It’s easy, unplug and see that anime is anigay. Now you can make a personality that isn’t stupid.

Yes. No qualifiers.

We are all doing the best we can with what we have. All the humble “no” respondents are too.

It would be interesting to do an anonymous Google form or something to see what the financial distribution of lemmings is like.

I mean yeah by the time you’ve got 36k (or more) for mortgage, 35k for daycare, if 200k pre tax and married 30k to the fed, 20k groceries now probably, 10k for car payments (presuming 2), then state and property taxes, insurance, maintenance, clothes, diapers maybe, benefits, gas (probably idk we went electric), yeah I could see how that money goes fast.

It’s definitely first world problems because it beats renting and 3 jobs and grandma watches the kids, but to do all the things you’re “supposed to do” by 1950s standards you probably need something north of 250k/yr.

Perks of living somewhere civilized I guess!

I sure get that. My dad did 80 hours of trade school in turn late 90s and turned out a six figure job with one day off a week and it was plenty. I do better now than we did then, but it took a PhD and like 17 years of work. Consequently I’m an older dad, but I guess it is what it is.

And that number would have to be astronomical. I thought I read that disgraced trillionaire number 1 was putting like 300M in the Republican war chest? Like youd have to win the Powerball north of 800M to have an observable effect of you dump it ALL in.

2018? If we hadn’t bought then I’m not sure we could have bought in.

No, I gotta say we are doing pretty well, but our household combined higher education time is about 20 years, and it’s not art history (sorry art history).

I do feel bad though that people are having a hard time and, while I don’t have a second house or a boat, I’m trying to give back wherever and whenever I can.

The trick is, if you have them you just have to afford them :/.

Everyone except the already very wealthy

I think that’s not quite right. I think there is a (now approaching vanishingly small middle class) which goes from like top 10% but less than 2% or 3% earners who are still doing ok. This is the household income at like 175k to probably… Idk 300k?

Compared to 40k/yr yeah that’s very wealthy, but compared to 600k+ it definitely isn’t.

My main point being that “very wealthy” is very VERY relative.

They are all great in my opinion. I get a hankering to rewatch them from time to time, but the second two more than the first one.

Just because he’s pregnant?

Fair, I’ll update my original comment.

Well alright fair enough.

I would contend that experience informs values and that original values come from your parents, but I was not trying to wade in because it didn’t feel like good faith. Values are evolving over time and are based on feedback for sure, but there’s more to it than just that.

Some things yes. Somethings no. The question is, can you be a person about it?

If you are arguing about whether people have human rights inherently? Awesome. Keep that. If you are routinely arguing about how many wheels a train car should have? Maybe chill out. People are going to have different values than you so ymmv, but if you can make an effort to attempt to empathize most things aren’t as cut and dry as even Lemmy makes them out to be.

Edit: Anyone seeing this outside from the top of the thread, don’t waste your time following it, it is not worth it. Take the shorter route below.

At least it CAN notify. I’ve got a zigbee door sensor glued to the side of the freezer and the door!

Yeah I was sick one year when my niece was an infant. Family asked me to stay home.

It was fine. I watched TV and smoked my hookah. All in all a pretty good day.

I like being able to intervene (especially for parking and minor repositioning and stuff), but I have to say FSD on the newer models of Tesla with lidar is pretty good: it is actually less convenient to actually drive than to let it drive you. Of course that’s both because the self driving is very decent AND because by removing the gear stalks it’s sort of less convenient to drive manually IMO.

You still have to be more or less engaged which is how it should be, but it doesn’t get tired or distracted and drift in lanes, it doesn’t look out the window and forget to brake or brake too hard, and it effectively raises the quality bottom line.

Now, of course, just like everyone else, I’m an above average driver and also NN driven vehicles aren’t PERFECT so why the hell would you let them drive anyway?

I all seriousness I like the option to offload to a more or less functional autopilot, but I wouldn’t be comfortable in a car with no controls or overrides at all at this point.