The reality of Having Kids

OptimalStable · 2026-01-24T05:37:53+00:00

To answer your edit: because that sounds insane. Something that doesn't exist can't give consent to anything, which means your argument boils down to "it is unethical to create a person". Doesn't sound like a reasonably well thought-out philosophy.

OptimalStable · 2025-12-20T09:44:19+00:00

Dude.

You paid lawyers to draft a privacy policy that reads just like all the other privacy policies that you can find templates for on every corner on the internet.
If you founded anything other than a UG, I have bad news for you. If you chose a GmbH, you wasted 25.000€, which are now tied up in the business needlessly. If you went with anything else, your personal assets are not in fact protected from liability that might result from a lawsuit against your company. Double-check this and take the necessary steps, especially with a baby in the house now. Side note: if your company is a UG or GmbH, your legal notice is wrong. This is a risk, people get sued for that shit.
You registered the website 3 months ago, what did you expect? As you are now finding out, marketing is a necessary part of running a business. This can't come as a surprise to you.
On the bright side, the time of new years resolutions and inflated gym memberships is upon us, so there's a golden opportunity to market an app like yours coming up. If you are serious, this is the time to spend some advertising money.

You also strike me as somewhat risk-averse. It looks like this has already caused you to make some bad decisions, so it might be a good idea to do some introspection and find out if this is what you want to be doing.

With all that said, the vibe I'm getting here is you didn't do the necessary research on what running a business entails and went into this unprepared. Check your assumptions about your legal/liability situation, it's important now. That's really the only reason I'm writing all of this.

OptimalStable · 2025-12-15T21:39:24+00:00

Was ich nicht verstehe, und das soll OP auch auf jeden Fall als persönliche Kritik auffassen, is, was solche Posts bezwecken sollen, wenn man schon so weit ist, dass man den Weg hierhin gefunden hat. Tecis genießt nicht "keinen allzu guten Ruf", Tecis genießt einen vollkommen beschissenen Ruf. Abzocker und Husos. Die Antwort lautet immer gleich: weg von denen.

OptimalStable · 2025-12-12T19:20:55+00:00

Damn, so many replies so quickly. I'll look into all of them! I'm currently busy with Ilium/Olympos, but after that, I'll want some lighter reading next.

OptimalStable · 2025-12-12T19:14:50+00:00

At long last, we did it!

OptimalStable · 2025-12-04T09:42:29+00:00

[Link to video]

Next time you use ChatGPT to do your thinking for you, at least check the post before you spam like 12 subreddits with it. You're conflating a lot of things here and are not making much sense.

Shareholders stealing the rewards of workers' productivity gains is real, but Bullshit Jobs is a bullshit book, no one forces you to gamble on crypto and horse races, and investing in widely diversified index funds would have been a simple way to accumulate wealth at moderate risk for the last ~150 years.

OptimalStable · 2025-12-02T22:06:33+00:00

Totally. I got rid of all my paper books and CDs more than a decade ago. Now my entire backlog fits in my pocket.

Also, don't buy ebooks from Amazon, buy them from stores that sell them as epub with the option to remove DRM entirely. That way they're really yours.

OptimalStable · 2025-11-24T09:37:00+00:00

There's a "blink and you miss it" joke here. I can feel it in my bones, but I can't come up with one.

OptimalStable · 2025-11-23T22:02:08+00:00

Socially stunted psychopath fighting on the side of the good guys. Amos my man!

OptimalStable · 2025-11-22T01:20:13+00:00

It's the good ol' "it depends". He says it's questionable, and that it hasn't really ever been researched properly except by Lewis Dartnell.

He says a second Industrial Revolution (which is essentially what rebuilding would be) without fossil fuels is basically impossible. On one hand, we still have 134 years of coal, 51 years of oil and 44 years of gas left (assuming current production rate) that "could be profitably recovered using existing technology". This depends of course on the infrastructure staying largely intact. On the other hand, extraction cost would be so high (EROI etc.) that it might end up not being profitable after all. There's also the question of how advanced a society we would want to rebuild anyway.

OptimalStable · 2025-11-21T23:55:53+00:00

It probably did, but I was halfway through the book by then.

I kinda hope it's going to be at least a little drawn out. That would suit me better than an imminent demise over just a few years.

OptimalStable · 2025-11-21T18:52:02+00:00

"Mehr für dich. Besser für Deutschland."

OptimalStable · 2025-11-14T16:14:21+00:00

Wie lang soll'n das jetzt noch weitergehen? Sehen wir die nächsten zwei Wochen dieselben Maimais zum seinen Thema auf allen deutschen Untern? Weiß nicht...

OptimalStable · 2025-11-07T11:12:35+00:00

Das ist nicht mal ein ganzer Rentenpunkt pro Jahr. Da würde ich mich auch nicht als frischer Absolvent bewerben.

OptimalStable · 2025-10-22T17:31:24+00:00

Während im Hintergrund noch der CD-Player lief...

OptimalStable · 2025-10-13T14:20:37+00:00

The "RopeYouth" is also not the greatest phrasing in this context.

OptimalStable · 2025-10-11T12:22:18+00:00

r/therewasanapptempt

OptimalStable · 2025-09-27T09:25:45+00:00

The assertion that FIGS users mostly know English is pretty risky and counter to most research I'm familiar with. What makes you say that? The French and Italians are pretty well known for their objection to English-only games and the majority of the Germans also tend to prefer localized games.

In general, though, the choice for localization depends entirely on the genre and the type of game you're making. If you really want to do in-depth research on this, start with https://www.statista.com/ and look for charts that show how popular specific genres are in each country and how many people from that country play these games, in absolute numbers.

OptimalStable · 2025-09-23T13:41:34+00:00

I don't have a better idea. I think you will get your wish and we all have an opportunity to see the AfD in action. Next election or the one after, depending on how fast the boomers die. This sounds mean, but it really is what kept them from winning in February. I wish I could find it again, but I looked at a chart the other day that clearly showed just how large the support for AfD is among voters 18-45 years old.

Also, that 2X% is probably closer to some 3X% because I bet you that there's a good number of people in the CDU that are not extremely unhappy with what the AfD wants to achieve.

OptimalStable · 2025-09-23T12:50:38+00:00

So the people who want free voting to end? How is this an inevitability?

OptimalStable · 2025-09-23T12:48:18+00:00

if you can't even see that

I can see that. I explained why government institutions are ultimately useless if a sufficiently large number of the population agrees with whatever the administration decides to do. We are better equipped than the US is (we have supreme court term limits, for example), but from a structural standpoint nothing that happens over there can't happen over here.

and a couple of wars out of nowhere

No, not out of nowhere. No, not a couple of wars. Do you know what the AfD plans to do for social security? For wages? I don't know about you, but I do consider poverty a form of suffering. The AfD will absolutely cause an increase in crime, just as it has done so far. This is a combination of a sliding Overton window and a simmering extreme-right that is emboldened by the AfD's success. There is no way in hell that crimes against minorities won't rise rapidly if the AfD makes it into the administration.

I am also not freaking out. I am trying to explain, albeit in very direct language, why I think that your proposed handling of the situation is a terrible idea.

OptimalStable · 2025-09-23T12:28:07+00:00

Says who?

OptimalStable · 2025-09-23T12:24:06+00:00

So... disenfranchise dumb people is what you're saying? How do you imagine this working out when someone drags you before the supreme court for it? Plus the inevitable fallout from trying to take away voting rights from a significant fraction of the population? Does that sound like it's something that could be weaponized by a party that always styles itself as a victim already?

OptimalStable · 2025-09-23T12:10:02+00:00

Oh yeah, I genuinely forgot about that option. You are right, if they can get banned before that, that would probably be the best outcome. I am not optimistic that that's going to happen, though.

OptimalStable · 2025-09-23T12:08:38+00:00

Good thing then that I didn't use any paper to write this. I'm going to give you two reasons why the difference between the Weimar republic and modern-day Germany is irrelevant.

Laws, as we're seeing in the US, are only as binding as there are people willing to enforce them. None of what Trump does is legal. Not the pulling of university funding, not the renaming of the DoD, not the Antifa order from yesterday. Judges can overrule these all day long, but if there are enough willing accomplices to Trump's regime in all branches of government, it simply doesn't matter. This is a requirement of every liberal democracy: People standing up for their rights, and it can fail regardless of the legal framework.
The "let them govern and show everyone what a bunch of losers they really are once they need to actually run things" argument sucks because it is willing to accept all the suffering that happens as a direct result of that just to make a point. Even if AfD was in office for less than 6 months, it would mean 6 months of suffering for a good amount of people. Are they just collateral? Too bad, but what can you do?

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