Boost is the best frontend app for IMO.

Haven’t found it in Annas Archive, will need to do a more thorough search later.

Is there a way that I can get the book without giving an ex-Facebook exec money?

Haha, nice

I think 40 - 60 makes more sense. 30 would be the age that someone would be too early in their career to rule a country. If that person has risen to a position that they would be considered for president by 30, the chance of them getting to that position without significant nepotism is too low.

I think you’re the most correct person here.

OP, it’s your life and relationships. Of course people on the internet will tell you to pull the trigger on the nuclear option, because they don’t experience any of the fallout of you making a hardline decision.

I’m not saying go to the wedding. I’m just saying consider how it might affect your relationship with him and the rest of your immediate family and decide if that’s going to be a better situation overall, before acting.

Nice! So vindicating when that happens.

All I can say is that you’ll need them within 6 - 12 months of getting rid of them.

My Dad’s a carpenter and growing up this essentially describes our backyard. So much timber that gets left over at the end of the job that he’d grab for a carton of beer. So much of it soaked and white-ant ridden.

Perfect example.

This is the one hobby where you actually might use the thing you’re hoarding just in case.

Defeating the purpose would be more like washing your disposable cutlery that you’re just about to throw out. Cleaning the house is important.

Yes. Everything is pointless and nothing is forever. Might as well enjoy the life we’ve got. Non-existence is better for some people, but I think on the whole life is worth living for most people.

Agreed, especially if the point is to breathe life into old hardware.

Oh yeah, the circles of influence are definitely helpful for your mental health.

And true, I suppose even the earth blowing up doesn’t matter in the scheme of the universe.

I suppose I’m not 100% on Nihilism in that sense.

I still value life of course, but the climate change existential dread which I feel pretty constantly is alleviated when I tell myself its only complete societal collapse/mass extinction event, rather than total destruction of life on the earth.

Nihilism and the fact that it’s highly unlikely that humans will destroy the ability for earth to sustain life, just make our society collapse.

Humans lives aren’t as important as life itself.

That is true lol.

The heating effect is more due to standing waves rotating the (polar) water molecules in the food.

There aren’t hot radiation particles moving into and staying in the food like a number of people believe.

Microwaves (and 5G) have much less energy than visible light, but its a scary sound word. People don’t like to think that they are exposed to radiation 100% of the time.

That’s a fair call and I’m the same, its not optimal for a lot reheating. I’ve met a fair few people who refuse to own or use a microwave because the don’t want their food “irradiated” or think that it is somehow unhealthy.

Microwaving food. Too many people think that it’s radiating the food. Its just making the water molecules in the food wiggle and heat up to warm the food through internal collisions.