100,000 Hours Introduction
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The average marriage lasts for 100,000 hours. If used well, you can use this time to improve the lives of hundreds of people. A lot of people will tell you simply to “marry whoever you’re passionate...

An old post from Caroline Ellison’s tumblr, since deleted.

      • David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish
        8·
        9 months ago

        ya know how the failure mode of polyamory is when the cis straight guys try running things? yeah, welcome to rationalism

        • captainlezbian@lemmy.worldEnglish
          7·
          9 months ago

          Oh I’ve been to that event before. Angry lesbians came to the rescue then. Unfortunately I don’t think any of us want to deal with rationalists. Maybe they could get some angry bi ladies, I hear they do in a pinch.

    • swlabr@awful.systemsEnglish
      2·
      9 months ago

      neoreactionary harem with stack ranking

      Please don’t remind me about my miserable time on dating apps.

          • self@awful.systemsMEnglish
            3·
            9 months ago

            oh fuck there’s definitely an urbit dating app isn’t there

            these weirdos always use their fucked up platforms to implement insular dating apps

            • gerikson@awful.systemsEnglish
              3·
              9 months ago

              JWZ once said that every platform eventually evolves into being able to send email and allowing its users to flirt and hook up. I dunno if Urbit has reached that stage.

          • self@awful.systemsMEnglish
            2·
            9 months ago

            making a bunch of typos because my hands are too sweaty to operate the Morse code paddle

            • David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish
              3·
              9 months ago

              people would try to pick each other up over ham radio and have others break in to remind them that a large portion of the globe could hear them

              • self@awful.systemsMEnglish
                2·
                9 months ago

                “radio amateurs are waiting on your call. come play my lord”

                god I’m imagining how this all must have went given the personalities of some of the radio hams I’ve known

                • froztbyte@awful.systemsEnglish
                  5·
                  9 months ago

                  I’ve actively stayed a pirate because I don’t want to deal with the majority of local HAMs (a necessity if I were to pursue a license locally)

                  • self@awful.systemsMEnglish
                    5·
                    9 months ago

                    I’ve been recommending alternative bands (LoRA is cool, or GMRS) over HAM unless the person I’m talking to has an interest in radio and significant time for the licensing process itself, because the HAM bands sure aren’t worth it for the conversation

                    like fuck, even the folks doing ultra-long-range HF work have automated away the part where you have to ever talk to a member of the HAM community

                    there is still cool shit you can do with an amateur license (ultra-cheap radios and $5 antennas made partially out of trees that do international comms, SSTV, fucking with SDRs, long-range unencrypted LoRA) but a ton of the HAM community will actively discourage you from doing any of it because most of them are laser-focused on gear acquisition, contesting for bullshit accolades, and elitism

                    and to be honest, the license is the least interesting part of any of it (or is a gigantic opsec risk, depending on the tendencies of your local radio community)

            • skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
              2·
              9 months ago

              i’m 100% sure this happened but like, in interbellum

              also, there’s MGM for that, or iambic key if you’re a purist. or some digimodes can send plaintext which is basically primitive and slow chat