From: nospam@example.net   
      
   On Mon, 24 Feb 2025, Salvador Mirzo wrote:   
      
   >> But I think that the majority of apps might run in that configuration. So   
   if I   
   >> need an app, I get start my VM, do what I need to do, and then shut it   
   >> down.   
   >   
   > I suppose commerce itself can do that.  For instance, someone could walk   
   > in a store with cash and exchange it for a temporary credit card to be   
   > used at the machines, say.   
   >   
   > You know what I mean?  Government offices can make their systems all   
   > based on phone apps, but then people can walk in some place to use a   
   > phone and get their bureaucracy done.  It's your idea up there, but   
   > instead of virtual machines, real phones instead.  This will likely be   
   > done, I think.   
   >   
   > And I think that's a good solution.   
      
   Ah yes... I thought of that as well, but more time consuming and expensive,   
   since it's 1 human to 1 human. I also thought about a similar concept for   
   people   
   who want to buy things with cash online. Go to one person with a credit card,   
   pay him in cash, and he buys you what you need.   
      
   I think this is probably illegal in the EU, since there are laws prohibiting   
   anonymous cash transactions for some amounts. But maybe not.   
      
   The phone service, cash service, and perhaps a p.o. box service would all be   
   part of my empire anonymous Inc! ;)   
      
   Jokes aside, sometimes I think such a business might exist best as an   
   underground business.   
      
   >>> I think that's already more or less true in commerce.  For instance,   
   >>> I've been at times confronted with the situation that without using   
   >>> Whatsapp, I could not get service.   
   >>>   
   >>> During the pandemics, for example, so many people could not find a way   
   >>> out of following protocols they did not want to follow and even taking   
   >>> chemical substances they did not want to take.  So many people I know   
   >>> did not want to do it and did it anyway because it was a hassle   
   >>> otherwise.   
   >>   
   >> Oh that was a pain. My wife got vaccinated once against her will because of   
   it.   
   >> I did not, and I spent many 100s of hours avoiding the unethical   
   restrictions. I   
   >> printed my own corona vaccination qr codes for a while, until that didn't   
   work,   
   >> I found a medical loop hole to allow me to travel without a mask, towards   
   the   
   >> end, I copied other peoples foreign qr codes, which would get me into   
   stores,   
   >> despite being unvaccinated, since the system in the stores only checked if   
   the   
   >> qr was valid, and nothing else like last country of use, or matching it   
   with id   
   >> checks.   
   >   
   > I did the same.  (It's amazing the kind of parallels we can find on the   
   > USENET.)  I'm happy to hear you managed it too.  I did a COVID exam   
   > every week, getting it negative 100% of the times, for an entire   
   > semester and archived my exams with my employeer.  I was very happy with   
   > the alternative: I would not have taken any substance at all.  I would   
   > have gone to the last resort.  I saw no point in taking in an unknown   
   > substance so try to avoid an aggressive /cold/.   
      
   It is amazing! It was the 2 worst year of my life, and destryoed my trust in   
   democracy. I stopped voting after that.   
      
   I did one corona test and they almost damaged my nose by showing some stuff up   
   into my brain. Extremely painful, and I had an irritated nose for several days   
   after that. That's when I decided, no more tests for me.   
      
   But I found a company that did saliva-based tests, and I called a doctor who   
   watched me perform the saliva based tests on the phone, and eventually she was   
   so tired of the process that she said, what ever... write your own certificate,   
   slap my name and signature on it, and just email me if you travel so I know.   
      
   So for 1 years, that's what I did. =D   
      
   But towards the end they hooked up all testing facilities to some EU   
   surveillance register, so then it did not work anymore, but it was towards the   
   end, so I didn't have the energy to get connected to it, but if it would have   
   continued, I would have started my own corona clinic.   
      
   >>>> As for children, no such thing for me, since biologically I have an   
   >>>> extremely low chance of having children. On the other hand, my parents   
   >>>> got the same diagnosis from the doctor, and they had me, and the   
   >>>> doctor said it was not possible according to science, so who knows? ;)   
   >>>   
   >>> I am sorry for hearing the news, but I also feel that we should hope for   
   >>> the best here.  I think nobody should trust doctor's predictions.  I   
   >>> certainly don't know the reasons you might have low chance of having   
   >>> children and let's remember this is a public forum.  The subject does me   
   >>> remind me of a conversation with epidemiologist Shanna Swan, which I   
   >>> have been slowly rewatching again---it's a 2h conversation.  The entire   
   >>> conversation is very interesting.  In this conversation, we can learn   
   >>> that male fertility is decreasing by 1% *per year*.   
   >>>   
   >>>  Shanna Swan on male fertility (et cetera)   
   >>>  https://youtu.be/C9aqGqjC1kE   
   >>   
   >> I've actually seen the video before, when my wife was the most crazy about   
   our   
   >> problem. In my case, it is just a chance mutation that resulted in low   
   quality   
   >> sperm. That's all. It is not impossible, but but very, very low probability   
   of   
   >> fertilizing eggs.   
   >   
   > I'm not a religious person in the traditional sense of the word, but   
   > turns out I find myself one of the most religious person I've ever met   
   > because patience, perseverance, lack of ambition and a certain mastery   
   > of the art of listening seem pretty religious to me.  For instance,   
   > pretty much every religious person I know has at least one tattoo on   
   > their skin.  I think that's totally non-religious because a tattoo   
   > effectively destroys (at least a bit) something natural that took a   
   > zillion years to be prepared---to protect the person.  I think that if   
   > God speaks to us at all, it is done through the movement of nature.   
      
   Never been a fan of tattoos. But in my case it is a conservative upbringing   
   where tattoos where seen as low class. It is strange how things like that still   
   stick with you. On the other hand, it is permanent, and since I don't have   
   anything permanent to say, I don't really see why I should get a tattoo.   
      
   It was funny, at a consulting gig there was a woke witch, constantly harping on   
   how evil I was as a white man. She tattooed the logo of the company on her arm.   
   Then 6 months afte I quit the consulting gig, she kicked her out.   
      
   I laughed a lot! What goes around, comes around. I still wonder if she has that   
   tattoo? =D   
      
   > Lol.  I'm saying all of this to say that I would never believe that it's   
   > really impossible for you to have kids.  Life is full of adversities.   
   > My idea is that we should work on them 'til the end---unconcerned with   
   > the end result.   
      
   This is a very sound philosophy! I do feel perfectly at ease with either   
   result,   
   child or no child, but I have told my wife that as long as she wants it, I   
      
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