What? Young earth creationists being unscientific??

Maybe god told them in a vision to cause the obesity epidemic

I mean I agree with the sentiment, but the seventh day Adventists were specifically making really low sugar, very bland cereals because they thought that would make people less horny or something. I don’t think they are to blame for high sugar content

Sounds like you just aren’t going far enough back to find the true monsters

I don’t mean focused on you as a specific individual, I mean it only benefits the one picking unlimited time, it does nothing for the rest of the world (which I argue contains lots of value) right now.

Let me give a specific example. Let’s say someone’s loved one is sick with cancer. By choosing “unlimited money” or maybe “unlimited medical knowledge” or “unlimited influence”, they could probably cure the cancer, or at least greatly extend their loved ones lifetime. If they choose unlimited time, then they could not. So are you saying the value of that love one’s life is inconsequential?

Or another, maybe you value human lives, and therefore it would be valuable for all wars to end. By picking “unlimited negotiation skill” or something else, you would be able to almost immediately end any war, and perhaps solve war in general. With infinite time, maybe in the far far future you could achieve this, but what about all the lives lost until then? Are they all inconsequential?

Yes I get that, but again, this is very focused on YOU. What about your friends and family who will suffer from the reduced value of the world. What about the general population?

With unlimited time you could theoretically make a perfect world for yourself, one day. But it does nothing for things that are valuable now.

Don’t get me wrong, unlimited time would be an incredible power, I’m just against the idea that there is nothing of value besides things you could also achieve with unlimited time.

I also disagree that everything valuable can be bought. And also, not everything of value has unlimited time to be reached

For example, maybe you value the natural world in ways that climate change and other human factors are threatening to destroy. Sure with enough time you could get infinite money or influence or whatever to solve the problem, but by then it will be far too late.

This is a very self centred view on value. Do you not think that there are things that have value, regardless of how much time you have?

I agree, though you’d need to make sure it isn’t something that a human could notice and mistake as a PR convention for your repo, and then mimic

I don’t think any language is sacred. But I also don’t want to negatively impact anyone with my choice of language, so it very much depends on context. And some slurs have such a strong cultural stigma that there exists almost no context where they would be ok.

So worst case, your mom/aunt deal with the same amount of advertising crap that they always have, but anyone who wants to can remove this stuff and use the same Linux as they do today.

It’s certainly different than C, but IMO Rust’s type system is also a dramatic improvement.

No no you misunderstand. The literal servers are oxidising

And how would the advertising world even get their shitty software onto your computer? Unlike windows, there isn’t some monolithic corporate entity making decisions about your computer for you.

I loved spore as a kid, but I do agree that when I tried it again and an adult I was disappointed by the shallowness that I just hadn’t noticed as a kid

Oh I love board games! Any favourites worth mentioning? My friend group was obsessed with Paleo for like a year, played it almost every weekend.

Camping, hiking, a crackling fire, being outdoors. Sunshine, snow, rain, winter. Beaches, mountains, forests. Skipping stones on a lake. Pottery, programming, puzzles. Good coffee, good tea, and hot drinks in general (esp. Feuerzangenbowle!). And probably more?

First balkanize the US, then China?

Maybe it references all of them

Yes because the only possible reason someone might not support a law they live under, is because they are ignorant of it

I mean, I find the tech fascinating and probably would like it, except that I hate the way it was created, the way it is peddled, the things it is used for, the companies who use it, the way it “talks”, the impact it has had on society, the impact it has on the environment, the way it is monetised, and the companies who own it.

And all that makes it difficult to “just appreciate the tech”