And most of the troubleshooting was just stuff like “reboot, reinstall, remove and re-add printer,…” which really does nothing to the actual issue and just fights symptoms.

And that is laptops, desktop PCs usually tend to be a bit cheaper for the same performance level.

Switching from Windows to Linux about 25 years or so ago was when I finally realized that computers actually behave in deterministic ways so no, Windows was never really a joy to use.

I would hesitate to call any unreleased game good, not because I think good games won’t come out in the future but because it is so hard to distinguish hype from reality until actual, regular people get to play it without any restrictions (like NDAs,…).

Biden changed a lot less there than Hillary Clinton did as the Democratic candidate that pushed out Bernie Sanders for the 2016 election, an election that was very clearly an anti-establishment election and yet the Democrats were stupid enough to go with someone who is about as close to establishment as you can get without nominating someone who has already been president.

Simple really, cure the STD called life and stupid and horny are gone too.

There are a few politicians who wrote their own (e.g. Churchill) but usually there is some sort of agenda involved in terms of how they want the world to see them.

aborting post delivery?

Up to 120 years post delivery?

Such people have nothing more to lose,

This is a very big flaw in that kind of argument. It might look like that but there are plenty of worse situations human beings have been in historically. There is no war going on, food and clean water and shelter (even with heating and lighting) are actually available,…

My point was that making people feel worse about their situation likely won’t improve the outcome. People either would be happy without a partner or they won’t and those who won’t don’t need an external push to try to find a partner and both groups might feel worse if they are publicly branded a failure for not having a partner.

That only works if you would consider the kind of person who likes to spend time at bars as a potential mate though.

One more reason to consider suburbia a dystopian hellscape.

Unless the person you respond to is trans the fact that they describe themselves as being referred to as a “chinese boy” would suggest that they are likely not a girl.

Might be a good time to downplay the importance of a relationship for a happy life then instead of trying to push the message that your life sucks if you don’t have one.

I think the effect of other societal changes not immediately associated with relationships might be underestimated here too, such as the commercialization of any and all free time activities where one might casually meet people of the preferred gender on a regular basis combined with the limited disposable income. Or (in the US at least) the elimination of sidewalks and other public places where one might encounter people from your own neighborhood outside of a car. More customized media consumption leading to fewer guaranteed shared topics to discuss compared to the time when generally everyone watched the same things on TV and read the same news at a similar time. I could probably come up with other examples but the point is that a lot of things changed that make just meeting people to consider to ask out much more difficult than it used to be a few decades ago.

I sometimes wonder why so many people consider negative effects of porn on relationships obvious while completely disregarding negative effects of romance fiction on relationships (among other things the concept of a soulmate you have to just find and then everything in the relationship is effortless afterwards).

Wouldn’t be a proper dead internet if the AI agents talking to each other didn’t do it in the most inefficient way possible by using a web browser.

Name one category of tasks that you would feel confident it can perform with at least a 90% success rate.

So good in fact that apple spawned a whole new category of memes making fun of how badly that works.

Yeah, dryers themselves are a waste of both money and energy.