MystikIncarnate

I understand your point here.

People we care about should be people we care to make happy, and who we want to make us happy.

I'm speaking more about agency. I use my own agency to limit whose opinion can even move the needle to my emotions. I decide whether their comments are something I should "take to heart" or disregard as an outburst.

Personally I separate myself from most situations and emotional involvement and look at things from a neutral, logical standpoint before I allow myself and my own feelings to be affected by what may, or may not be said in the moment.

I don't need anyone to do anything to make me feel happy, or like a man. I control that. I'm not going to blame anyone for how I feel.

If you don't feel happy, or you don't "feel like a man" (whatever that means to you), the answers to why you feel that way, or how you inspire those feelings in yourself are entirely within your power to control. You have agency over your feelings.

My SO, when she compliments me, makes me feel good, but I don't need her to constantly placate me with compliments in order to feel valuable, appreciated, happy, or "like a man".

It is emotionally healthy to look inward for happiness and satisfaction. Relying on the acceptance and platitudes from others to feel okay is codependent. I don't understand why anyone would want to give their agency over their feelings and emotions, wholly and completely over to others.

As a biological male and someone who identifies as a man, it's pretty weak, IMO, to need someone else to make you feel a particular way.

Are you in control of your feelings, or do you constantly need someone else to reinforce, or induce a feeling in you?

Personally, I'm in control of my feelings, and bluntly, nobody else has control over me. Neither for how I feel, or what I think/do; with the only exception to what I do being governed in part by legality. Eg. If I know a thing isn't legal to do, then I won't do that thing. Beyond the rule of law, I do, think, say, and feel, whatever, and however I want.

To me, having that much control over my own self is what makes me a person living in a free country. Anyone who does not have the ability, like I do, to think, feel, do, and love, whomever and, whatever they want, is someone who I want to support in gaining that right.

I have an MX master 2, and I use a G703 Lightspeed with a power play mat.

It's incredible to me that their dongles don't come in USB-C by default, I'm pretty sure that they don't offer either a Lightspeed or unifying dongle in USB-C, which is even more baffling.

I haven't looked at the product lines in a while, but even when I did, it was obvious USB-C was the way to go, and nothing was offered.

I also have a couple of their webcams, and they're all USB-A as well. Just wild.

I miss actual dock connectors. Cramming everything into a single USB-C connection has always been problematic for me. I have a lot of stuff.

My work laptop has a USB-C dock where I have Ethernet (1000mbps), three display port displays, mouse, keyboard, wireless headset dongle, and a dual head USB to displayport adapter.

That's a lot of bandwidth.

I frequently have little problems keeping everything working correctly.

Luckily, I don't push high bandwidth video though any display for work, so generally I don't see many bandwidth problems.

Like mice and webcams?

.... Yes, I do use Logitech products, why do you ask?

The big thing with steam is that it had, what was, at the time, a leading developer, valve, behind it. So it was a no brainer to manage your valve games.

As other games were added to the service it just became convenient to pick them up on steam.

Now, I consider a game "not released on PC" unless it's on steam.

There are no screws.

.... those are nails

I appreciate that. It didn't come across as anything other than informative, and fostering discussion.

I'm personally a fan of nuclear. I know the long lead times of creating the facilities, largely because of the safety and protection systems that need to be built, tested and validated before the plant can export a single watt of power. All of which I understand.

My background is in IT, and the most stable systems, which are almost always preferred over alternatives, are distributed. What I want to see is that the majority of generation is done by homes in the neighborhood they serve. So the power needed, is the power inside that area; this wouldn't eliminate the need for a larger grid to interconnect all of those cells of production together, which would allow any single production location to go down and the power would still be delivered to the people in that area, borrowing excess from neighboring areas.

This would, however, make the grid power a lot more communal of a resource. I'm sure that works inspire a lot of "communist" type arguments...

However, the benefits of such a system would be clear and fairly robust compared to the more centralized systems we're using now.

I don't know if that's really viable, either with SMR (or other nuclear), or using solar/wind/whatever.

The electrical grid, from production, distribution, and delivery, to the outlets in your home/business, is a very complex and distinctly unique system filled with challenges at all points.

I know just enough about all of it to get myself into trouble, or, more frequently, keep myself out of trouble. IMO, nuclear, whether in the form of SMR or something else, should be built to handle the base loads, aka, the power that is always needed, and not necessarily any more than that.

The volatile loads that fluctuate throughout the day, that's what I'm not sure the best method to address. Is it wind/hydro, which are fairly consistent (the latter more than the former, in terms of consistency), or solar + energy storage, which may be batteries, or some other method of storing the power?

I dunno, I'm no expert. But given the reliability of nuclear, building more or less static systems with it that will supply base loads, seems like a no brainer. We will always need at least that much power, let's get it from somewhere that can push it out 24/7/365 for years with little to no maintenance. Obviously, all nuclear production needs to be monitored, regardless of the reactor type.... For safety. But if the system is basically always doing the same thing, with the same output, constantly, it shouldn't require a lot of variance.

Our bones are more beautiful than yours.

I scrolled WAY too far before I saw this.

I scrolled past several other Diablo lines before I found this.

How?

YOU HAVE NO CHANCE TO SURVIVE. MAKE YOUR TIME.