practices and won't push back as much and, generally, also make up most of the companies' income. Not that I think that means something doesn't need to or shouldn't be fixed, but what I see from being here.

Yes. You have now named two whole companies but your complaint was leveraged at literally every company in the country.

Creators won't go there because (a) almost none even know about it (b) there's no audience there for the ones that do and (c) there's no monetization after the first two are met and some people do youtube for a job.

Audiences won't go there because (a) even fewer people who watch youtube would know what peertube is or that it exists and (b) creators are not natively there leading to a loop.

Those things need to be fixed first.

As someone who's lived in Japan for nearly a decade now, what are you on about? There are certainly shitty companies, as anywhere, but this is just wrong.

ドブネズミ、みたいに、美しくなりたい。。。

I mostly just had the alt+whatever codes memorized when I was typing French or German, but I didn't always have a numpad when I was using laptops away from home. I just ended up using charmap and never realized newer windows had any replacement (although I'm on mac for work and also use linux for both work and some home stuff now as well so not spending as much time in Windows).

Failing that win+r and type charmap. You can browse symbols there.

Another shocker for others, maybe, is that many companies require you to use those same pool of days as your sick leave. Get sick and no vacation for you. Japan does this as well (though Japan actually has ma-/pa-ternity leave which is more than I can say for the US)

I mean, I left but I still have to file taxes, can't use any retirement plans in my current country (yay, PFICs), and otherwise get fucked by the government for daring to want to invest in my retirement. This is mostly why I still also vote.

would you change yourself from your genetic baseline

Yeah, I'd get rid of Celiac's for one. There are other potential inherited conditions that I'd enjoy not having as well (colorblindness, etc.).

I think I'd keep aphantasia since the opposite (and the inner monologue that is actually heard) seems like it would be hell.

The neurodivergence I'm not sure. I would probably want to keep it even though it does sometimes (often?) cause pain.

Physically, I'd repair a lot of damage done to my body (metal rods and plates hold together parts of me, among other things).

You should probably tie it back into the actual question that OP had since I'm not sure everyone would make the connection between bras and what you wrote. I assume the other downvoters just hate the idea of a boob reduction.

Generally, the worst intensity stuff is actually over in the first 48-72 hours depending upon various factors. That's not to say outside is completely safe after that (it wouldn't be), but the level of danger is very different.

Especially when the job market contracted with all the IT company layoffs, some people may be stuck in jobs they hate because opportunities are few and they'd rather not be homeless or have their kids not have food and so on.

There are. Certain groups don't even believe in anything supernatural and don't really take the bible literally at all.

Hah, same. I would hope that part would go without saying.