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the local communities we built around a handful of BBSes in Mexico City back in the mid-90s were incredibly close-knit. We’d meet in person a few times a year, and it resulted in life-long friendships, business partnerships and more. Fidonet allowed growing this even more - you didn’t have to connect to 5 different BBS every day to stay in contact with your friends, and the ability to communicate with foreign BBSes and the Internet was also magical and a nice perk us BBS operators could offer our users.

4:975/X !

Around 1995/96 the advent of commercial consumer Internet swept most BBSes away, which was unfortunate because the local, close-knit aspect of that early community was entirely lost.

It won’t be the time, it’ll be some scrensaver or an ad.

Even a broken mechanical luxury watch is right twice a day. A broken digital watch with a screen is useless when it’s broken.

(I’m just trolling at this point, let me know and we can stop this)

Gee it’s a discussion forum my dude - people giving opinions on things that would otherwise be none of their business is what it’s for.

At least that watch still tells the time.

How art is valued is entirely illogical and irrational. Like - that time an entire art installation was confused with trash and thrown out. https://i-d.co/article/museum-cleaners-thought-this-art-inst...

> There are the usual suggestions: […] But I'm finding it hard to actually do any of that.

There are some other suggestions and ideas here in the comments and your response also boils down to “thank you but that’s too hard”.

Sorry to say this but - it’s going to be hard. Did you want something easy? I don’t think it exists in this situation. Creating new routines and breaking out into something different from what you were used to for years, will take effort and resources. There’s no magic pill.

You can do this but it’ll take effort and discipline. Go for it!

I like how instead of just rephrasing the website’s premise to make it clear he only cares about the US, he added some ip-based geolocation to select a snarky response based on where you are. Essentially the site argues back to you if you’re not in the US or something. Why did this person even bother creating the website if he’s so hostile and angry.

You also suggested I hadn’t read it. “I won't violate the site guidelines by suggesting you didn't read it”. Only you did (saying you won’t say something and then saying it doesn’t really absolve you).

I find you rude so I won’t reply to you anymore.

Yeah, that was added after the onslaught. I’m in Canada and got the “across the pond” one. Lol.

Le sigh. It has now a disclaimer at the top. “Hello from across the pond (or whichever body of water separates us). This is a US ZIP code website. We are aware that other countries exist.”

This guy just keeps digging himself into a hole of ignorance - is he aware of Mexico? Canada?

I did read it.

“Obviously” didn’t read the article. Not having to pick the country is literally the premise!

“I type 90210. You now know I'm in Beverly Hills, California, United States. You didn't need me to tell you that. You didn't need a dropdown. You didn't need me to scroll past Turkmenistan.”

US-centric. I typed a Mexico postal code (it’s five digits) and got routed to somewhere in Maine. So - yeah the whole “I can tell you’re in the US just by the zip code” premise is entirely flawed.

Totally a case of “gee, who’d have thunk”

Back in the day, ability to run MacOS would have been a plus, but with the trainwreck that Tahoe is said to be, I’m not so sure.

Im so glad I don’t live in the same society as you.

Would you use anything that was only 16% effective for its claimed purpose?

“Tylenol stops headaches in 16% of people” - it’s huge, right? That’s millions of people we’re talking about.

Would you use it?

> AI just does it better, it's meant to communicate and people are not always great communicators.

Sorry, no. It doesn’t do it better. It’s like chewing cardboard. All fluff, not a lot of actual well-presented information.

AI is also not a great communicator- it learned from people, which you said are not great.

Never takes long for the car-centric “anything that inconveniences my driving sucks” point of view to appear.

You worked for years in the grocery business but all you have is anecdata?

I also have anecdata, my grocery bill has not come down from pandemic times. Things like eggs are definitely more expensive.

> kids coming home in the darkness (against exhausted drivers).

If you’re exhausted you shouldn’t be driving. Period. You’re the danger to kids, not light or darkness. (Your headlights are in working order, right?)

I really tried reading through this but couldn’t - it’s AI-written so it’s like trying to chew cardboard. I gave up after like 3 paragraphs.

Just because you know about it doesn’t mean others can’t benefit from the mention.

https://xkcd.com/1053/

It’s all about the Hyperion Cantos which is fair but - the one Dan Simmons book we still talk about, years later, is his first novel: Song of Kali. Short and raw, one of the most horrifying books I’ve ever read.

Entirely untrue.

It’s called a metonym. Look it up.

A wallet is a wonderful invention that allows you to lose all your important items in one fell swoop

With AI these days it’d cost almost zero money. /s

If your only complaint with Hetzner is the price hike, though, it makes no sense to migrate to a more expensive vendor.