existence of extraterrestrial life

Absolutely certain

and the potential involvement of governments in concealing or studying such entities.

Completely absurd.

The Fermi Paradox is only a paradox if you apply a ludicrously unjustified value to the last figure in the Drake equation.

Technological civilizations are very likely self-extinguishing simply because technological power grows faster than any evolved species capacity to apply that technology to the benefit of the species.

Only way out of that would be that bio life is just a bootstrap for machine life and machine life just isn’t that interested in interacting with biological life so we’ll never see or hear from it.

I’m still running LXDE on an Acer netbook I got in 2010 or so. Tiny, underpowered little thing but still has a physical NIC which is why I still love it.

My death is when I permanently stop experiencing life.

Not sure what that means for an ‘Upload’ scenario… I guess he’s just a swamp man of me and he’s alive but I’m not anymore… but I’m not signing up for the digital afterlife anyway.

Loneliness is a slippery concept. It’s not the same as social isolation, which occurs when someone has few meaningful social relationships, although “they’re two sides of the same coin”, says old-age psychiatrist Andrew Sommerlad at University College London. Rather, loneliness is a person’s subjective experience of being unsatisfied with their social relationships.

That’s an important distinction. I also wonder how much of 'loneliness ’ is influenced by decreasing agency in your life. I’m fairly comfortable with very limited social interactions in part because I’m healthy and mobile. Just going to the store and interacting with other customers and cashiers is enough for me to feel like I’m part of a functioning community.

But I do wonder what will happen if\when I become less mobile due to age or injury. If I can’t go out myself I don’t think interacting with a delivery person would give me the same satisfaction because I would start to feel like I wasn’t as much a part of a community.

For me the problem is I really value my peace and solitude and I strongly agree with Robin Williams quote “I used to think that the worst thing in life was to end up alone. It’s not. The worst thing in life is to end up with people who make you feel alone.” The social obligations and compromises people accept just to avoid potentially feeling lonely just aren’t worth it to me. So I’ll probably suffer loneliness when my health starts failing, but somehow I’m willing to accept that fate to keep the peace I have now.

On a totally unrelated note I’m excited Snowpiercer is getting another season on AMC.

Yes, there’s a rational spectrum of labor protections and social safety nets between the silly extremes you used for your false dichotomy. You’ve almost got it.

Yeah but some german dude took out a whole town worth of kids with just a flute like 600 years ago. Definitely had better methods available even without modern firepower.

Never having to work is pie in the sky but I’ll tell you who I’m siding with in the “there should be slaves” and the “people should have to work at all” argument.

I’m only ‘siding’ with people that can recognize that’s a very silly false dichotomy.

idk, as far as ways to kill another kid go I’d say it’s a 3/10 at best. Lot of prep work for a mediocre body count.

I remember what she said was embarrassing. The discussion afterwards made me realize how many in that sub really were ‘antiwork’ in a literal sense, not just about labor protections and maintaining work-life balances.

Old dude’s been wanting peace and quiet from the neighborhood kids for years and thinks he might finally get it.

For me just the convenience of having everything in one box. Simplifies networking too. I run home assistant, openwrt, OMV, an ubuntu dtop VM and a wordpress LXC on a little m93 I jacked up with 32Gb RAM. Backups are dead simple and it’s all on one little UPS.

Some might prefer metal for other reasons but simplicity and convenience are priorities for me, at least in my homelab.

I’ve had a little OMV VM running on Proxmox for about 4 years with no issues at all.

Buy an actual NAS instead of a rats nest of USB hub and drives. But now it works so I’m too lazy and cheap to migrate it off.