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Idk, but I’d expect all sensors to degrade over time for different reasons and especially if they are not cleaned and maintained regularly.

I’ve got an optical that is recommended to replace after ten years. I find it a reasonable investment.

It doesn’t have to be a person or an entity or deity.

I haven’t been nerdying on religion for much long many moons but AFAICR Buddhism has this core idea that “yeah we have symbols and chants and icons and totems and rituals and we pray but the more we dedicate ourselves we understand that they are just there for us to see beyond them into the nothing and the everything”. In Buddhism this has evolved into place, so it would be interesting to see if it was possible to kickstart straight into some sort of non deity centric anti religion without the animistic precursory heritage.

I’d prefer not to. I’d like to make it Buddhist philosophy inspired non-religion if possible. But people seem to have this need of something to gather around and have rituals and festivities and believe in so religion is still useful. I’m thinking it would be easier to get everybody pulling together early on in a theocracy though the deep teaching aims to dissolve itself.

The teachings would promote (or demand) something of an egalitarian society with food and shelter and healthcare for everybody and encourage learning and education and culture and arts and own responsibility and critique and discussion and questioning the whole shebang in orderly fashion with ongoing goals of improving it for everybody.

First steps would be to create a religion with all the usual “be kind and caring and patient and forgiving and nice in general to others and yourself” and then “do not be an asshole unless the others were an asshole first and then you may respond in moderation with an appropriate pinch of extra salt” and the ritual of an Aztec pyramid with slice and dice and flush them down the sewage sacrifice of any billionaires and power hungry totalitarians and corrupt public servants. Every year that do not require any sacrifice pleases the gods. But any year it is needed, the gods are content that required action was taken.

Biological programming goes a long way.

It goes hand in paw with being instinctively scared of things that can potentially kill you and other species evolution with patterns and markings that make them less likely to become a succulent meal, Chinese or not.

If I’ve got it, I’d lend my long time best friends up to €1000 without question. I would not really expect them to pay it back. I trust that if or when they can they will. If they can’t, they can’t. People that are not my besties? No.

Companies go out of business all the time and others decide to sunset systems in use so customers are required to upgrade despite it is still working. So yeah, be realistic about expectations for any external service you decide to invest in.

Edit; and some things like smoke detectors do in fact have a life span after which they are degrading. Ten years is normal for a smoke detector.

Awesome! Cheers dude

I looked up long time ago about rooting my paperwhite gen 10 but couldn’t find anything. Care to share if you have some links?

A fringe case I’ve found ChatGPT very useful is to learn more about information that is plentiful but buried in dead threads in various old school web forums and thus very hard to Google. Like other people’s experiences from homebrewing. Then I ask it for sources and most often it is accurate to the claims of other homebrewers that also can be correct or less correct.

I’ve been leaning lately to understanding all the weird shit going on that people are just people are just driven by whatever inherited animal traits that made humans the dominant species on the planet in the first place. Expansionist exploiters and hoarders of resources until we run out and then expand again. Until there is nowhere more to expand and no new resources. Then it be war times. It sucks, I know.

You also risk killing x3 more innocent bystanders.

Don’t play with motor vehicles on public roads or whatever happens is not an accident.

Good for you!

As far as we know, from what OP has told. But it doesn’t really matter. The only thing that matters is that OP moves on. Both OP and this girl will be better off without this toxic interaction of theirs.

Harsh truth for you bud. She doesn’t like you and she probably hates you for trying to get her to like you. She treats you bad because you let her and keep coming back for more. Honestly, I’d hate anybody doing that with me. I’d lose all my respect for that person very fast. I think most people do. This is on you to accept it and get on with life. She’s already made it clear that she’s not interested in whatever you are hoping for.

Wendy O Williams was and will forever be the queen of anarcho punk rock.

Too bad she decided to leave, but it was her way to go.

From my Xennial experience, some time in the 00s. Maybe because the wide spread (heh) availability of internet porn, but I don’t really know. 90s were bushy. 00s was a transitional era and 10s and onwards are bald eagles everywhere.

(Personally I don’t enjoy shaving my parts, I don’t enjoy having shaved parts and I prefer lady parts with some trimmed carpeting rather than both desert dunes or wild djungles.)

What? Soft? Do you think they would mock us for having industrialised society with food and medicines and public schools and well educated people and jobs that don’t break your body at the age of 35? Why would they do that? Would you look into the future and mock them for having a cure for cancer and HIV and Alzheimer’s and better health and foods and even more comfortable living and transport and jobs and entertainment?

Fun fact. So do bears.