Same with Ames IA

Fear is such a strong word there. Pity. I pity men like that. It’s not alpha, everything they said is fear.

Fear of different races. Fear of different sexualities. Fear of anything different from their social norm, breaking out, doing anything different.

I see someone so stuck in their way of thinking that they are terrified of everything, and I pity them.

Real actual strong men don’t care. At all. Homosexuals and other races don’t bother them. Real men don’t care about other people live their lives or how other people see them. Actual men don’t need labels and they definitely don’t need to prove their manliness to anyone. Posts like this cause pity because they’re so desperate to prove to everyone (and themselves) that they are masculine, when all I see is a scared boy.

I have no idea where you are but not even a single battery is 25 cents where I live.

Even then, you’re still literally throwing away money when you get rid of it instead of buying a product you can reuse in any other future toy, remote, whatever. Throwing away money is the dumbest thing. You don’t make any sense, not financially, ecologically, my original comment I think still reigns true, it’s pure laziness.

Yeah I guess it’s “weird” to use rechargeable batteries which are only slightly more than regular batteries but can be used over and over and over again. Putting aside “anti consumption” that’s just plain the better deal

From the votes, I think you are the outlier.

I get people even here who just swear up and down it’s impooooooosible for them to switch for a littany of excuses. It costs too much (it doesn’t, it’s actually way cheaper), why would I put them in a remote? (Literally why wouldn’t you) They aren’t as convenient (compared to buying them at a store?). Or my favorite “they don’t work as well” ,which they don’t in maybe 5% of cases. So they could still replace 95% of their alkaline but let’s be real they just don’t want to even try.

They’re still there, and usually it’s pure laziness, or just arrogance that they don’t care about the immense waste.

That would be an interesting badge though on post, similar to the new user on Voyager. We are so small we could have a voting system to apply a spam badge to user that would expire after 30 days or something.

Same, I recently looked for vehicles and this was an option we desperately wanted. We have a great ev now that’s tiny and efficient, but a small truck would have been great

Honestly didn’t know the 99% was per year. My math was misleading because of rounding, but I was doing 0.990.990.99*0.99

Those numbers seem very heavily skewed in your favor - and even then with them, you’re willing to gamble that you’re not the 1 out of 5? Having a kid is a life-altering thing, a “You’re probably not getting the job you dreamed of or live where you want” type of life alteration at a young age - or at least you’re putting those things off for decades. I mean, you do you I guess, I’d prefer to know what I’m getting into first.

That’s the neat part aint it. Even for condoms, probability is only 99% for each time you do it. That means that it’s 99% chance you won’t get pregnant the first time. Then 98% safe 2 times having sex, then 96% safe if you have sex 4 times, and on and on. That’s with a good birth control option. The “pull out method” is not a good one. Once you’re maybe okay, and that’s a strong maybe. Every time beyond that is a gamble that rivals a vegas casino.

So yeah, those odds gotta be pretty damn good to be able to trust it.

Agreed. The vast majority of us I believe are actually older and a bit more well adjusted. I’m fine with leaving the weird nerd incel thing behind. I’m still a nerd, but not a weird nerd.

I saw someone posting nice guy incel content here recently and just thought nope, fuck that, and posted instead asking how people grew out of that mindset. I want us to be known for being a bit wiser, and more helpful rather than reinforcing bad mindsets.

Yeah zoom succeeded in COVID because of its incredibly low bar of entry. You only needed an account as host, anyone could join. Google meet had just removed that feature right before COVID hit (very very smart move Google), and so it became the standard for families and small business. Then since Dave in accounting used Zoom at home he just started using it for work, and it took over.

Dual license. You can specify one license under some conditions and another license for other conditions. So you could specify that if your code is going to be used by someone like say, Amazon, they need to pay you a license. But actual open source projects get it free and clear. Or whatever combo you want.

I fully understand and empathize this. No matter what I do, it’s thanks to her in her eyes. My faults and failings are of course not hers, but all of the wins and accomplishments are.

It works surprisingly well on Linux

Child walking onto the street in front of a truck? Billy please come here, please don’t walk into a truck. Never is such a strong word. And I have a mother who yelled, frequently, and I still think there are a few cases. Parents aren’t infallible or perfect.

Oh god that hit me hard. My mother’s is “but I raised good children” i.e. the ends justified the means.

Yeah but you could have done it differently too! It’s not mutually exclusive!

I tried for years to decide that, and with therapy learned that was I doing it for her or me, and if for me does it really help? She’ll never change, so it does no good. Instead I keep her a healthy distance away. I still see her, but measured intervals.

To be fair, she did know how to use them