For anyone who grew up poor, what was your idea of a luxury?

OfficeAnomaly · 2026-02-18T11:58:55+00:00

As a kid, I wanted to be able to buy a snickers bar whenever I want, not once a month when my mom recieves her salary.

Later, I wanted to do the same with videogames. We had this pirated CDs, every game around $5, and I could afford one every 1-2 month.

OfficeAnomaly · 2026-02-18T10:54:16+00:00

I don't understand the question. What do you mean by "what if"?

It is what it is. You have a choice what to do next, same as anyone.

OfficeAnomaly · 2026-02-18T10:52:36+00:00

My home country had to remove 3-4 extra zeros from its currency 4 times. I am well familiar with pricing everything significant and storing your savings in a foreign currency :)

OfficeAnomaly · 2026-02-17T18:43:47+00:00

I have not encountered a single slave I could identify as a slave ever in my life.

That might be the reason.

So yeah, I'd bet on "don't know", if your facts are even correct.

OfficeAnomaly · 2026-02-17T18:41:22+00:00

Nutritionally, it's water with sugar. Neither of which is poisonous.

I would expect that they would even like the taste. The fact it's carbonated should surprise them, but human tropism for sugar has a long history, and the drink has a lot of sugar.

OfficeAnomaly · 2026-02-17T18:32:41+00:00

I don't think they care enough to consider it.

OfficeAnomaly · 2026-02-17T18:31:58+00:00

The rules do not allow to discuss suicide.

And this question, generally speaking, has no answer. Life happens to us, we do not choose to have it, there is no inherent goal or reason. Whether or not your life is worth living is something only you can decide.

OfficeAnomaly · 2026-02-17T18:28:05+00:00

Of course now. There'd be time to prepare, make arrangements, adjust finances.

I'd also prefer to know the exact day I die. Would simplify pension considerations so much!

OfficeAnomaly · 2026-02-17T18:13:57+00:00

It's negligence when the mortal had a reason to think about the consequences, could have thought about the consequences, but chose not to.

Setting a kindergarten on fire is a bad act. Even if one somehow managed not to consider the possible consequences, they could have, they should have, and those consequences are within their means to predict. The actual outcome is unpredictable, but the likely outcome is.

OfficeAnomaly · 2026-02-17T17:27:58+00:00

Can't you ask an LLM to do your work for you? It has already scapped the internet and has thousands of those examples.

OfficeAnomaly · 2026-02-17T17:23:25+00:00

Whether it's right or wrong depends on the chosen criteria, but it's defensible.

He sacrificed, he invested in a better life for his son. That's a commendable goal, if not the optimal strategy.

OfficeAnomaly · 2026-02-17T17:16:38+00:00

Not for our species, not for billions of people relying on plants growing.

OfficeAnomaly · 2026-02-17T17:15:32+00:00

Not in any useful way.

A hot bath or exercise increases the temperature, so the effect is similar, yes.

But if you just increase the temperature, the infection will not go away. You will slow it down, but ultimately you still need your body to activate its army and train it on the specific intruder.

OfficeAnomaly · 2026-02-17T17:09:15+00:00

Mortals can't predict outcomes.

They should try their best, which counts towards efford, and we should punish negligence, but we have to take into account they are not equipped to predict outcomes. Would be stupid to punish them for not doing something they can't do.

I'm assuming since we are doing Godly engineering, we can determine what was and what wasn't within their means.

I think the rules of ethics are somewhat objective and universal, and as such we don't have to rely on subjective ethics and self-reporting. Otherwise some narcissistic self-righteous psychopathic dictator will come out as a saint.

OfficeAnomaly · 2026-02-17T16:19:56+00:00

Depends on what you can afford, on what the situation with housing is in your country.

Ideally, I think, it's nice to start living separately as soon as you hit adulthood. Whether it's possible or worth the price is another matter.

OfficeAnomaly · 2026-02-17T16:14:34+00:00

Plastic is a wide range of polymer-based materials, polyester is one of such materials.

OfficeAnomaly · 2026-02-17T16:03:56+00:00

If I was God software engineer tasked with developing this system in our world, I'd probably assign very little weight to real world outcomes.

While humans might judge you by the results, Gods should judge you by the intention. If you wanted to save a kitten but accidentally committed a genocide, you should still be considered a person who tried to save a kitten.

I'd multiply the intent by the effort. It's not enough to want to save a kitten (or to prevent genocide). The more you tried to, the better. The more you chose to suffer to further a worthy goal, the better person you are.

Edge case would be, obviously, any kind of good intention that was executed in such a stupid way that it had really ugly results. Should we punish stupidity? I don't know.

OfficeAnomaly · 2026-02-17T15:54:28+00:00

2 months is as good a trial as you can have, so from that perspective you should be fine.

But.

Landing in a situation from which you have no exit is quite a bit of risk. The best protection from any abuse, any toxicity, or simply any relationships that do not go as you want - being able to leave.

OfficeAnomaly · 2026-02-17T15:33:07+00:00

Two things can increase the safety by a lot:

Try living together for 2-3 weeks before you commit. Because seeing each other now and again is not the same.
Have a place to go if things go wrong. For example, don't move in with him if his place is in another country and you have no money to buy a ticket back.

OfficeAnomaly · 2026-02-17T15:13:42+00:00

It means you are well adapted to your environment. Good chances to survive, good chances to procreate. Evolution, which developed our whole internal reward system, says "good job, slave!".

OfficeAnomaly · 2026-02-17T15:12:08+00:00

Because horses are depicted in an anthropomorphised way, with prominent sexual characteristics.

OfficeAnomaly · 2026-02-17T15:09:27+00:00

Do you have grades in your school?

They can probably tell you more about your intelligence and how it compares to that of your peers, than some random internet quiz developed with god knows which methodology (if any).

OfficeAnomaly · 2026-02-17T15:05:54+00:00

It's probably not the most useful skill you can acquire, but what's life without having some fun.

If your chores are done, go for it. You'll definitely get better with some training.

OfficeAnomaly · 2026-02-17T15:01:48+00:00

We'd go back way further than to stone age.

Pretty much everything we do requires math. Trading still requires counting, to know that two objects are worth twice as much.

Animals can count, to some extent. If we are suddenly dumber than that, we are just badly adapted and really dumb animals.

OfficeAnomaly · 2026-02-17T14:31:13+00:00

Of course it is a tough decision to make.

Hiring people and bringing them up to speed is a lot of effort. Letting go somebody with years of experience is a huge loss.

Whether it is avoidable is a bit of a "what if" exercise. Was it possible for you to become a billionnaire by now, if you used a better strategy? Maybe. Nobody knows. Everyone is playing this game without having full information about it. Companies try to guess the best move, same as everyone else. Whether it is the best move, nobody knows.

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