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I literally walked by a testing center in LA two days ago that was for pedestrians but please continue making assumptions about what I know.

I spent YEARS taking public transportation in Philadelphia and you know what? It sucked massive donkey balls.

This is why I bought a house in the suburbs. Public transportation is for the poors (and New Yorkers I guess). Sorry not sorry.

The testing centers are free for the most part.

Eh I'm on the opposite side of it seeing my future mother in law raise a 5 to 7 year old through this whole thing and at first she liked it cause he's more of an introverted quiet kid so it seemed like it helped him at first but then we started to see small social issues with him start to come out and likely due to him basically missing his entire first and second grade. Kid is probably irrevocable fucked up now. The mask thing is just more icing on the cake.

Working from home the most I had to wear the mask is flying somewhere and I fucking haaaate it. And I say this as a trans person that enjoyed for once not being misgendered in public. The truth is me and my very liberal girlfriend are fucking over it and we don't care anymore. We're triple vaxed and fuck it. We've been going clubbing at maskless down town LA parties for months now and haven't caught it yet.

The fact that kids have to do more than I do as an adult is baffling to me. I legitimately feel bad for them.

I have gotten so many covid tests in the past two years. Some of them are drive thru only but most don't care either way. In DTLA proper the testing centers are mostly for pedestrians.

Everyone talks so much shit on USA car culture but our testing centers are typically a drive thru where patients are isolated in their cars thereby protecting everyone. Patients swab themselves and then hand the sample over through a few inch opening in the window.

The effects of climate change are mostly natural disasters that come and go as normal which the United States deals with regularly. That entire argument is tired and irrelevant. The United States for all it's faults is also likely keeping the most accurate statistics on the whole thing and gave the the mRNA vaccine to the world.

2 out of 3 of what you brought up has nothing to do with covid.

History doesn't stop just cause there's a pandemic.

Honestly one reason I don't want kids is that I don't want to deal with schools, parents, and the whole infrastructure of child rearing in today's day. Even five generations ago you had 5 kids and just fed and clothed them..maybe sent them to school if you could but generally they helped you out at home and then went to work and got married and became largely independent by age 20. In today's era the entire concept of raising children is exhausting and not really sustainable. Society wants you to put in literally 10x the amount of hours into child rearing in contrast to what my great grandmother had to deal with.

And everyone acts so insanely self righteous and judgy about it.

Honestly compared to the 1918 pandemic we have actually done an amazing job with covid. Not only have we gotten a new vaccine out for it in record time but mask wearing is also really high by per capita percentages in the vast majority of the world.

I really am baffled that people don't see things with more positivity.

Thanks for proving my point. See my other comment for the unseen damage you may be causing but likely don't care.

Who cares about society? Focus on your kid.

Gonna go with everyone. Every day I see some parent go "my kids have no problem wearing masks".

Thing is I realized recently that as a kid with a bpd mother one reason I grew up as a shy nerdy shut in was because any time I did anything it would cause a giant fight with my mom so I just gave up and stopped trying. Now I realize it fucked me up in multiple ways being like that. I imagine it's much the same with a lot of these kids. They have zero agency to go against it.

I'm not anti mask but people are way too dismissive of the damage done to children who have to wear masks all the time. Especially when it comes to socializing, learning facial cues, and being able to express emotions.

We really have dropped the ball and turned valid concerns by parents into a political finger pointing shit storm.

Lol hell no. You're joking right?

I literally said the Linux stack which includes everything from the kernel to init to libs. You can't run just the kernel.

I use Gentoo which uses portage the package manager and the way portage works is it pulls source then compiles. Source is rarely checked by everyone. Small packages exist as well. Many Linux distro simply barrow binaries from "trusted" sources. The entire eco system is really a deck of cards.

Eh that's not true. I use Gentoo so trust me most things are run by little dictators of their own little fiefdoms.

I'm talking about not just the kernel but all the various other things from libraries to servers to tools and everything in between.

You can say the same thing about the entire Linux stack

Blockchains actually are decentralized.

Exchanges are centralized but even then there's dozens to choose from.

Plenty of people exchange crypto for goods and services directly without converting to fiat.

It's almost like this argument is talking past itself and ignoring the reality on the ground.

The only place I see people talking about web3 is HN and a few random sparsely commented articles on /.

No one I work with has any plans to learn about it or use it.

It's the exact opposite of how web 2.0 was.

Shells do have actual value. In Hawaii all the good ones have been taken from near the shore by now. It's typical to find some pristine ones only a few inches in diameter being sold for thousands.

Anything can have value.

Way to take my thing and ruin it then be like "shut up it's old"

How about some proof instead of pulling numbers out of your ass?

Given that I was born into this system with zero say in it what if I don't?

Banks use way more electricity just cooling and heating their offices for the meat sacks that run their business than crypto ever will.

He's bouncing between bargaining, anger, and acceptance. Can't say I'd react much better.

Most capitalists see crypto and the GPU market as just capitalism working as intended. There's nothing stopping gpu manufacturers from producing more product.

Given that crypto is already 10 years old and has other things depending on it you sound like an old man yelling at some kids on their lawn.

Plus high income areas skew up so if you're in some parts of the country a 50k car is on the low end.

50k is standard for normies in their 40s and 50s and typically financed with a down payment. Typically $600-$700 a month

Keep digging that hole bro.

I have an aunt/uncle in Germany and when I visited them I'd occasionally take one of their bikes out and bike to my grandparents dacha about two miles away. It's cute and super euro but as soon as it's a little cold or rainy I'm over it.

Of course they still own two cars and drive to work despite it being "only" a 15 minute bike ride. They are both MDs.

It's wild seeing nerds on HN bend over backwards to justify themselves when the truth is that fewer women want to do the job. Not because they aren't capable but because they just don't want to.