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Yeah that sounds about like the line of reasoning I'd expect from conservatives in my family. The problem is that you gave them something at all. They made you a sucker. Stop helping people. etc.

They'd just terminate the thought there, and not move on to wonder if it could it be some other problem the system could help them with other than today's cart of groceries. My goodness, they might accidentally save a life and not even know it!

I LEARNED IT FROM YOU, DAD!

The whole concept in quantum mechanics of a particle's wave function collapsing into a single point due to an observation event is just weird enough, and feels just enough like some otherworldly programmer's hack to save tons of resources, that I am not sure I will ever be fully convinced that we are not in a simulation.

I'm not asserting that we're in one, and I don't know of any reasons to believe that we are in one, but I think I'll always have that little suspicion.

YES!

It is not always easy to judge how much an activity will benefit you going by how much you want to do it beforehand. It is not always as simple as exercising and eating your vegetables either. Shit's complex.

I describe it like each of our brains has a long, detailed, and customized user manual -- but we don't get a copy. We can choose to attempt to reverse engineer that manual if we have the right motivation.

We children of the 80s were out there in them streets, walking and biking to our friends' houses and dodging the cars. Over the years our skills grew, and the numbers were finally on our side. And while it was sad on the rare occasion that we lost a friend to the streets as if they were an Oregon Trail character, it did help the numbers even more!

Any incremental improvement is worth it, IMO. Think of it like the flip side of the swiss cheese security model.

My intentional mindset and positive thinking don't make my ADHD go away. But maybe they give me that last bit of motivation to get out of bed one day, or they flip the script and remind me that whatever activity my family wants to do with me this evening is way more important than that spare bedroom I finally started cleaning after several years.

When it comes to mental health and enjoying existence, never stop giving yourself the best chance you can.

This reminds me of something I was commenting about yesterday.

Focus on your immediate environment first, and make your little corner of the world better before you worry about saving the universe.

And like you said, it is a habit and mindset thing. If you plant a tree in your yard or in your community, no it will not save the rain forest, but your mental health and physical health and living conditions will all be slightly better off than they were before it.

If you start intentionally working in these positive actions that provide tiny incremental improvements, before you know it you may be feeling more than incrementally better.

If you wanted to blow a bunch of money on the military there are better ways to do it.

Ohh we got you fam.

I was up way too late. My comment shows as 4h old and I'm already sitting at my desk at work.

That's not my usual schedule, but I'm feeling pretty alright!

This is beautiful. Love it. This is the perfect moment for me to be done with the internet for today. On a happy note for once!

Well yeah their business isn't to "serve users." It's to "farm consumers."

That's why I'm glad I do embedded systems in a niche industry. I'm not trying to drive engagement across the globe. I'm just making a device that serves the needs of a user who has other important work to worry about.

Just gals being gals and guys being guys.

Gotta do it all the way, right?

I have been in the mental state of "I guess if I'm living through significant history that people will read about decades from now, I should at least pay attention and appreciate the weight of it, in addition to trying to actually help people" for about two orders of magnitude longer than the duration our brains evolved to handle.

It would be really, really swell if that could stop for a while and not constantly grind in a worse and worse direction.

You inspired me to do the same!

This is just how I felt when I first switched, also to Mint. I've experienced it a couple other times too when switching from some proprietary application to the FOSS option.

I like to describe it as feeling the different priorities of the teams working on each project. When one is made by passionate users who care about it being good software for its purpose, and the other is designed by a committee to hit as many different corporate metrics as possible, it shows.

And let's be honest, this is one of those many contexts where giving a shit and putting forth ANY amount of effort puts you ahead of 80% of the population anyway.

Thank you for the accurate yet depressing clarification, lol.

I mean, it's so believable at this point that I'll be more surprised if it doesn't happen.

It's one of the most stereotypically conservative / republican grievances I've ever heard.

It's not the people at the top keeping the actual glory and/or money that are the problem. And it's not that you suck. The problem that other rando who is just a bit more disadvantaged in life than you but who is about to catch up to the amount of stuff you have!

Sober is awesome, and I can actually have Roblox LAN parties with my son thanks to it.

More like I'm waiting for the world to get even stupider when we get some miracle cancer prevention vaccine and a third of the people in the US choose not to get it because freedom.