That would have been a giveaway.

I'll take that as a compliment! I've had the same job since December 2001. My first marriage lasted over 20 years. My second is at 12 already. Three sons, one daughter, a wife who's a career soldier, means we move a lot.

This has been a ton of fun. Thank you for taking the time to do it. I was very careful in my answers, hoping not to give too much away. I think I was mostly successful.

I'm pretty impressed at the 49 number though!

You're actually 12 years too young. I just celebrated birthday 61.

We met in 2011

Wow, another interesting question. There are so many. I think the night I meet my wife at the instigation of some friends would be one of those. My life certainly changed significantly then.

Oh I'm working on it. I fiddle around in the shop, learning some really basic skills but getting there.

Oh man, what a question. I really want to change careers. I want to learn to make furniture. It feels more "lasting" than writing code. So yeah, I have more to do.

Yellowstone is fantastic! I'm loving it

Right now I am playing a lot of Balatro, some Satisfactory, some BG3, some No Mans Sky. Minecraft is also regularly in rotation.

Cook dinner, and right now I'm watching Yellowstone Season 2.

If I weren't doing that, I would likely be playing a video game.

Looking forward to it! Do your worst!

I think this is a pretty entertaining game. Good idea

Yes, but what gorgeous country to get fucked in! When my wife PCSd from Long Island to Fort Knox, we drove through that country several times.

She would also spend a lot of time at Fort Lee (now Gregg-Adams) and the drive from Fort Knox to Fort Lee also crossed amazing parts of WV.

My father was an itinerant minister. He traveled all over the country. We made great use of TripTik (I think that's what it was called).

Hey! Thanks so much for the helpful response. I really appreciate it!

Honor Harrington or Safehold by David Weber.

I get a big red banner saying sorry, according to your usage patterns you are not in the same family.

I have three sons, they live in the West Coast, I live in the Midwest. I can't join a family with them. That's a bummer.

My absolute favorite AC game. My wife just got me Sideshow's Edward Animus statue for my birthday. It's stunning.

She was on a team in Kentucky 6th through 8th grades. She's starting her Freshman year in Iowa.

Her response is sadly always the same. "Dad! I'd get in trouble!"

My daughter is an archer. I have asked her this question many times.

I love it. I don't understand your mental health struggles so I'm going to resort to name calling.

Your worth, your value is not determined by what someone else makes.

Also, I'm a bit ignorant of this subject so forgive me if I get it wrong, but did he not go to school significantly longer for his MD than you did for yours?

I believe he also had to go through the hell that is residency, I didn't believe nurses do.

If you're envious of his salary, improve your skills, or your education. If you're happy where you are at In life, then don't let the fact that others make more than you interfere with that happiness.

No matter what you do, there will always be others who make more, one of those sad facts of life.

I'm sorry, which part of "destroys me" don't you understand? Do I need to spell out that on more the one occasion I contemplated a bullet in the head because of those things?

Just because you are unable to relate to such a thing does not mean my mental health is not negatively impacted.

So I ask again, where do you place the limit on what is deserving a trigger warning?

I'm opposed to trigger warnings for the same reason I'm opposed to participation trophies. Part of maturing is learning that uncomfortable things happen in the world, and that you will not always be successful.

If you don't want to see uncomfortable things, perhaps you should not be watching The Sopranos, or Sons of Anarchy, or Yellowstone, or Hill Street Blues, or MASH. Stick with Disney+ (but maybe not, I watched Lion King last night in honor of the passing of James Earl Jones and cried like a baby).

Serious question, where do trigger warnings end? I am triggered by any father showing approval for their son. (Hell I'm choking up just typing that). My wife and daughter will tell you that no matter what: TV, Movie, Audio Book, or even commercial, it will destroy me, sometimes for a few minutes sometimes longer. I have never seen a "Warning! This show contains graphic fatherly approval of their children that may be upsetting to some viewers" I would never think of making an issue of it either. My emotional fragility is my issue to deal with. Not someone else's.

Boy THAT will work! Good idea government!

Isn't that what ratings are for?

I hate to think about what your familial experiences must have been like to believe that couples can't love each other, have kids they love and who love them, and genuinely enjoy being around each other.

We watched The Lion King tonight in his honor.

I've even helped by putting my nose in the air and saying, "that's ok, I'll put it away for you"

If someone tells you something, that something does not get repeated without asking for permission first. People don't have to say "can I tell you this in confidence?" Absolutely everything is kept in confidence.

Loved it. TMI. It came out when my first wife and I had split after 20 years of marriage. I was living in a dive apartment. Alone for the first time in my life.

Playing BioShock.

Very very aware.

So you had another mail server elsewhere that port forwarded port 25 via port 22 to your internal mail server's port 25.

I take it that outside mail server was secure.

That's an impressive setup.

Thanks for reading and engaging in good faith.

The lack of land is a huge problem. It is possible that when underwater habitats or space habitats become a thing there will be room for such an experiment.

Did you really only use it when you were home? If you used it outside the firewall then port 25 must have been open also.

I used to run my own server and this was in the early 90s. Then one day, perusing the logs I realized I was not smart enough on the security front to even attempt such a thing. It was quickly shut down and the MX record moved to an outsourced mail provider.

I disagree. Voluntary communities are made up of volunteers. There is nothing coercive about it. Voluntary communities provide a way for like-minded people to live in harmony. If your beliefs do not match the beliefs of a voluntary community, you are free to to argue that your beliefs should be included, leave the community, or start a new one and include anyone who believes the same things you do.

Granted within current systems you can do the first, but you are completely unable to do either the second or third.

I live in the USA. But I did not volunteer to live in the USA. I certainly may be able to move to a different country, but I certainly won't be able to find a country with the same beliefs as I have. (The States with our Constitution and Bill of Rights is likely the closest to my beliefs).

Probably not the root of what you're looking for, but when I was growing up in the 70s there was a national Christian campaign called the "I Found It* campaign. The church I grew up in participated and I Found It yard signs and buttons and billboards and radio ads and TV ads sprouted every where.

Of course the answer to *what did you find?" Was always Jesus, or eternal life or something like that.

That's one of the reasons AnCaps believe in voluntary communities, that way those who didn't advise but whatever the community's rules are they can a) be punished based on the rules of the given community, or expelled.

AnCap here. Unfortunately in our world there is no possible way to create an AnCap society, so you live within the bounds of what you have.

Dumb? Possibly. Do you think you gain or lose voters by calling much of America deplorable? How about, calling them racist? Nazis? Do any of those things attract people to your side of the fence?

And this is why there are so many Trump voters.