I observe this too. My generation of friends met in school at first, but as we got older and went to work, meeting someone new became more rare. I saw a lot of my friends starting dating each other in our high-school group of friends years after we left highschool, probably because it was easier than to meet random people. It’s a bit weird though, and most relationships ended rapidly or badly.

So when work and old school friends are no option, and you have no place to make new friends, it does feel logical to turn to online dating.

Well it depends. Technically speaking, it’s around twice as fast as standard speed on highway (at least in France, so 130kmh). In terms of feelings, it’s probably not that faster? I never went above 140 or so but from my experience, your brain adapts to the speed, so if you got to 300 not that suddenly it probably does not feel like twice as fast than the usual. In terms of safety, it may be more than twice the danger. I’m no expert, but depending on the vehicle and how many other vehicles there are on the highway, it could be very dangerous.

I think you’re kinda right in the broad sense, if we strictly speak of stateless society. But if we include progressive/leftists ideals and communities meant to help those in need, it will kinda separate people who are tempted by violence in two : those who want an easy way to get comfortable living, and those who want an endless accumulation of power/wealth. If you propose a society where people unable or unwilling to work can be taken care of, there is no interest for the first kind of violent people to be violent, and you’re only left with those that want what only violence can provide, which is the kind of need/desire we need to fight against in the first place to accomplish a stateless society.

De la seule vidéo de présentation, la particularité de Manus semble être d’avoir accès à une machine virtuelle pour donner des résultats. Je m’y connais que de très loin, mais je pense pas que ce soit fondamentalement différent d’une IA qu’on “brancherait” dans d’autres logiciels pour créer les même résultats, la différence est sans doute que c’est plus clef-en-main, il doit y avoir moins de mise en place et ça doit être plus accessible pour des personnes moins versées dans la technique. Par contre j’imagine aussi que ça peut vite être un enfer en matière de sécurité, si jamais l’IA comprend mal la requête elle pourrrait théoriquement écraser un site en prod avec une version buguée, divulguer des infos confidentielles, etc. Et j’imagine que ce serait plus dur à encadrer qu’avec une IA qu’on câblerait soi-même pour produire ces résultats.

Two trips each week. One to the local farmers shop, for whatever is available there (mostly vegetables, eggs and bread, but sometimes fish, meat, ice cream, etc), and another to a supermarket for the common things (pasta for my gf and couscous for me, rice, flour, some dairy (fresh cream or cheese), sandwich bread and chocolate spread, sometimes stuff that needs to be refilled like oil, soap, toilet paper, etc and usually an extra meal : either rice and fish for sushi-like thingy, chickpea for nugetts-ich fried stuff, or a can of smthg like chili con carne).

We try to do lists for the supermarket, otherwise we always forget something. For the local shop, what’s available varies greatly so there’s no sense making a list.

I’d say you’re no asshole at all, cause 1) generally speaking, you can have your reasons for being distant with people, it’s not a duty or anything, 2) from the bits of context, you may be experiencing a difficult/complex/unsettling situation, which would be a good reason to keep to your personal space to my eyes and 3) i find that, paradoxically, it feels more ok to have a “negative” or “not positive” or “neutral” behavior towards people who are more or less comprehensive/supporting, which seems to be the case here. On one hand we could feel like, since they make move towards us, we should thank them or they should be rewarded with extra attention, but on the other end, it’s the ideal situation to be reserved or less considerate without hurting people.

I think it is mostly used by AfroAmerican people, and i believe it is relatively common thing to see groups of people calling themselves with a pejorative word used by other groups (i think punk and queer evolved this way too, though the n-word is a much stronger instance, i see the same pattern)