I think it's absolutely criminal that the subsequent part of Melville's "There is a wisdom that is woe; but there is a woe that is madness" isn't repeated more often:
@selentelechia I bet there's some selection bias too. Parents who have one kid are probably less sociable, and are more likely to have stopped after one if that kid was a problem, or if they themselves have low capacity for handling lots of small tasks (common amongst autistics)
@145k4 that shit would have to pass a bazillion bureaucratic checks now though. a thousand hours of erm excuse me mr rockefeller does this cloistered abbey fit with our zoning laws and the character of the neighborhood?
@AvaEvaThornton@TetraspaceWest Marrying a US citizen would be a potential backdoor into residency, countries often get worried about it.
E.g. I knew someone who had to declare that she wasn't going to marry her Ghanian partner to get him a visiting visa to the UK.
@LeRoyDesCimes with modern cryonics (aldehyde assisted methods) I'm pretty convinced that it would be possible to bring you back in some form or another. which only requires us to get superintelligence at some point, not necessarily soon.
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@Thiefuser@mountainslmao Ahh makes sense. I'm not transgender myself so I don't have to worry about that sort of thing, but I appreciate the difficulties that lots of people go through. 🏳️⚧️