Shouldn’t have to suspend disbelief. Disbelief in something is just as blind of a conviction as belief in it. What is unbelievable is that before the internet existed, we have separate accounts of hairy forest humans on every single continent, and the oral tradition on these non-human beings is surprisingly consistent. That seems like a statistical improbability to me. But I don’t have first hand experience with the forest cryptids so I remain open to either possibility. Either humans have a collective mass global hallucination, spanning millennia of experiences (which is on its own intriguing), or there really is a magical forest cryptid. Holding either position doesn’t improve or detract from my life. So there’s no reason to believe, or disbelieve in Sasquatch or Yeti or Yowie or Mapinguari or any of their other names.

You could see if you can get some old carpeting or rugs for cheap or free to hang along the wall facing the street. They have two features that block sound: complex geometry, and mass.

At least with glasses cameras they aren’t filming anything they can’t already see

You don’t know shit about me bro. Creepers gonna creep. If they want to hide a camera they can do it in lapel pin or something. Being paranoid about it won’t stop anything. Making legislation to require a recording light will just de-tune the public’s vigilance when they don’t see a light. It won’t stop people from taking discrete photos. If you’re scared of having your photo taken, stay inside. There are a huge number of automatic license plate cameras owned by corporations logging your plates. They may also be capturing and analyzing your face. That is a lot more concerning to me than some dude wearing glasses.

Me neither. In fact regardless of what’s on their face they can fuck right off.

You caught me. I go around with my wife and daughter so I can get away with being a creep. Don’t tell the moms on the playground.

It was a bit self-satirical. But it would be really helpful for me, if it existed. I’m not about to buy a face camera but I can imagine some people in sales might like such a feature.

There is no privacy in public, by definition of those two words. I’m less concerned about a camera on somebodies face, and more concerned about the legality of doing facial recognition, and identifying and tracking of people without their explicit consent. See one is about the personal utility of camera-interfaced computing, and the other is corporate espionage. But unless lawmakers can draw that line and enforce it, we will probably just end up with spyware.

There are plenty of legit use cases for a camera. Traveling in a foreign place the glasses could overlay text in your language. Looking at a transit table it could highlight the correct route and time. And anytime you meet someone new it could store their name and face in a database.

Oh well soon enough we’ll have directed energy weapons and drones with hypodermic needles. Maybe someday bullets will be obsolete.

Kids leagues should have three levels, all co-ed. Competitive is for parents and kids who play to win. Go get it. Casual is for parents and kids who play for the team building. And finally Recreational is for the kids who just want to play, and the parents who like seeing energy burned. This gives boys and girls who are less competitive a place to play, while preventing anyone from dominating a more relaxed league. I mean, they can try, but it won’t be a big accomplishment.

They should just require all ammunition to have serial numbers etched into the casing and the slug. When ammo is purchased, it is attached to an ID. People keep their ammo locked up to avoid being framed. People can shoot the ammo with any homemade contraption they want. Problem solved - until people learn to make their own ammo. Obviously possible for shotgun shells, but maybe not feasible for accurate rifling bullets.

It’s not clear if the original adjusted for inflation. $5000 in todays money is $21,500

Only you can answer that. Self love is the foundation of all other types of love. The pit of despair you’re in is a self-fulfilling prophecy. If you feel unlovable, few if any will see someone who is a warm receptive landing place for their love. But the converse is also true. Once you cultivate self love, you will become magnetic towards being loved. That’s why self love is foundational.

Here’s the thing. Love is an infinite resource. Once you tap in, you can’t run out. Once you find your own source, it can never be depleted. So go find it for yourself. You don’t need to look externally. Just figure out what you want in your heart and do it.

Neither. CDs are only useful as a digital copy and 700MB is a quick download, and many discs can fit as FLAC on a microSD the size of my pinky nail. It might even be cheaper nowadays for them to mass produce 512 MB micro SD cards to put FLAC albums on them. If anybody wanted physical albums. It would be hilarious to just have a QR code on a tiny cardboard envelope.

If we want analog music, which is a cool idea, we should replace vinyl with something better. We can still use an optical laser disc but encoding stereo audio tracks as analog laser etches rather than zeros and ones. That way we could reduce the cost, and increase the quality at the same time. Might even be able to print them on glass for longevity. Then you might have an audiophile quality LP that doesn’t need to be flipped. Also in terms of longevity - an analog laser recording could be reverse engineered and listened to after the apocalypse, while binary CD format is a bit more opaque.

I have a 2tb ssd for my media server. I haven’t filled it yet, but I do sometimes delete things. Don’t tell anyone.

It’s so far past time we need to be looking at a 24 hour work week. It’s perfect for multiple reasons. It’s one day. It can be met multiple ways: two 12 hour shifts, three 8 hour shifts, or four 6 hour shifts. It reduces the work week to less than half of the week, so parents can juggle without paying childcare. And the most important reason: we’ll all get the same amount of work done. Corporations or businesses can just swap employees out to get a full week.

Coming from a cycle tracking app, and they don’t mention that women’s orgasms may be tied to their cycle? Ovulation is a helluva drug.

This is something I have dealt with in my life. Not your exact circumstances but paternal abandonment. I’ll just say this - don’t hide from your feelings. Feel them and cry it out. Again and again. Once you’re rid of any resentment, forgive him. Doesn’t have to be to his face, it’s the act of you letting go, for good. After that, you’re free.

The twisted part of my story is after I did all that I found out he wasn’t even my real father. But the healing was real. You don’t need to impress anyone, especially your parents.

And finally I’ll just say - people deal with their own fear in strange ways. It’s possible he couldn’t deal with losing a child so he decided to run away from it. Not a good excuse but people have their own issues sometimes. Imagine if he showed up on all kinds of drugs and made you really hate him instead of just confused abandonment/resentment.

I’ve over shared. I’m sorry to feel the need to impress upon someone who is unworthy of your affection. Spend your energy where its reciprocal.

Who leaves their infant in an IVF clinic? If I walk out with the flask they’ll suspect me of arson. If I walk out with the baby, who knows. Call 911 and let the fire fighters save the rest of the buildings occupants.