Your approach (which I share) requires thought and discernment, which is a scarce resource nowadays. People intend to turn their brains off when they doomscroll. (I'll never understand the desire.)
There are some people you just can’t reach. The people who won’t manage their media feeds will never “read a book”. It’s like asking people to stop eating junk food, some just won’t even if it’s making them miserable.
> Should we encourage abortions for single mothers because their child might not have a happy life?
Yes.
> Should we abort fetuses who have some disability?
If the parents are unwilling or unable to deal with it every day for the rest of their life, yes.
> I'm sure that any of those individuals, once born, would prefer to live regardless of circumstance.
That's too big an assumption. But, in any case, not being born, and not having a working brain capable of abstract thought and understanding of the situation, nor a way to express it, they don't get a vote.
Is not that aspect that bothers me. I’m on the same boat. I mean: why I feel I was capable of doing things in a C64, that I cannot dream of doing in my new 2000 dollar computer.
There’s nothing you could do on a C64 that you couldn’t do on a modern computer. It’s just that doing that on a vastly more complex and capable system is intrinsically more complicated.
An interesting experience is trying to run a program on an emulated 60’s mainframe OS. 1960’s and 1970’s mainframes were about on the same league of 1980’s and 1990’s home computers, but a lot more complicated and with much more control over the low level details. It gives an interesting perspective on how software complexity tracks hardware capabilities.
I know people who saw Trump's first presidency as a shock to the system that would ultimately return us to the norm - much like an AED shocks the heart out of arrhythmia and back to normal beating. This was especially true after Jan 6 and many Republicans turning on him in the immediate aftermath.
However, just a few weeks later, as the Republican party resumed their Trump worship, it seemed pretty clear the damage was permanent.
For me is not needing to chain a lot of commands with && to ensure that it fails with the first command that fails. With just, if one of the commands of the recipe fails, it stops.
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