Perhaps I came off as too hostile. I read your comment and I thought it was potentially harmful and I’m incredibly depressed, so I wrote a hasty sniping response. I tend to think of things said as their effects in aggregate rather than the virtue of the person saying it.

I’m also bi and arguably aromantic. And intend to remain childfree.

Its a normative statement. It contributes to alienating people without wives or kids.

I consider it normative to suggest that such is “normal” and suggests not having a wife or kid(s) as “abnormal”. At least by implication.

I mean it was pretty strongly implied but ok

“Wife and a kid” = normal life.

hmmmm.

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For once I think I agree with Linux purists.

Fuck I might need a shower.

Sometimes I have shit I need to run overnight.

TBH I want to reduce the LED’s on mine because its in my bedroom and I can’t seem to figure out if there is a way to turn them all off so I can sleep better…

TBF, cooling is cheap, GPUs are expensive.

IDK what this meme is trying to say. Its making some leaps.

I’m introverted, I liked them immediately.

They aren’t nearly as motivated to go as fast as I am, and they can only bag one person at a time and have lines, while usually there are 4-6 machines wide open for me to jump onto immediately.

I fucking hate going to the grocery store though.

EDIT: also lonely old people will stop and chit chat sometimes slowing shit even more.

Yeah, I try not to let things go unsaid myself because I don’t really post memes much and I do try to fight against the toxic mentality of “men don’t share feelings” shit.

But I feel a sort of mental “sting” every time I talk about something that makes me sad in front of people. It makes me worry I’m being pathetic, unlikable, or unattractive.

It depends on the context.

In the context of our current government, it doesn’t seem likely that its hopeless. The fascists are so laughably incompetent that what they are doing is unsustainable even in the short term.

When it comes to certain other things, like my personal perception of the average American following this election, it indeed is hopeless. There is almost nothing that I could fathom that could make me fully sympathetic to the average American again.

You’re going to be waiting until you are dead.

I enjoy Sudoku, but that is something I learned. There is no “enjoy sudoko” element within me that I did not put there myself.

You didn’t enjoy learning Sudoku in the first place? Did you have to force yourself? Did someone teach you how to enjoy sodoku after you learned how to actually play?

Maybe there isn’t a specific Sudoku drive in human beings but that’s not what intrinsically means. There is an intrinsic drive to follow your natural intellectual and physical interests that do not have to be taught. They are variable depending on the person’s personal inclinations, but you are not “trained” to enjoy something. Even as seemingly fundamental like reading. You might have to learn how to read first, but that’s not being “trained to enjoy” reading. Whether you enjoy it depends on the type of person you are.

Like, if I saw someone doing something that looks fun or interesting, I’d want to participate intrinsically.

If someone offered me money to participate I would be extrinsically motivated.

They did. Everyone I knew back in the Windows 3.1 days already had computers. Most of those people didn’t have Windows, and used standalone applications. The increase in ownership came when hardware prices finally fell enough for them to be affordable. Windows development was a result of that uptick, not the cause.

I mean, maybe, price is obviously a compelling aspect here. Its hard to separate correlation and causation, though I’ll hand you that price was probably more compelling.

That said, the people you knew who already owned computers were part of a minority, only about 15% of American households had a computer when Windows 3.1 released.

Dude, in a previous job I had a superior aggressively refuse to let me teach him how to do some extremely basic things on his computer (he’d just call me over to do it whenever he needed it done) and told me he did not know what an internet browser was (he used one everyday).

Now, I did not understand his thought process, but he exists. There are 100% people who understand the basics but experience intense cognitive stress at the mere sight of a command line.

In the short stint that I bothered trying to use a dating app I just swiped right on people I was attracted to and seemed compatible based on their bio.

If I wasn’t physically attracted to them it wouldn’t work anyway so IDK why I’d want to waste my time???

But yeah I gave up not because of the swiping/algo but because in a few cases people misrepresented themselves or were overly vague in their bios. In one case someone swiped right on me but then changed their mind because the reread my bio (read the fucking bio in the first place people) or in one case we had made plans to hook up and so I kind of got busy and stopped messaging them for a few days, they messaged me annoyed that I was not showering them in consistent attention and disconnected.

After that I was like, online dating sucks fuck this, and uninstalled.

The only things that people “intrinsically” want are food and fornication. Everything else, they have been taught and trained.

EVERYTHING? I enjoy doing things that aren’t eating and sex on a intrinsic level that I was never trained to enjoy. I just… wanted to do those things. A lot of things are intrinsically fun that are not eating and sex.

The training they have received from Microsoft domination has been “don’t learn how to use a computer”.

Why didn’t people adopt personal computers en masse before Windows came to be then? After Windows 3.0, personal ownership of computers more than doubled over the course of 5-6 years and then continued to balloon, speeding up adoption well beyond the previous decade.

Look, I’m not a fan of Microsoft either but this is conspiracism.