I've always done that with both my parents, but then again I'm Danish. It's a radically different culture. Families are not seen as particularly inherently important here. It's usually not even a meritocratic assessment of the family as a unit - it's an individual one. You might like some people, you might dislike others. Either way, is has almost nothing to do with whether a blood relation exists or not.
"An asshole's an asshole."
Edit: Along similar philosophical lines, there's no particular veneration of age. Age and wisdom might be proportionally related, but one does not guarantee the other. Some people manage only to grow more foolish with age. Precocious children exist.
I'd be very interested in exploring the differences between cultures more with you, assuming you're willing.
I'm emphatically not saying somebody should soccer-kick Altman repeatedly right in the scrotum, I'm just saying I'd enjoy a good drink with a sigh of contentment if someone did.
Much like what happened to Digg back at the dawn of time, Reddit's relentless series of unforced errors, undesirable policy changes and deliberate enshittification finally drove me to seek out an alternative.
Wait. Are you telling me that people would be willing to pay a small premium for living in a place that isn't a shit hole, surrounded by content people who aren't feeling murderously angry about crappy circumstances beyond their control?
I'm good, thanks. I've got plenty of C, C++, Python, Zig and Rust code that needs to be written as it is. If I'm going to use some of my sparse free time to have a look at new programming languages, I'd rather spend it on Haskell, Erlang, Eiffel or Ada.
I don't see Rockstar or other esolangs as likely to teach me anything novel, useful or transferable and It's not going to do much for my CV either. Perhaps I'm being overly pragmatic, but I only have so much time per day, and we all have to prioritize.
Well, no. But that was rather my point: As helpful as I think infrequent responsible use of hallucinogens can be for those already given to self-reflection, when a person who've spent their entire life dodging their moral obligations and rationalizing away their doubts is suddenly confronted with exactly who and what they are and left with no way out, the results are not often beneficial.
Either it would have inspired some much needed self-awareness, empathy and consciousness of guilt, or... It would have driven him to fervently implement his 12 hour long Boschian hell-vision.
I think we were having a shared nervous breakdown over the current state of geopolitics, but the hyperventilation made me lose consciousness so I can't be sure.
Sure, you demented dickhead.