I mean, what is actually needed is a secure messaging app that scrapes wraps existing apps. So when two people send messages through FancyMessages, they are secure. But then if only one person has FancyMessages, and the other has Facebook messenger, then they could still comminicate - the FB user using Messenger as usual, and our hero’s FancyMessages app picking up the FB messages and passing them on through the FancyMessages UI.

The number one piece of advice a number of dads have given me is: if you don’t want kids, don’t have kids. I would add to this: if you don’t feel ready for kids, don’t have kids. And your situation is exactly why this advice applies.

I recommend leaning on your social networks for help with childcare. Your mom likes the baby? Great! She can take care of them 2 nights per week while you catch up on everything and find some sanity.

Your wife forced you to have a baby. Force her to seek more help. Recruit her friends and family if you need to. She wanted this, but you are doing all the work. She needs to get her shit together so she can help out.

Sorry dude, but you’ve basically blown up your life for the next decade. If you don’t really like the kid by then, probably the best case is to get a divorce and bounce. Pay child support. Take the kid in a cool trip once per year. Then you can live the life you want, and the kid won’t go through puberty with a dad who resents them around all the time.

This seems like a flaw in the design of the platform…

You aren’t wrong. But being a social media influencer is something almost no one would accidentally fall into. People who do it intentionally are doing it to chase a dream of fame and fortune and glamor - but because there is a limited amount of attention in the world and it is highly concentrated, you are really rolling the dice on a dream if you decide to commit to it. There is a very high probability that even if you put your whole heart and soul into it and did everything perfectly, you will still never achieve much more financial success than a child’s lemonade stand.

It’s basically the same thing as wanting to be a blockbuster film actor or a rock star or an NBA player. If you are struggling and unsuccessful… Well yeah, that’s exactly what everyone told you would happen. Go get a different job. And if you are successful and famous and making tons of money - “oh no, boohoo, it must be so hard to be successful beyond your wildest dreams.”

Speaking of rainbow parties - that was actually a great idea. How come we never do that?

Learn vim keybindings.

Learn hotkeys for every program you have and learn to navigate between programs without the mouse.

Stop using the computer and go outside sometimes

Next they pay attention and learn algebra

The fact that you used the term we usually use to describe quitting alcohol and cigarettes is probably a good sign that they should be banned.

Government.

In an ideal world, everyone would get along and coordinate effectively in a voluntary manner. There would be no need for any government to enforce laws or provide services.

Iirc, the original definition of an antihero didn’t mean a bad guy you root for. It meant a hero in the story that didnt embody the traditional heroic traits of courage, strength, faith in God, noble morality, etc. The antihero is the hero who is not really heroic - a hero who is kind of just a normal person. An example of this being Don Quixote - a man who spent his time fighting dragons and rescuing princesses only in his imagination.

These days, almost all heros outside children’s books are antiheros. Because true heros are flat and one dimensional and unrelatable and don’t contribute to an engaging plot. These days, it isn’t thrilling enough for us to hear how the knight slew the dragon. He must first overcome… I dunno, his childhood trauma or something… And then he can slay the dragon!

Styrofoam boots

I suppose this is a difference of opinion we are just going to have.

But in my experience, it is entirely possible to use the apps as they are with a lot of success if you put the work into having a good profile.

Probably Argentina. Maybe SE Asia. But honestly, where ever all my friends decided to move, since we’d prob drag each other to one place or another. Although most likely scenario there is that we’d become a travelling commune with no official country. If the US actually collapsed, I’d lose a ton of money and would need to find some kind of work, so I’d hit up my connections and probably get a remote software gig. Idk, I’ll figure it out when it happens.

Also, God, the weather

One of my favorite books. Highly recommend

Puerto Rico doesn’t want to be independent. They regularly have polls on this. About half want to be a state. About half want to keep the status quo. A small fraction favor independence. And it is obvious why - despite all the economic restrictions and lack of representation, the average Puerto Rican is far better off economically with a US passport. Just look at comparable Caribbean island nations - an independent Puerto Rico would have little going for it other than as a stopover for shipping boats and cruise ships. As part of the US, they draw an outsized portion of the Caribbean tourism market, can easily trade with US companies without the impediments of international borders, and can dream that their kids can go to the mainland and study in some of the best universities in the world.

I mean, discord is full of disgusting deviants, I’m not surprised.

You sound asexual. That’s fine.

Why did you bring rape up? Seems strange. People can be horny without wanting to rape someone. Being in a relationship has never made me think it was more okay to rape my partner. That’s fucked up. I’m gonna chalk up that line of thinking to being unfamiliar with how normal people experience horniness.

I don’t think anyone can be voluntarily or involuntarily asexual. It’s just kind of an intrinsic trait of your personality. It’s like saying you involuntarily have brown hair.

There is a solution to this problem. One line that just feeds all the lanes. Unfortunately, the geometry of grocery stores would make it difficult to implement. Also, most people like the illusion of choice.

No problem.

And you are probably tying the butterfly correctly. It’s just easier to untie than an overhand on a bight, which can get absolutely welded under load. But seriously, bowline on a bight is such a sexy knot to untie after loading. It just comes right apart no problem.

Just have a war. Nothing brings people together like necessity and shared trauma.