Money doesn't buy happiness. Money is a powerful tool to remove barriers to happiness. You can't buy freedom either but you can certainly buy the opportunity to cultivate a space where you can achieve it.

You can't explore freedom through discipline while mired in poverty.

I do believe it would. Now that I've taken the journey to Linux, every day I read someone posting that they're also embarking on the Windows exit ramp, and I only see the Steam Machine accelerating that.

Maybe she needs to start responding like a bot 🤣

CONGRATS!

And I'm not a crunchy anti-tech parent. My kids both had phones when they were quite young (8 or so, if I remember) but they didn't have internet access on them; just a camera, a music player, and texting.

They sell a lot of stuff, pastries, etc. Just making people aware!

Absolutely bonkers. Imagine being so high on your own farts

Right? FOR REAL

So yeah definitely adding that to my boycott list

Feels like most of my adult life can be distilled down to "he fixed printer problems"

There's also always the light sprinkling of boomer racism. Every single story he tells, he has to mention at least once that call centers are overseas and have thick accents, or some other shit 🙃