Very much no, it’s easier to be happy when you’re older if you do the work to be happy in general. Being happy and naive to your surroundings isn’t the same as being aware of your situation and confident in yourself.

These results aren’t exactly orders of magnitude apart. Especially with FF being more customizable and able to limit tracking better, and thus save data and compute, slight advantages really do come out in the wash.

They show me nothing but naked hostility. The feeling is mutual.

If you really want to piss people off, treat every individual with compassion and dignity. Even (especially) if they don’t treat themselves like that.

Also, corporations are not people, my friend. So use the above to help guide your social engineering tactics.

Not unethical or illegal, but avoiding a barrier, if you have a problem that a company won’t solve using regular customer service means, spend time to find their email formula (FnameLname or FLname or FnameL @company.com) do some online searching, and then email your unhelpful CSO person and start to CC senior people in the company “to bring this error to their attention.”

If the unhelpful CSO person hasn’t messed up, then it’s no heat on them and their supervisor will just say “ugh, just get rid of this guy,” and solve your problem. I’ve used this method a dozen or so times, works well.

It’s paid by weight and thickness so fill it with trash like pieces of cardboard and sand.

I’ll second NK Jemisin’s Broken Earth series. At a dinner a friend mentioned he had just finished the second book and the dinner immediately turned into talking about how amazing the series is. Highly recommend.

Three Body Problem is hard science sci-fi with amazing storytelling. The last book sort or rushes some parts, but I think that story of works for it in the context of a story of humanity rushing at dealing with possible destruction.

I didn’t see it mentioned, but the Hyperion Cantos books are more classic SciFi/fantasy but it still hit. I cried at the ending, I’m not sue I ever have before at a book.

I actually liked A Song of Ice and Fire (Game of Thrones) but, obviously, an incomplete series. Still.

Came here to recommend this.

Amazing series. Totally out of the norm scifi-fantasy that’s beautifully written. The kind of books you can’t put down and then once you hit those last 200 pages you get anxiety about what life is going too bed like without this story on it anymore.

VLC maybe 20 years. How long has it even been around?

GIMP 10+ years for sure.

Another form of this question is for married people, of if their spouse’s genitals one day just flipped inside-out or outside-in, would that be enough to end your relationship?

I love my partner so, so much, as she basically saved my life. And if she woke up tomorrow sporting a turgid member, I wouldn’t love her any less. In fact, quite far from a deal breaker. Even if she, out of nowhere, wanted bottom surgery, I would support her 100%. But, with that, presenting as the gender she does is what makes me attracted to her. My brain stem loves them good lady shapes, and the rest of my brain loves this individual lady in particular.

It’s a package deal, but of she had a package, that’s not part of the math for the deal.

No, just the one.

Now I need a second one! This is adorable.

Are you in my house?

I have that cat. Both of them, actually. And that office chair.