Well I was mostly thinking of K-12 schools, and it would be because there are no K-12 students. At the latter part of that 18-30 year period I mentioned there would be no young adult university students.

It is a hypothetical world, but that’s the one I’m responding to. It’s immoral to have kids therefore no person should have a child therefore there should be no children. Am I missing something in my interpretation of that?

There’s an audiobook with an ensemble cast that’s very good. It’s narrators include Scott Brick and Orlagh Cassidy.

It would cause issues for society as a whole. If everyone stopped having kids right now education institutions, for example, would stop existing as the current kids aged out. If things got to a point where having children became acceptable again, that institutional knowledge would be greatly debilitated if not lost entirely. A gradual decline would allow schools to shrink to match that decline rather than stopping entirely.

I see where you’re coming from, and I agree that the population should decrease by staying below the replacement rate, but I also think humanity should continue, and having an abrupt stop to new children would cause a lot of societal issues 18-30 years down the line. I think that if a parent/couple can provide a decent standard of living it is morally permissible for them to have one, maybe two kids.

I also think everyone deserves to be in a position where they can provide that decent standard of living, but you’re talking about how things are, not how things should be.

In undergrad my fraternity used Slack to communicate about topics, events, and to share memes. When we wanted a place to plan/talk/share memes with friends outside the fraternity, it was what we knew so it’s what we set up, and it’s been going for like 7-8 years at this point.

I don’t understand, are you talking about the post, or just some men that you’ve met? The “On Halloween” picture doesn’t look like “me but girl”, it looks like a costume, just a costume for women. The one time I can remember seeing a cis dude cross dress for Halloween he was wearing a witch outfit, which I would put at the same level of fun as a zombie costume.

I guess you could be talking about guys just dressing in normal feminine street clothes, but then my guess would just be that they don’t care about dressing up for Halloween so they did something low effort and then I would think your issue is more with the lack of care about Halloween. But even then they are doing something, so why would that be more weird than, say, not dressing up at all?

I guess I’m just not seeing the weird part.

Aaand that’s going in the custom emoji of the friend group Slack.

Weezer - Pork and Beans

When it first came out it was a distillation of a bunch of cool stuff on this Youtube thing. Now it’s a time capsule of nostalgia for a time when creativity ruled. Plus it’s one of my favorite Weezer songs.

This is giving me a flashback to 10 years ago watching Bojack Horseman flash back 10 years to 2006. That was a good flashback.

I’m pretty sure Luke gives an insincere “hi” to R2D2 because he’d rather be running down to Tosche Station instead of doing farm work.

He doesn’t blink when R2 gets shot during the trench run, but his face always conveyed to me that he’s scared shitless to now be alone with fighters on his trail while focusing on pushing through that fear because now he is the last hope for the galaxy.

Before attacking the Death Star, doesn’t Luke tell the technicians take good care of R2D2? “That little droid and I have been through a lot together”, or something like that? Are those the words of someone who doesn’t care?

I only got through the first quarter of book one, is there a lot of dark humor?

I like liking stuff, so that!

If I still get the response of pain down the line (not being able to rest my hand on a hot stove) I’d consider it. To quote Matt Damon in Elysium, “This ain’t gonna kill me.”

On the other hand, sometimes I like to feel a bit of pain given the right, uh, circumstances.

Look, I’ll be polite and sit to pee when I’m visiting people or using my roommate’s toilet, but in return I’m going to stand when I use my own, and I don’t care if there’s a little splashback or what-have-you. I’m the one keeping it clean, so I can let it get a little unclean with my casual, comfortable personal relief!

I only get a minute of ign per day, so I had to skim the article. I played a lot of TW Warhammer and this mod until a few years ago, and the cycle was always the same. New dlc would release that breaks the SFO(Steel Faith Overhaul) mod this guy makes, a couple weeks later the mod would update bringing the new content up to par with the rest of the mod. I never minded because I could just play the new content in vanilla for a campaign or two and the mod has always been of a high caliber rivaling and arguably surpassing the base game.

It sounds like what’s happening now is new content releases that breaks the mod, and rather than wait for it to be updated and updated right some people are using AI to get the mod in a functional state then uploading the whole thing as their own. The article talks about submods but those have always existed for SFO and been fine.

I’d hate for such an iconic mod to be taken down, but if other people are uploading his work wholesale because they’re too impatient to play without it, I don’t know that I can blame him.

It took me a while to figure out. I had a bad habit of scrolling r/popular for (effectively) infinite content, and I tried trimming it down to just stuff I liked by muting communities until one day it started giving me a simple error when I’d try to mute something. I searched around after a while and that’s when i found out about the limit. Reddit itself says nothing about the limit existing anywhere.

First, there’s more to his arguments than not having to remember things. You have to compare written knowledge to oral tradition. If you read something and have questions, the words aren’t going to magically change to something understandable. If you are learning from someone and have questions, you can ask that someone and they can rephrase it in a new way that’s easier to understand. In a similar vein, if you read something written long ago like Shakespeare the language will have changed such that it’s more difficult to understand. If his stories had been passed down by word of mouth the meaning could be kept while the words used to communicate those meanings evolve with the language. Of course writing has many benefits that make it worthwhile, but pretending that the only argument against it is that it stores information on a page instead of your brain is wrong.

Second, people calling a new thing bad in the past has zero relevance to people calling a different new thing bad in the present. Plato/Socrates had no word generating machines in their time, so what do their opinions have to do with a word generating machine?

You can’t block any community you don’t like on reddit because there’s a limit on the number you can mute. I know this because I hit that limit before I deleted my account.

It’s not always easy to find the exact meme I have in mind, there have been a couple times that I gave up on internet searching for one because it just wasn’t showing up. I also prefer scrolling through a bunch of memes that I’ve already vetted as good rather than the sea of meme trash the internet holds.

Yeah, I’d rather they have that conversation than watch glorified book rental stores bleed money until they close down anyway.