Well, I could care less, but I don’t care enough to determine exactly how little I could.

If he’s been a plumber for 40 years, then he obviously has a track record of not making enough mistakes to lose insurance.

Looking over the Saturday morning cartoons I grew up with:

The Batman

Xiaolin Showdown (this I remember the most fondly)

Johnny Test (It’s the epitome of Saturday morning cartoons, most engraved in my brain, probably bad actually)

Spider Riders (just for the opening song)

¯_(ツ)_/¯ I don’t know about others, but that’s not how I roll.

To add onto this, an ideology is an ideal to be strived toward, not a goal to be jumped to.

The first thing I remember learning in philosophy 101 is the principle of charity, which has been eternally useful during discussion:

1. Assume the other person has something worth saying
2. Questions of meaning come before questions of truth

I was fortunate enough to grow up firmly middle class. My dad sold car chemicals for a pretty good income. He and my stepmom (who also made good money in project management) explained the concept of golden handcuffs to me in high school, that when you start making a lot of money and get used to that lifestyle it’s tough to take a pay cut that takes it away. They didn’t seem especially happy or content to me so having a lot of money has never been a priority for me. I just want enough to get by and save for the future.

When I was scraping by on 28k a year slinging pizzas and delivering for the post office on Amazon Sundays I told my project manager uncle that if I made twice what I did at the time I would be fine. Now I do make 60k working IT for a school district where I can sometimes do some good, and like I had told my uncle I’m doing fine now. I have a pension, I can max out my Roth IRA, have a good down payment for my next car when mine kicks the bucket, and I’m lucky enough to rent a couple rooms relatively cheap from a friend who was lucky enough for their farmer parents to buy them most of a house, all owing me to save a few hundred a month for a house of my own. And I can still buy nice stuff for myself every now and then.

Sometimes I think it would be nice to have an extra 10 or 20k for extra breathing room, but moving back to the private sector would suck, and I would probably just end up like my mother whose financial advisor literally tells her to spend more money. I feel very privileged to say this, but I just don’t think I could be bought at this point.

I really like them almost entirely brown, mashed up with butter and mixed with some flour, sugar, an egg or two and a hint of vanilla extract, all baked in the oven for like an hour.

Yeah, I see what you’re saying as well. I’m coming from the perspective of having worked at a chain pizza place for 6 years in the past and seeing drivers double check orders before leaving and sometimes having to drive back to deliver something they missed. I feel like that should be a reasonable expectation for Doordash drivers, but then the bag is sealed, presumably to keep the driver from messing with/eating the food, which also seems like a negative to me. If they can’t be trusted not to eat my food, how can I trust them to deliver it?

The driver could check that all of the stuff is there before bringing it to you. At the end of the day why should I care more about how the mistake happens than that it happens?

If I used a service that messed up my orders frequently enough to make such a statistic, I’d stop using that service.

Spending extra money for generally worse service to save a couple minutes of typing is actually the epitome of laziness.

I get rather annoyed when someone says “I have a problem” without any further thought shown toward it.

Sure, you don’t need to always have the solution, but if you have something worth complaining about then it’s something worth putting at least a little time and effort into thinking about solving before complaining. That reflection will often come through in how the problem gets put forward such that it’s easier for everyone to help find a solution.

I am really glad I went to college far enough away from home my folks wouldn’t visit on a whim, but close enough to drive back for holidays easily. And after I moved back home I have had a much greater appreciation for everyone and everything I had been away from.

It feels a little generic, but video games. I’ve been playing them since my dad got a Gamecube around launch, and I’ve been reading about them since ~2011 when I discovered Steam and graphics cards. I learned within a year of watching the store that sales on Steam generally update Tuesdays and Thursdays, and I’ve checked what goes on sale for at least 90% of the Tuesdays and Thursdays since then.

I used to read a lot of IGN, then Kotaku, then r/games to keep up on everything. Now I mostly listen to a couple gaming podcasts (Minnmaxx and Triple Click) and that covers enough big and small games for me.

I like to say that I have a near encyclopedic knowledge of gaming from about 2007 onward, meaning for a given game I can give you a general idea of the genre, reception, notable influence on or from the industry, and I can usually recall at least 5 seconds of gameplay. The most exciting thing for me in conversation is when someone brings up a game I haven’t heard of or know nothing about.

This might be a stretch but my mind dredged up memories of the first two American Tail movies recently. Are/were you a fan? It sounds up your alley based on your comment here.

Chidi is a main character from the show The Good Place. If you have any interest in ethical philosophy, it’s a great and accessible show. And if you’re not interested in ethical philosophy, it’s still a great show!

Not specific enough, what if the next $500 million dollar equivalent payout is in another country and you miss it? Maybe specify the next US Powerball over $500 million?

Why not “what specifically should scientists focus on to develop functional near or faster than light space travel?” Then people can just go check where the aliens are or are not!

why or why not do all non-trivial roots of the Riemann zeta function have the form 0.5+xi?