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Why in the world are you choosing to live that way?

I'm writing the best music of my life, realizing games and art projects I never had time for, and writing higher quality software in addition to dramatically more of it. Who has time for pablum?

How exactly are you using these tools that you have that experience?

You are actually not doing much of that.

You have become a spectator.

Your legs broke? Go do that

What does it have to do with legs? This site has turned a mental hospital with AI patients.

It's an expression. "You're legs broke?" here means "What's stopping you from going to the library and reading a book?"

It's a grovel-for-investor-dollars site that we've long pretended is for serious technical discussion. Comments should always be filtered through that lens.

You can do both. I still find time to read a couple books a month.

You have agency and can choose your own adventures. If you don't like something, don't do it.

Who is stopping you?