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I find this really interesting. I left school 20 years ago, I've lived a wildly varied life and been all around the world on adventures outside of general tourism, with highs and lows tied to locations I am beyond familiar with, yet far too many of my dreams are in that damn school.

I didnt do anything during lockdown, that is, I carried on mostly as normal. I co-founded a community that was about socialisation for kids and being outdoors. None of us have long covid. None of us had anything worse than a flu. I also have friends that I didn't see closer than 10 metres during lockdown, they stayed indoors and watched Netflix, ordered food online, and behave themselves. 8 of them have "long covid". I understand anecdote isn't evidence, but when this whole thing became political I decided I can only make decisions based on experience and not what my better insist upon me.

This stuff has always seemed deeply wrong to me, as someone that actually believed in the values I was told were right and proper.

Is this why induatrial accident porn always seems to be from China? I just assumed it was a numbers thing.

I hate lights in general. People's garden security lights over a mile away can illuminate my bedroom. People walking around at night with LED headtorches in my face (I am now blind thanks), I can't see the sky at night thanks to overly powerful street lights, and they didn't stop me nearly being murderered a couple times, and worse to my friends. Working in an office we had constant bright overhead lightning. Everything is needlessly overilluminated.

As a person that plays a female barbarian, what exactly makes you think strong female don't exist when women have lower base strength?

I dont think calling Redguards a different species to Nords is going to go down well with the Elser Scrolls crowd

The quipo scholars were literate, it was just terribly inefficient system compared to physical representations of language we are familiar with. It still beats having no records at all though, Shows just how powerful preserving and passing knowledge is.

From my reading I understand that the Aztecs and Inca people never met, how did this trade network span the continent?

My Partner has absolute dogshit spatial memory. I visit a city once and I remember my bearings instinctively, probably due to playing a lot of badly designed mazelike Video games, but she can visit a City several times and still get lost going somewhere she has been before. Should we be worried?

The TV show one is good, I have a few movies I've seen dozens of times and can reite the script for potentially so watching them du bed and unsubbed in my target language taught me, atthe very least, how to say the most quotable lines or repetitive phrases after a single viewing (I did add custom Flash cards after)

Demonising it is more fashionable right now. Everyone I know that contributes to the Internet archive is right of Center enough to be considered a horrible person.

I had copilot suddenly appear last week, but I just right clicked and uninstalled it?

I sort of worked this out posting on 4chan a long time ago, and could actually get a decent conversation going there believe it or not. Not everyone is worth it though, unless you're using the like a matador to impress upon the lurkers. This is the best way to argue against Christianity I've found.

I had the original Warhammer figurines as a kid that my older brother didn't want. I remember bending the metal (I was maybe 4 or 5) and putting it in my mouth for some reason like I did with lego when I couldn't snap a piece off. I ended up swallowing a piece and vomiting up a bit of eldar soon after. Still have pleasant associations with the smell of lead thanks to warhammer.

Can I get it for free?

I do get a sense of relief downloading a movie recommendation and being greeted by the Criterion logo.

I just got a 6 on the ACE test you linked.

I lost interest in formal education and ended up having a baby and dropping out, then going back to study psychology as the foundation stuff covers child psychology and development a lot. I found a combination of this and being mindful not to repeat the mistakes of my parent(s) really helped raising the kids incredibly easy. We were never going to be rich, but we were happy.

I got into health and fitness, which I always considered lame, because my dad died from being unhealthy and unfit and didn't want to inflict that pain on my own baby. It helped me think clearer and faster and made me feel safe, confident and I became quite extroverted. I felt that this and reading a good chunk of philosophical literature in my spare time really "fixed" a lot of mental health issues I had. I've spent most of my life working jobs around my lifestyle, even if it means having less money, I seem to be pretty good at living off a small amount of money and not living in misery even with the family, I have more in savings and investments than people I met that work 2-3x more than me. I work less hours so I get more time to read, create, be with family, get exercise and sun, meet friends, prepare meals, work on community projects etc.

Maybe it's a cope for being constantly told that I'm going to "go far" and being too lazy, distracted or disinterested in doing it (I wince every time someone praises my intelligence) but I'm happy that I have the freedom and opportunities to always be improving myself and trying new things, my only complaint is that life is too short for me to possibly indulge in everything that interests me.

I'm genuinely curious as to why this is, as someone who has never had trouble aiming or covered the seat in piss.

I relate to much of the article, as a man, and in situations where I was wronged by women. I never saw it as a battle of the sexes but rather some people having ridiculous egos.

Surely if male dominance was about physical prowess, there wouldn't be any emperors or kings older than 35 before being punched to death by rivals?

I'd rather live in a culturally diverse world that either learns to get along or perishes than one that defeated racism and prejudice through creating a singular global culture and race.

Plausible deniability

I can't buy this anywhere in Europe as far as I can tell.

When I was a kid I apparently watched Ghostbusters every day. It was on a stolen rental that had the 2nd movie on after it, but my mother always stopped the video after the first and then would ask if I wanted to watch number 2 the next day, sometimes I did, but I always watched the first. When I realised how the tape player/tape worked and learned to read the box, I would watch them back to back. I think this was between the ages of 3 and 5 and it slowed down to weekly, fortnightly etc. I've probably seen the first movie over 1000 times, know every line and musical jingle.

I tend not to rewatch things anymore, maybe after 5 or 6 years if I really like something, usually with someone who hasn't seen it so I can share it with them.

Oddly enough I have absolutely no love for any further Ghostbusters sequels or the video games. As I said, I'm overly familiar with the first movie, I don't want to hear the same music I associate specifically with the Sedgewick Hotel playing during some other scene, or hear the same quotes or even see the same actors 50 years older. I want something new of the same quality and flavour of the era, which is pretty much impossible at this point in history. The themes, attitudes and imagery of the movie greatly influenced my interests and development as I grew up, even down to the clothes I wear today.

Is this nazism or simply extreme ideologies in general? I think more people than we would like to admit will rally behind whatever they're compelled to by authority or culture.

Cantonese is my favourite language and I really enjoy this, good work.

Also sugary sweets are aimed at children, for whom a dose of sugar probably hits much harder. As someone who managed to quit sugar, it was like a drug addiction.

So why doesn't this apply to plastic?

For cultural appropriation, sure. A person born in the USA to a racially Vietnamese family isn't going to get shit for wearing Vietnamese traditional garb despite being raised in America. An American that doesn't pass as Vietnamese sure would.