Based on your description I’m going to take a wild guess: Your father is a “functioning addict”.

It explains everything, including his self destructive behavior.

Full list of disco songs winning The Grammy Award For Best Disco Recording:

1980 - I will survive.

The award only existed that year.

Land can be bought everywhere in all price ranges. The real hurdle is whether you can legally live there or what requirements there are, due to zoning and building codes.

I think the easiest way to get a self sustaining home with as little legal issues as possible is to buy an already legal home with the grid connection, but then just don’t use it.

If I were young and single again, I would look into auctions of derelict farms. Tear down the old building and instead build a small totally legal connected up to code cabin with water, waste and electricity connection. Then use the rest of land to do whatever actually interest me, while complying to the bare minimum of legal requirements for that land.

Why’d I want my guests to be excited about a good meal? We are having microwaved peas as usual.

Cool…how can I get it?

They too should suffer my endless search history for obscurities. I want them to download all of my USB storage of virus infected malware. I will sit idly and tap my fingertips against each other while my SMS messages corrupt their society from within.

Both Europe and US are big enough to have a huge variety in building codes for different climates in different states/countries.

Your dogs says: Bow wow wow yippie yay yippie yo.

Who the hell goes to his page anyway?

Yes that’s it. Trickle down doesn’t work because they don’t buy enough yachts.

The proof is: If they actually bought yachts for all their money, they wouldn’t be billionaires anymore. Billionaires wouldn’t exist if trickle down worked.

You don’t need artificial intelligence. We already have intelligence at home.

I fucking wish they’d spend the money on yachts.

At least the yacht sales man would get the billions and use it to buy a house, so the home owner would get the billions and use it buy a car, so the car sales man would get billions and use it buy cocaine, so the drug dealer would get billions and use it buy food.

Billionaires buying yachts would actually feed the poor. But they don’t. They just hoard it in their dragon lairs for no good reason.

A brain itself doesn’t feel physical pain. That requires a nervous system and pain receptors of which the brain has none. Brain surgery is done with only local anesthesia for the skin and scalp.

We also know that braindead people don’t suddenly start creating brain waves even if the body gets mechanical resparation and pulse. It’s quite literally “off”. So, I guess the creation of a dead brain won’t feel anything or start thinking about anything by itself.

The question is what inputs they give these artificial brains. It’ll think that, and that will be it’s “sensory” input. Whether that can cause some emergent brain waves that could be interpreted as emotion or other stuff is impossible to say. I doubt it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open-source_car

https://arcomage.github.io/

I have kids myself, but I don’t feel ashamed of letting them know that I don’t always have the answers or that sometimes I like to jump the trampoline for fun.

Adults who seem like they know everything and act responsible all the time actually seem “juvenile” in my opinion.

They don’t really get it, you know? Like they got to that level of life by following expectations and then stopped developing past that and just keep trotting along. Some people get stuck there while others “soften up” when they get grandchildren and less responsibility or whatever.

People mature in different paces, but the whole “being grown up” is definitely just an optional phase.

I’ve read that the most fires at gas stations (related to refueling) happen when somebody enters the car while fueling. I don’t know if it’s true, but it has a point.

The potential static electricity from getting into the seat and the dilution of the gas in the air at that position is a more ignitable combination than holding a lit cigarette right at the nozzle. The draft from opening the door will make different dilutions, so it’s pretty sure that it is ignitable at some point around that position.

The risk of explosion is quite low at the pump. It’s actually worse if they step away to smoke, because depending on wind there will be a position somewhere in the vicinity of the pump where the gas is easier to ignite. Firing up a lighter there could be bad.

Anyway. There’s plenty of other good reasons not to smoke at a gas station.

Yes sure. I am speaking in general. Half the time I read that community, I only realize where I am when I see the mods calling other people out in the comments. It happens in every single thread, which is why I think they ought to make it more visible in every single post. It’s a great community and I do read it occasionally, so I don’t want to block it, just because I’m not allowed to comment myself.

That community hits “front page” quite often. It’s easy to miss the community name (and rules) unless you pay attention.

It would be nice if there was a brother community that had the same topic, and a default text in all posts explaining this and redirecting the men to that.

Skateboarding. It has enough variety to keep it interesting for that long. Unlike many other sports, there’s an infinite number of tricks to learn. Even if you’re old.

Are they still around? I heard they ran away. They ran so far away.