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.

  • swlabr@awful.systemsEnglish
    15·
    9 months ago

    neoreactionary harem with stack ranking

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

        • self@awful.systemsMEnglish
          12·
          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
            9·
            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.

      • skillissuerEnglish
        8·
        9 months ago

        counterpoint: every form of communication can be made into a dating app if you’re horny enough

        • self@awful.systemsMEnglish
          8·
          9 months ago

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

          • David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish
            8·
            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
              8·
              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)

                  • David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish
                    5·
                    9 months ago

                    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

                    i was just thinking about the gearhead urge in electronic music

                  • froztbyte@awful.systemsEnglish
                    4·
                    9 months ago

                    hah yeah lora is fun, I actually built a lora network a few years back (end to end, incl. some v1.0~if-you-squint prototype boards during dev phase (found a decent vendor for the rollout)). also done a bit with SDR going back a fair while (been following that since it first started becoming popular around 2009? 2010?)

                    this side of the world HAM is the lowest class amateur license you can get afaik, which is unfortunately a bit sucky. and yeah opsec shit

                    I do want to find myself a UV-KR after what I saw recently… (yes, not a -5R, a KR)

                    ton of the HAM community will actively discourage you from doing any of it because most of them are laser-focused on gear acquisition

                    this made me remember some of the most annoying fucking people I ever met at wugmeets (from these, which are sadly nowhere near as big as they used to be)

          • skillissuerEnglish
            7·
            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