cgriswald

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by cgriswald 8d ago
For a decade I hosted numerous large parties with food and alcohol. With a good core group and “selective pruning” (mostly of creeps) we never had any problems. My kids were always at my ex’s house though.
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by cgriswald 14d ago
Where does the distinction lie between infinite parallel universes and infinite universes in a cycle? Does time pass through the cycle unbroken? Wouldn’t it also require a “superuniverse” with its own laws such that any universe it contains
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by cgriswald 23d ago
If you haven't read it, you might enjoy Adrian Tchaikovsky's Children of Time series. It's fiction which explores different intelligences, with the second novel[0] dealing specifically with octopuses. [0] - https:/&#x
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by cgriswald 29d ago
Those questions can’t get to the root of how the GGP is using the word for two reasons: 1. Companies, not being alive, can’t possibly need in this sense without analogy. 2. The poster included electricity as something everybody needs but th
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by cgriswald 1mo ago
I shouldn’t pay because I’ve already paid. Price updates for the same major version in. Let new sales be your incentive to keep it up-to-date. Let a new version I actually want be my incentive to spend more money. Subscriptions for software
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by cgriswald 1mo ago
I think if you spoke to the people actually making the claim they’d define it a little better to include only cases where adults are being asked to give up rights, freedoms, or privileges. But you can ask them. I didn’t take a position on t
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by cgriswald 1mo ago
“For the kids” arguments are distinct from arguments worrying about future generations in that they are almost entirely focused (ostensibly) on preventing harm to children while they are children rather than “all our descendants including
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by cgriswald 1mo ago
We have only one side of the story and he didn’t give us any details of what the manager actually said. He also mentions the manager said something about “costs”. The author’s wants are reasonable but that doesn’t mean the manager’s wants a
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by cgriswald 1mo ago
The services aren’t really that great IMO. They don’t always get you the quality you pay for. They hide their libraries either to keep you engaged with their app or to convince you it’s larger than it is. Most of them charge you even when y
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by cgriswald 2mo ago
But in Australia, he would have just been drinking it normally. ...I'm fired, aren't I? I'll see myself out.
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by cgriswald 2mo ago
Though I walk through the valley of technical debt I shall fear no eval
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by cgriswald 3mo ago
This must vary by region. We get paper bags with a reflective liner. They’re re-usable if the super adhesive they use for the label stickers doesn’t require ripping the bag apart to open it, but they’re definitely intended to be disposable.
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by cgriswald 4mo ago
I don’t have to imagine the offense of others to take offense to slurs intended to denigrate them. If I tell you not to use the n-word in my presence I’m not doing it for black people. I’m doing it for me. I don’t want to hear that shit bec
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by cgriswald 4mo ago
Slow down. I’m still deciding on what size of notebook and whether I go dotted or blank.
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by cgriswald 4mo ago
For my two main uses pen and paper has two opposite effects. For creative writing it is freeing because it isn’t the last stop but I don’t have to worry about format or placement or anything. I can just go. Typing has a sort of “technical”
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by cgriswald 4mo ago
I went with paper and pen precisely because there was always more I wanted to do with my computer work flow.
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by cgriswald 4mo ago
I don’t see how the death penalty adds anything here. There are already significant consequences. People who commit such crimes either do not expect to face the consequences or don’t consider the consequences at all.
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by cgriswald 4mo ago
I am opposed to the death penalty in all cases, for a variety of reasons. However, currently the court has to at least find that a murder has occurred or in some cases child rape (sometimes with conditions like a second offense). These are
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by cgriswald 4mo ago
You want to give the government the legal ability to threaten the life of the entire civil service, judiciary, and all elected representatives. I’m sure that would never be abused.
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by cgriswald 4mo ago
I think that if the pattern exists, it is strongly muted for GenX because everything we are seeing (and more) was virtually promised to be here “any day now” during the hay day of science fiction media. If anything, 2026 in the real world
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by cgriswald 7mo ago
There absolutely is gaslighting here. I think now that some time has passed you should probably go back and re-read this thread. I can't be clearer about the fact that I accessed these things young without trying and continued to have
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by cgriswald 7mo ago
I don’t know what you consider to be an advertisement but just off the top of my head: Many (most?) streaming services advertise their own shows and other content ahead of other content you elect to watch even on ad free subs. Hulu’s ad fre
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by cgriswald 7mo ago
A poster commented that he read parenthetical remarks in an old-timey voice (I’d guess the trans-Atlantic accent). I love that idea. But for me they read almost as if you’re saying them under your breath (or a character is breaking the four
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by cgriswald 7mo ago
There’s “no room for debate” in your argument because you’re basing it on false assumptions, trying to gaslight me, moving goalposts and you personally don’t care about the trade offs. It’s very easy to be right when everyone else is wrong.
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by cgriswald 7mo ago
I’ve told you that access was not a problem at all. All your questioning is because you can’t grasp my lived reality. You think I’m mistaken, but actually I just don’t care to try to convince you because you’re already so sure. Disinterest
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by cgriswald 7mo ago
Yeah. Anyway, porn, cigarettes, alcohol, and drugs were very accessible to me despite being a good kid with parents who cared in a world where those were all legally forbidden to me. All this talk of “glimpses” is you trying to read too dee
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by cgriswald 7mo ago
There’s also a difference between “saw my first” and “saw a playboy once.” I need you to understand I was a good kid whose parents cared until they divorced some years later. And yet I had multiple sources of access to this stuff without l
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by cgriswald 7mo ago
The older kids are often the easy source for the younger kids. At 8 I had already seen a Playboy and knew kids who had seen harder stuff. I could have easily gotten a teenager to get me cigarettes (and drugs, but I didn’t know what those we
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by cgriswald 7mo ago
The number of times I objected to my parents rules because my friends didn’t have those rules and the response was: “I’m not their parent.”
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by cgriswald 7mo ago
Which is exactly why all people everywhere giving up their privacy will also be ineffective. Drugs, alcohol, cigarettes, pornography were all illegal for me to access as a kid but I wouldn’t have had any trouble getting any of it.

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