chiliedogg

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chiliedogg,

It’s different.

It’s way better in some ways - especially if you find a good career in a field you’re passionate about.

But some of the responsibilities of adulthood are a burden that is hard to appreciate until you’re there. And the perspective gained by life experience is also very different, for better or worse.

For instance, I went through a breakup last year at 39 with someone I was fully expecting to marry. It was my first major relationship failure in decades, and as I was being dumped I expected it to crush me.

What ended up hurting the most was that it didn’t hurt that much. I didn’t spiral into depression or fall apart at work. I wasn’t happy about it, but I was fine. A younger me would have been overwhelmed by the emotional toll, but the adult me was able to keep moving forward without breaking stride.

And in a way that’s what hurts. The passion of youth has been tempered by a lifetime of experience that puts everything into perspective.

chiliedogg, (edited )

I think a big part of the mental blocked on both sides is people generally not understanding the difference between fact and faith.

Knowledge is about fact. It’s the realm of science, empiricism, and logic. If it can be understood and known, it belongs here.

Faith is about the unknowable (not the unknown). It’s a choice to believe something without evidence because that evidence cannot exist.

You can’t both believe something and know it.

Understanding that faith and science don’t intersect allows people to hold spiritual beliefs without rejecting knowledge and science. They don’t conflict because they’re entirely separate.

Some people aren’t wired with the mental flexibility to embrace both spiritually and empiricism. Some reject science, while others reject faith, and neither understand the other.

chiliedogg,

Which is 100% fine by them.

They’ve created a situation where we HAVE to use ad-blockers for security, so they instead have to sell our data.

If they can’t make money off ads OR selling our data AND we won’t pay to view the content, all we’re really doing is using up their bandwidth.

chiliedogg,

Taxes are astronomical because prices are inflated because of buy-to-rent.

Taxes on single-family residential properties should be like 50% of land value annually for third-homes and up or homes owned by non-human entities. Make it so fucking expensive to own extra houses that they get unloaded cheap to people who will actually live in them, and at the same time reduce the taxable value of the land because it’s selling cheap.

chiliedogg,

At thw current rrate of growth it would be larger than the earth in under 1500 years.

chiliedogg,

Suicide by cop is a real thing.

chiliedogg,

Rays are awesome. I always tell my student divers not to approach them, but to enjoy it if they decide to be buddies.

chiliedogg,

People have no idea what things cost. Stadiums are cheap.

150 million dollars in a major city might be enough to open a new Walmart. Forget about a comprehensive transit system.

chiliedogg,

Specifically, they had bad dialogue. The story was there.

I mean - look at the scene where Anakin finally changes sides. He walks in and Palpatine is on the ground, defeated and unarmed. Then Mace Windu decides to kill him anyway.

This is a betrayal of everything the Jedi are supposed to stand for. They’re not supposed to be involved in politics. They aren’t supposed to kill prisoners. What makes the Jedi better than the Sith? If both sides are the same, why shouldn’t he side with the group that won’t hold him back?

The "story* laid an excellent foundation across 3 films to bring us that scene.

Unfortunately the dialogue and the direction were shit the whole way through, so it didn’t work.

chiliedogg, (edited )

Is it that Linux is getting popular, or that most people don’t buy new computers anymore now that their phone does everything they used it for, so it’s only the enthusiasts still buying?

chiliedogg,

Back when Blizzard campaigns were so good you paid for the single-player while the online multiplayer was free.

chiliedogg,

Same ones who said COVID would magically disappear right after the 2020 election.

chiliedogg,

The first time I yelled at young people to get off the grass was oddly freeing.

I now fully embrace the grump.

Black Friday (files.mastodon.online)

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chiliedogg,

They’ll sometimes bring in the exact same form with a different SKU/UPC so it’s technically a new product.

Also look out for weasel words like “Compare To”, “X value”, or “Special Buy” where they aren’t actually saying it’s on sale.

chiliedogg,

Your could always post about how much you hate cars.

chiliedogg,

Unity was the biggest stumble.

Publishers hate surprise fees, distribution platforms absolutely won’t pay per download, developers (companies) are stretching budgets as it is, and the individual developers are quick to anger and will hold a grudge for eternity.

They really gutted themselves.

chiliedogg,

They won’t make people disable uBlock. They’ll just make it stop working, and people will just think the ads have gotten better or uBlock has gotten worse.

chiliedogg,

For framing a house a nail is absolutely better. As the house settles, wood shrinks, and the frame flexes in storms or quakes the nails allow the wood to move instead of causing things to warp and break.

chiliedogg,

34: “War is good for business.”

chiliedogg,

Color film also requires more light. By making all elements of the film sensitive to all visible light, your essentially triple it’s sensitivity to light vs color.

chiliedogg,

And that’s why people use mouse jigglers and keep their computers unlocked 24/7.

chiliedogg,

We absolutely genetically modified pretty much all of our food. We just did it by selective breeding.

The only difference with modern GMO is we’ve learned to do it directly much faster. We don’t need a random mutation to add a trait anymore.

chiliedogg,

I miss reddit every day. The niche communities were large enough there to have content.

I said I’d leave at the end of June if they went through with the API changes bc and I did. But of they reversed course today I’d absolutely go back instantly.

chiliedogg,

It sure is nice that everyone gets to live in New York, London, and Washington.

A better solution is to reduce how much people need to travel. Instead of building trillion-dollartransit systems so people can to to the office we should be taxing the everloving shit out of office spaces for jobs that can be worked remotely.

chiliedogg,

Rent often is. But since renting doesn’t build credit, lots of us can’t “afford” a house even though we’d actually be saving money paying a mortgage instead of rent.

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