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Started a business with my wife as well. It grew successfully and we still got divorced and now we still work together. Thankfully we managed it beautifully but it was definitely the hardest thing I've ever done emotionally. Worth it in the end, we are both much happier and the business continues to grow!

Some cars and trucks from the last 40 years were built incredibly well and when a specific vehicle was maintained well and not abused can provide very good options vs new super tech heavy vehicles. I have a Ford OBS truck from the 90s and I adore it. The only thing automatic on it is the transmission. Manual everything including windows. Considering a 2016 AMG GT as my next purchase for the same reason (different scale obviously). Just remove the GPS / cellular antenna and its pretty disconnected.

The venn diagram of 'homeschooled' and 'goes to church regularly' is not quite a circle but its not far off. Moderate to large churches also provide a great deal of socialization in this same way. Cross-socio-economic, racial, and other bases, all with a shared value system that creates a localized high trust environment that affords a greater degree of freedom for child autonomy.

I wonder how much is intentional as a painless / possibly even "pleasant" way to end things on their own terms. Its cheap, incredibly effecient, and leaves a better narrative than the more common alternatives.

If they make the firmware there's no guarantee they aren't still doing it just without a broadcast SSID going along with it.

My gf and I are the stereotypical software nerd meets astrology girlie (but doesn't take it too far). She likes to do rituals every so often and I've found that it does create a moment of reflection that you can use however you like. The last time we were camping she told me she wanted to do one so I bought some of that fire color changing powder (mostly just fine metal shavings of various types) and then glued a bit of that on some paper and made sort of a paper packet and then I had the whole group write on a packet something they wanted to let go of and then we all tossed them into the fire at the same time and the fire changed colors. It was pretty magical and I scored a lot of brownie points! So you could sprinkle some of that into your jar and just toss a handleful into the fire and watch the magic of your productivity ascend to the heavens. Or, you know, just watch physics at work.

Wouldn't you say that most multiplayer video games are their outlet for social engagement and even community involvement?

It takes a lot more tech staff to build a tech company than it does to run a tech company.

> If the pendulum can swing so broadly ever 4 years I'd better watch it, right?

Honest question: If, other than voting every 4 years, you have no ability to impact change, why spend the time watching it? Why not spend the time doing something more constructive that you have the ability to impact? (aside from prior to the election to inform voting, of course)

Incentives, the opportunity cost of time, and monogamous cultural influence, mostly.

Touching another person is widely considered an intimate act and most of the general mainstream today are only intimate (physically, or emotionally) with their romantic partner. Broadly speaking we've lost emotional intimacy with close friends and small groups that we've had in the past.

So with that, what is the incentive for the artist to create? He can't sell his work. He can't distribute his work. Touch-based art is highly dis-incentivized in our modern western culture.

When I first started down this path my first red flag appeared when I started asking poly people how long they'd been poly. The first 30 people I asked over a period of about 4 months, the longest anyone had been poly was 14 months. It wasn't until I got involved in a smaller alt-art community that I found a few old timers with more than 5 years under their belts, and all of them were solo poly (they live alone, unmarried, but date multiple people).

Don't attribute to reality what happens for engagement on a tiktok video. BlackRock, Fidelity, and about 10 others have all filed S1s with the SEC who continues to meet with them and ask for specific technical adjustments. It is highly unlikely they'd be asking for such highly specific changes if their plan was to issue a blanket denial. Their decision is due around January 10.

Accidents happen all the time for any number of products. As was linked earlier over 700 people die every year in the US from being tangled in their bed sheets. Banning something because its involved in an accident is rarely the correct move. Was it 'involved in' or was it the 'contributing cause of' are very different things.

From Investopedia: Capitalism is focused on the creation of wealth and ownership of capital and factors of production, whereas a free market system is focused on the exchange of wealth or goods and services.

It's not the free market part that defines it as capitalism but rather the fact he owns the method of production. He owns the code he writes and he owns the business processes around those applications. He privately owns the capital assets (applications and business processes) which make the money.