tripu @tripu@qoto.org

Sixteen years on the birdsite today. Not really there in the last few, though.

I encountered #HelenLewis' work for the first time when she conducted the first (and perhaps still only) honest adversarial interview with #JordanPeterson back in 2018. It was a pleasure to see someone wrestling with Peterson's ideas and strongly challenging some of them from a place of rigour and curiosity.

Today I listened to Helen Lewis on #BariWeiss' podcast, and definitely she's a thinker and an author worth following:

https://www.honestlypod.com/podcast/episode/3203402d/a-golden-age-of-gurus

En mayo estaré en #esLibre2023 contando [cómo se libera un sistema de diseño corporativo completo](https://propuestas.eslib.re/2023/charlas/como-liberar-todo-sistema-diseno-corporativo)

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Más info:

@eslibre

https://eslib.re/2023/

“Not your keys, not your coins”, yes.

But:

If you deem the probability of losing access to your wallet (device crushed, seed words lost in a fire, etc) 100 times smaller than the probability of your exchange failing (going under, being seized, etc) you should keep a hundredth of your #crypto at the exchange to balance the risk.

I also loved:

* _True Detective_ (S1, S2)
* _Big Little Lies_ (S1)
* _Community_ (several)
* _House of Cards_ (several)

And liked:

* _Vikings_ (S1, S2?)

#TVSeries #TVShows #TV

Although the public campaign seems to have completely fizzled out, on this fine last Wednesday of March I wish you…

**a happy Document Freedom Day!**

#DFD #DocumentFreedom #FreeSoftware #freedom

So basically I can enter every street in #Madrid city any time (even when there's high air pollution warnings), and park anywhere (including regulated parking areas), for free and with no time limits.

https://www.madrid360.es/como-me-afecta/etiqueta-0/

#EV #ElectricCar #SkodaEnyaq

https://twitter.com/profgalloway/status/1640094641872617472

[Romain Courtois](https://www.behance.net/romaincourtois/)

#pixelart #art #8bit #illustration

I identify as a #consequentialist and a (negative) #utilitarian, I suspect that existence is _probably_ not worth it because of the asymmetry of #qualia, and yet I have no intention of ending my own life (and I think that's rational). Why?

When we're #children we don't really understand what suffering is, and we don't even know that living is a choice. So we live.

#Teens and young adults famously tend to get closer to one of two poles: either they're disappointed, miserable, or lost (some of those do end their lives), or they are having a great time: they're at their prime, disease and pain are unknown to them, they discover pleasures, etc (those are happy to live).

We #adults are usually so entangled in relationships by this stage of life that even if/when we decided that non-existence beat existence _for us_, we wouldn't want to cause more suffering to those who love us and those who depend on us. So we (usually) live.

Second, even though I think that life is mostly #suffering, including human lives, that is just a generalisation, an average. Some lives one can expect to be miserable in all likelihood, while others are set to be as good as possible — even a net positive.

I live in one of the most prosperous countries on earth. I earn well above the average salary here, and so does my wife. We are relatively healthy and free of major health conditions. No history of relevant communicable diseases in our families, no major mental health issues, addiction, or tendency towards violence. We eat reasonably well, we are calm, we don't spend recklessly.

I expect our children to have lives that are better than the average human being's. Perhaps even lives worth living, after all.

First of all, I'm not _that_ convinced that antinatalism is true. I still have major doubts or objections. At the same time, my instinct is to want to have children.

I don't think that is hypocrisy. I usually want to be as rational and detached as possible. But when reasons seem weak or risky, and intuition plus tradition plus social norms plus advice from those close to me point somewhat strongly in the opposite direction, the gut can override the brain, and I think that's indeed reasonable.

Lately I've become quite sympathetic to #antinatalism.

And yet I have two kids, and if I were to start over again I think I would decide to have kids again.

How's that possible?

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More details:

Our consumption: 19 KW×h / 100 km.
Our mileage: 13K km/year.

Consumption of equivalent petrol #car: 7 ℓ / 100 km.

The figures above include the installation of a charging station in our garage, and public subsidies for #EV's and domestic charging stations (Moves).