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13hr ago
For what it's worth, I have no problem with Indians and I've never known someone IRL who does. Bear in mind that this place is going to be skewed towards having spicy opinions that most people don't necessarily hold, so don't take the discourse here as representative of what Americans think.
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16hr ago
I don't agree with the "just find a wife bro" that you're responding to, but this isn't true either. You can in fact find a nice girl (or boy) whether you live in the city center, in the suburbs, or in BFE nowhere. People do it all the time.
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22hr ago
Gene Roddenberry passing away early in TNG is probably the best thing to happen to the show. He never would have let the Federation get so dark...
Unfortunately it's a double-edged sword. If you listen to the writers talk about TNG, it's clear that TNG was good in spite of him and not because of him. Some of the best stories (e.g. Picard's story in "Family" in S4) they did were shot down by Roddenberry because "people in the future wouldn't act that way", and the other producers had to fight with him to get the stories approved. But on the other hand, stuff in DS9 was already getting dark enough that the writers were seriously risking the setting not working as a positive vision of the future any more. And when you get to nu-Trek, that is completely gone, with the Federation being outright villains in Picard. So while Roddenberry could be unreasonable about his vision at times, it turns out that having someone like that at the helm was important to make sure that the writers didn't just completely disregard the fact that Star Trek is supposed to be an optimistic future, not just today's problems but 300 years from now.
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2d ago
A translation. I'm reading this edition, which seems to be pretty decent.
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2d ago
Still reading the Divine Comedy. I finished Purgatorio and am now into Paradiso. I'm still enjoying it enough to keep going, though it is definitely a slog as a non-enjoyer of poetry. I've also resumed trying to read through Theology of the Body, which is often very difficult to follow (which is very unusual for me), but I hate to let it be said that I didn't finish a book because it was too hard for me.
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3d ago
You should look up the details of what origin characters miss out on, because Gale has (imo) the best story of any of the party members. It would be a shame to miss out on it, but hopefully I'm remembering wrong.
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3d ago
I mean IMO there's zero reason to play as an origin character, and from what I remember negative reason (I seem to recall that the character's story doesn't really happen if you play them as the PC). If I were you I would start over and make a custom character, but that's just me.
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4d ago
Gotcha, I missed that reading through the thread. Thanks!
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4d ago
By what metric? As far as I can tell people are ready to hurt each other physically in a way they simply were not ten years ago. That seems like a massive decrease in trust to me.
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4d ago
You gave away the one advantage of the Internet with this post. I hope it was worth it.
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5d ago
Props, man.
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6d ago
It's worth checking your state laws for sure, cause I know in Wisconsin at least it's perfectly legal. In fact, you're even entitled to take the carcass if you didn't hit it with your car - the driver who hit it has dibs, but after that whoever comes across it can take it if they want.
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9d ago
I resemble this remark. I read a ton, but I'm not reading stuff that's been written recently (with a few exceptions). There are a ton of classics to read, and also frankly I don't think most new releases are actually good.
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10d ago
Wait what? I've seen her in other things and can't say I ever noticed them, but maybe I'm not paying attention.
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11d ago
One thing worth bearing in mind is that the biggest risk here is short term. Rent goes up every year like clockwork, while your mortgage is going to stay the same (or even go down if you refinance into a better interest rate). My wife and I have owned our house for 7 years now, and our mortgage is already about on par with what we would be paying for our apartment if we had stayed renters. Plus we have more space here (1300 sq ft at the apartment, 2000 here with 1300 finished and 700 unfinished). It was a stretch at times for the first few years, but between our payments getting cheaper (due to refinance) and rent going up, we are already at the point where we're glad we bought.
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11d ago
She went by Ever. It was unusual but you got used to it.
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11d ago
Dear humanity: we regret being alien bastards. We regret coming to Earth. And we most definitely regret the Corps just blew up our raggedy-ass fleet!
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11d ago
As you said, virtue names are uncommon, but by no means unheard of, in the US. Almost exclusively for girls, though Felix arguably counts as a virtue name for boys. For girls I've seen Hope, Faith, Grace, Mercy, Charity, Joy and Constance around, as well as one extremely out there example whose full name was Ever Lasting Love (apparently her parents were hippies, lol).
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11d ago
I haven't seen the movie, but I have seen the musical. It has great songs, which is over halfway to the goal line if you're a musical. And I think that the arc of Elphaba and Glinda, going from a really awful relationship, to best friends, to having to part ways, is interesting and works well. Otherwise, it's not something amazing (the movie is almost certainly severely overhyped, even if it's good there's no way it's as good as people say it is). It's just a pleasant musical about a more sympathetic take on a villain from a classic story. If you aren't feeling the musical side of things, check out the original cast recording of the stage version and see if you like that more. I think that soundtrack slaps.
I haven't read the book either (it's on the list to be read someday), but from what I understand it's significantly different from the play, to the point that it isn't really relevant to any discussion about the play (and now movie).
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12d ago
What do mottizens mean, when they reference "fed posting?"
Fedposting is an Internet term in general, not a Motte thing. It means that someone is posting pretty openly about doing very illegal stuff (generally violence but could be drug dealing or something of that nature I guess). The etymology is that federal agents have been known to stir people up to do illegal things, then arrest them for it. Thus, if one were to say "we should go shoot a bunch of people" or whatever, they are posting like one might expect one of those federal agents to. Thus, fedposting.
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13d ago
What's really funny is now GLP-1 drugs have made it a simple matter of adhering to an injection schedule, so these difficult conversations need not happen. Someone just loses a bunch of weight out of 'nowhere'...
As someone who is taking 2mg of Ozempic weekly (for diabetes, which it is helping), I can tell you that unfortunately this isn't true. It still depends on the person. Obviously some have success, but not all will.
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14d ago
Yer a Christian, Harry.
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14d ago
Same. I've never worked with someone who actually liked all the corporate crap, and most people were openly skeptical of it. Nobody really pretends to care about quarterly earnings and the like, either.
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17d ago
I like your post overall but this jumped out at me:
Every Billionaire makes many millionaires, some make other billionaires! Wozniak would never have been a household name if he had refused to follow Jobs.
And Jobs would've been nothing without Wozniak. It was a partnership, not one man following another. They needed each other equally - without Wozniak, Jobs is a sales guy without an interesting product, and without Jobs, Wozniak is a tech guy with a killer product but without the ability to convince people of its utility.
That is very much outside the scope of my expertise. I met my wife through online dating, so there's that. But otherwise I don't know how people are meeting, I just know that they do as a result of seeing people's stories over time.
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