No, I’m not asking for Planetside. You said what I’m asking for is Planetside, not me.

What I don’t like about Planetside is the shit graphics, the fact that the entire game is circle-strafing polygon spiders around on a GTA motorcycle, the fact that enemies simply teleport into existence and in perfect proportion to the number of people nearby, the monotonous world design, etc.

Quantum computers can solve some differential equation problems in essentially zero time. You seem to assume that most heavy lifting cannot be expressed in terms of this data type; that seems premature to me.

Quantum computers are insanely powerful computers. Their performance on the class of problems which they can solve is essentially infinite.

I’m talking about all comments everywhere. Everyone commenting in all fora.

People removed about capitalism everywhere all the time. It is the zeitgeist of our time that capitalism is bad.

if everything was good

… we’d be in a utopia. There are problems because it is inherent to the nature of reality that problems are going to exist.

Fewer economic problems exist under capitalism than in nature, or in any other economic system that’s been tried. Comparing our situation to a situation with no problems is fruitless.

A free market, ie situations where both parties must consent before economic cooperation happens, is the most productive arrangement of economic decision-making. It produces the least starvation, the least anxiety, the least disease, the least war, the least violation of people’s rights.

However their static Star Fox series is great

I’m from the fed. We just put everyone on the list pre-emptively. It’s a big list, and you’re all on it!

It’s investors for sure. Customer-focused companies don’t have this level of delusion in their management.

The time off should be well over the amount of extra weekend time, to account for the nonlinear negative effects of going 14 days on.

Like each weekend worked should yield a week of PTO.

And it should be an optional trade.

What does it mean? They get vacation days equal to the weekends they put in?

Are you denying that the vast majority of people commenting on this are against capitalism?

Yes I’m serious that the cap gets in the way. It’s ridiculous.

I went from ethically questionable, highly-paid work to ethically-clean, medium-paid work and it’s one of the best moves I’ve ever made.

I was a software developer, am now an uber driver.

Being able to deliver on 95+% of my promises feels amazing. Back when I was in IT, I kept maybe 20% of my promises.

I’m saying this in order to say: mental health will improve with an improvement in the meaning and ethical cleanliness of your work. Being out of integrity with your conscience will make the neurodivergence and everything else worse (I have that too, and speak from experience).

My depression is basically gone. My social skills are better. I’m industrious in a way I never was before. I no longer have insomnia. I no longer have ulcer-like symptoms. My neurodivergence is more graceful and positive.

This is all to say that, as you change paths, the mental resources available to you will increase. It may not look like you have the supplies needed for the journey, but trust me when I say there’s resources and upgrades along the path.

Give yourself the effort required to get off that shitty path! You’re worth it!

I used to work in IT.

Having to make promises about things with so many uncertain variables was really bad for my mental health.

Don’t forget about ChatGPT, which is pretty good about giving (mostly accurate) answers to tech questions.

How about getting the groceries delivered? Lots of stores have delivery service.

You can give a good tip for them running the groceries up the stairs for you. If there’s a special instruction field you can say something like:

Sorry for the stairs. I have a toddler up here I can’t leave. I’ll tip you $20 for the hassle of bringing the bags upstairs.

I got rear ended and I think I may have a concussion.

My finances are so tight right now. I’m at an ER right now, because everyone I know says to get any symptoms documented ASAP.

Rear ended at a stop light two nights ago (Thursday). Tried to work last night (Uber driver), but whereas I usually do 4-5 hours before a break no problem, I could only go about 1 hour before being too exhausted and feeling my attention slip.

I really, really need to make money this weekend. I hope there’s some kind of lost wages support I can get, because I’m afraid if I drive (a) I could be unsafe and/or (b) I could prevent my brain from recovering by not resting enough.

I don’t have any buffer to cover me for now, even if I’m awarded some kind of lost wages judgment later. I’m worried, overwhelmed. Don’t know what to do.

On top of this, my nephew who’s in a rough spot in life just showed up in town unannounced. He didn’t ask, but I offered to let him stay with me. He’s homeless. He says his plan was to just stay on the street or at a shelter.

He’s a good kid, but he’s a total spaz. He found some gig work today, but he botched getting up on time and I woke myself up early to drive him to this job.

I really, really need my sleep. When I wake up there’s like a 30 second window for me to go back to sleep. But I rolled out of bed and drove him to the job site. Because he didn’t plan well enough for getting there.

I grilled him the whole way on how he can avoid making that mistake in the future. His answers were vague at first. He literally just said “discipline” when I asked how he can avoid this in the future. I was like “no, I’m asking what specific steps you can take to avoid this”.

He’s got a seizure disorder. He’s in and out of mental hospitals. He’s been on the street in Oregon. Got OR gov’t to provide him a train ticket to Denver.

I feel for him, but I really really need solitude and rest if I’m gonna recover from a concussion.

Fuck.

He’s got really bad adhd. I keep finding food he took out of fridge then just forgot.

I’m in my 40s, he’s in his 20s. This is my first apartment ever. I’m struggling to survive. Living week to week doing uber with a rented car. But the shelters are full as far as I’ve heard. Meaning he’d be on the literal street.

I’m praying. My own father is helping me out.

The fucking timing on this is crazy. Was heading to the train station to meet him, stopped at a red light, when the other car just ran into mine. Like, just sitting there then bam, my world is changed.

Nephew is weirdly childlike. He’s turning 30 this year, but he talks like a teenager. Thinks like one. I find myself naturally fathering him, like “Did you remember your coat?”. Shit like that.

When I lived on the street it made me grow up. I don’t understand how it hasn’t made him grow up. Or if I’m mistaking mental illness for childishness (as others have done with me).

I’m sitting in an ER waiting room right now. Staff giving me dirty looks like I’m a drug seeker. Don’t know what the fuck I’m gonna do.

My own father, in his late 70s, is offering to lend me a little money to get through this. I’ve got shame issues around accepting that. Trying not to let the shame control me.

I might just tell the nephew that he’s got to go out for the next four or five days. Figure out other housing or sleep on the street. I simply cannot rest my mind unless I’m alone. It took me until my fucking 40s to secure an apartment that was mine, where I could be alone. Then when I really need the solitude, in order to let my neurons relax and recover from the fogginess of this concussion, is literally the same day (out of the approx 15,000 days of my life) that my nephew drops out of the ether needing help.

I don’t even know what kind of help I need. I guess I need clarity and courage. Clarity to know exactly what I need to do, and the courage to do it.

I think the right move is:

• Accept the loan from Dad
• Kick Nephew to the curb (at least for a week while I recover)

But I feel no certainty about that. It feels wrong. My mind and my heart are out of alignment.

Planetside blows

As someone in his 40s who struggles to pay bills, all I can say is that sculpting is a horrible career path for someone who’s not into it.

A career needs at least (ideally both) passion and earning potential. If you aren’t into the sculpting, drop out of whatever expensive program you’re taking immediately.

Given a choice between the two, I recommend passion over money. Mostly because in my own experience, I can’t keep a job when there’s no passion, so it doesn’t matter how much money it is.

Some people are stronger than me though, and can just power through a job without passion. If you have that ability, that discipline, then it’s okay to seek money.

For me it just doesn’t work. I don’t have enough dopamine to get out of bed every day and actually keep the high paying job if it’s wrong.

That being said, passion itself is on the same spectrum as goodness. I can do a job I don’t really care much about, so long as the boss doesn’t require me to lie or hurt people while doing it. Like, I can flip burgers as long as it’s a fair situation.

I’m kind of an outlier. Take my advice with a grain of salt.

But my basic advice is that unless there’s some sculpture career pipeline I’m not aware of that’s gonna lead to big bucks, if you ain’t into sculpting you gotta fucking stop yesterday. Especially if you’re paying lots of money to pursue it.

I feel the same way you do and I think you articulated this difficult concept pretty well.

How would you feel about a third, hybrid category called something like an “inflated price” or whatever, that’s understood to be a price above market value?

Justifying prices is an oxymoron.

Either there’s a case for giving them money, or the basis of payment is the value being obtained in the article. Arguing for a price based on the costs behind it mixes the two frames and creates confusion.

It’s a law of demeter violation.

Once the paywall goes up, OP’s healthiest decision-making frame is “is consuming this content worth $X to me or not?”. If they wanted OP to worry about how much it costs to make news, they should have left it voluntary.

Yes. By replacing your voluntary charity with a payment scheme, they’ve deprived you of the value of giving.

They changed the deal. It’s perfectly rational to want to stop consuming their content.

Whether you do is up to you, but you’re not crazy or anything for feeling deprived.

That’s just a bunch of rocks and you know it

So I gathered this much from your original comment. Now we’re at the point of what I’m asking: details?