Mantergeistmann
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Mantergeistmann
3hr 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
3hr ago
Including Sherlock Holmes in there has aged possibly better than any other comedy line out there.
Mantergeistmann
3hr 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
4hr 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
6hr 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
1d 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
1d 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
3d 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
3d 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
3d 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
4d 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
4d 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
4d 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
4d 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
4d 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
4d ago
Sounds similar to Anno, but piratey.
Mantergeistmann
5d ago
CoH3's new Final Stand expansion pack(?) has been a ton of fun. Also picked up Fields of Mistria, which I'm liking more than Stardew Valley (but less than my nostalgia says I liked the not-yet-remastered Friends of Mineral Town). Only drawback is I can't quite fully recommend it to the missus, as she likes her cozy games sans delving and combat ("why would my character work in any mine, especially one that has dangerous monsters?"). Perhaps there'll be a mod at some point that'll take care of that for her, though.
Mantergeistmann
5d ago
allegations that they made a backhanded bribe to get Iran to go easy on their blockade running ships.
That would also be acceptable for my spidey sense that "we weren't getting the whole story about Iran not controlling the Strait", if true.
Mantergeistmann
5d ago
Weirdly, a comprehensive wikipedia page probably would have been the worst possible thing for his career.
Well, second-worst, given what just happened.
Mantergeistmann
5d ago
Regional exports are rebounding, by some estimates up to two-thirds of pre-war levels. The UAE, for example, is already exporting at 85% of pre-war levels.
This one is causing my spidey-sense to tingle. I have no firm grounding, but my gut tells me there's some fuzziness/misdirection/technicalities going on here.
Mantergeistmann
5d ago
I've heard rumours that "going to the shore/countryside for one's health" actually made a lot of sense given that the building materials/paint resulted in a decent amount of low-level toxins in the air.
Mantergeistmann
5d ago
If there's one website that might be welcoming of such a post, it's this one.
... if there's one website where said post may turn hotter than the culture war, it's also this one.
Mantergeistmann
5d ago
I both love and hate how eternally relevant "Yes Minister" is.
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.
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