It sounds to me like you’re flourishing?? Like, I get that money is an impediment, but with your skills you are at least able to earn enough scratch to probably achieve a lot of this, especially if you can connect with the right folks.

Just don’t get trapped by big paycheques of private sector that are likely to come your way. They can rob you of your 2 to 3 best decades if you aren’t careful.

You sound like a real cool dude and if I knew you irl I would be mentally drafting up a plan to trick you into being my friend.

So what’s the alternative?

What are your dreams?

It never ends, my friend.

There’s always someone else we can blame. Door Dash execs can just say if they don’t deliver then one of their competitors will. Everyone’s being shitty and it’s no one’s fault.

That’s kind of the cruelty of capitalism. You can coerce people do unsafe or unpleasant things, but it gets framed as a favour because hey they’re getting paid.

Whereas if the person you were paying was truly comfortable and didn’t need money for survival, there is a chance that they would forego working on that kind of night.

Rock on! Look at us, contributing to the tools we use

That’s what I love so much about open source. Currently have a fork of kiTTY going, working on tracking down a little bug I found in my daily use.

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Yeah, but as others have said, your “true” life is both those periods of pause and play. Better way to look at it imho is how much you do for others vs yourself, and if you’re happy with that split.

I would consider your future self an other person as well, though obviously you do want to look after them.

Nice. Thanks for sharing

Desire paths

I think the smaller communities helps with giving eachother the benefit of the doubt. Like if I’m disagreeing with someone from my own insurance, or another small one I know is generally cool, I’ll try much harder to figure out what their point is.

There’s a fine line between satire and being an idiot but on purpose.

Yuh

It’s the “someone is wrong on the internet” one

I’m changing my answer. I meant to “it has” so everyone please reread my comment now, with this new interpretation in mind. Thank’s.

Ah this is a classic language misunderstanding. “Isn’t necessarily” means “possibly not [thing]” or “doesn’t have to be” or “may or may not be” but doesn’t have much bearing on probabilities.

That’s how people usually use that term in English anyway.

EDIT sorry didn’t mean to dogpile. I just saw that a couple other people already replied.

Oops