Gmoney86

I hear you. I have 2 under 4 and it’s exhausting. What’s lacking is me time to take care of myself. I’m so exhausted at night that I can’t exercise and they way up so damned early that I can’t even start my day with a cup of coffee or some free weights. They’re just too high demand and high energy. Even keeping up with my expertise and skills at work is a challenge as I have no time do professional development that I previously took advantage of pre-kids.

I’m literally falling apart and my wife wants a 3rd and it scares me because I feel like I’ve lost myself and another 5 years of this will ensure my dad bod is just a fat beer belly bod.

It’s really hard not to fall into resentment, but I’ve used my poop break to write this. Back to action…

I’m not confusing social interaction with information sharing, beyond pointing out that using a form of social connection (ie Internet forums/websites) are enabling those who were previously ostracized or isolated (ie flat earthers) to belong to a larger community than they can find in their immediate physical space.

I don’t disagree with the fact that non-verbal communication is a huge part of social interactions, but I disagree with the fact that social interaction has been absolutely destroyed by social media. Social media enabled a decline in physical social interactions that lack a ton of context and experience lost when you remove many other non-verbal queues.

Social media isn’t inherently bad in the same way dynamite is - it’s the application of it that can be concerning as we have too few tools to ensure safe and healthy use, and the research is still growing on its true long term effects on the human brain and our societies.

It is still social, if online. Only that it’s not physical and there’s something fundamentally lost without physical social connections. The challenge is how do we get out of our own bubbles and echo chambers to connect with a real world beyond the one we can control and choose online (yes, algos make that an illusion) but now we can find our version of self-validating crazy.

Re: there are more flat earthers today than there were 2 decades ago because the internet let all the town crazies connect.

Holy crap TIL as a Canadian this is actually a streaming win ,for once.

So THATS what that was! Definitely walked by it with my toddler wondering who left their family member by the water…

We definitely have put our toddler in a toddler bed that fit a walk in closet so that we had a bit of privacy, separation, and a dark quiet space so they could sleep and allow us to continue to enjoy the room. Of course the door was propped so he could get out and it wouldn’t close on him, and he LOVED it.

As long as they could make the rooms so you can partition off an area for little kids, but allow it to easily be opened up to accommodate other use cases that would be great. Like bunk beds /nooks and such.

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Bet they’re just selling this v1 to find a market and if it passes an internal benchmark of sales and excitement, pump out a “pro” version with matched or higher specs.

Then again, it’s Google, so I’m sure it’ll be DOA in 3 years …

I believe a big part of what would fund a UBI would be to roll almost all existing forms of welfare/EI into the program making any overages less burdensome. There’s a lot of other tweaks that would need to be made, but ultimately most of the modern trials that occurred in Canada (for example) were immediately axed before the research programs were completed by conservative governments out of “feeling and fears” people weren’t incentivized to work even though all preliminary data showed the opposite - people often getting better education to seek better paying work, better health outcomes by affording higher quality food, and being able to afford to get out of bad social situations, as examples. I only wish governments were brave enough to really do the work instead of submitting to suggesting it’s bad faith socialism or that it won’t hurt the right people…

Ohh I think I found the X Com cross over I’ve been looking for.

He won’t so long as everyone gets out to vote. No apathy. No room to not do your part.

Get everyone you know to register and vote like your life depends on it.

I don’t want to hate republicans, because they already hate themselves enough to want to elect Trump. I very much hate the MAGA / Tea Party.

Democrats need to win and we all need to figure out a way to make politics boring again while bringing everyone back to a fact based reality. We need to stop letting MAGA types, fascists, and far right ideologies continue to drag the Overton window to the right because they refuse to be good faith actors and search for common ground.

As for Vance, he’s a narcissistic prick who will happily say he was the Swifty Manchurian candidate that saved democracy by ousting DonOLD from the inside.

3 (to 4) word messaging is core a modern conservative hallmark entrenched by the 2016 trump campaign. It is very effective comms if it can evoke emotion and clarity in direction without the need to release or endorse a clear policy agenda because it then becomes whatever each voter wants it to be. It’s incoherent by design.

Hopefully the Democrats can quickly find a strong rallying cry start hammering the MAGA Republicans and revive the energy their campaign severely needs.

As with all cities, amalgamation continues to screw over downtown urban locales to the benefit of suburbs that contribute less in overall taxes yet have a much higher infrastructure cost thanks to their lower density.

Amalgamation by design is to benefit traditionally wealthier suburbs at the cost of typically less wealthy urban residents.

The default controls aren’t BAD just leave something to be desired. On my list tonight is to try some of the community controls that make better use of the touch pad and R/L 4/5 buttons as well.

I do find mapping the keyboard commands to the steam deck and using the touchpads for mouse control is very comfortable in other games once you get used to them based on my experiences with Baldur’s Gate 3 and Wrath of the Righteous.

Too big to fail and too big to jail. Exhibit 2 - 2008 financial market bailout. Exhibit 2 - Trump.

The fact we all put up with this and support it is absolute madness.

Dated a woman like that once. It was easier for her to describe herself as a vegetarian. She’s a pescatarian, but explaining that it’s not some obscure Christian sect made it easier for her to communicate her diet to others.

Just getting into against the storm and it’s scratching so many itches I didn’t realize I had. Just need to figure out a control scheme I like.