there is no ethical consumption

miss the days when I could watch the entire matrix movie on ascii before BitTorrent and streaming

I used to have a desktop keyboard with the nipple in the traditional middle of the keyboard configuration so your fingers could stay on the home row but something about it was off maybe the acceleration or something I’m sure I could’ve fixed it in software if I were smarter but it never just worked like the Thinkpad ones

I am not a programmer but your line of argument begged the question, “Are more options better, more efficient/effective, etc. or otherwise desirable?” Sure, if the only criterion you are trying to fulfill is “have as many options and different ways to complete the task at hand as possible,” you are correct that you can emulate a CLI within a GUI so you can accomplish a task both by clicking or typing instead of just typing.

However the parent you are responding to stated that having these additional choices (what he terms as “noise”) is clearly not effective for him so he disagrees with your original premise. Apparently for them “less is more” which is certainly understandable.

Epicureanism rejects immortality. It believes in the soul, but suggests that the soul is mortal and material, just like the body. Epicurus rejected any possibility of an afterlife, while still contending that one need not fear death: “Death is nothing to us; for that which is dissolved, is without sensation, and that which lacks sensation is nothing to us.” From this doctrine arose the Epicurean Epitaph: Non fui, fui, non sum, non curo (“I was not; I have been; I am not; I do not mind.”), which is inscribed on the gravestones of his followers and seen on many ancient gravestones of the Roman Empire.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epicureanism

easy to fix with zebra strip replacement I’m still wearing pebble steel rn

could be referring to “mad men” era secretaries as ibm era computers were just better fancier word processors/typewriters

edit: or maybe like IT helpdesk staff who are like janitors (i.e. they don’t see a difference between calling environmental services for a clogged toilet vs IT for a bricked computer)

they do

me checking my email to see if musk has fired me yet:

why not go full panpsychic it actually makes even more sense and has been seriously studied for millenia

when I like to gain perspective and imagine how useless we are on this meaningless little planet in a massive galaxy universe etc I just imagine the lonely little Boltzmann brain that’s actually just imagining the whole thing for a few nanoseconds before it returns back to quantum foam

what if you have to pass it piece by piece from your bladder

put 6k miles on my EV9 so far and loving it, much roomier than model Y

he’s not wrong the burbs I grew up in the 90s sure I could bike to the store but my current neighborhood has all the stores on a stroad, before kids I still weaved in and out of traffic with a bike or euc but now with kids I would never risk their lives vs these massive lifted pickups it just takes one drunk maga voter to knock into your hippie bike to end it all

that was really fucked up and I don’t know how I feel about playing a game about it but I’ll probably end up doing it once of these days. truly “art” and not just dumb entertainment

is this from I have no mouth and I must scream

unless ai gets stuck on 4chan or trump social and will just turn into robo hitler

tbf that might just be when the asteroid hits, nuclear war hits, or when ai deems humans as redundant and inefficient

I guess you got 17 more years