Tell me you’re young and reasonably healthy without telling me yadda yadda

There comes an age where health is not a matter of choice. You do it or you suffer whatever years you stay alive, which can be surprisingly long. If you’re healthy for your age, don’t squander it, you will regret it as early as your 50s, if not a bit sooner.

You’ve heard 30-somethings joke about bad knees and back pain? That’s nothing, chump. You’ll know it when even sleeping hurts.

The 3% was because your friend made you take a test you didn’t want to. Your vanilla power is nearly overwhelming the testing capacities of current technology.

• Alien: Why do you want to replicate things for money?
• Mothra: So I can buy the things I want!
• Alien: Can’t you replicate the things you want instead?
• Mothra: This thing can replicate admiration?!

Plot twist: every replicated replicator degrades slightly in subtle ways, like making glass less smooth, or making food taste a little bit stale. After the fourth cycle, bananas taste a bit like warm mayo.

Nah, economy would suffer and adapt, but not technology or science. Engineers still would get together and work on new designs, but not for money.

Yup, mind uploading is making a copy. If the copying process is destruct, that doesn’t make it less of a copy. Your copy would remember your decision, so it will know it’s a copy as long as it knew how the process works.

Yes, there is overlapping. You make an effort to say funny and witty things, partly because you think it will make you look smart, hence attractive, and partly because you enjoy making her laugh. Which part is the biggest influences how confident you seem.

So you would have to replicate a percent of the mass of the sun. Seems feasible. The electricity bill would be nuts, but the world is ending anyway.

I feel the astounding energy needed to create matter would be the reason for the cooldown, so having more than one would make little difference.

Prize, not price. And thinking unrealistically high of yourself will only attract low self-esteem girls. If that’s your thing, great for you.

The best strategy in my experience is being yourself, not artificially bending towards what you think will look attractive. Self confidence is more attractive than narcissism, at least for my type of girl.

To be honest, not even from the start was it a true democracy, the Electoral College is a layer on top of democracy to give different weight to each vote.

Earl Grey because of Picard, green tea because of anime, coffee because of my grandma, herbal infusions because mom only liked those.

I think my only individual beverage choice has been tepache, a mild fermentation of pineapple. It has a lot of sugar, so don’t drink it a lot.

Unless it’s programming or sysadmin, I’m mediocre at all my hobbies, but I enjoy them a lot. It’s great not feeling pressured to do them professionally like a paid job.

I’ve tried to live a good life, and tried to be a good influence around me. My secret fear is suddenly dying in public, and farting like some corpses.

I want to be remembered as a good coworker or friend, etc., not as the guy who farted loudly after dying.

If it’s okay, would you explain why? Did you make your preparations in case of death, or are like “give your best shot, life”?

At least your parents like metric! That’s gotta count!

But seriously, no license is needed to become a parent, one of the greatest responsibilities IMO. Maybe they don’t actually hate you, and just don’t know to parent good. If they hated your guts, why would they (badly?) raise you instead of giving you in adoption the moment you were born?

If money really was no object, I’d build the first lunar inn and live there permanently.

“Oooh TeamAssimilation, that’s the Apollo Lander, it’s a valuable relic, please stop licking it!”

That’s where the eNGaGemENt is at!

He starts worrying again a couple meters from the finish line

Might as well go all in and call the Gulf of California “Armpit of Canada”.

Why would we? Even Reddit had a secret salute when it was starting, because it was growing slowly. Something social exploding is not the norm, but the result of aggressive marketing, which Lemmy instances can’t afford, and have no need to pay for.

This is the attitude. Some people make a community as if it was an enterprise, trying to grow big fast. The best communities, here or everywhere, are labors of love that may or may not grow much. A community getting huge is even a liability that can kill it as effectively as low traffic.

People, don’t make communities expecting them to become big, make them expecting them to stay authentic.

Mercado libre is literally the Spanish eBay.

Mozilla’s Multi-Account Containers extension.

It lets you define several cookie+local storage spaces, each isolated from the rest, and from private browsing. This way you can open random sites in the Default container, work sites in the “Evil Corp.” container, Furry fanfic sites in the “Guilty pleasures” container, etc.

With a container-aware cookie manager extension, you can even clear a whole container without affecting the rest.

This might sound weird, but sleep deprivation. I know it’s unhealthy, I only did it when young, but it was a rush to not sleep reading or gaming all night, then go to work/school. My record was 72 hours awake (Friday to Sunday) and while my head was wonky, and sometimes I would get very mild shakes, it was a high feeling still in control.

I’ve only felt a similar rush while fasting for several days, but for me it was much harder not eating compared to not sleeping.

This is one of my highs too! It’s a wonderful feeling to get out of work knowing you did something great, like the implementation opposite of impostor syndrome.

Unfortunately I don’t experience it every week, or even frequently, but I guess if I did it wouldn’t be a high.

Firefox with containers, uBlock Origin, and that extension from the EFF, privacy something. Forks would need to be from someone very trustworthy to gain the same trust Mozilla has earned from me over many years.

So god copied an existing product, changed superficial details, and added his holy trademark?

Confirmed Bill Gates is God

I’d like to see a theist defend their god with “He’s doing all he can, give him a break!”

Sky daddy is supposed to be strong

A billionaire would need to give a coin every second of his life for millions of years to deplete their fortune. The rich man of the story wasn’t rich enough, or was giving much more than a coin.

TL;DR: Natural language is ambiguous. How much of it do we misunderstand?

There are many tools to reduce misunderstanding: feedback, rephrasing, definitions, etc., but it would be really cool if a standardized logical language (like loglan/lojban but actually well done lol) became the worldwide second language and lingua franca. That would help a lot in our increasingly vocal interactions with computers.

Don’t recommend that line of thought unless you enjoy your weenie being chewed off.

And us “shithole countries” receive some immigrants from USA that put to shame the worst we could send back, only they call themselves expatriates.

This is the healthy, well-adapted approach. Never run from things only because you dislike them, you’ll never stop running.

This sums it up. That cool song you would like to know the name or artist? Bad luck if it wasn’t popular. Where does x idiom come from? Wait until you’re at home/the library.

You would have many of these unresolved questions for years, until some solved itself fortuitously.

B-but you see, the kid was CURSED!

Oh, never mind then!

I can only assume OP wants the shop to taxi them home. maybe back when the car is ready? Most fixes on the range of hundreds of dollars take several hours, or days depending on the availability of parts/tools.

Shops fix cars, driving customers is an added value I wouldn’t expect from most car shops. More so, if you committed to pay a few hundreds for a repair when it’s ready, it’s reasonable to assume you have enough money to go home on your own. A bicycle is always an option, though.

I’ve never cleaned my fridge ice maker in 8 years, how much life expectancy do I have?

Also, confort for having a higher being supposedly take care of you like your parents did when you were a child. Anything to soothe the loss of infancy.