boondoggle16

> What's the right age for us to start decrying someone's continued existence?

It's not about age, it's about the cost of living vs the quality of life. These "miracle treatments" are often anything but. In many cases, they are a million-dollar ticket to a tortured existence.

If I live 60+ years, I've had a good run... if I need a $1MM treatment, my body is likely in a very bad state. My quality of life can't be very good at that point.

So when I think of my options:

- Extend my medical-torture hell for another 2 years

- Buy a home for both of my children

- Do a LOT of cocaine for 3 months

I'm really not inclined to go with the medical-torture hell.

I'm not afraid of death, we are all going to die, and in a finite universe, I consider it morally wrong to use limited resources on a project with awful diminishing returns. Especially when the project doesn't even make me feel good.

So what does it get me? 2 more years of talking to my children? If I've lived 60 years, I've taught them enough. My life is enough, and enough is enough. No need to be greedy about it when your life is already good.

> Is it wrong for people with chronic health conditions to seek treatment rather than just dying?

I don't think so, personally. The same arguments do not apply, this is a completely different situation.

https://slatestarcodex.com/2013/07/17/who-by-very-slow-decay...

Artisan t-shirt makers have inherent worth too... doesn't mean we employ an artisan t-shirt maker for every 4 employees.

No, this is way too simplistic. They can be judged on relative performance of cases.

Just like schools, you can tell which teachers are good, even in districts with bad kids.

Don't people live long enough already? We can't pay for our retirees.

Old age medical care costs $1M+. I know the morally correct thing to do when I get old - give that money to kids instead.

Vampires.

> unnecessary reproductive vestige

Men are still really strong and have a lot of testosterone, and women will literally never be able to kill us off or enslave us due to this.

Right, I should have said "the main Chromium branch is obviously not trustworthy". It is possible to remove the untrustworthy bits, however, and there are a variety of de-googled Chromium builds.

Chromium is a great browser, unfortunately the official branch has been poisoned by Google.

I do not use BAT or any crypto. Brave just works, and it blocks ads automatically when I tell friends to install it on their computers.

I used to recommend Firefox, but Mozilla has totally jumped the shark (privacy violations [multiple], wastes too much money, blocks APIs that are useful with no real security risks while approving APIs with little use that do have security risks, etc, very user hostile).

Chromium is obviously not trustworthy at this point, let alone Chrome. So that leaves like, Safari and Opera?

Brendan Eich is the CEO of Brave, and I trust him. Mozilla was good until he was ousted for political reasons.

Not sure why you're being so argumentative about a misunderstanding of definitions?

Users know what emoji are, full stop, and you don't have to serve images (which can be expensive). Is it perfect? No, but nothing is.

Deciding to repost this as a top-level comment because it has more info about the show and 4 images:

https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2023/06/30/check-out-blind-phot...

Check out some videos on youtube, you can see people casing lots of cool stuff including food :)

look for resin casting or similar

I'm not material at all, and for the first time in my (long) life, I thought: "A Rolex looks like a nice piece of Geneva craftsmanship, what would it be like to have one?"

edit: I'm bad at reading things, best wishes to you :)

I do find mementos from lost people to be quite sad. But also kinda fun.

Heh, I noticed there's no image gallery with the post. As a disabled person myself, this trite puppy-care is really not great.

Edit: I found some. The photos are actually pretty great.

And yes, they are not blind, they are vision impaired. Never understood why people call that blind, seems a bit shitty to people who are actually completely blind.

I'm not a paraplegic just because my knees hurt when I walk.

https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2023/06/30/check-out-blind-phot...

If someone has 100k to drop on a startup annually, I'm sorry, but they are totally out of touch with normal people. That is not normal.

That's what they keep telling me. But no one around me believes it.

That's right. The US is unable to stop the torture in China.

They don't want to stop the torture in Palestine. The people running our government have vested interests. Every politician ever must bow to AIPAC, and many politicians don't need to bow, as they have their own interest in Israel (they are Israeli citizens and can go there any time).

They're Jewish.

Probably. That's why I tell the kids to stop doing it. Kill your boss.

le scary anecdote! I remember that!

>a very narrow Machiavellian view

A very narrow view which is adopted by the vast majority of managers and successful salespeople. Otherwise, why did they get to become manager?

> If it makes the company less attractive to types who think like that

Not at all... this article is supposed to attract eager, naive kids who will work their butts off for little reward.

Machiavellians will find an easier time of becoming manager at this company. Staff positions are super limited, but the "possibility" reduces competition for management positions.

>However the counter argument is we’re a major US ally providing material support to US overseas military power projection

This seems like an enormous risk factor more than anything else. Australia and the EU are essentially vassals of the USA, but Australia seems wayyyy more vulnerable to armageddon. Since everyone's packed into such a tight space.

Untrue, you kill the big demon at the end. Spoiler alert? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shub-Niggurath

you are an extraordinary man

sounds like your friends really love you

unclear how that matters? it's the culture, not the presence of relics, or the education about them

who gets to keep it? who did the asians kill in america 15k years ago?

He wasn't a local, he was an eastern european. We love diverse cultures!

>and in the same country.

Today's borders aren't yesterdays borders. How should we decide what's fair?

Or should relics stay with their ethnic creators, along racial lines?

There's also goyimtv but that one is definitely racist.

> essentially just checking the language/graphics

I'm outside academia, but that seems unethical to me. As you said, the co-authorship brings the real value. These people want tenured positions not a few hundred dollars.