A so called “solved world” is the best case scenario when it comes to AI but it’s not guranteed nor can anyone give you a timeline for it.

Washing machine.

Also, lighter work loads and less time consuming are different arguments - unless you mean no technology has ever resulted in neither, which is a rather bold statement.

People complaining about it online.

In this case compromise means going somewhere neither of us is enthusiastic about. For me the value of eating out is that I don’t need to cook myself - a sushi buffet achieves that, and the food is good. Going to a nicer restaurant means it costs more, I need to wait longer and usually I get a smaller portion of food and the quality of it is the same at best. It’s simply just a worse experience for me personally. So since I’m not enjoying myself either way we may just as well go somewhere she wants to so at least one of us is having fun.

And you’re right - they have been bad relationships. We haven’t had anything in common. Last time though I did lay the cards on the table from the very beginning and 9 years later when she finally had enough she at least couldn’t say that she didn’t know or that I had changed. She did know.

If there is to be a new romantic relationship for me in the future I might just give it a try with a guy instead. It’s at least conceivable that things haven’t worked out in the past for the simple reason that I’ve been trying to shove myself into a mould I don’t fit into. I’m a peculiar, eccentric person and it takes a certain kind of individual to get along with me. It seems that people either like me a lot or not at all.

Excuse my cynicism. I’m not proud of it but it is what it is.

I am bitter and it was my intention though I wouldn’t go as far as to generalize that all women are like that as it’s obviously not the case.

However, these are all different questions. What’s an appropriate restaurant for a first date is different from where I’d personally like to eat which is different from which place I would choose for us to eat together.

I don’t think a sushi buffet or BK is an appropriate place for a first date. Those are where I go to refuel myself and it’s as romantic as visiting the gas station. That’s why I end up choosing a more appropriate place but that place is in fact not where I want to go - it’s where I assume she wants to go. This is pretty much my experience of most things in relationships. I try my best to please her and am left completely unsatisfied myself.

Hell - maybe I should just turn this into a shit test. Next time I get to choose I tell her I want to go cook sausages by a camp fire. If she doesn’t then she can go find someone else. I’m tired of this shit.

Vehicles with a manual transmission similarly start engine braking the moment you lift your foot off the accelerator but I never attributed any sense of motion sickness to that, though the braking force likely is lesser.

The way I’ve always understood this is that since passengers usually sit in the rear they’re looking out the side windows and that scenery flying by so fast is what causes that motion sickness and it doesn’t happen to the driver or front-seat passenger so much because they’re looking forward through the windshield.

I don’t see how it’s an argument against finding a job in the trades that not literally everyone can do that. Not everyone can be a doctor either - doesn’t mean you shouldn’t chase that if it’s what you want to do. Tons of people are more or less succesfully climbing the corporate ladder and have no desire to do anything else. This advice isn’t for those people but the ones that are struggling with that or worrying that it is not AI proof - there are alternatives to it.

And yes nowdays I do own my bussiness but that wasn’t always the case. I had a higher income as an employee. I traded that for more freedom and meaning.

“I get to choose” as in I have to try and guess where she wants to go. If it was up to me it’s either Burger King or a sushi buffet.

…which is a completely different argument than what you started with. You’re blatantly moving the goalposts.

Only by being yourself you can find people who like you for who you are rather than who you pretend to be. Nobody can beat you at being you but you can only be the second best at pretending to be someone else.

I take that to mean that if you are weird then embrace it. That attracts other similarly weird people and those are the best kind. There’s no point in being liked for being someone you’re not so why pretend.

In this particular case autism has lots to do with it.

A plumber’s salary bought me a house at 27 and now less than 10 years later I have enough savings to buy another if I wanted to. Of all my friends the only people who own the house they live in are the ones working in trades. Every single one of them with an office job is renting and doesn’t even own a car.

A new chain or cassette doesn’t affect the derailleur. A new cable does, but the tension is adjusted from the shifter, not by messing with the derailleur adjustments. It’s true that god-awful shifting due to a bent derailleur can be mitigated to some extent by messing with the adjustments but it’ll never be good. It can’t be because the derailleur is bent. Then when you replace the hanger with a straight one the shifting goes to shit again.

Whenever my derailleur catches on a rock or a stump and the shifting goes to shit all I do is remove the derailleur from the hanger, use the hanger adjustment tool to straighten it out and once I re-attach the derailleur it shifts perfectly again with no adjusting at all.

Below average doesn’t equal bad. If the wage covers your living expenses and you have money left over even after that then what does more money achieve? Nothing. Unless you want to keep up with the Joneses.

If you say so.

I don’t see how irrationality would follow from the belief that there is no ultimate meaning to any of this. What matters is this moment right now. The rest of it is just a story I’m telling myself.

I’ll make a wild guess that you too came here from reddit. That makes you one of those people. We’re all just redditors telling ourself a comforting story about how we’re better than those people over there.

The question presupposes the thing you ask me to inspect and I reject the premise. There is no reason to any of this. It just is.

I think my broader point still stands. There are things one can influence and there are ones they can’t. Where people live is one of the things they can. Living in a large city is expensive so one needs to earn more to sustain that. However that’s not the only place to live. I most certainly have the lowest income of my friend group but I’m also by far the wealthiest because of how much cheaper my living expenses are. My mortgage for a house is half of what they’re paying in rent a month for a small apartment equally far away from the city centre. They just choose to live in the capital so their living expenses are so much higher that despite the higher wage they have nothing to show for it. Also, I started my own business because I got tired of working for others and despite having zero experience and nobody helping me I still managed to make it work so if I can do it, anyone can.

I just get incredibly frustrated with the apparent apathy online of people just blaming external factors about their circumstances as if they’ve got no control over anything themselves. So many of the struggles people deal with are self-inflicted. This equally applies to my fellow entrepreneurs as well who are not happy where they’re at. They have all the control over their business but they still choose to follow the same path as everyone else while expecting different results.

Do smaller cities and towns not have bike shops in the US? My city has roughly 200k residents and I can think of at least 5 different bike shops on the top of my head.