Logic and love don’t really mix well, life is a bit fuller when you embrace love and let yourself feel vulnerable even if you know it will end in tragedy

Honestly, that’s fine. This may be a wild take, but they grew and their usage of excel obviously didn’t hold them back, what’s the issue?

How’s that?

We don’t, but it also doesn’t matter.

I think of it as the parts of code that are specific to a business. The unique stuff that the business itself does, not generic stuff that all software does.

Spotify does music, a “play” function that starts music is business logic. A function that calculates the average of a set of numbers is generic code so not business logic.

The parallels are genuinely spooky, those who know history are doomed to watch on in horror at the approach of another catastrophe

We somehow value the things that make us primal more than anything else, love, strong emotions, conflict (can’t have a good story without an antagonist), dominating, ownership of mates through marriage

Even if given a chance to eliminate the primal side, humans would collectively say “No! Thats What makes us human!” As if somehow the culmination of all that awful stuff somehow has innate worth? Existence somehow isn’t worth living without conflict, lust, overcoming terrible odds, etc?

I’ve always assumed this is something that comes naturally, when I’m into someone I take a deep interest in then, ask them questions about their passion, follow up and remember when they tell me things, try to spend time together either in a group or solo, look at them, talk to them eventually about my interest.

There’s no formula and it isn’t some mystical ritual or anything, just treat them well, smile at them, look at them, touch them appropriately and with consent, be engaged and interested in who they are. Don’t fall into the trap of feeling like all members of the opposite sex are a unified being, every person is different and the opposite sex is made up of people just like you, maybe with different bits if you subscribe to that type of gender identity.

Life has no point, you’re just energy given form (literally, not metaphorically or superstitiously or some shit, mass and energy are the same thing)

Hedonism is easy to fall into, and arguably fine, if you don’t find life worth living but can’t muster the enthusiasm to end it, you should try to change your environment.

For me, life is worth living for stories, I love books and the experience of being something different for a time. I have built my life around lazy evenings on the sofa with my cat on my lap reading a book, or playing a comfortable game, nothing else matters to me at all. It’s easy to be content if your requirements are minimal.

Life is an odd phenomenon, we’re blessed or cursed with consciousness, may as well do something you enjoy. If you don’t know what you enjoy then try more stuff.

Assuming you already own a home, and the stock market stonks upward forever, yeah. Otherwise you’re renting and in 30 years when rent is 15k/month you’re outta luck.

A million dollars doesn’t really change your life much, the biggest difference is probably owning a home or having more money invested, but you’re still going to have to work.

It’s pretty rare for me to think of things I’m not keen on thinking about, redirection is the key. Treat your brain like a toddler trying to touch the stove, saying no doesn’t work, you have to give both something interesting to distract them.

Default instances would go a long way, I know there’s a lot of hate for lemmy.world but defaulting to the biggest instance or a random one in the top 10 would help ease some of the early friction. Users can choose an instance later when they get more comfortable with the platform.

Federation is neat but the average person just wants to scroll and chat

Lemmy feels more like a community garden while reddit felt more like a really packed lunchroom.

Here it feels like we have to cultivate seeds and grow our food from scratch since nothing is premade, there it felt like there was infinite food available and growing a garden was kinda pointless

I guess maybe I came out of lurking to practice my metaphors or something, apparently that skill could use some work

I just want to be in a post capitalism society with incredible AI that I could ask to continue a game I’d played before with a twist.

Give me pokemon red in 3d, but make more puzzles and more pokemon and the npcs more interactive. That kinda thing

If the question is how do you revive a company with a dead reputation and little sales like Kodak, but tailored to that case specifically:

Kodak, and every other retail company, creates products that rely on not only their product, but also their brand. Companies with semi useless products sell them all the time

K-cups, somehow took an infinitely reusable thing like a coffee maker and turned it into a tiny plastic trash cup Dasani water is awful tasting, terrible for the environment, and expensive, but they go where they’re needed

And a million other examples, selling a product isn’t about being the best or even having something good. It’s really a matter of branding and marketing strategy.

Rebrand kodak to a bespoke camera with a bunch of little camera accessories, a small preview screen but a bunch of little knobs, lean into the fact that it’s not a smart phone. Print on the device like those urban outfitter cameras, make a snapchat style camera that will only keep photos for a day, do something different and target a specific audience and they could be revived as something different. Work on making a camera that can’t be reproduced by ai, human authenticity fingerprints for images or something.

Kodak as it was will very likely never make a comeback. They didn’t keep up.

You can continue to buy goods with tarrifs to support the canadians, the price for you to support them is the tariff

• powell ousted from the fed and govt seized control, leading to a massive change in fed funds rate
• prison for political enemies of trump, specifically schiff, pelosi, and a few of the louder voices in the room. Prison for some state leaders, MA and CA especially
• nationwide ban of gay marriage, nationwide laws against abortion
• capital gains reduced significantly, 20% now down to 10%
• vpn ban
• trump pushing for national acceptance of a cryptocurrency he has significant stake in, as an official act
• palestine, ukraine, and taiwan falling. Tremendous suffering continues or starts for the people of those nations
• Russia furthers its invasion into europe
• Muslims begin to be treated as scapegoats for trumps vitriol, the next victims after general immigrant deportations
• A new amendment to the constitution is proposed and passes to allow more terms for trump, with clearly questionable acceptance in state legislatures, perhaps under direct threat of jail

God I hope I’m wrong.

Short sighted idiots

Immoral? No, especially if they’re in an open relationship.

A little unusual? Yeah, I’d personally want to talk to the spouse one on one before ever agreeing to something like that. There are billions of people on the planet, surely there is someone that is available for you and not legally committed to somebody else