I honestly can't remember if I spent any less time on my flip phone over a decade ago. I sent a lot of texts with it, used computer for social networking sites, email, etc., used iPod for music, used a digital camera for photos. Now you just get all of them in one smartphone. Add them together, it's probably about the same tbh... with less "device transition time" I suppose.
I would spend less time using a flip phone because I could type much faster. >smile<
T9 w/ physical buttons is so much nicer than a touch screen keyboard. I can also type w/o looking at the phone. I sent so many texts one-handed w/ my Nokia 1100 back in the early 2000s.
I just get single sourced extra virgin olive oil from Costco. Price is up a lot since last year. Bryan also sells dark chocolate or something. You don't have to buy from him. I don't think I'd enjoy 100% dark chocolate. 80-90% ones are fine.
I had a little wife, and I am in jail. She didn't know how to cook, nor did any chores. She went to the nail salon, and brought a new fellow. She took my house, I drank in sorrow.
My understanding was that the pushback was based on people's discomfort around other people wearing these things, hence the "glasshole" name being used.
These don't even have the (more interesting, IMO) part though - the HUD.
Glass was obviously an early experimental design with loads of shortcomings, but at least in concept, a personal HUD was fairly interesting. I didn't care about the camera and found it disappointing that it was the only part people seemed to focus on. Isn't this just the camera/mic bit without the cool part, tied to a Facebook/Meta account instead of a Google one?
I agree $1500 was a bit steep for something barely above prototype level, but this is basically an earbud/mic that allows me to take hands-free photos - something I do maybe a few times per year.
That's true for many behavior patterns. For me, collecting physical books, ebooks, electronics, tools, etc., before I was so burnt out I also try to learn a lot of different languages. Goal-less life leads me astray. I'm still goal-less though, just not doing that anymore. I have collected too much and burnt out.
Being single parent can also file for the deduction. Receiving supposal and child support after tax also encourages divorce, which also encourages the benefiting party not to go to work or do works that doesn't pay taxes. I'd say the current policy is more encouraging of divorce than two-parent household.
Unless someone is severely disabled, spousal support is a horrible thing. Even worse are the states that make it compulsory after a certain number of years.
Child support makes sense in theory, but is butchered in practice. The judgements often have little to do with how much it actually costs to support the child and is more about a percentage of income.
Let's not forget, the state is the third party in a divorce. They do not want to support anyone when they can force one of the other parties to do so.
Except if the benefiting party receiving spousal support and child support is after tax, so they don't report that as income. So, if they don't work, they qualify for unemployment benefits (at very least the Medicaid) - the government still pays. Speaking from my own experience. My ex is now trying to fight to get more child support because my son is on my healthcare plan my employer offers, she wants to put him on Medicaid like her and get the money instead. In other words, government still going to pay. I think her lawyer didn't agree with her because it's not the best interest for our kid and could be a waste of time. Although I think it's terribly for the higher earner in the divorce, I can't blame her for gaming the system. It is well set up for her to take advantage of this divorce situation. I even know there are women have multiple children from different men just so they can live luxuriously - none of child support is counted towards income when calculating other child support - the only risk is some men rather go to prison than paying lol.
Spousal support is an archaic holdover that doesn’t belong anymore and child support should not be a thing offered in at fault divorces. For the latter I’m not sure how you can go about implementing that ethically though. If the dad cheated, fine, he should pay child support. If the mom cheats, maybe the state can subsidize daycare while the mom is forced to work. Otherwise there are no consequences for the mom who can just “divorce him and take his house and half his money”.
Not sure why you are getting downvoted. Draconian laws tilting in favor of women definitely contribute to reluctance of men to get married or to have kids.
It’s going to be downvoted for a few years while the true state of things permeates through the society. It’s just a matter of constantly educating the 10,000 new people that learned about it today.
I got a few friends invited me on Goodreads to read books together, but it never really worked out besides knowing what books they are reading or interested. Everyone's reading habit and interest are different. On one hand it's good to know what your friends' interests are, and may read those books so you have a common topic to discuss during gathering. On the other hand, it also creates a psychological procrastination something similar to hoarding a whole bunch of books and never actually reading them.
