i tried but it doesn’t feel well because of the texture.

i’d say that’s a coin flip on whether it works or not :)

(that’s because unfortunately not all parents give a flying fuck about the mental health that that child would be going to have, or rather, not have)

i’d go with something like “sure i’ll make children if you pay for them”

the moment they realize how expensive having children can be, that typically shuts them up rather quickly.

oh i’m not sure if it means anything to you if i say it, but:

i think you’re doing good for the environment. I’m not saying there’s too many people already (because there aren’t), but still, if there are fewer children being born, that will take off a significant pressure from the environment and that will affect everything positively. :)

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So you think the downward spiral is caused by the people in the population and not the political situation?

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i guess people have distorted ideas about flirting. here’s how i see it:

• be aware of your goals

• be honest to yourself (what do you really want)

• communicate clearly. be aware of what you want and make no mystery out of it in front of the other person. if you hold back, you’re blocking yourself, and that can’t be good.

• don’t be an asshole. that’s difficult in today’s society where everything seems to be about exploitation and profit optimization, but there used to be a world long ago that was non-exploitative, consensus-oriented. try to feel that vibe

• that should be it. if you’re not an asshole, nothing bad should happen to you. however, that is practically not the case today. whatever wrong twist “feminism” took in recent years to convince society that “all men are assholes” is splitting society apart. it’s provocing a civil war. society must find its senses and reject the forceful-splitting-between-women-and-men of society. in a time where even a glance is “sexual harassment” and women project their mental health issues on men and call it all their fault, is a world that is no longer honest and does therefore IMHO no longer deserve to exist.

“Left” and “right” mean very different things for different people. People can’t even agree on the definition. Just to give you a clear example: today’s “leftists” are pro-immigration, while practically all leftists before 1990 were not so much pro immigration.

I take “right” to mean authoritarian, and “left” to mean self-organizing.

btw, do you think americans would still go to africa if it turns out to be/become communistic? i.e., no or restricted private ownership of land, …

hey that’s racist (slight /s as that is literally the reasoning that i see many people use here as an argument why to not block immigration)

roko’s basilisk or sth

i have come to the conclusion that there is a god and a heaven, alright, but it’s a cruel place that i would never ever ever want to go to. ever

edit: oh yeah, what does that have to do with your comment? well, the christians are going to heaven alright, if you can interpret the american technocracy (or even mars) as “heaven” (by any stretch of the word)

explanation: the christian idea of “heaven” is heavily based on platon’s “ideas”, which are described as “heavenly objects” (a.k.a abstractions), and platon called the collection of all ideas the “inter-net” for some reason, and modern IT is heavily modeled after it, with a purely abstract world ruling the world, more or less. there’s lots of articles how some technological platforms (such as meta, google) shaping what news we get and what we believe/think. thus it is a “techno-cracy”.

wait isn’t there some christian story about exactly that … 🤔 something about some curse that is inherited and bans the people from living a good life or sth, i can’t remember. maybe that good life was symbolized as a garden, but i could be wrong

i think you use “emigrating” when leaving their homes behind, but here it is part of the joke that they no longer see the US as their home. instead, they’re seeing europe/whatever other country as their new “home”, so they’re immigrating.

Would be ironic if we had to go to Africa because life there is better.

… after decades of relentlessly repeating how much better we have it that “poor children in africa” especially.

so … that makes me straight now? 🙈 i’m confused … but also amused :P

yes

see my comment above; it’s way more efficient to read individual files out of a zip archive.

zip is better than tar.gz for some applications though.

notably, individual files can be read from a zip archive without unpacking the whole archive, different than tar.gz files.

tar.gz files are only better if you pack and unpack the whole archive at once, but even then, they don’t have much advantage. the major advantage is that you can pipe the output of tar creation over the network to another computer who decompresses the tar immediately, thus transferring a folder. zip has index at beginning/start, so it requires seek when writing or skip when reading, so it can’t be streamed.

if by left-wing you mean i think more than 3 months ahead, then yes.