It’s not just the tree - it’s the whole scene. (Complete with random pumpkins that you wouldn’t ever include unless you were deliberately copying Minecraft.) As I’ve said, I don’t know if that’s illegal but it’s certainly derivative enough that I have no sympathy for it.
I want to clarify that I like spending time outside - while in California I spend at least an hour outdoors on most days. Having to be indoors all summer would be a real sacrifice.
That’s not just similar to Minecraft - it’s nearly identical. I’m not sure that the DMCA notice isn’t justified. I don’t know the law well enough to judge where the line between legal and illegal Minecraft clones is.
I like walking when I’m not in a hurry and the weather is nice, but the weather usually isn’t nice in most parts of the country (the US West Coast is an exception to that). I’m looking at moving to a southern state now and the only reason I’m even considering it is that I would be living in a car-centered area where I wouldn’t have to spend more than a couple of minutes a day outdoors during the summer. Compare that to NYC where I used to live: milder summers, but still hot, and I had no choice but to endure them (and winters, and rainy days) because I couldn’t drive to most places I went to. The unpleasantness of that far outweighs all the advantages of walkable neighborhoods for me.
It’s amazing. I use it as part of my work as a software developer, I get good advice from it regarding my personal life, and I can talk to it about topics that interest me but don’t interest my friends. Everything is great right now but I’m genuinely worried about the near future, when it might be able to do the entirety of my job better than I can. At least I got this far - I wonder whether my friends’ kids who were born recently will live in a future where they’ll never be capable of contributing anything valuable.
And then they even expect me to look at pictures of their human children instead of looking at pictures of my dog… 🙄
Not just drums. This phalanx has a double flute.
I don’t think that (for example) my couch and my TV which are never used are adding beauty to my living room. I don’t like sitting on a couch and watching TV, but for some reason I imagined that my friends would. Turns out that they don’t like that either, so we never do it when we hang out (we don’t hang out inside my house in the first place) and that stuff just costs money and takes up space.
If I were buying furniture all over again, I think I would just get a desk, an office chair, a bed (with a little end table), and my recliner. I eat at my desk, so I never use anything else.
Hah for a while I slept on the floor because I didn’t care enough to get a bed. Furniture is mostly for when you want to impress guests, and so if you never have guests… The one exception is my recliner - it’s the classic kind with a lever on the side to raise the footrest and it is perhaps the most comfortable thing in the world.
Seriously though, even as an adult I don’t know if I did or not. Why did she do that?
Everything is temporary - some relationships last longer than others but they all end, at least from old age. If there can’t be worth in a temporary relationship, there can’t be worth in any relationship.
One time when I was in my early teens, I was teasing my sister and her friend and that friend suddenly lunged at me and bit me on the arm, hard. I had tooth marks and a funny feeling for the next few hours - a girl had touched me, with her mouth!
Ewww she turned into a human.
Idealists are letting perfect be the enemy of the good but I don’t think that’s why Democrats underperformed. Neither Clinton nor Biden/Harris were idealists of this sort (despite some stuff Harris said but didn’t mean back in the 2020 primaries) and they didn’t lose elections because of a lack of support from the idealists. So IMO while the idealists aren’t helping, the very much non-idealistic institutions of the Democratic party which prioritize seniority within the party over electability are to blame.
I didn’t think a newborn bear could really be that small, but apparently bears are actually born extremely tiny relative to their adult size, with a newborn polar bear weighing only about one pound!
The statistics clearly show that poorer people have more children than richer people, so does having material comfort cause despair or are many people confused about their own motivations?
Meanwhile it’s 69 degrees in San Francisco right now.
(I’m stuck in New York where “87 feels like 95”.)
Just because I don’t want to endure something unpleasant doesn’t mean I can’t - the argument I’m responding to isn’t that walking is survivable but that it’s preferable.