Mantergeistmann
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Mantergeistmann
9hr ago
I'm honestly more surprised that it's actually been updated in the past 5 years than I am that someone doing so would use AI.
Mantergeistmann
1d ago
At this point, the owner of an adjacent lot (where he is constructing a house much larger than mine) suggests that I pay him 100 dollars to get the grass cut by the Friday deadline. I accept this offer.
Could have also probably gotten a neighborhood kid to do it for half the price.
Mantergeistmann
1d ago
I’m pretty sure individuals used to offer rooms more, too. Some of the quirks of Remains of the Day come from the butler protagonist staying at various private homes which operate more like a bed and breakfast. This is as he’s making a multi-day trip across…England.
So... AirBnBs?
Mantergeistmann
1d ago
Initially I thought this was going to be about medical mistakes.
"I often say a great doctor kills more people than a great general." -- Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
Mantergeistmann
2d ago
That is to say, I know that a lot of Canadians are angry, and I know that a lot of Canadian politicians also claim to be angry
As I understand it from my Canadian friends, the defining point of Canadian culture is being "better (morally/culturally, rather than economically/militarily) than the US". The 51st state talk really riled them up far more than any trade war could ever have.
Mantergeistmann
2d ago
I figured there was a non-zero chance it'd be a "this is normal as people get older; here's XYZ that tends to help." But I do appreciate the advice.
Mantergeistmann
3d ago
He is fighting zombies as much as his stupid wife and other whining morons from his group who complain about lack of toilet paper. It is basically a middle management bad office drama story, cheating wives, stupid kids doing stupid shit but just with zombies. In fact zombies are something like bad weather or environmental hazard, it could as well be a series about bunch of morons being transported to Alaska
My understanding is that's most zombie stories. They're not about the zombies, they're about the people, and the zombies are -- as you say -- easily replaceable by any stressful environmental hazard. They're window dressing for the set.
Mantergeistmann
3d ago
the way they are presented and consumed precludes longer form text. You won't find something equivalent to Blood Meridian or Moby Dick published online
I dunno, publishing novels as serials used to be fairly common, to my understanding.
Mantergeistmann
3d ago
Including Sherlock Holmes in there has aged possibly better than any other comedy line out there.
Mantergeistmann
3d ago
I loved video games, but my parents smartly put a limit on how much time I could spend playing them. By contrast, they put zero limit on the amount of time I could spend reading, regardless of subject matter or value (except romance novels: my mom considered those trash and off limits to me as a youth).
Mantergeistmann
3d ago
Reduced nasal respiratory capacity -- aka I'm noticing more trouble breathing through my nose over the past several months/year. Short of seeing a specialist (a bother), anything that can be done about this?
Mantergeistmann
3d ago
then proceed to lose horribly
That's part of it, I'm sure: the Cold War was won peacefully, not via destruction and unconditional surrender and occupation and rebuilding.
Mantergeistmann
4d ago
Biggles
Out of curiosity, have you ever watched the old Rowan Atkinson series The Thin Blue Line, from around the same time period he was doing Blackadder?
Mantergeistmann
4d ago
Interactive Brokers is considered the best.
I've generally heard them recommended for non-US clients. Are they worth it over Fidelity for US citizens residing in the US?
Mantergeistmann
6d ago
roastie
... isn't that a small potato?
“chud” has been reclaimed by wrongthinkers
Has it? Or is it just becoming universal? I still see it more from left-leaning people than right.
Mantergeistmann
6d ago
Looks like ML has a cash management account that allows automatic dividend reinvesting, even if nowhere else, so that might be the best option depending on fees.
Mantergeistmann
6d ago
However, the "grocery stores are not evil camp" tends to have shitty marketing (perhaps due to not thinking in terms of attractive narratives itself too much) and loses to people like Zoran Mamdani.
Isn’t the obvious solution just photoshopping Mamdani's head over Boris Yeltsin's and letting the memes take off? If there's one episode in history that points out the strength of a free market, it's specifically related to grocery stores
my broker does not have good tools for daily cash sweeps, so getting compounding interest requires too much micro-managing
I think I'm not fully understanding here -- are you referring to reinvesting dividends automatically, or is it that every time you make a deposit, you want it to automatically be invested in the MMF? If it's the former, I'd have thought for sure Merrill would have that option; if the latter, could you schedule an automatic "buy" that just doesn't execute if there's no cash in the account?
I'd strongly, strongly prefer for it to be accessible through Merrill so I can keep high status.
What benefits does that actually bring, out of curiosity? I've always wondered about that sort of thing.
Mantergeistmann
7d ago
Your corded mowing experience (and patterns) are pretty similar to my own. The cord is a minor annoyance, but certainly far less of one than anything to do witn a gasoline mower is.
my cute little car
Please tell me it's the same shade of lime green that's in the wikipedia article.
Mantergeistmann
7d ago
Man, we are going to be accused of becoming the Makita shill forum
As my favorite (now dead) nuclear scientist used to say, "They accuse me of being biased. Well, of course I am, because it's better!"
Mantergeistmann
7d ago
I don't know if XCom does this, but I've heard the Fire Emblem games will tilt the displayed vs. actual odds to be closer to how players mentally perceive chance... i.e. if the game says you have a 75% chance to hit, you're going to hit more than 3 out of every 4.
Mantergeistmann
7d ago
I think the turn-based visuals really make it look goofy, as opposed to (say) the Ayys knocking your barrel aside right as you pull the trigger, or your character looking a bit more panicked at being right next to a berserker.
Mantergeistmann
7d ago
How about Roller Coaster Tycoon? Or similar? Any of the classic 18 billion SimX games... I know SimTown was deliberately designed as a younger age version of SimCity, for instance.
Mandatory plug any time someone asks about games for a child, regardless of any other context: Once she becomes literate I'd recommend the old Super Solvers and Operation Neptune games, which were legitimately enjoyable as games even without the educational aspect.
Mantergeistmann
8d ago
Sounds similar to Anno, but piratey.
Presumably there would have been no sympathy if the person he reported to the police had killed thesmelves. Instead, it would have been seen as vindication that Arday was in the right, and that the person he reported could not live with his own lies and malice.
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