Yeah, I messed up big time on a bad chair, right after lockdown when I started WFH, I should have switched the chair.

It's intermittent and quite manageable ATM, so I'm still doing my own research, if it gets anymore worse, I'll be paying a visit to the doctor.

@DirtEffect and @AlmondSauce,

Not to break the flow here, but I really appreciate you guys trying to help me see things differently.

I hope I am clarifying myself well while defending my unpopular opinion, and certainly do not wish to frustrate/be painful to either of you. :)

@DirtEffect

> downfall of life as we know it

Agreed, life will cease to exists. But my point is we did not create life, and we shouldn't burden ourselves w/ spreading it?

> The question of purpose is a completely separate topic. Why would you bring that up in this context?

Oh, I thought it was straightforward. Since I am suggesting humans should not procreate, humanity will cease to exist. If it does, then as you said above "there will be the downfall of life as we know it" and it won't be able to serve any particular purpose which, I think is fine.

IMO, we are here rather by accident and not for serving any exact purpose.

@AlmondSauce

> You can't just wave away humans that find live happy because "more humans than you think find life painful"

IIRC, you had an issue w/ my examples of Syria and SA being the minority. So I quoted an example of how the majority of humans live, which seems quite painful to me.

Now you are essentially arguing for the minority/elite classes saying they find existence happy and would like to/should pro-create.

Alright, in a hypothetical scenario, where the rich keep pro-creating and the poor do not, you will still find the same pattern emerge, some of them will get poor and others rich. And you will just end up w/ majority of humans finding their lives difficult.

The catch is as long as humanity exists there will the rich (minority) and the not-so-rich (majority). And I am arguing for the latter.

> This is getting painful.
Almost ironic, that I am fighting for folks who find life painful and you against them. And there's no reason to get all worked up. :)

@AlmondSauce

Nope, I still stand with original argument, please read the next bits.

@DirtEffect

I agree that not reproducing is a choice (of inaction), but I do not see any downfall to it, do you believe that humanity here exists for any particular purpose?

I agree with the last point you make.

@donuts

You are right, suicide is always an option and many different branches of philosophy (one for instance Stoicism) have held grounds that it should be permissible given that somebody has a very poor quality of life. --

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Said that, I think not having a children is a more easier choice to make than ending your life, no?

@UnicornPoo

This is going to be another unpopular opinion of mine, but I do not think there's anything particularly important/special about the existence of humans.

We are self-aware and much intelligent than other species, but I do not think there is any grand goal/purpose that humanity serves.

@AlmondSauce

I agree those are exaggerated examples I made to convey the point and that do not represent every single human living on this planet.

But, we are being biased towards the well-off elite classes, and not considering the actual poverty-stricken population. If you want this to be broadly applicable look at the living standards of the median classes.

You will find that majority of the human population does not have as good living standards as you and me. I am talking about average families in China, India, Africa, and even the USA.

I think having children for them is more of a selfish decision than anything else, a retirement plan if you will.

@AlmondSauce

It is not a hot take, and I would only be replying to the points that I think require clarifications.

You mentioned babies don't consent to receiving medical treatments that save their lives, fair enough, but they also don't consent to be born with such illnesses in the first place and suffer through them?

Also, existence is a personal experience, eating potatoes is not painful in anyway. But what about someone who has to live with a pain (mental or physical) of a disease or an impairment beyond their control? There are people in Syria who are bombed day and night, and people who have to see their bodies decay with malnutrition in SA.

Why do we so conveniently neglect them out of the discussion everytime?

@DirtEffect But why neglect the odds of being born with an impairment? If a baby is born blind or deaf and now has to adjust in this society, who is to be blamed?

About taking consent, I don't think the notion of consent makes sense until someone has matured to the point that they can think of their well-being. This also addresses the point of two cells longing to be born, if somehow those two cells could grow an adult brain they might want to re-think?

never get out of bed too fast, keeps you sleepy all day.

@purist -- haha, I call him "man of culture"

I'd love to if he wasn't the prof.

Improving accessibility of YouTube for low-vision/blind users

I think you'd be paid for the two weeks.

ok googled it, looks like an onion, but only the unusuable part

wtf is a leek

No

Thanks for sharing this, I likely won't have this amount of patience or rigor to come close, but it's amazing!

@Nanos Obviously, the developer seems to be *very neutral* -- so that should be called a "bug" or maybe a "feature"?

Not sure why X/nationality matters here. You did a good job at automation (kudos!), but why try to dog whistle like this?

It appears as though it means many things to different people -- each with their own expectations --, I just want to blabber and drop 'lmaos' and upvote.

The thing I like is everyone has the same profession which leads to similar type of problems -- maintaining healthy routine, developing hobbies outside work, having good coping mechanisms and so on. I like knowing how people face their shit.

Don't think you left much space for anything but instrumental 😂

I checked, so you propose people solve this 'fizzbuzz' challenge before say posting something? Not sure how that'll help...

Also, I don't understand how devRant is different from say a reddit moderated community to do this. Maybe a reason for it's decline?

@Jilano FWIW, I'd prefer my devRant feed over my Instagram/FB feed any day! It's just too relatable, damn it!

@Root What's a fizzbuzz challenge

Lmao.

Lol, are you training it on cpu?

Wait, isn't this a platform to unload your stress and shout? Why'd someone do that.

Fuck, I'm using devRant to put MTurk jobs next time. Never knew about it's crowd-sourcing capabilities, 😂