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Yeah, time and energy is key. But I do notice quite a bit of these types of quality interactions here - it's very much appreciated! :)

Yeah, I think that's a very valid point that I didn't immediately give enough consideration.

I completely agree with this observation. Generally if people get upset about my posts here it's people I'm close to agreeing with, who just cannot fathom that I don't agree with them on the details.

I keep thinking about the People's Front of Judea.

I generally downvote in two scenarios. One is if someone is being a jerk, which is not necessarily enough for a report but always annoying. The other is if they are sharing misinformation, even if I believe they mean nothing bad with it.

I think it has it's place as a way to reduce visibility.

And sometimes I enjoy getting downvotes - there are times I knowingly rub a group of people (generally authoritarians) the wrong way, and I'm happy to see the message is well received. ;)

As a complete outsider, being a woman in a country where half the men are Trump supporters sounds fucking terrifying.

Had young Morrissey known how pathetic old Morrissey would end up, he would no doubt have written an incredible soul searching song about it.

I guess the corruption of the IOC is just business as usual seen from the eyes of Russia or whatever. I don't wish the corruption on countries I like, and I don't want the countries I dislike to have the propaganda victory.

That said, Pyongyang Olympics would be interesting.

I used to think ThinkPads were good because they make conservative decisions in product development and assure quality every step of the way.

Turns out that's bullshit. I am on my second ThinkPad since 2019. The first one stopped receiving charges, and I got it fixed with a new motherboard. Now it kernel panicks every 15 minutes for no good reason, so it basically came back from repair effectively bricked. The second one one of two charging ports are not working reliably, and the physical mouse buttons and the nipple joystick don't work at all. I'm just waiting for the day the remaining charging port breaks.

I've been careful with both, always carrying them in a solid sleeve and treating them well. My Fairphone goes through a lot worse and never has any problems.

I really would not recommend ThinkPad any more.

I suspect a 2012 ThinkPad is more likely to still be operative than a 2019 one, sadly. My experiences with recent models has not been good.

I have been recommended ThinkPad for this, but I have had terrible experiences; the charging port breaks, and it's soldered to the mother board rendering the entire machine bricked. The quality of these machines is not what I'd expect.

My next laptop will be a a Framework. I guess the recent launch of a new model means there might be some old ones on the market, even though the crowd buying Framework laptops might hold on to them a bit longer than other people.

If proximity to anything else than nature is not a priority, you can get amazing houses in rural Norway dirt cheep.

Costs of living there is another question entirely, of course.

There's a bunch of really badass people doing interesting things and discovering new things well into their 70s. The grandfather of a friend of mine picked up orientation running in his 80s - he's now the national champion of his age group.

I think more than age, what one has to overcome is the reluctancy to try new things. I think this is natural to humans at any age; the difference is that when we're young we're forced to try new things as few things are now new. The more experienced we get the easier it is to fall into old habits, and he who's not busy being born is busy dying, as Dylan said.