ameminator

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by ameminator 3y ago
I mean, pretty much. However, I've also been pretty happy and - more importantly - fulfilled, without marriage. It's to the point where I don't understand why someone would take the risk (in both capital and personal impact),
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by ameminator 3y ago
Most people I know earn less than $100k per year, unfortunately. Even then, having a divorce rate reach the floor at 30% seems pretty risky to me.
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by ameminator 3y ago
It's a personal judgement based on personal experience. I asked those same questions before deciding that maybe dating or marriage was not for me. However, you should make your own judgement call based off of your own experiences. Just
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by ameminator 3y ago
Be careful not to fall into the correlation=causation trap. It's entirely possible that only the wealthy are able to get married and stay married.
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by ameminator 3y ago
I'm certain this vulnerability does bring value to some, especially people like the original commenter. However, consider that it's possible to gain something similar in value without certain risks? My wealth is not my most im
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by ameminator 3y ago
Every week 2 hours at a local organization. There are other ways in which i give back to my family and my community, which i don't intend to discuss here. Further, on this point, i do not need to justify these to you or any internet st
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by ameminator 3y ago
Somewhat, there are studies that control for "never married" vs "divorced", and other studies that lump them together. In the cases of "never married", their happiness level approached that of married people in
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by ameminator 3y ago
I can sacrifice my ego through meditation and acts of charity/volunteer work. No need to risk half of my current assets and future income on the whims of some potentially capricious other person, who probably doesn't like me very
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by ameminator 3y ago
Personally, while i like the new logo on its own, it seems too similar to the Firefox logo - enough to create some confusion. Further, since Mozilla has lowered its level of support over the years, I'm not sure it makes sense to commit
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by ameminator 3y ago
I always saw Disney as a sort of "cultural center" of the country. The more Disney has become disconnected from the cultural zeitgeist, inevitably its products would become less valuable. We've seen this from Star Wars, Marve
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by ameminator 3y ago
I don't disagree about the addiction in regards to Peterson, but I do think, in part, the social pressure eventually got to him. Either way, I don't consider him as important a voice in this space as he used to be. To your other p
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by ameminator 3y ago
ASA labels masculinity harmful: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/investigations/2019/01/1... In regards to your specific examples, I'm very happy you personally derived value from this influ
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by ameminator 3y ago
I don't know if any of the people you mentioned should be considered good male role models. I think we should aspire to having exemplars who are more than simply heterosexual or a man, but who positively advocate for leading a purposef
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by ameminator 4y ago
I honestly don't understand myself, but here's an article in the Atlantic about it [0] as well as the ACLU's take [1]. [0] https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/05/aclu-johnn... [
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by ameminator 4y ago
Banning TikTok, which can be seen as a tool for the Chinese government to actively collect data in real time about American citizens, and a static book like 1984, is absolutely not the same.
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by ameminator 4y ago
I've been seeing so many civil liberties issues and violations in recent years. Often it has been the Institute for Justice or the Innocence Project legislating these issues. The only issue I have seen the ACLU speak up on was the disp
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by ameminator 4y ago
For now. Unfortunately, I see wildfires and other "drought-like" conditions continuing well into the future
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by ameminator 4y ago
No, I use emacs with Magit exclusively to do any interactive or complex git operations and then return to vim. I think Magit is that good.
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by ameminator 4y ago
Magit is by far the best interface for using git and managing git data structures that I have ever used - and I am a vim user! Almost every emacs user I know uses or recommends Magit. It may seem like a "niche library" but in some
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by ameminator 4y ago
Who knew that the phenomenon that launched 1000 Low Orbit Ion Canons would return to help with my Linux installs.
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by ameminator 4y ago
Assuming you are using SQLite, an extension exists which will likely do the job: https://www.sqlite.org/see/doc/trunk/www/readme.wiki Other databases will also have encrypt/decrypt APIs available. S
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by ameminator 4y ago
It's a very long trend
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by ameminator 4y ago
Unfortunately, the current trend is for women to marry around the same income/social class, so it seems by personal choice women are marrying these types of people.
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by ameminator 4y ago
Possible - I'll just cite Poe's law here[0]. Sadly, I have heard non-sarcastic versions of this argument argued in quite serious ways. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe%27s_law?wprov=sfla1
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by ameminator 4y ago
Please, share this opinion more. I want others to understand how unhinged some opinions being shared are. This is basically misandry with some techno-magic nightmare dust sprinkled in.
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by ameminator 4y ago
The Canadian government just doubled down on immigration to attempt to bring in 500,000 new immigrants per year[0]. Note, this does not include other sources of immigration, such as students and other types of international work visas. Sinc
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by ameminator 4y ago
It seems to be common due to the oligopoly of Canadian banks (there are 5 big banks for all of Canada and the concept of a small bank just doesn't exist, due to regulatory hurdles). It's a way to push the risk onto the consumer an
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by ameminator 4y ago
$5 says it's the food and not the plastic that the food comes in.
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by ameminator 4y ago
I don't find modern debate useful. I found myself with more "intellectual stakes" in an argument. In good faith, I would be more willing and able to change my mind or conclusions based on facts or good points made. Rather tha
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by ameminator 4y ago
What a grand and intoxicating innocence!

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