I'm confused about why this was downvoted. I thought it was interesting and it made me think about how I should do some things differently.

Aren't you ignoring the end of the story (and the part the title references) though? It seems like the whole thing is buildup to the people who walk away from Omelas, who are implied to do so because this situation is terrible, despite the utilitarian calculus.

I think I misremembered, since the post I was thinking of also says energy. I think of motivation and energy as basically the same thing though.

bigint and symbol don't really fit well into this post

symbol makes me think of belief values like "boo" and "yay". Although, I don't know if you'd consider these real beliefs. It seems like a lot of peoples' type systems allow these values though.

I drink water out of a large insulated water bottle at home since it lets me keep a significant amount of water near me without having to go downstairs to the kitchen all the time (this is especially nice during work). It's also nice that it doesn't have to be upright if I'm doing something like laying on the couch, and it's not a problem if I knock it over on my nightstand^[1].

The downside of a insulated water bottle is that it's either larger or has less capacity. My water bottle doesn't fit in a car drink holder or bike bottle carrier, and it's too big to reasonably use when traveling. I use smaller non-insulated water bottles for all of those cases.

My wife sometimes drinks her morning cold-brew coffee out of an insulated mug since it keeps it cold significantly longer than a normal ceramic mug. I drink my coffee fast enough that ceramic mugs are fine.

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   Just this weekend I was visiting my family and spilled a glass of water all over the nightstand and it was really annoying.

One thing to take into account is other peoples' kids vs. your kid. It seems like a lot of people like their own kids in particular, not kids in general. Your test only checks how you feel about kids in general.

Since part of this is genetic, it would be interesting to hear how your girlfriend felt about taking care of her sister's kids (and if you have any close relatives with kids, an experiment taking care of them might be an interesting data point).

Although I agree with you that if you don't think your want kids and all of the evidence points against you wanting kids, then not having kids is a good plan.

I've never really understood people's issue with the cold. If you're dressed appropriately you won't actually be cold

I have trouble hitting the exact right amount of warm clothes to bike in. When it's sufficiently cold, I always seem to end up either too cold or too hot (and then I sweat and get cold).

I also don't like biking in the rain, since I can technically wear waterproof pants, but they're not comfortable so I need to change at my destination (and potentially change again when I leave).

I only really bike to work and occasionally to Woodinville.

The Eastrail page has a decent map of full-separated bike trails (not just separate lanes), although it's annoying that some of the trails are "highlighted" in grey. 

The green trail north/south through Kirkland, and all of the grey trails following 520 and then north up to Woodinville are bike paths (not bike lanes, totally separated). They occasionally cross roads but it's infrequent. My house is (intentionally) along the 520 path so I can bike to work entirely on small neighborhood streets + the bike path.

I guess my post is targeted to people who already know they want to bike but don't know if they want an e-bike. I should mention that not everyone is going to be happy biking here though. Kirkland is pretty good for biking if bike lanes are good enough for you, and Redmond is weird but mostly fine. Bellevue is mostly suicidal to try to bike through (except along 520).

I also updated the title since I mostly don't talk about Seattle.

Thanks, I updated this to mention both SMT and hyperthreading.

Do you have any trouble with keyboard/mouse noise? I had a Blue Yeti and coworkers said it was distractingly loud when I was typing or clicked my mouse. The quality was excellent but needing a boom arm for calls was excessive.