cjet79
Anarcho Capitalist on moral grounds
Libertarian Minarchist on economic grounds
User ID: 124
cjet79
1hr ago
Scott is allowing people to take a spin with a paid AI:
https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/ama-ask-machines-anything
I went and asked my own question, but didn't think the paid AI was significantly better than the free AI I'd also asked the same question to.
cjet79
23hr ago
I was born in the early 90's, grew up in a semi rural area. I had about a 1-2 mile range where I'd explore and play.
I have young kids now. My oldest is 7, I'd be fine with her walking to a store a half mile away and buying something, but she doesn't seem comfortable with that. I have neighbors with homeschooled kids. I see their 9 year old outside all the time playing alone. They are my 'canary' family. I'm seeing how much they get away with to know the local limits of acceptable free range parenting.
cjet79
1d ago
I've dealt with mild depression for most of my teen and adult life.
Not suicidal. I just have vivid memories of sitting in my highschool parking lot and wondering why the fuck I was here. Contemplating filling up a tank of gas leaving town and driving as far as the car would take me. The only thing that stopped me was the thought of "what the hell would I do when I got far away?" Same old bullshit of course.
Same thing when I started working a job. Just wanting to stay at a bar and pound beers because wtf was the point of anything, and being drunk was slightly fun.
Social situations all felt stupid and fake. Working out to stay in shape seemed like a waste of time, as long as I didn't get too fat my life would be easy enough.
Life with kids just feels different. I've never contemplated leaving. A few days not around the kids and I miss them. Jobs to support them feel easier to go to. Staying in shape so I can live longer and have energy to be around them seems like a no brainer. Social situations that would have been painful without them have a lubricant of talking about the kids, and I find myself happy to build social connections that can help them.
It's not as dramatic as "kids saved my life". But it is as dramatic as "kids gave my life a purpose".
cjet79
2d ago
The beginning of your story absolutely horrifies me. I've always thought that "I dont want kids" is a pretty good reason for not having kids. And a difference in preferences for kids is a valid breakup reason at any time in a romantic relationship.
I have three kids myself. I think I've wanted kids for about as long as I've been sexually aware. Before that I just wanted to find out I'd had a secret twin all along that my parents hadn't told me about. I married someone that always wanted kids.
I'm glad you came around, for your sake and your kid's sake. The advice is great, I just can't imagine going into this without wanting it in the first place.
cjet79
3d ago
I had fun making fun of it with the people in the room. One of them was a fluent Spanish speaker and said he couldn't understand most of it. The show was competing with 6 screaming kids volume wise, so it might have been hard to understand English lyrics too.
I can sort of count in Spanish and know only a couple of other words. It was boring to listen to, and the screaming kids sounded better.
The dancing I found boring, because there is much better amateur stuff on YouTube. And the camera angles weren't really doing the dancing any favors, moving around way too much and way too quickly.
Overall it was good to have something other than AI commercials to make fun of. Next year they can save money and get a local mariachi band to perform.
cjet79
5d ago
I think one thing you didn't address in your original post, that heavily informed my opinion on this story is that:
Young men are animals. Cross border, cross race, cross culture, etc. As they say, testosterone is a hell of a drug. Ages 15-25 I don't trust the sexual judgement of 90% of young men. Most of those men find a productive or semi-productive outlet for their sexual desire. I think porn has helped blunt the edge of young horny men in modern society, but the blade is still there lying at the throat of society and young women. Some number of men slip through the productive cracks, and they target younger women. Even a 22 year olds loser with no job smoking weed all day can look cool to a 16 year old dumb girl.
Much of the time its the responsibility of fathers and older brothers to protect young women from these predations. The threat of getting your ass kicked is usually enough to deter the worst dirtbags. But in the absence of these protections there are occasionally going to be cases where the young women themselves take defense into their own hands.
The base story here of young 20's man hits on young teenage girls is absolutely not surprising to me. I'd guess there are stories like this in every location in the world with more than a few thousand people. A case where there are no men around to protect the young girls is not that strange, especially in a low class area where fathers might be absentee. A case where the girls take their defense into their own hands seems inevitable, humans have a basic need for security and protection. All of that would have been a total non-story.
Its just that the young 20's man is an immigrant, and the young teenage girls are native. Which sparks the culture war aspect of this all. But those additional considerations seem inevitable in any situation where there are immigrants. Similar situations sparked off black race riots in the south (young black men hitting on young teenage white girls).
cjet79
5d ago
Anyone follow American Football 🏈?
I don't follow but I usually watch the Superbowl, and I'm interested in knowing the season backstory for both teams. Anyone want to rant about them, or just tell me they are both boring?
I just really feel like these two things cannot be compared, but I'll try.
Apple in cold weather, Oranges in warm weather.
Apples for baking and cooking, Oranges for drink flavors/additions.
Apples for toddlers and teens, Oranges for babies and pre-teens.
Apples for solitary sports snacks, Oranges for team sport snacks.
Apples mashed for sauces, oranges (or preferably clementines) preserved in water.
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