Great read, thanks for that!

I’m kind of with your family on this one, but if you are going through with it I would just verify with the doctor performing the procedure whether it can be reversed in case you change your mind later on.

I’m pretty sure most of the top posts in AITA are AI generated. They all have a similar pattern, are lengthy and always have a similar pity angle.

I sometimes read them to see if the pattern has changed, but not last time I checked.

Ok, sure. I do want to point out that I simply answered the question. I don’t deny my state of luxury yet also don’t feel that this bout of whataboutism is entirely warranted.

By looking at it from a larger perspective. You can always get worked up about things but if you zoom out, you see that most of it is just a temporary trend. Some things trend well, some trend poorly, but these tend to be blips in the span of a lifetime.

Especially when comparing with the past you will see that things really aren’t all that bad in general.

In Düsseldorf, after the full body scan and scan of my bags, I still had to take of my shoes, put them in a box, they scanned said box with shoes and after as I was putting on my shoes, using the metal seat to lift my feet, they complained about that because people sit there. Which is a fair point, but holy shit was I pissed off at the time. I hate that airport.

Yea, and tomorrow Musk announces the imminent go live of his robot sales, predicts several million will be sold in a matter of months and the stock will bounce back up 10%.

Even if I was still an active investor I would not bet against Tesla. Musk has proven a master in stock manipulation.

They can call it New Flevoland

That’s why I use mail relays.

I want everything as dumb as possible. I will register whatever I buy with the manufacturer for warranty purposes, but other than that: dumb toaster, dumb fridge, dumb washing machine, dumb robot vacuum cleaner, dumb doorbell, dumb locks, etc…

If it doesn’t need internet to function, it’s not getting any.

True, good sport streams are a lot harder to find than they used to be.

A friend of mine is a professor in anthropology and he told me that he stayed in academia because he was afraid of change and academia was something he knew well.

Them allowing unlimited book checkouts during covid in defiance of copyright law, resulting in them getting sued and losing bad in court. They knew it was going to get them in trouble and proceeded anyway.

I’m not saying it wasn’t a noble thing to do, but it was stupid and they knew better. So now they are just paying off the fine and I don’t want my money to go straight to the publishers and lawyer fees.

I regularly donate to wikipedia, the guardian, keepass2android, whatever fund raising Ukraine Matters has at the time I feel like donating and lemmynsfw. Also have a tax deduction directed to animal shelters.

I used to support the internet archive, but I’m still pissed off at their stupidity.

I have never been able to read a book on a computer. It just feels completely unnatural, even though I read a ton of articles, forum posts, manuals, etc. on my phone or computer. Not a peasant because they could historically usually not read let alone afford a book, but I do love actual physical books.

I always thought those scifi stories where companies basically rule everything were overblown, but you just see it changing to that in real time.

Since the ivermectin didn’t kill him, can we push the narrative that injecting a gram of botox will make him live a lot longer?

I’m a great believer in transparency and good governance.

Mystery solved.

Leclercs Monaco win?

I think the Norris-Piastri rivalry might produce some fireworks later on this year.