The average American has zero clue how anything in the government works, nor the interest in policy to actually understand what the policies their politician of choice are pushing do. The average American is so disconnected from politics it’s zero surprise that shitty politicians are elected everywhere regularly.

This isn’t an indictment of the people themselves but the society they live in that somehow incientivizes general laziness when it comes to civics

But for gamers moving game installs that they don’t feel like rebuilding the mod load out for between an HDD and an SSD that might be moving an extra 100GB month or so, probably less frequently depending on how much they’re moving games around, plus it’s no more wear than if they simply uninstalled and reinstalled the game as needed. Ultimately I don’t think that’ll make much difference.

I’ll look at the wear stats on my main desktop with its 8 year old SSD when I get a chance and share

SSDs have limited write endurance, so moving a lot of large files on and off of them will wear the nand flash out shortening its lifetime and potentially killing it

This is the conventional wisdom, but honestly I’ve not seen any detectable wear on any of my several year old SSDs even with daily use. I’ve seen more SSDs fail just due to age/power on hours professionally and never wear-related

Thank you! I really think it’s wild how so many people have caffeine addictions and so few try to quit, but then the few of us that have have very different experiences with quiting

I was assigned a battle class vessel but with a science class crew. I make it work and I’m honestly happy with what I got ultimately, but some fleets within the Meatfleet consider me a betrayal to my class and are disgusted at how I just take my battle class vessel on science missons and remain a pacificst

I think you replied to the wrong person?

Ah you’re right. I was trying to respond to OP but clearly not paying close enough attention

Thank you for answering anyways! Super interesting learning more of other people’s experiences and experimenting with what works well for me.

It’s crazy how these meat ships we’re given to pilot and maintain just don’t come with instructions and the instructions written by other folks based on their experiences piloting and maintaining their meat ships just aren’t fully transferrable

Out of curiosity, did you pick up a new habit when quitting coffee? When I was reducing with the goal of quitting I’d literally put a water bottle next to my coffee mug and drink the ice cold water every time I found myself reaching for the coffee, and now I get the same caffeine withdrawal symptoms if I don’t drink enough water in the morning, as well as just generally drinking about 1.5-2 gallons of water a day

As someone with 2 preschool aged kids I absolutely agree

Ah you’ve met my in-laws i see!

Nah they would get freaked out by the smallest inconvenience and just getting to the gate was an odyssey for them somehow. With my own kids I’ve got plenty of things I look back on and go “oh yeah I understand why my parents did that now” but also plenty of things where its 100% “how the heck was this such a challenge for my parents to handle?”

I got one for work. It literally just pastes into ChatGPT

I have memories of some random afternoons at the consulting firm my mom worked at, where everyone’s just poking at spreadsheets. I can’t imagine how cool the memory of going into the server farm and doing some hardware work there would be

Folder structures are a bizarre thing for many people

When learning about this I learned that in the analog days folks would actually put physical folders inside of physical folders and it both makes tons of sense and is mind blowing at the same time. -Late Millennial born to IT parents

With the amount of password resets I have to do at work, I can’t say I’m shocked

qbittorrent search makes it stupid easy too

Signing the photo on the camera would achieve this, but ultimately that’s just rehashing the debate back when this Photoshop thing was new. History shows us that some will fight it but ultimately new artistic tools will create new artistic styles and niches

And I use AI to determine the right brightness level for my phone screen (that was a feature added several android versions ago)

UN, which… failed to keep dictatorships out

The UN while created with noble intentions certainly fell for the paradox of tolerance. They tolerate the dictatorships and human rights abusers because if they didn’t they’d be much less empowered to take action against them, or worse they’d form their own competing UN made up of nations motivated to join them and you’d just end up with another NATO and Warsaw Pact for example. It’s damned if you do, damned if you don’t.

Ultimately the challenge comes down to how do you ultimately tame the leaders of the world who have absolute power. The founding fathers of the United States of America thought they had the solution with democracy and the many checks and balances they implemented into this new form of government they setup, but even that has its challenges and failures that they never could have forseen. The UN was the next experiment, trying to take the similar principles onto the world stage, and it’s been less successful (but at least has had some successes)

it’s not just parents either. some people are just like that when they travel.

Dude I flew out somewhere for a work training and it was 11x easier than my parents ever made it out to be. Just read the signs, follow the directions and get there about 1-2 hours before boarding. The biggest hassle was finding coffee in the Orlando airport (I ended up finding it tucked in the back corner of a bar)

The whole experience was more enjoyable than I ever remember flying being and it just comes down to going with the flow and being ready to roll with the punches

Mothman has a hella nice butt tho