I guess that’s one perspective. Another one might be that their marriage wasn’t as great as they thought it was in the first place.

Kids are stressful, no argument there. But blaming kids because their marriage buckled under the added stress just feels like an easy excuse. I suspect there were deeper issues that those people weren’t particularly interested in exploring.

They bring happiness, and a lot of other things too.

Yep, just like how every single other answer in this thread isn’t universal.

Kind of surprised no one has mentioned it… But kids. Kids bring a lot of happiness.

Why you gotta do me like that

Shh, don’t brag about it

Canada: we’re the best at being annoyingly modest while simultaneously feeling smugly superior.

That’s a very low bar ><

Also because of first past the post, most people’s votes don’t in fact matter. So personally I like to aim a bit higher.

I don’t do anything too sophisticated, just something like:

Scan this image of a recipe and format it as JSON that conforms to the schema defined at https://schema.org/Recipe.

Sometimes it puts placeholders in that aren’t valid JSON, so I don’t have it fully automated… But it’s good enough for my needs.

I’ve thought that the various Nextcloud cookbook apps should do this for sites that don’t have the recipe object… But I don’t feel motivated to implement this myself.

I take pictures of my recipe books and ask ChatGPT to scan and convert them to the schema.org recipe format so I can import them into my Nextcloud cookbook.

I’m debating getting this on mobile or steam deck, is it largely the same experience?

Nope, it’s all done on device with local machine learning models.

If you give me cash, I’m probably just going to be boring and invest it.

Some people rarely prioritize fun things. Gift cards force them to.

Smart studios will keep their writers for the main NPCs and use AI for the random filler NPCs that wander around cities and the like. We’ll see how many studios are smart I guess.

Because users value usability over privacy.

The major thing that make Mastodon unusable is lack of users. That and lack of algorithmic feeds.

That’s a good point. The original question was why would someone pick blenny Bluesky over mastodon? You just hit the nail on the head.

It’s because the vast majority of users value features and usability much higher than privacy.

But only if the refund window has passed.

Everyone pays for not using nuclear too, a thousand fold more so.

Today’s equivalent of a village is living very close to at least one set of competent grandparents and having at least 2–3 close friends with kids around the same age who you can call up and drop off your kids at a moment’s notice.

It’s hard to pull off, but it is possible with a good deal of social skills, luck and a willingness/ability to relocate.

Two things can be true. Israel can be committing genocide in the middle east, and terrorists in Canada can be systemically targeting Jewish Canadians. Recognizing one of these truths does not negate the other.