You can, but often that comes with more drama than it’s worth, and/or, isn’t consistent in terms of being able to have someone to be intimate with.

There are exceptions here, but they’re relatively uncommon.

Not saying that people in relationships can be intimate with their partner whenever they want, but I am saying you have more opportunities to be intimate, as long as both people are willing to do so at the same time.

Yeah, pretty much all of us fit in that range.

I easily fit in more with millennials than my brothers do. My oldest brother acts a lot more like Gen x than the rest of us.

You would still have that with another protocol.

Can we replace BGP, just because it’s a flaming dumpster fire?

Hi. I’m a network specialist. The Internet is not a big truck (it’s a series of tubes).

To explain simply: time, distance and money. That’s why nobody is doing it. All the humans are spread out over too much land, and to span the vast distances between places, you need either a really long cable (see: fiber optics) with permission to run said cable over that distance, or you need wireless relays (these don’t have as much bandwidth).

The main problem isn’t getting the power to reach a particular destination… You could fire a wireless signal from New York to LA if you had line of sight with relatively little power… The problem is, the damned earth gets in the way.

So what do we get if we try? A bunch of independent communities with spotty connections to nearby communities, and it’s likely that as soon as you go any significant distance, the demand on bandwidth would vastly outstrip any bandwidth you have.

Great, now the internet is slow, shit, and half the time, doesn’t connect to what you want to access.

The Internet is set up the way it is because it’s efficient and economical to do it this way. Let me talk at you for a minute and explain.

ISPs in your local area use copper wires, such as telephone or cable TV lines that were put in place more than a generation ago, to handle the “last mile”… The fact that we can get as fast of service down 20+ year old lines is a miracle half the time. Also, anyone with fiber, go sit in the corner, you’re in a different class.

So all these last mile runs go to their distribution building that amalgamates them into a small number of high speed, high bandwidth fiber lines that go towards the nearest exchange. Not telephone exchange, internet exchange. They’re usually located in data centers.

Internet exchanges act as a nexus of cross connectivity between ISPs, and corporations that host internet services like Meta, Google, etc. As well as transit providers, international data connectivity service providers that own undersea cables… Everyone and everything that wants to communicate on the internet is connected at these points, which is why they’re in data centers. The data center is attached to the internet exchange, not the other way around.

IX-es are connected to eachother over long distance fiber cables, usually run along utility properties, like those used for high voltage power transmission towers, or run along railroads or similar. Basically anyone who has a long, uninterrupted stretch of land, probably has been approached by transit providers to run fiber across their property between locations.

It’s a huge, complex web of companies that have agreed to move customer traffic between locations.

Recreating all of that is an insane technological challenge especially for a rag tag group of volunteers and hobbyists with little money, and no resources… From scratch.

I like the idea, but implementation is going to be nigh impossible.

I’ve met some people that are that fucking stupid.

It’s incredible to me that they manage to put on pants and get to work on time each morning.

I’m near the start of the millennial generation, my older brothers are Gen x and more in-between than I am. There’s about 5-6 years between all of us and we represent two generations in varying degrees.

Ehh. They mostly rode the coattails of the boomers. I dunno if I can reasonably get angry at them for taking advantage of the opportunity that the boomers made for them to prosper.

It’s the boomers that own, and frequently still run the companies that are ruining the economy. That’s for fucking sure. Gen x just got a free ride.

Of all the people I know, the Gen x are the most likely to just be coasting through life because they were downright given all the opportunities and never really struggled for much.

I’ll say this. If any of those people represented in the ad exist, they can afford the medication that’s being sold by the ad.

Those are the people who buy the things that people say “if you have to ask, you can’t afford it” about.

You all forget, there’s legions of people who are wealthy, but not the ultra rich. They bring in millions of dollars a year. Far more than you or I possibly could, but they’re not notable because they’re part of the 1% and the 0.1% are much much worse.

What they don’t get, is that their wealth is closer to the bottom 99% than the top 0.1%. they should be on our side, but they won’t get involved because they’re a bunch of fence sitting assholes that just do enough to keep up their lifestyle, but not so much that anyone notices.

Maybe, but also, relationships take a lot of time and effort and sometimes your significant other is just crazy and you have to break it off.

It seems like getting a real-enough experience with a “real doll” and then not having to deal with another person or their drama, may appeal to some.

Not me, I’ve been in a long term relationship for going on 10 years now. I can just take my bias out of the discussion and consider other perspectives.

Exactly. It’s basically “tell me you don’t trust me as an employee, without telling me you don’t trust me as an employee”.

Given the existence of products like “real doll”, there’s some merit to it happening to humans.

I don’t know enough about any of it since I’m in a relationship with someone who has a pulse, and I like it that way.

I love taking my twice graduated college educated ass to job postings for my field and being offered $60k CAD for highly skilled work that requires both a bachelor’s and about 5-10 years of experience to pay for my $40-50k worth of education. It’s great!

I’ve been in the job market for a while and apart from not having a bachelors degree, I have most of the certifications and experience needed. But I did the math, I am unable to afford my bills (excluding things like fuel for my car and food for the table) on anything less than around $65-70k. I don’t ask for much for everything else, but I generally need at least $75k a year to survive without starving or going bankrupt.

Life is expensive and it keeps getting more expensive, but the wages I saw posted over 10 years ago when I graduated, are the same wages I see now for the same or similar work. Since the cost of everything has increased significantly over that time, I just move on to other job postings.

Don’t mention salary in the post? I’m not interested. Don’t have an option for full time remote? No thanks. I don’t want to spend hours of my life every week in traffic, spending hundreds of dollars a month on fuel, just so you can look me in the face and say “you look tired”… Yeah, because I’m forced to be here and I’m not able to do this work from home.

What is the difference if I go to the office and use these online/cloud tools, versus doing the same from home? I don’t understand.

I just upgraded to a Xeon E5 v4 processor.

I think the max RAM on it is about 1.5 TiB per processor or something.

It’s not new, but it’s not that old either. Still cost me a pretty penny.

That’s just ADHD that’s undiagnosed.

Greed was a useful trait when it was down to survival of the fittest before we developed agriculture.

After that, the usefulness of greed became less relevant over time, and I would argue that at this point, it’s counter productive.

Just saying.

The latter.

And, star trek.

I’m hoping the answer is money.

It won’t be, but I can hope.