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The spacecraft has an ad prominently displayed on itself, it's depressing. We will never reproduce the experience of 10 year old me watching the moon landing with my dad. It's all just egos and entertainment now.
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Experience is irreproducible. It depends on too many factors, we even don't know the full list of them, and some of them change irreversibly with time passing. You will not be 10 years old anymore. It is not a good reason for a depression, you can experience world now like you couldn't being a 10 year old boy.
Actually one of the absolute best things about having kids, that is not reproducible for no-child lifestyles, is seeing everything for the first time through their eyes. All the other stuff people say about parenting can be reproduced via service or volunteering or something else. But that experience absolutely is unique. Magic is real. The world is wild and exciting, and it's all there for that kid. It's amazing to…
I see what you did there, heh!
Just here to both support and counter this a bit. Kids are absolutely a great way to see joy in the world again!
... but they don't have to be yours. I've supervised those for my peers, played temporary dad, all of it.
Sure, it's time-boxed, but that may be the goal. Trading seeing "everything" new, for "plenty"
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Are women not safe in these states? I'm not sure I'm picking up whatever you are implying.
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what does this mean?
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what does your having a daughter have to do with Texas, Florida, or Alabama? Don't you have a daughter wherever you live?
Where is the live stream?
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> All postings for software engineers are on-site, in Texas. Not moving my family to Texas, Florida, or Alabama, for anything. Beautiful states, but I have a daughter. what does this mean?
See also: https://www.cnn.com/2023/12/05/us/texas-woman-high-risk-preg...
This woman in Texas having to sue to avoid a very dangerous birth of a child who will she will end up having to watch die within a few days.
> It states Cox’s OB-GYN, Dr. Damla Karsan, has a “good faith belief” that Cox falls under the legal exception to the abortion ban, but can’t provide the abortion without a court order because she “cannot risk loss of her medical license, life in prison, and massive civil fines” if her belief is not accepted by the courts.
So yes, Texas has an exception for births that would threaten the mother's life, but in practice doctors are justifiably petrified of betting their freedom on their assessment of that risk lining up with a bunch of medically ignorant theocrats' assessments.