Endurance athletes piss and shit themselves all the time.

Not really sure what you’re getting at but I just don’t care.

I don’t care if it’s not me specifically?

I hate musk but I don’t really like the idea of tevoking citizenship.

Start doing that to people you don’t like and before you know it the power will be used by right wing nut jobs to get rid of immigrants.

God this is relatable.

I’m not really hard core /c/fuckcars but god damn car people act fucking entitled.

They act as though you’re using their road at their sufferance - like how dare you be an obstacle that they may need to move around.

Then they park wherever they please, often across footpaths and bike ways.

Then they leave their vehicle and dodder around blocking paths completely oblivious to their surroundings.

There’s absolutely no concept of sharing these areas with different types of vehicles.

My bad, it was just an oddly phrased question and my inference was incorrect. I’m a bit defensive this stuff.

In my case having a stable condition is mostly thanks to the miracle of modern medecine. It’s not nothing though. The meds have awful side effects.

My main point is, every day I do what I can. There might come a day when I wish I had done more for my health, but today I know that I just don’t have any more to give.

My recommendation is not to judge yourself too harshly. It can cause problems like eating disorders and anxiety and delusions. The expectations on modern parents are stratospheric, when in reality just by being around for birth youre doing better than the majority of your ancestors.

Actually, I know this isn’t what you’re referring to but a key strategy amongst lenders is to obfuscate their rates with bullshit fees.

In Australia they have to publish a “comparison” rate that includes all ascertainable fees.

The book of Enoch often features in nutty ancient aliens content. Extra terrestrial beings and hand held devices and so on.

It’s important context for the canonical bible. Imagine you find a bunch of scrolls in urns in a cave and it’s basically an anthology of short stories from the star wars realm. You cut out the ones that just seem too crazy and the ones that contradict others, and then call the rest your special nutty history.

I don’t understand the question really?

I discovered I had a chronic illness when my wife was pregnant with twins, our first (and last) children.

It was tough. Being able to care for my partner and kids is a fundamental part of my identity (like many people). At first I wasn’t sure if I was going to be around to see my kids born, but things settled into a rhythm and now 4 years later my condition is “stable”.

Like many illnesses, mine is heavily dependent on how well I care for myself: diet, exercise, lifestyle. However, these things are a question of time, so they compete with the objectives of just being a good dad and spending time with your kids, and with having a career and building financial security.

Before having a family I didn’t really understand “having time”. Rather than time it’s more like energy, or “cognitive power” or spoons or whatever. You only get so much each day and you burn through it being a good dad, going to work, being a partner, and so on. Basically, money, family, and health, are competing objectives.

Basically, the only option is to do everything you can to do all of the things as best you can. It’s hard.

With all of that said, I don’t understand the question. It sounds kind of judgey if I’m honest. You don’t know what’s going on in someone else’s life, or house, or head.

Some of the other writings that didn’t make the cut for the canonical bible are wild.

This feels like the kind of narrative that OP is asking about. Everything that you’ve said sounds kind of sane and plausible, but it’s not really borne out by the reality.

I think a realistic case for that is that the AI tools that come out in the next few years will be good enough to do a fair amount of white-collar work

That’s just not what I’ve seen. I’d love to be able to automate the work of my white-collar team, but everything that we have seen thus far just seems incapable of providing any significant improvement. Software providers in our industry have implemented some gen AI tools, and even the sales reps for those providers are very wary of them. They’ve been able to reliably automate some elements of jobs, but it’s an incremental improvement over the previous automation and it didn’t consume a significant amount of time anyway.

There’s absolutely no evidence that gen AI will have a significant impact on my white-collar industry. In fact, the evidence presently available indicates that this generation of AI does not have the capability to impact our industry.

other types of AI are already enabling robotic automation of factories and in the near-ish future might make self-driving truck fleets practical.

This is really the same story. Factories have been being automated since the industrial revolution. Self driving tech has been a year away for the last 10 years.

Even if he doesn’t want to be there, is it possible general population would be a high risk for him, and that wardens are taking extra care given his high profile?

Yep, in a way this has similarities to modern cryptography.

In cryptography you can share a public key, which can’t be used to create the private key but can be used to identify the correct private key.

With this object, you can share a description which can’t be used to make the object, but can be used to identify the object.

Its obviously not infallible security, but it would take some effort to overcome.

Nah the knitting / weaving idea doesn’t add up.

Basically, they can be used to weave a tube, but that isn’t really evidence that they were created with that intention.

The bronze would be polished up around the knobs if it were used that way.

You wouldn’t use bronze to make a weaving tool just because it’s so expensive. Maybe as a once off or special item, but not generally.

You don’t vary the size of your knitting or weaving by using a bigger template / more loose weave. One larger finger you would use more stitches: that’s fundamental to knitting and weaving.

At first glance it’s a nice idea but it doesn’t withstand critical thought.

My preferred theory is that it identifies the bearer as belonging to a group something like a smithies guild.

If there was a practical function someone would have figured it out. It’s a lame candle holder, coin counter, and glove knitting template. It’s function is symbolic.

It was hard to make, and the materials were costly.

It has specific features that can be described like “it has 12 flat faces with holes” but would be difficult to construct if you had never seen one.

They have often been found with caches of coins, but often found alone as though forgotten or discarded. They had value to some people but they were not treasure.

Maybe but I don’t.

Maybe people do know that?

Drinking / tap water here comes from a limestone aquifer. Tap ware and shower screens and toilets develop a calcium carbonate build up that needs to be chemically removed.

I think anyone who’s been in a cave and heard how stalagmites form would remember that it’s calcium carbonate.

LOL. If there was a big decision he wouldn’t need to announce that it was coming.

Exactly. Most people don’t understand the concept of “ownership” in this way. When you try to explain it you may as well be talking about UBI or other mythical crack pot ideas.

The relevance of these objections is diminishing if anything