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iprayiam3
3hr ago
Other times, I am frustrated by her lack of brutal drive to self improvement. ... Shes objectively achieved enough that her intelligence is not up for question, but other times Im dissastisfied with the lack of sharp off the cuff retorts that ive come to expect from my male friends.
Gross. This isn't real. You don't want a wife who's like one your your guy friends. You don't want your wife to be a sarcastic, grindsetting bro.
As i read this, I know I sound like a manic pixie dream boy. But, the brain wants what it wants.
I wanted a manic pixie dream girl, the girl I married isn't anything like that, I had real axiety briefly while dating her about that, I made the best decision in the world.
Logistically, we're very long distance and will last another year, which is the biggest issue.
This is the only objection you've raised that is legit. Also, could a source of you lack of investment be related to a lack of real chemical interaction?
coffee_enjoyer
☕️
3hr ago
Makes sense, why would you want a flood of competitors to lower your wages?
Supah_Schmendrick
3hr ago
I have no idea if it would sell, but that description reads exactly like a book I would snap up in a heartbeat from a second-hand book shop, read until the spine broke, and then madly evangelize to all my friends to the point of exasperation.
On the other hand, you've been around the motte and its predecessors to know that I'm not exactly the median reading public, so ymmv.
Happy to be of any assistance I can, even if it's just cheerleading, and eventually buying a copy of whatever you produce.
Tacherus
4hr ago
That’s what I thought at first but it seems like they’ve got the same background as the members. How do you account for the split between leadership and members?
Tacherus
4hr ago
Lying about “prospects” seems pretty hard to prove because they’re predictions. And founders definitely tend to be a little crazy.
SSCReader
4hr ago
I think those are a proportionally negligible as to the total number of deaths that occur annually, though.
Indeed, but as we are talking Thanos snapping, we can handle the small issues and the big ones too. No additional cost. Of course there are better ways than snapping away the guns as we mentioned above, just fix the aggressive people, then nobody really has much of a need for firearms, so we can get rid of those to stop accidents and the like. We can even stop animals being aggressive to humans as well.
SSCReader
4hr ago
Right, but as we are Thanos snapping we might as well deal with the small stuff too, there is no extra cost to it.
Ken0sis
4hr ago
Yeah, it surprises a lot of people, but Russia has had really successful longstanding agreements with the US and Norway dating back well into the Soviet era. Generally speaking, Russia's willing to align with its neighbors against more exploitative third parties (historically Poland and Japan, but possibly China in the future).
SteveKirk
4hr ago
Something only just occurred to me about that. If it's a crime to make an agreement with a bank about the value of your property as collateral, how is it not a crime to straight up lie about the prospects of a startup?
MaximumCuddles
4hr ago
Quick note; I think using the fights & romances as sort of a zig-zag central beam of the narrative would be quite compelling, they seem even more central to your character than the more standard adventure fare of your far-flung career.
The whole fighter / lover tension seems to be wrought throughout it.
But then again I’m a military brat and third culture kid so that other stuff is more normal to me. Maybe that’s a plus; conflict and love are more relatable to a wider variety of people.
ToZanarkand
Some day the dream will end
4hr ago
Russian fisheries practices have generally leaned towards conservation and effective management of existing stocks
Interesting. Perhaps this is bigoted of me but my general impression of Russian institutions would have led me to assume they'd take a far more recklessly extractive approach. Glad to hear that's not the case.
ArjinFerman
Tinfoil Gigachad
4hr ago
Can you imagine being a Haitian in Springfield right now?
It must be horrible. They should be given a new residence in Martha's Vineyard, where they will not have to suffer such vile bigotry.
ABigGuy4U
4hr ago
I definitely remember seeing a few news stories of people having their jaws blown off by defective vaporizers.
Didn't have time to do this earlier. Here's a spreadsheet (I tested it from a few browsers - it should be persistent) with the data from table 7.2-T03 (page 91) of the report ("Non-German suspects by nationalities – total offences excluding offences against foreigners’ law"), and table 12521-0005 from the German statistics office (for total population sizes for 2020).
Might do the same with the data from your study, if it has this level of detail.
P.S.: Here's a screenshot in case the spreadsheet gets binned.
Jesweez
4hr ago
We’ll see, hopefully not.
But, I don’t think a person has to be murdered to have been dehumanized either.
Can you imagine being a Haitian in Springfield right now?
hydroacetylene
4hr ago
Thermals don’t pick up bugs. Plant radishes around your cabbage and run chickens through.
jeroboam
5hr ago
I predict that zero Haitians in Springfield will be murdered by someone who is angry about pets.
faceh
5hr ago
won't catch people who snap and go on a spree,
I think those are a proportionally negligible as to the total number of deaths that occur annually, though.
Like, a couple hundred even in the worst years, in the U.S.
Stopping those would probably require a massive surveillance state which would cost billions annually and would, like with gun confiscations, oppress 'normal' citizens. To say nothing of the potential for abuses.
The other way to stop those is to arm responsible citizens who can stop them as they happen
I dunno, seems like aggressively arresting and locking up the most violent citizens would also tip the balance in favor of letting the remaining citizens remain armed, making the chances of an armed citizen being able to stop a random spree killer a bit higher.
What really chafes me is that all discussion is sucked into the gun control debate so we can't have a decent discussion about other policy approaches.
hydroacetylene
5hr ago
He’s using colourful nicknames, I believe- wedgies are probably wedge tailed eagles, for example.
jeroboam
5hr ago
Unsurprisingly, the FBI has nerfed its crime data under Biden making it much harder to get useful information. So the epistemological situation is only getting worse.
hydroacetylene
5hr ago
The carolina parakeet. The only parrot species native to the USA.
There are native parrots on the Rio grande.
hydroacetylene
5hr ago
I am sure that there are some wild species which the Romans found so tasty that they ate them to extinction, but 2000 years on, hardly anyone ever complains about not being able to eat them.
Ironically, the canonical example of a species the Romans ate to extinction is silphium, which people regularly complain about being extinct- because the Romans thought it was an effective birth control. Even if Roman medical knowledge was 100% accurate for once, how to prepare it as a contraceptive would almost certainly have been suppressed by Christianity(early Christian writers hated birth control, and it’s generally agreed that whatever efficacy silphium had it was as some sort of preparation).
But there you have it.
hydroacetylene
5hr ago
The teamsters have most of their membership in warehouses IIRC. I think a lot of it is just working class voters favoring Trump even when they’re making good money.
SSCReader
5hr ago
Right, but then we can also make them happy to stay in small towns right? We're already turning them into productive citizens, might as well make them happy where they are productive citizens. The reason why Thanos's plan in killing half the universe is stupid is because he has power over Minds, Reality, Souls , Space and Time. He can create resources, change people to not need so many resources, change people to work together better, create housing and planets, and suns.
If we can turn people into productive citizens then housing is the least of our worries. We'll turn a chunk of them into builders and contractors and miners and some into interior designers and so on. Snap loads of bricks and mortar into existence. Make New York into a TARDIS where Manhattan can have infinite housing in a finite area or whatever. Or make people happy to live 10 a room. Sky is the limit.
I am a white man, so I can imagine it, since white men have been dehumanized for years now by various people.
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