Average user here. I don’t have time to take up PCs as a hobby. When I need a computer, I need it to just do what I want so I can be done with it.

PC hobbyists always discount the amount of time and effort it takes to be a PC hobbyist. Like a recipe writer who completely ignores prep time and says a complicated recipe will only take 45 minutes.

Then the question is: whom does that favor more: people with good ideas or people with bad ideas? Of those two groups, which one was more likely to work hard and develop a talent?

because most parents are lazy fucks who don’t take responsibility for their kids

These laws aren’t a response to a real problem. The kids are fine. The parents are usually fine. These laws are posturing at best.

This is a wonderful attitude to have as long as it’s not in the comments of an article about how Tesla’s approach is trapping people and burning them alive.

And it was named that because it was cheap tape.

In English we used to use the word “Scotch”, like Scottish. We still use it to refer to scotch tape - cheap tape.

I work with spreadsheets that help companies pick insurance plans for their employees. Like one spreadsheet tells them about new treatments they may want to add coverage on. Another one compares their employees’ current needs against available plans, so they can make sure that they’re not leaving anyone high and dry if they switch plans. I don’t use a lot of sarcasm.

I’d follow up with a witty rejoinder, but I don’t know what line of work you’re in. I’m guessing you write awesome 1980s-style action movies? Or maybe a guitarist/lyricist for a rock band?

Well if that’s how you are, then I don’t even want to be your friend anymore.

Exactly. Your awesome one-liner was so powerful that it will literally keep me awake all night if I don’t find a way to cope.

Thanks for understanding.

So it sounds like you’re checking to see when the light turns off, to know that the car is going.

Sounds like what we actually need is a green accelerator light on the front of the car.

That doesn’t make any sense. The level of outrage that would be required to pull off what you’re describing is far higher than what would be required to change the system through other means.

If people can’t come together to vote for healthcare reform, do you honestly think there’s any chance that a workers’ strike will spontaneously break out? It’s not an actionable plan. The practical outcome of me quitting is that my life and my family’s life gets worse. That’s it. There’s no benefit to anyone.

And yeah, it is fucking hard. I’m in my 40s with crippling ADHD and a narrow skillset. My wife has a similarly severe physical handicap, so I’m working my ass off every day to give my kids a healthy, happy childhood, bringing them to daycare and school, cooking healthy meals, and trying to give them a safe, loving environment to grow up in while the world crumbles into fascism around me.

I’ve worked at “hard” jobs. I’ve woken up at dawn just to get my kids ready, just so I can work all day and pick them up at sunset, just so I can get home, cook dinner, and get them to bed, never at any point having a chance to spend a minute of quality time with them.

I’m lucky and grateful to have a job that allows me a good work-life balance.

This purity test is bullshit, and I think it comes from a place of privilege and inexperience. You’re unironically being the “Yet you live in a society. Curious!” meme right now.

Instead of considering your badass catchphrase?

Ok, I’ll take a moment to consider it.

Yeah, I think it’s a little over the top.

You seem to have misunderstood my point. Such a plan couldn’t exist, because that’s not how change works.

That might be the edgiest thing anyone has ever said to me. After you wrote it did you immediately walk away from an explosion without looking back?

Well, maybe one day. You never know.

You make it sound like I’m working at a concentration camp.

The reason the US healthcare industry hasn’t been completely overhauled yet is that it does still help people.

If doesn’t help enough people. It’s not good enough. It needs to change. But the harm it causes is a side effect, not the main goal.

If every cog suddenly resigned tomorrow, it would cause catastrophic and immediate harm to millions of people. Besides, that’s not how change happens.

It’s not the “right” thing to do to miss my kids’ formative years looking for another job, for absolutely no practical benefit to anyone.

Are you Winnie the Pooh? Because this is blustery as fuck.

I work in health insurance, and I just can’t bear the thought that you and I might never be friends.

But looking for a job is hard, and honestly this one is really good for me. It suits my narrow skillset, and it gives me a great work-life balance, which is the main thing I’m looking for while my kids are young. I quit my more demanding oil job to take this one so I could be there for them.

But if you have some kind of plan for how I could reform the entire industry by quitting my job at the bottom rung of a middling insurance company, I’ll gladly do it. I could always go back to working in finance.

Otherwise this is all just thoughtless, impotent bluster, untempered by life experience.

In real life, most of the people who work at insurance companies are doing their best to keep the system running, because people do depend on it despite its flaws, and I don’t have any more power to change it than you do.

It confuses me when someone thinks plastics are “bad”. It’s such a privileged, narrow viewpoint that ignores so many of the problems that humanity has needed to solve.

I had great, loving parents who tried their best to get me interested in my education. It didn’t matter. ADHD meant I was never going to be a good student.

That’s not what manslaughter means.