AI: I use it - i can keep multiple things going in parallel which seems to work well with my ADHD.

Foreign BS: I worry a bit about my draft age kids, worry about donald rumsfeld's ghost making us go back to nation building again.

Enshitification: well, I've thrown my ios26 powered phone a few times, its a constant source of ire. I long for something better to come along.

overall, I just play with my dogs, lift heavy things, and just keep my head down. Last night the wife broke the tractor and I had to improvise a fix - which entailed using the MIG welder. I went to sleep happy.

these look like they have ... other uses.

Every physical motion has other uses. (Obligatory xkcd: https://xkcd.com/940.)

It's helpful to combine fitness with fun.

I f'd my knees running track in HS - i suspect some kind of structural problem that alters the way my knees move. Sr year wsa awful, i was just about crawling to class in the morning. MRIs showed nothing and I learned to live with it and eventually it got better when I stopped running.

10ish years later I had started riding my bike a lot during the dotcom explosion induced downtime, I kept it up after I was employed again. Knee pain came back. Went to the ortho again, this time was told "oh you have a torn meniscus, lets go fix it.

So I went under and woke up to be told that my meniscus was fine, and that I had worn grooves through the cartilage and into the bone - doc told me to never run, jump, ski, ride, etc. I was to sit on the couch.

Somehow I ended up taking karate, and the knees hurt for a bit, but the stretching we did helped loosen up my hams and quads. It didnt make the knee pain go away, but it made it tolerable in that it no longer affected my day to day.

Hey my dad used to wipe the stuff of tomatoes before eating them right off the vine.

I’m mostly ok, have the normal number of arms and legs. Only had one tumor, and just a few endocrine issues. Nothing major, it’s all good.

:/

some of us like that.

I get 90% of my social interaction needs from my wife/kids/dogs. The rest I get from going to the gym and lifting.

OTOH: i also live in the woods.

Do they like that?

Either way, that's perfectly fine, it's not for me, but I wasn't arguing against it. I'm quite happy in the city near the mountains, I wouldn't even entertain moving 3 blocks deeper into the suburbs.

The Gym is an underappreciated social space.

Why yes, they do. If they didn't, they would get out and socialize. I'm not controlling them. We're basically all introverts here. Except maybe my youngest, who gets his social needs met at school, and he's free to visit them whenever he wants (within reason).

Well, I didn’t produce enough T on my own anyway, so what the hell.

My MYP has needed to go into the shop once (aside from a Portland pothole wrecking a wheel and bending a suspension arm).

Our Benz sprinter needed an engine at 11k miles.

I wonder what they count as defects.

This makes no sense. FoMoCo doesn’t hire mechanics to work on customer cars, franchise dealerships do.

And no mechanic I’ve ever met makes 120k.

> And no mechanic I’ve ever met makes 120k.

Plenty of A&Ps up there. Often doing more than 40 hours a week, but there's no shortage of work.

Also, most of the car people I know could easily debug software, they’re used to debugging fairly complex systems already. They just don’t know it.

It’s the same basic way of thinking.

Now can they fix all the other usability issues?

Im working on (slowly) a very very niche web app to help my wife manage her dog breeding program. Maybe it'll be useful enough for other breeders to use it.