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There are a lot of very good game now. I have several games with playtime in the 4 digits. They don't help the world, but they keep me in a learning state that would otherwise require to be very invested in a career to be attained. Most job don't realy help the world either, at most, they fix issue...

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Mon Apr 22, 2024 2:50 pm

When I search for e-sports and schools in Denmark it shows boarding schools where you can take CS:GO as an optional profile. That's kind of cool!

Apparently Denmark is pretty big on Counterstrike, both in terms of general popularity but also in terms of ranked teams. No idea why.

@zbigi - I played Civ 30+ years ago. I bought Civ5 on a steam sale but didn't really get into it. If you want something different than colonizing or attacking things on hexagons, try AI War. It is technically RTS, but you can pause at any time and issue commands while paused.

Wow, 30 hours a week is 4+ hours per day. That's like my work week :D I'm surprised that I manage that much, but the experience actually does feel a bit like how my work weeks tended to go. Bursts of flow state activity followed by rest after the brain gets zonked. Once recharged, another 20--40 mi...

I've made it to Tier7-8(*) in World of Warships and I know understand why some people call it World of Wargrind(ing). Game time has increased to some 30 hours per week. In terms of skill I can now mostly hit what I aim at and also get away with it without dying in the first 10 minutes. I usually sco...

In our modern era, it may very well be that Kegan3 becomes a limiting factor with "freedom-to," as the institutional life pack includes things like social recognition, connection, etc that are difficult to replicate in freedom-to. Either one has the aptitude for solitude or finds a way to...

From what I read, the best estimate for sea level rise is 1mm per year. Over a hundred years that adds up to 10cm, not visible to the human eye. It's faster than that. Currently closer to 3.5mm/year and accelerating (ice melting faster on top of the thermal expansion base rate). However, the vertic...

"Freedom" has been turned into a slogan. "What do we want?" "Freedom" "When do we want it?" "Now" "What is it?" "Deeeerp..." The natural slave part of https://earlyretirementextreme.com/99-percenters-inequity-fairness-capitalism-a...

Anyone interested in building furniture before or during the European ERE meetup? I actually think this is possible! (especially if you have a chopsaw) The hard part would probably to get the furniture home again. My mother and DW built this set of outdoor armchairs (*) over a couple of days (handt...

I am saddened that you do not consider my LentilBaby concept to be a creative contribution to the forum. I am surprised that you do not, for example, consider basuragomi's experiments with LenTofu to be a creative contribution to the forum. Making tofu out of lentils or being a live-in-girlfriend m...

Perhaps the days of creative individualism are waning somewhat, and the days of collective creation are in our purview. This would be something that would surprise in the sense that I'm rather unprepared for it and would probably resist it for the longest time while lamenting that everything was be...

@Jacob -- happy to send you some melt-your-face-off pepper seeds at the end of the season (~Oct) and maybe a bottle of hot sauce or two. No need to send anything in return, my way of saying thanks for creating & hosting this community. Will send a larger amount of seeds from unnamed variety box...

Reminds me of this letter to the editor I wrote for my local paper near the end of high school: I'm currently reading some proceedings on creativity by Sternberg . My takeaway so far is an actual definition of creativity, which is something that is "new and useful within it's social context wh...

Yes, but where would you have looked in 1965 for sign that although vacuum was being operated by female wearing an apron in 1906, and young females were still being trained for apron-wearing-vacuum-operation as possible primary profession 59 years later, the advertisements of 2024 would bring the p...

For those who are interested, The Rise and Fall of American Growth gives a good overview (going back 150 years) of how various technologies have been incorporated into the households as history has progressed. As a rule of thumb, it takes some 20--40 years between the appearance of the first prototy...

For one thing, I participated in discussions with people much older and mature from me on various news forum (back when the news protocol was a thing), and it helped my reasoning and my writing. Yeah, I might be taking this for granted/be blind to what a difference that made. I was stuck with the g...

Internet made knowledge universal, which disproportionally helped people who can take advantage of knowledge being available to them (i.e. the smarter part of the population). After Internet, everybody in the world, who taught themselves reasonably good English, could now read millions of English l...

This depends on perspective or how you might roughly identify. I think it's possible that the lifestyle of an urban/suburban middle-class, middle-aged, female in the U.S. changed more from 1965 to 2024 than from 1906 to 1965. For example, such a woman would have likely been wearing gloves to church...

Jacob, I think your conclusions here are a little bit...too general to be of much help. Well, okay, I guess I asked for that... 2) Weather events that are now considered extreme [historic] will become an every other year thing by 2040(*). The world will pass 2C in 2035 or so. (Currently at 1.4-1.5)...

@J_ All the ones you listed, except maybe the neighbor (then again, having people always had a chance of a bad neighbor) are continuations of long-term trends. I think the only one that wasn't underway 10-20 years ago is the electrification of bicycles, driven by a rising battery industry which agai...