raising a child is also work to be valued (which you benefitted from yourself, btw).

This.

And it’s not a binary thing, it’s a scale. Kids who are supported by emotionally stable parents who are able to spend their time together are more likely to succeed in life than kids who are left to their own devices and end up picking up all sorts of insecurities due to the parent being sort of a nerve wreck, and them eventually feeling like a burden all the time.

I will happily support my colleague spending more of his time with his daughters, because then when I’m old, I have higher chance that those daughters being confident, nice and educated adult people who can produce economical value. Only then, part of that value can come back to me in various forms of support, whether it’s pension, better social services or just more options. (Unless they move to another country – but then again, that depends on the relative quality of life in this country, which in turn boils down to the same principle.)

Now, maybe I’m a nice guy here, but none of the above logic requires me to be nice. I could be a totally selfish asshole and still the position works out the same.

We already agreed on that rule between us four siblings. We only get presents for kids.

Except that I’m the only one who does not have kids, so for the purposes of this rule I’m considered a kid.

Somehow this room gives me Theme Hospital vibes which I never wanted to admit, hadn’t I seen the real version. (Now I understand why my doctors were always depressed.)

The more I look into the high-res picture, the more mildly bleak details I notice.

• Torn plastic wrapping of tiny plastic bottles on the chipboard counter.
• His sleeve is mildly dirty.
• The shoes on the shelf seem awkward to access over the chair.
• The whiteboard has permanently marked spots “use me to write” and “use me to clean”, both empty.
• That “pizza” is barely an oversized muffin.
• Fire prohibited.
• The mirror is pretty dirty.
• Corner of the steel cabinet is a bit bent.
• The badly attached sheet of paper hanging from the whiteboard; you can’t read anything.
• On the top shelf of the cupboard, something is kinda balancing there.
• Cheap plates not perfectly aligned.
• ROTATE:
  • ROTATE
  • ROTATE
  • ROTATE
• The pedal on the trash bin is weirdly bent.

Not that any of this really matters, though.

Most commenters here don’t appreciate how sad the image really is: the headset is playing some corporate prefabricated Happy Birthday message, starting and ending with “Loving your work.” company motto accompanied with nothingmusic in background.

nit: you mean yaml.safe_load().

In other words, the beak is a “Short Sword of poison +1”?

Who needs table when you are truly “Loving your work.”.

If people are saying something you disagree with you can just say it

sure 😁 👍 💯

and you won’t be fired or ostracized for it

🤦 WAT, how do you know that?

Sorry, but you don’t get to set the expectations of how people will react.

why on Earth would we make an entire mirror organism that’s has the potential to do the same but way, way worse

it’s in the article: because of fAsCiNaTiOn!

I think we have one free chair left after UK, so…

No, but you could achieve similar effect by giving me a few billion $.

Even more accurately: society is benefited by constantly exploring (and exercising) multiple different survival strategies (capitalism, collectivism, religion…) at the same time. These various strategies are inevitably in tension, producing tons of overall unhappiness.

Like an octopus spreading its tentacles, trying to explore every crevice of its environment, but sometimes accidentally bumping two or more tentacles together. Sure, the tentacles won’t destroy each other but that’s not the point: In this metaphor, we are merely the cells on the surface. Our suffering is just part of the whole organism trying to balance exploration with self-preservation.

or a trainplane

Don’t wanna state the obvious, but it looks like they still ended up staring at each other for the rest of the evening.

They have shown that they still love each other, so hope they can work with their one irreconcilable difference.

RTFB

Do you “discard” the water by… just letting it into the sink? How long before aresnic is everywhere?

Funny how he made it basically for his desktop computer.

33 years later, and Linux is dominating in every part of the OS world except … the desktop.

(I’m paraphrasing his quote – he said something like this years ago, can’t find it, though.)

(Edit: to be more fair with quotes, it might be the case that I “hallucinated” the quote. he might not have said that, or he might have just said part of it and other part would be someone else’s comment. This cio.com article is probably a better source on his position )

just hire more nurses

Look, I get your point, but it’s not like nurses grow on trees. (Especially good nurses.)

Things need fixing, but they need fixing far earlier than that.

makes me think of the good ol’t times when the air was cleaner, roads were safer and our bosses used to pay us in Thinkpads, not this “fiat money” nonsense.