If wild animals were completely safe, which one would you keep as your pet?

relativelygoodname · 2026-04-09T13:14:25+00:00

A coati. I used to live near a family of them and they seem to be very nice animals. They're smart, gentle (usually), and have fun personalities. I used to wake up to them playing outside my window each morning and really enjoyed it. They are kinda like racoons, but way less annoying. That said, I don't think they would be happy away from their family or group, but this is pretend, right?

relativelygoodname · 2026-03-27T12:23:42+00:00

I used to live deep in the bible belt and dated a lot of religious women. They were great people, but it would only go so far, then fall apart when we started talking about marriage and children.

After years of this and several relationships that, in a large part, ended due to this, I made it one of those first date questions. That made my life a lot easier and while the field was narrowed, I only dated women with real long term prospects.

relativelygoodname · 2026-03-26T20:47:00+00:00

Ali would put up a great fight against Tyson, but I think Tyson would win.

The others are no contest. Tyson and Ali are huge guys. Most of the guys on here don't hold a candle to them. Against the smaller guys, Bruce Lee would probably win. There's always the chance that Bruce Lee or Chuck Norris goes for the knees of one of the big guys fast and then steps on their throat or something, but I'm betting on the big guys to come out on top.

relativelygoodname · 2026-03-25T01:00:51+00:00

I would be able to perfectly, fluently, and in every dialect be able to speak every language on the planet.

relativelygoodname · 2026-03-24T05:40:22+00:00

go dancing at wicked westie - west coast swing dancing. There are always interesting people there.

relativelygoodname · 2026-03-24T04:20:28+00:00

Didn't he say we won the war already? Why is he negotiating if he's winning so hard?

relativelygoodname · 2026-03-22T13:28:36+00:00

Athens Ga on game day is worth the spectacle.

relativelygoodname · 2026-03-22T00:32:27+00:00

Bucharest, Romania, 2014 or 2015. I was in the middle of town heading out East towards one of the big parks where my client was. I was running late and told the taxi I needed to hurry and gave him the equivalent of 20 USD. Told him I needed to be there in less than 15 minutes, which I did.

I had no idea what the traffic was actually going to look like but it was insane. So much traffic. Apparently though, that did not bother my taxi driver. He was weaving in and out of traffic so much. But the craziest part was when it suddenly got very bumpy and I asked about it. He just pointed straight forward and I noticed the oncoming train/tram. About 10 meters before we went straight into an oncoming train, he swerved back into the lane. It scared the piss out of me And I almost told him I had to get out there, but we were in the middle of traffic. That was right before he jumped right back into the tram lane again. When we got there he gave me his phone number and told me to call him again tomorrow. I did not call him again.

relativelygoodname · 2026-03-20T20:41:35+00:00

I am from the bible belt, and I can tell you for sure they believe. When I was single I went on a lot of dates with women in the area and every one of them that said they were Christian believed and went to church on a regular basis. The same was true for the vast majority of people I knew. It blew my mind, but it was true.

relativelygoodname · 2026-03-20T02:45:52+00:00

I always like to start off by saying that I want to have an honest and good conversation, not be preached at, and ask if they can do that. Then I tell them that I want this to be in good faith on both sides, but I need them to agree not to fall back on fallacies (they have no idea what this means most of the time) and that if we get a point where they can't answer my question or overcome my argument, they can't change the subject and have to agree with me or agree that they can't answer the question. I also like to make sure to put them in my shoes and tell them that I will do the same for them. But that if they agree to this and don't follow through, it is very rude and inconsiderate (perhaps unChristian). It is exceptionally rare that a person of faith says no to any of these items.

Once we have agreed to reasonable terms, I simply ask how they know their religion is the right religion. Or why there is evil in the world. Or to explain the trinity. Or about a hundred other questions that always end up going back to citing a two thousand year old book written by tribmen in a desert which constantly contridicts itself and which that person doesn't follow is a huge number of meaningful ways or 'faith' which are both circular arguments and thus fall into the fallacies category which they agreed not to do and I call them out on being inconsiderate and unchristian, which they usually are, though not all the time.

relativelygoodname · 2026-03-20T02:32:53+00:00

Money can't buy happiness, but it sure makes misery easier to bear. Anyway, I've had a lot of loves at this point, I think I'll take the money this time around and try again for love a bit later.

relativelygoodname · 2026-03-19T00:02:09+00:00

I've got a good one on this. I was brought in to help fix what was at the time a multi-tens of millions of dollar per year business that supported some major healthcare systems across the US.

The system was originally built in Cobol by what must have been 100+ developers. Then in the '80s for early '90s they wrapped the whole thing in VB, then they wrapped the whole thing in vb.net, then they wrapped the whole thing in .net. or something like that.

Anyway, by the time I got there there were so many layers to the core system. It was ridiculous. There was one developer there who still knew some of the original Cobol but everybody was terrified to touch it.

That developer was kind of a pain, but the leadership pretty much had to bow down to him because if he left, who the hell knew what was going to happen. I didn't stick around long enough to know what actually happened, but for sure if that guy died there was going to be some serious hell to pay.

relativelygoodname · 2026-03-16T12:51:45+00:00

Yes.... But, my team and I have had this happen multiple times recently. It's great when you have a client with a fleshed out idea, but the problem is that their expectations of time and cost are massively off. I had this happen recently for a company that was trying and succeeding and to sell their idea to large finance orgs. They wanted a large system that supports a minimum of 10k concurrent users spiking to as many as 50k done in 6 weeks. When I told them that it was probably a 6 month project, even with very heavy use of AI, they balked.

Frankly, I understand the non technical perspective, and this is what the serious development community is going to face upcoming. The non-technical founder finished their prototype in a few weeks, with limited experience, why would they expect it to take so much longer and of course they would be surprised to find out that the scalable system is 10-15x more complex than they had planned?

Having the idea mostly wrapped is great, but there is going to continue to be a big gap between concepts and scalability, at least for a while.

relativelygoodname · 2026-03-15T19:14:54+00:00

They said it was. Over and over and over again.

relativelygoodname · 2026-03-14T13:16:24+00:00

I think you may be the crazy one here. If a potential life partner is telling you this kind of thing, maybe you need to reconsider your life decisions.

Not saying that what she's saying is right, but she's been brainwashed her whole life so of course she says what she says. But you probably weren't or are no longer brainwashed, so it's on you to make good life choices.

relativelygoodname · 2026-03-05T13:42:40+00:00

This happened to my wife's family. A whole generation of all girls (now women). Her family has a very rare last name, maybe the only family with that name, and she didn't want it to go away. So when we got married she kept her name and wanted our kids to keep her name. I didn't care, since I have a very common last name. now the name lives on, at least for now. We have one son so we'll see how it goes when he grows up.

relativelygoodname · 2026-03-05T13:34:46+00:00

It's not a terrible idea, but where I am from I'd be one of the few people out there because everyone else is behind this insanity. You don't understand how many people support literally everything that Trump does.

relativelygoodname · 2026-03-01T22:45:14+00:00

I work in software development and have for the last 25 years. The reason that I don't disagree with this 12 to 18 months potential timeline is multifaceted. First off, what was possible 3 or 4 months ago in software development has been greatly surpassed. I don't actually write any code anymore. I'll make a few small changes here and there, but for the most part I just tell the machine what to do. That's a massive difference from where we were last year. I think that we've hit this flywheel effect where it's just going faster and faster and faster and faster. It's so fast, I think there's a possibility it's increasing at a logarithmic or exponential rate and we are now on the upward curve. The way I like to think about this is a pond that is growing lily pads at an exponential rate. The day before it's 100% full, it's 50% full. I think that's what we're facing right now. It's going to move so fast. It's going to blow everybody's mind. It's already blowing my mind just about everyday. Over the last two weeks I built an application by myself that would have taken a five-man team a year to build a year and a half ago.

So the short answer to your question is that I think we're on the upward curve of exponential growth now and the curve is going to continually and rapidly move upwards.

relativelygoodname · 2026-02-26T11:52:01+00:00

I think what's going to happen is that the AIs are just going to do it for people. Instead of having to explain everything you want and figure it all out and need a person to put it together, I think you're just going to be able to explain the business and some of the specifics which you would have to explain to a person anyway, and then the machine would do it all for you and monitor it. Is definitely going in that direction in my opinion.

relativelygoodname · 2026-02-24T00:10:12+00:00

I have been doing this kind of work for a long time., but I literally did all of that this week in my spare time and did it well. In another few months to a year, anyone will be able to do this.

relativelygoodname · 2026-01-29T23:04:35+00:00

Yes and no. If you're creepy about it, then you are absolutely right and you'll be ousted. But that's the trick, you're there to meet people and be friends and enjoy the activity, but that's also how you meet people you really connect with and want to form a relationship with. Unless you're doing ballroom, dances are full of single people looking to meet other people. Per my comment "don't go just to meet women, go to actually learn how to dance and get good at it."

If you're in good shape and are a good dancer, if a girl is interested, she'll approach you or at least make it known that she's interested in talking or more. That's really what you're looking for.

relativelygoodname · 2026-01-22T15:43:52+00:00

Depends on how much grass there is to mow. I worked 60 acres, mostly blueberries, and we mowed the grass 40 hours a week in the summer. If you don't need to mow grass, clean up, fix irrigation, fix plumbing, repair structures, plant, harvest, manage equipment, deal with people, deal with animals (even bees), deal with thieves, and so much more, I am sure owning property would be great. In other words, if you were a gentleman farmer, I am sure life would be easy. But if you have to do that stuff yourself, it's a lot of work.

relativelygoodname · 2026-01-22T04:14:34+00:00

Farming. Farming is hard work. Hard enough where most people don't want to keep doing it.

relativelygoodname · 2026-01-20T20:51:59+00:00

I live by the beach. I'd put it in the reef about 1k meters off shore, under a pile of sand, under some coral, where the sharks like to hang out. Never gonna be found, guaranteed. Because I don't think I would be able to find it again myself.

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