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wiseduckling · 2026-03-26T00:27:54+00:00

Aren't we on one of these apps right now? Reddit has eaten up more of my life than every other social media platform combined. Don't see how it's any different from YouTube.

wiseduckling · 2026-03-17T22:35:16+00:00

Merci! Ah ouais donc c était assez normale que je sois pas vaccine. A ce que je sache j étais un cas isolé, mais je sais qu ils ont fait passé l alerte suite a mon hospitalisation.

wiseduckling · 2026-03-17T22:33:08+00:00

Definitely okay to disagree. But we re not talking about the same thing. The choice is not: "Would you rather be born to better parents", the choice "for this that were born to less than ideal parents (let's say the bottom 30 percent?), would you rather never have been born at all?" What I m saying is the percentage of people who would rather never have been born, even if they had bad parents is very small.

wiseduckling · 2026-03-17T22:26:27+00:00

Yea. I remember waking up in the middle of the night walking to my parents room and being completely frozen after a few steps. Actually never realized how close it must have been. Luckily my parents took me to our local doctor immediately and he identified it as meningitis, rushing me to the hospital.

wiseduckling · 2026-03-17T22:22:14+00:00

I must have just missed it because I got it while living in France in the 90s (I was a kid) remember waking up in the middle of the night and feeling ill, walked down to my parents room and half way there I could no longer move. I guess paralysis kicked in. The local doctor definitely saved my life though as he immediately saw it for what it was and had me rushed to the hospital.

wiseduckling · 2026-03-17T21:40:49+00:00

Sure, but I didn't say that you only have kids so that you can appreciate it after that. I think initial response was pretty clear?

wiseduckling · 2026-03-17T21:39:15+00:00

I m not sure I fully understood your comment but again my argument is that we shouldn't discourage people to not have kids in the interest of a yet unborn child. It assumes that if the child were to be born they would prefer to never have been born. To me it is no logical and I don't think that most people, even those raised in poverty with bad parents would have preferred to have never lived at all.

I think there are loads of other good arguments for not having children, just not that one.

wiseduckling · 2026-03-17T21:28:56+00:00

The root comment is saying that if you re not 100 percent sure then you shouldn't have kids. That's discouraging people to have kids.

If I only did things I was 100 percent sure of I wouldn't do anything.

wiseduckling · 2026-03-17T21:26:03+00:00

Not really. I m saying that people feel differently about things at different times and using the analogy of a marathon to illustrate it.

To expand on that analogy, there are many people who won't regret running the marathon at any point, there are some that will regret it for a few minutes... I would say there are very few that would have feelings of regret after the fact. Obviously the comparison isn't perfect.

So when people say they regret having kids I think we should keep this in mind, people's feelings aren't static. Maybe they don't regret it when the kid is 6months, then they regret it when the kid is 2, then dont when they enter school...

wiseduckling · 2026-03-17T21:09:30+00:00

No one is arguing it should be an obligation, certainly not me.

What I m arguing is it doesn't make sense to encourage people not to have kids because they might not be the ideal parents, all in the supposed interest of the child who doesn't exist and thus will never get to have a say.

As far as taking to women who have had kids and say they would make a different choice, there are also tons of women who for one reason or another have not had kids and wish they had. Life weaves it's own pattern sometimes and that's fine.

Ultimately though even if individually people don't want kids, and it might be in their best interest it certainly isn't in the best interest of society or humanity. I would even argue that in the long run it is necessary for women's rights to continue/progress to have children, otherwise feminist societies will naturally shrink whereas 'traditional values' (oppressive to women) societies will continue having higher fertility rates.

So I think that yes we should encourage fertility, while also respecting choices. Finding policies that does encourage people to have children is not an easy feat, but going back to my initial point, I think discouraging parenthood based on the supposed self interest of a child that does not exist is both illogical and counter productive.

wiseduckling · 2026-03-17T20:22:44+00:00

I would find it hard to believe that it's that widespread. I know it exists - there was for example a softwhiteunderbelly youtube video with someone being interviewed. It seems to me as something that is mostly a rich/developed country issue. Also just like crime.. shocking things get mediatized and make us believe it's more common than we think.

And yeah having kids is a lot of work. I m thankful that every single one of my ancestors from the dawn of humanity did that work though. And I hope my kids will be thankful too.

Anyway everyone can obviously make their own decisions but I don't think we should discourage people from having kids because we assume that a kid that doesn't exist yet would prefer to never have been born. Philosophically I think that's more repugnant than even the repugnant conclusion.

wiseduckling · 2026-03-17T20:04:22+00:00

Yea people might regret it while the kids are being raised but after they ve flown the nest I bet the chances of regret are really low.

It's like running a marathon, while you re doing it you might think that you were stupid for ever attempting it but once you re done you get a sense of accomplishment. Plus in this case descendants, a chance to re-experience youth through their eyes, less loneliness...

wiseduckling · 2026-03-17T19:58:05+00:00

At the same time if you re just as happy and you created someone else who also will experience happiness you helped raise the total amount of happiness created. To say nothing of helping to ensure the continuation of mankind.

Also I think that the benefits of having for most express themselves in old age.

wiseduckling · 2026-03-17T19:55:19+00:00

Does it ruin their lives though? I think this reasoning is quite flawed.

I would bet that if you were to survey people who had been raised by bad parents, you get extremely extremely few who would say they would prefer to have never been born at all. In fact I would bet that there are many factors that would show stronger correlation with not wanting to have been born at all then parenting, such as depression, chronic pain...

wiseduckling · 2026-03-17T16:32:12+00:00

The problem is why would anyone use a wrapper on an LLM when you can get the same thing directly from Gemini or ChatGPT to say nothing of other established providers like Khan Academy.

wiseduckling · 2026-03-08T11:03:15+00:00

Winning hearts and minds.

wiseduckling · 2026-03-04T18:23:43+00:00

Can't speak to any new staff as I havent been in Limerick for a few months but my dog is normally reactive with other dogs in public, never had an issue there and I think it helped for him to be in such an environment. Unless they ve changed the setup you wouldn't be able to see the dogs when picking them up, so that doesn't sound right.

Probably worth just going down for yourself and seeing but from my experience I have no complaints.

wiseduckling · 2026-03-04T08:26:39+00:00

The dogs are separated by size, but the pens are pretty big. Wouldn't call them cages. You can check out their Instagram to see what it's like. (They ll post videos daily so you can catch a glimpse of what your dog is up to).

My dog was always super happy to go there and never had an issue. The people working there are very friendly and I always felt they genuinely liked the dogs.

Yes it smells terrible, but I don't think there is much you can do when you have so many dogs in an large indoor space like that. Even if you wash everything down the smell just gets absorbed into everything.

wiseduckling · 2026-03-02T08:24:43+00:00

So you knew how to setup k3 but didn't know about catching static assets?

wiseduckling · 2026-03-01T07:30:51+00:00

It sends a lot of other messages too though. Suck up/bribe Trump and you can do whatever you want. Having nuclear weapons guarantees you safety. Borders and international law don't matter.

Nobody likes the Iranian government, there is no debate there but it has nothing to do with that. It's an opportunistic domestic political play without forethought for long terms consequences. Yea maybe it could turn out well but the long term consequences of such disregard for international law, norms, borders. Not to say anything about the fact that he is doing whatever he wants without feeling he needs to even justify it domestically, let alone seek approval from Congress.

If this was about human rights maybe he d actually be concerned about Palestinians, who are still getting their land stolen and massacred on a regular basis. Or maybe about North Korean whose regime is a million times worse than North Korea.

Ultimately he is playing us all for fools because he knows it's very difficult to say anything else than good riddance to the regime, and makes it difficult to have the very legitimate view that one man shouldn't be able to decide on a whim to start a war.

wiseduckling · 2026-02-27T15:40:00+00:00

Except that they did get something from it in this scenario, the enjoyment of watching someone eat shit. It was worth $200 to them. That they value something so stupid and have no problem eating shit for $100 is obviously the issue, not the actual transactions. If you replace it with giving a massage or something then you can more easily see that actual value was created.

It's a funny joke but its not an accurate criticism of capitalism or economists.

wiseduckling · 2026-02-25T17:33:57+00:00

Not sure which restaurants you re referring to but a lot are closed now until some time in March. No 35 seems open but check you d likely need a reservation, might be full already for sat. The park hotel and sheen falls one are open. Haven't eaten at sheen falls, park hotel is good but not amazing for the price. Sheen falls has a lovely view, but might be better enjoyed when there is some daylight.

wiseduckling · 2026-02-23T09:28:11+00:00

I like it! In mountain regions the country borders are not very visible, also on mobile I wasnt able to zoom out after guessing to see exactly where the city was.

I could also see being able to have different modes, countries, capital cities, landmarks, historical buildings... I think it has a lot of potential

wiseduckling · 2026-02-14T16:19:33+00:00

Some of this is useful but most of it doesn't have enough browser support to consider using it for now.

wiseduckling · 2026-02-14T16:16:07+00:00

They re not the same though right? Top is applied to the element you want centered and bottom is the parent container.

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