Please me as in fill the self-inflicted void I created by starving myself. That’s like breaking something just so you can take pleasure in fixing it.

Nah. I had high expectations for sex but it has been a letdown since my first time. I’m perfectly capable of scratching my own itch. I don’t need their help for it. You can have my sex too.

And starving myself makes shitty food more enjoyable as well but that just seems a bit backwards to me. Yet another thing to sacrifice from my own life just to please her.

Can’t say I’ve ever much enjoyed it myself either. It’s something I’ve always just done for her and I’m just happy to get it over with. One of the best things about being single is not having to even think about it.

The term is fine - people just don’t know the actual definition of it.

AI is a broad, unspecific term. It’s like the term “plants” - it covers everything from grass to giant redwoods but we have more specific terms for the subcategories for a reason. If we just refer to all life that photosynthesizes as plants then nobody knows which plant you’re talking about. Nowadays when someone speaks of AI it’s relatively safe to assume that they’re talking about one of the multimodal frontier models (that are not only LLMs) but it’s sloppy, imprecise use of language and it will lead to people talking past each other.

In the classical sense AI refers to a system capable of performing any cognitive task typically attributed to a human. Under this definition, even an Atari chess engine is an AI. However nowadays the meaning has shifted a little and the term typically refers to a system that has been trained with a bunch of data.

I don’t see how it’s an argument against finding a job in the trades that not literally everyone can do that. Not everyone can be a doctor either - doesn’t mean you shouldn’t chase that if it’s what you want to do. Tons of people are more or less succesfully climbing the corporate ladder and have no desire to do anything else. This advice isn’t for those people but the ones that are struggling with that or worrying that it is not AI proof - there are alternatives to it.

And yes nowdays I do own my bussiness but that wasn’t always the case. I had a higher income as an employee. I traded that for more freedom and meaning.

A plumber’s salary bought me a house at 27 and now less than 10 years later I have enough savings to buy another if I wanted to. Of all my friends the only people who own the house they live in are the ones working in trades. Every single one of them with an office job is renting and doesn’t even own a car.

A new chain or cassette doesn’t affect the derailleur. A new cable does, but the tension is adjusted from the shifter, not by messing with the derailleur adjustments. It’s true that god-awful shifting due to a bent derailleur can be mitigated to some extent by messing with the adjustments but it’ll never be good. It can’t be because the derailleur is bent. Then when you replace the hanger with a straight one the shifting goes to shit again.

Whenever my derailleur catches on a rock or a stump and the shifting goes to shit all I do is remove the derailleur from the hanger, use the hanger adjustment tool to straighten it out and once I re-attach the derailleur it shifts perfectly again with no adjusting at all.

Below average doesn’t equal bad. If the wage covers your living expenses and you have money left over even after that then what does more money achieve? Nothing. Unless you want to keep up with the Joneses.

I think my broader point still stands. There are things one can influence and there are ones they can’t. Where people live is one of the things they can. Living in a large city is expensive so one needs to earn more to sustain that. However that’s not the only place to live. I most certainly have the lowest income of my friend group but I’m also by far the wealthiest because of how much cheaper my living expenses are. My mortgage for a house is half of what they’re paying in rent a month for a small apartment equally far away from the city centre. They just choose to live in the capital so their living expenses are so much higher that despite the higher wage they have nothing to show for it. Also, I started my own business because I got tired of working for others and despite having zero experience and nobody helping me I still managed to make it work so if I can do it, anyone can.

I just get incredibly frustrated with the apparent apathy online of people just blaming external factors about their circumstances as if they’ve got no control over anything themselves. So many of the struggles people deal with are self-inflicted. This equally applies to my fellow entrepreneurs as well who are not happy where they’re at. They have all the control over their business but they still choose to follow the same path as everyone else while expecting different results.

Do smaller cities and towns not have bike shops in the US? My city has roughly 200k residents and I can think of at least 5 different bike shops on the top of my head.

Why is it every time someone starts a sentence with “So you’re saying…” it’s then followed with misrepresentation of what was actually said?

No, that is not what I said. What I did say is that in the vast number of cases when your shifting is shit it’s not because of bent derailleur or badly adjusted one but it’s a bent derailleur hanger. That part is designed to bend specifically so that the derailleur itself doesn’t.

I’m not sure what bike commuting has to do with this but yes, it’s a 30 minute trip to the city centre from where I live and there’s a bike lane the whole way. Living expenses here are lower than in the US but not dramatically so.

It’s not. Derailleur is set once when it’s installed onto the bike and you should never need to adjust it again. If the shifting is crap the issue is the twisted hanger and no amount of adjusting the limit screws is going to fix that.

I earn about that much and I own a car, a house, and have 4 years’ wages worth of savings.

The “break” from sitting in my case means working

And Plato argued that writing things down is bad because then we don’t need to remember anything.

It’s decentralized platform. Nobody has the capability to impose such ban beyond their own instance.

In case anyone else was also confused by this: this is about code, not content.

It’s much more common than most people realize. Just yesterday on my way home 3 oncoming cars in a row all had their driver using their phone. It’s honestly amazing that we don’t just have people dying left and right considering nobody is looking where they’re driving. Hell, even the kids cycling to school are all on their phones.

If it’s a genuine accident, then what does a harsher punishment achieve? People make mistakes. Some people are unfortunate enough that their mistake has grave consequences - doesn’t mean they’re any more to blame, just unluckier.

Texting and driving is a good example. Every single person who drives has done it at least once in the past and everyone who claims they haven’t is lying. What’s the difference in the intent of a person like this and one who does end up killing someone while doing so? None. The others simply were luckier. The unlucky ones are not morally more guilty than the others.