Oh look, that thread has broken containment! Yes, it's dumb.

Any happiness we feel is technically despite the existence of bad things, just as any sadness we feel is technically despite the existence of good things. The insistence on verbalizing the obvious but only in the one direction is an implied prescription of guilt re: joy and I am not having it.

Wave your "genAI hater" flags high, you princes of industry. It is going to help you, not hurt you. Smart people who care about the planet and the human race will fall all over themselves to make a spending choice they can feel good about.

I wrote stories and poetry as a kid and a youth. I didn't start writing songs until adulthood, first out of big emotions and then because I started writing a musical and it needed to have songs.

I read voraciously starting around age 5. The first author I remember meeting was Ray Bradbury.

My mom sang and played the guitar. I saw my dad making documentary films in the garage. I just sat down at the typewriter and started writing.

I also practiced signing my autograph at age 8.

I knew a psychiatrist who observed part of the problem: "Mothers love their sons and train their daughters." Daughters who are uplifted by their Moms to become their own person are likely mourning the lack of men who would appreciate them.

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