[–] 6 points 6 months ago

Before I read other comments:

Marriage is a life event. In order to live a full life you must find someone and negotiate a double coincidence of wants. Then you invest and reinvest in each other. To fall in love is a misnomer. To choose to love is how it rolls out. It is easier when pretty and feeling healthy but I have promised to choose to love regardless. It feels like a pretty emotional high at the beginning.

It is difficult to describe the amount of stability and instability I have experienced with this choice. My spouse has the power to build me up and tear me down. She generally chooses to build me up. I generally choose to build her up.

I have lived in communities where I could only rely on her. I have lived in communities where I didnt have to rely on her. I choose her daily.

I think there are some strong societal wealth consequences to getting and staying married. Wealth lends more stability and options over time.

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  • [–] 5 points 6 months ago

    That would be giving into unions or similar. They have to break the idea of rights so that every plane will remind you what they do to collective bargaining.

    That is the story the last time they broke the air traffic controller union, and it set the tone for unions for all the subsequent decades. I'm not sure what they are doing here.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago* (4 children)

    Well if the value of a belief is in its ability to predict the future and people are believing stuff that explains but cannot predict anything, then we can simply figure out a way to set ourselves up for success based on solid beliefs that accurately predict the future while they take increasing doses of cope.

    I know it is not that easy but I try to live by that principle. I cannot refute someone's belief that the entire universe started existence 10 minutes ago and everything from memories to tangible goods are simply created from nothing. I can however say that predicts nothing therefore I won't engage.

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    So I looked into it:

    I have a 2 prong connected power source, A 1 prong needs to be in ground, and the only pins with power and adjacent to ground is 5v.

    There are some options with getting a mofset and control by gpio or splitting the sockets but I didnt want to add scope creep

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  • [–] 5 points 6 months ago

    I think my point of juxtaposing cultural norms is still applicable:

    The average generation is about 33 years. If this is from the middle of the last century, then it is about 2-3 generations ago. I think that is enough for my cultural lens to be pretty radically different from the norms for great grandpa.

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    My rpi has been really loud with its fan for the last long while. I could still hear it behind a cupboard and a door. While diagnosing a usb thumb drive's i/o issue, I decided to dampen the sound.

    Using 6 roofing screws, I pulled the rubber and metal washers off and put on the fan mounts to the case. It has had the effect of increasing the mass of the case and reduced the sound in pitch and volume, I expect the lower pitch will be easier to muffle.

    It is much less annoying.

    The washers were a bit larger than the fan mount plastic sockets. I did not try to force it to sandwich between the fan and the case.

     

    I recently wanted to change an investment from default to "dividend reinvestment". The searches and the AI overviews were awful, so i eventually had to find it by trial and error. This is how you do it:

    1. Have an account
    2. Purchase or transfer securities and wait until it clears
    3. Navigate to "Help & Settings" > "Help & Support"
    4. Part of the "Investment Settings" on this page is the "Dividend Reinvestment Settings"

    There you go. Geez. The instructions were all "go to account and go to dividend investment settings", and that is clearly not the path per above.

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