From: nospam@example.net   
      
   On Sat, 21 Sep 2024, oldernow wrote:   
      
   > On 2024-09-20, D  wrote:   
   >   
   >> Long time no see! What have you been up to? Productive   
   >> things such as living life I hope? =)   
   >   
   > Quite, even occasionally - not to mention thankfully -   
   > rising reproductive grade!   
      
   Reproductive? Another child on the way then? ;)   
      
   > Soon off to work sound at an outdoor autumn-ish event,   
   > including performing with wife and friends later in   
   > the day.   
      
   It is a nice job to have, that consists of bringing people joy! =)   
      
   > My wife's oldest brother is visiting from Taiwan. He's   
   > an above average fellow, and yet I'm not too big a fan   
   > of humanity to begin with, so I'm looking forward to   
      
   You are a wise man! Even though my wifes family is nice, there can be such   
   a thing as "too much of a good thing". Especially her mother loves to   
   question my decisions, and loves to tell me what to do, especially when it   
   comes to new age health care which I loathe.   
      
   > his departure, especially since someone in their family   
   > taught them all to talk endlessly, which drives me out of   
   > my fucking mind. They seem to think they're interesting,   
      
   But... if it does drive you out of your mind, it might also, drive you   
   into the beyond for a nice guided tour, before you return to the mess that   
   we call planet earth? ;)   
      
   I completely understand you! My wifes sister is a good talker. And she   
   won't accept any other views, so my wife is very happy that I do not speak   
   the language and thus won't be able to disrupt the discussion with   
   politically incorrect provocations, as easily. ;)   
      
   > but most of what I hear is "My God, I'm impressed with   
   > mySELF, aren't I?"   
   >   
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   So at least, there is a self then? ;) You do know that you could be a   
   simulated self in the mind of an almighty AI. Bet you didn't think of   
   that!   
      
   > You?   
      
   Same old, same old. Slowly entering the busy season at work. Country side   
   is closed down for the season. 1 mosquito bit me 3 times, and I was not   
   able to take my revenge, because he ran away before I woke up and there   
   was no point in running after him in a dark room. ;)   
      
   Besides that, the magnum opus continues. Currently reading Wittgensteins   
   "On Certainty" in the hope of convincing my fellow alt.philosophy brothers   
   that there actually is an external world. ;)   
      
   When not reading that, I'm reading Robin Hood and realizing that the guy   
   was the original libertarian, fighting the state and not the rich. ;)   
      
   And when not reading that, taking Nietzsches advice and reading through   
   the short oxford history of europe. I've reached the central middle ages.   
      
   So there you go!   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)