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Nope. The judge is an ultra-conservative Bible-thumper family court guy (there are only 2 judges in the rural county, and they seem interchangeable) who doesn't care about anyone and her attorney is a lazy, milquetoast, limp lasagna noodle who should be reported to the bar for malpractice. My mom is almost out of money and her ex is dragging her all the way to court and blocking every reasonable settlement. She won't have anything left after this is over. The ex even muttered "why did he do it" under his breath because it's costing him so much, like he has some sort of dementia mixed with regret going on. The kicker is he will eventually inherit millions of dollars, but my mom will die in abject poverty while he quibbles about $100 of spousal support which is peanuts to him.

Yeah, my stupid, diphenhydramine-popping stepfather walked away from my disable mother after her stroke and a forest fire while she was away without anything but an email. He took almost everything and just left, and is now trying to cheat her out of spousal support and the many tens of thousands she paid to fix their retirement home. She is currently being kicked-out (move) during the pandemic is and forced now to leave the state.

Only get married if you've been with the same person for many years and there's a legal reason to do so. Use a prenup that is video deposed with an admission of a lack of coercion and explanation of each term. Palnup if living together similarly.

Also, it is worth considering extended adolescence, economic, and other factors are leading towards a Japan-like population crash of native-born US citizens.

I get that. I'm from the US and will be looking overseas for a wife in Russia, Ukraine, Brazil, Czechia, and similar because American girls just aren't educated, skilled, dedicated, or adult enough to survive in today's real world. The entitlement, poor attitude, and ignorance are painful and obnoxious to the point too many are liabilities compared to females elsewhere where they actually know how to let a man be a man.

Our family tried S-VHS players and VCRs back in the day, but ultimate found them to fall short of top-of-the-line VHS VCRs.

S-VHS decks weren't necessarily any better than VHS ones, and the two formats are incompatible.

Mitsubishi, Panasonic, and Sony made the best VHS VCRs, IIRC. The best ones for capture maybe different, but this is what I recall for analog NTSC playback. S-Video connectors, if you can get them may help, but not always.

If I were going green-field the design of a VHS/S-VHS VCR from scratch today, I use some sort of solid-state helical-scan-equivalent head that can over-capture tape domains, pre-process data to align scan lines per PAL or NTSC, and output unencrypted HDMI.

The best klepto-plutocratic pseudo-psephocracy money can buy.

There is only one party, the Property party, with two wings: Democrat and Republican. - Gore Vidal (the author of the book Julian Assange was clutching while he was being illegally dragged out of the Ecuadorian embassy.)

We have the best government that money can buy. - Mark Twain

For some reason, that made me think of a concept I thought about when I was 19: a Brazil-like, future dystopian company that had only AI management and AI work assets maintained by a small cadre of human workers to keep it going. There would be no human customer service in the AVR tree, and it could only be contacted by fax, email, and back then, snail mail.

It makes one wonder when the first essentially fully-autonomous corporation will come online (not named Cyberdyne).

The net cord judge doesn't seem a huge deal, but it does take away jobs.

Maybe use an embedded micropower system with C or Rust and interrupt-based processing approach rather than CPU-eating polling in something dynamic like Python, Ruby, or Node without ever going into standby mode.

SF is an aberration because relocated high-income earners and rich people move in and raise prices because they out-compete for limited resources by throwing money around (out-bidding real estate) and/or sellers raising prices knowing the upper-crust will still pay them.

SF also is a problem for anyone not making more than $150k/year because it's a magical wonderland where everyone wants to live there, and so they're willing to irrationally sacrifice their financial futures to hang-on to something they can't afford, i.e., paying 50%+ income in rent, unable to contribute 10% to savings, and other forms of financial suicide.

How lower income people make it in SF, even with rent controls, seems like an unsustainable proposition.

I think a better way of measuring of microeconomic affordability is a reasonable budgeted cost-of-living for one person per month in a median housing situation in relation to their potential income. In other words, or thought of another way, the ratio of cost-of-living to income in local nominal dollars.

For 12 years, I have had an email setup where all emails for the domain go to one mailbox (postmaster style). Then, I just give each service their own, unique email address without any configuration. Any spam or unusual mail is then easily-identified. Plus, it makes for easier searching, sorting and tagging. A good, secure, backed-up email & webmail setup is necessary to make it work.

For anything I don't care about and want better anonymity, I'm fine with using random, public disposable email addresses.

Combined with being unusual and not wired as everyone else, I take a different tact by accepting human nature and opening up the possibilities. From a young age, it became apparent that I did't experience jealousy in relation to a deep interest having close friends including ex's or infatuation clicks with other people. Not some sort of low self-worth thing, but the opposite. Therefore, mutually open relationships work better for me to dispense with dishonesty and limitations based on insecurities. Not in my face if it's with a dude, don't get pregnant, or diseases, and I don't care. Heck, I think it's extremely cute when a bi/pan woman I'm seeing hits on another woman, even right in front of me. Also, it's exhilarating when she feeds me her cool friends like proverbial bow-wrapped gifts, such as a row of lined-up puppy-dog eyes looking up as who will be chosen next. This makes her a potential keeper#.

Partner guarding seems like a lot of pointless energy expended based on insecurity; one of my aims in relationship(s) is to constantly improve to remain the highest-value around without resorting to possessive capture. Plus, it's better to let people move freely and self-select voluntarily, rather than give them ultimatums or threatening "if you ever" speeches.

I look at importance of relationships (love/friendship) based on the amount and sustainment of attention, mutual care, support, and trust. Sex is just sex to me without deeper affinity and common interests; a shared, social activity that is delightful without being black-and-white all-meaningful. It's also important to be sure other participants are truly on this same wavelength so that they don't end-up regretful or are otherwise left worse than before.

In conclusion: open works best for me, with a consideration for Mff or Mfff poly where f are pan/bi. I think Mfff tetrad of ever-reconfiguring pairs is more stable because there's no third-wheel issue. And all disagreements must be followed by bedroom activities, and stalemate disputes are resolved by last one who gets there wins.

# Keeper

1. You trust them with your life

2. Better together than apart

3. Good friends

4. Common goals

5. Complementary personalities

Not F1, but super/hypercar related:

Christian von Koenigsegg is my soul brother. Engineer/CEO committed to excellence in extreme automotive manufacturing like:

- Cam-less heads (which I was always wondered why they didn't exist when I was kid 25 years ago because it would trounce VVTI).

- Complete carbon fibre wheels

- Optimized hybrid EV testbed models

- In-house, scratch-build EMS

- Highly-efficient (power per weight) motors

- Shooting for straight course speed world record

- Incredible styling and aerodynamics

So incredibly myopic. Atlasssian is "innovating" themselves into snatching failure from the jaws of success. Self-hosting has huge advantages in enterprise and secure environments. They're just throwing away key large customers, forcing them to share what could be confidential data on random cloud systems customers they don't own, and limiting customizations, integrations, confidentiality, scalability, and data protection.

And, there are now plenty of other self-hosted options to their bloated JVM, resource-hungry apps.

They just committed seppuku in many less-visible, but nonetheless important, use-cases in the enterprise space. What a shame.

It makes one wonder in what other ways goodwill will be reduced by pinching pennies and how quickly it will start to look like any other exhausting, slow-moving, behemoth utility.