sbv @ sbv @sh.itjust.works

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you're gonna have to break this down for me

You made a gecko happy! 😊

2028

I'll take "unexpected worries of home ownership" for $100...

tl;dr: we found one expert who says yes, and another expert who says no. 🤷‍♂️

wow, nobody mentioned the open source thing yet. I'm here because I really like the open source thing and the idea of federated servers run by hobbyists.

If you find anything, lmk. Lemmy is a fine reddit clone, but it doesn't have enough niche content.

I wish I did, but all I can suggest is to look into conspiramids. They're a handy tool that helps GMs plan large organizations, and prompts you to build interlinking clues that tie scenes together.

I recently ran it. I don't think there's too much documented about the conflict.

You gotta get the prompt right.

It's bizarre that most of the comments here are shitting on the US/China when the op-ed is clearly stating that we need to get closer to our eurobros.

No trading partner can be fully trusted, but our friends in the Schengen are smaller (so they can't bully us as easily), have similar values (much of the time), have similar environmental and labour laws.

We should be building bridges with smaller players (including smaller Asian economies) rather than (again) putting all our eggs in a single daddy state.

Edit: included asiabros explicitly.

Dude is right: parental controls suck. I suspect that's because they kind of take a back seat in most purchasing decisions. Of the various platforms I've enabled parental controls on (Apple, Nintendo, Android, Xbox, Epic, Roblox), I've found Epic's to be the most straightforward.

It'd be nice if there was a mandated API that any kid-platform had to support, and a nice simple app to control it.

I'm thinking more along the lines of sticking the dishes they just used into the dishwasher. Although I've also asked them to pick up their candy wrappers.

It's weird that I had to scroll to the bottom of the article to see the policy changes and the author weirdly doesn't name the politicians or political parties.

"Hate them" is not what I've felt.

When they were young and couldn't stop crying, I felt really frustrated and wanted them to stop. Stepping out of the room for a lil mental health break is a good way to deal with that.

Now they're a bit older, I get annoyed by their reflexive "no" when asked to do something reasonable (e.g. clean up after themselves). Ironically, giving them a little bit of space lets them calm down and they usually comply.

I love these lil punks. I hope I'm never capable of hating them. Even if I may be annoyed at what they do.

I suggest Peter Watts.

most SF stories there are usually one or two central issues to grapple with—an evil AI, an empire, climate collapse—but rarely the overwhelming stack of interlocking failures we see in reality. Even dystopias often feel strangely cleaner and more legible than real life.

Writers try to build tight narratives. Portraying a polycrisis is hard. It's even harder if you want to focus on one or two factors. Decent editors try to cut extraneous stuff out of stories, so they'll try to trim out factors that aren't necessary to the main story arc.

And then you need to consider the audience. Can a writer portray a polycrisis in a way that viewers or readers will stick with? Or will the audience get tired of a laundry list of problems?

I suggest Peter Watts because he writes (wrote?) good genre fiction that's depressing and includes multiple reasons to be depressed.

I got married and had kids late. In retrospect, it was stupid to wait. I did some fun stuff in my twenties and thirties, but a lot of it was repetitive.

We didn't have kids until we were in our mid/late thirties. I really like my kids.

Due to that delay, I'm going to retire when they're entering the workforce. We'll never be in a similar demographic. I'll be too old to babysit their kids (if they have them). By the time they're in their thirties, I'll be looking for old age homes.

Your gran is right. If you do want to have kids, I'd suggest doing it sooner, rather than later. Definitely wait to find the right person, but once you're both ready, get to work.

I dunno. I just kept doing the same thing for years and years, and now I kind of feel like an adult.

That's low?

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