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If you're serious ... I sincerely wish I could be serious, but only got me about 4 spoons in my drawer currently. However, my armchair commentary will continue along the line of wondering about the subjective, consensus-building approach to this topic/problem. If I belonged to a forum that largely ...

Semi-interesting cultural note. Apparently, it is now deemed appropriate by those in the sub-culture most likely to wish you a "blessed day" to use the term "lifted" rather than "gifted", "competent", or "knowledgeable." I was asked if I was willing ...

@AE: Yes, and the dominant types in Modern Culture would be towards ENTJ and ESTJ. My strategy for dealing with the dominant types is to take mild-mannered advantage of the increased vasopressin levels they experience with age. Related tactics include "simple physical proximity", "sig...

Boring as it sounds, this is a feature, not a bug, because it makes it possible to resell the property w/o a loss of time, loss of money, or loss of money/time. Gotcha. But, residential real estate is not immune to risk as an investment, and as you suggested elsewhere, ERE rule-of-thumb for investm...

If, for example, you have "high functioning ADHD" (surprise, surprise, it's a thing!), you'll likely lead a very interesting life. Yes, my youngest sister is high-functioning (in the sense of graduated from top law school with honors) sometimes medicated ADHD. She is also E NTp, so she ha...

I don't think paying at least a quarter of a million dollars Yes, this alone seems towards "make the project incredibly boring." I mean, there are multiple reasons for the failure of my cuckoo-bananas Money Dimple project/plan in which I purchased dilapidated 480 sq.ft. house with similar...

But *I* was wrong about our productivity: I'd say we ranged between 1.8x and 2.25x what I'd be able to do by myself. And after a few days and we got into the swing of things I thought we stayed above 2x. Yes. This. Why I wrote elsewhere about how incredibly handy even the average human 6 year old c...

My Mazda Protege was by far the best car I ever owned. I liked it even better than the Honda Fit. The sporty and affordable Mazda Miata series is also rated as excellent beginner car. It also is rated high for holding its value. The convertible option makes it fun and ideal for occasional road trip ...

I could attempt to model the filter(s)s for ERE city using Decomposition Tree visualization in Power BI with Consilience (or GDP, or Happiness) as value to be AI maximized under analysis. I think the results might be quite surprising. :lol: In a previous life I was the HR Manager for the beta-test-s...

I consider it likely that you, as a teacher, can produce a better result on any school test you might give your students regardless of how many students are in the group(s) and how they work together. If you want to narrowly define skills to core academic skills accomplished with paper and pencil, ...

Basically, you can't form a group and get anything better out of it than you could from the top 1-2 members of the group alone. Assuming that the 1 or 2 members of the group are the most skilled in all factors relevant to the problem at hand, and that they are aware of all factors that could be rel...

The first is to become increasingly self-reliant to the point of self-sufficiency. Have enough skill to creatively make nearly every product ... and take it apart again in order to use the ingredients in new solutions. Ultimately, this requires very little money, and is the foundation for ERE WL7-8...

OTOH, I could just be unfairly taking a sentence out of context and projecting it unto my own inability to appreciate art. Would I feel the same about another pursuit using the same strategy? What if the strategy was being used by a scientist seeking patronage to support his research project into d...

Excellent article. Great example of those whom Hanzi Freinacht described as members of the post-post-modern high "precariat" of "hippies, hipsters, and hackers" IOW, those who are achieving access and options mainly through cultural capital rather than financial capital. Actually...

The first four titles on the reading list for this thread: 1) Love for Sale: Courting, Treating, and Prostitution in New York City, 1900-1945- Clement. 2) Cheap Amusements: Working Women and Leisure in Turn-of-the-Century New York- Peiss. 3) Capitalism's Sexual History- Smith. 4) Porn Work: Sex, Lab...

I wouldn't be surprised if she'd start to apply similar positive patterns in other, unrelated areas! Yes, functional relationships tend towards maintaining equilibrium in a manner that isn't just tit-for-tat. An interesting study I once read indicated that on average relationships can only withstan...

I got two words for you: Mobile Podiatrist. My frugal practice towards staying limber is not owning any furniture. My mattress is on the floor and my typing desk is a banker's box on the floor, so I'm frequently moving from Child's Pose to standing throughout the day, so I can still fluidly move my ...

I have grown tens of thousands of plants of 7 different species (maize, wheat, soybean, Arabidopsis, Brassica rapa, tomato, Cannabis) for experimental and breeding purposes. Like Carol Deppe! Super cool. She is on my Top Twenty List of Women Even Older Than Me Whom I Admire along with Catherine Den...

describe your intuition as an image. If anyone feels inspired, I would love to hear different images. Like a young creature that is half-monkey, half-terrier with a multi-tool machete, flash-light, and label-maker in its mouth is running down an encyclopedic trail following brightly lit "See A...

You're welcome. I'm 5'9" and happy with how I look naked at 169 lbs., so I've given this matter some thought over the years. Al Pacino is a good (out-of my league ) example of a guy I would find attractive even though I had 4 inches and 20 lbs and 20-plus years on him. I've dated men as short a...