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@RoamingFrancis: Twins separated at birth are far more likely to choose similar careers and brands of beer than similar spouses. The same rule of thumb holds true for individuals choosing first and second spouse. However, it is likely to choose within your own social circle or peer group or simply t...

At your age any situation that resembles a college town environment would be your best bet. For better or worse, dating apps are prevalent these days, but they work much better for even old women than young men. Identical twins separated at birth studies indicate that who we end up with as partners ...

@ducknald_don: Right, but the purchasing power parity in the U.S. does not directly correlate with total global GDP expressed in $U.S. It is hard to wrap head around, but basically it is the difference between recognizing that the lifestyle which costs approximately $11,000 year in the U.S. would be...

@oldbeyond: I generally agree, but there can also be a sort of ratcheting decision matrix on buying green as efficiency improves. For instance, it might cost me more to repair the grid electrical service to my tiny house than to construct a solar system adequate to my level of usage given alternativ...

I was researching the numbers myself, and I am wondering whether the Eco-Jacob (as opposed to the Frugal Jacob) should be calculated in International (PPP) $$ rather than U.S. $ given that the other factors are global? This makes a fairly significant difference since International Eco-Jacob would be...

Pottersville.

I think maybe you live in the same neck of the woods as my adult children and one of them is in the local LGBQT support choir and otherwise involved in the community if your daughter would like some contacts. I was over there last night watching their performance for Pride Week.

Maybe try to come up with some more adjectives that best describe your preferred aesthetic? For instance, I think of my masculine energy as being more juvenile, like a 12 year old Tom Sawyer looking for fun or freedom from dull convention, so even though I am a 56 years old, I frequently wear overal...

Being an 85 and thinking you’re an 80 has more chance of success in anything in life (including understanding ere) than being a 150 and thinking you’re a 180. The latter are the ones that always end up self destructing/shooting themselves in the foot I think that there is some truth to this observa...

@Alphaville: Happy that we are good buddies still. Maybe you don’t grok Jacob because you have never been in long term relationship or employment situation with extremely introverted dominant type? You have to give that type “the gift of silence.*” The good thing about forum format is that you can b...

@white belt: True, but in other lower energy/relatively higher population situations, a lot of humans were the serfs and a few humans were the lords. The word “husband” is derived from the concept of having enough independence/assets to be bound only to your own house. The word “family” originally r...

@Alphaville: Don’t leave angry. Everybody can come off in a manner they don’t intend on the internet. For instance, I was flaming mad at you for a hot minute, because I initially “heard” your comments to me on ella’s thread as variety of slut-shaming, but then I realized that it was likely miscommun...

@jacob: I am 100% on the same page with you in terms of comprehending the problem and hoping that ERE or ERE along with other spear-heading solutions can offer solution. Yet, I myself, can’t consistently bring my expenses (or rough energy flow equivalent) down to 1 Jacob or less. Maybe the general p...

@IlliniDave: I thought your note on possibly feeling punished if your room was only possible escape to solitude was interesting. Don’t feel bad about being a bear vs a bunny vs an ant. My recent reading has been much focused on how intelligent design can provide for human psychological needs such as...

In the real world, at the most micro size of business, “capitalist” micro-business owners do not plan that way. Labor is an input they purchase on the open market in competition with other employers and opportunities for potential employees just like other inputs. When you are an owner/operator or g...

I agree, great post. Have you considered the possibility that your recent work in differentiation may have proven helpful? Truth can be catchy!

Why I am currently planning on developing two different co-housing/work compounds with the last of my vigor. One in the city with other humans interested in permaculture and one in more rural/recreational area with my sisters. There are only 5 members of next generation and they are all adults who h...

@jacob: Yes, I read “In Over Our Heads”, and I know the thesis was as made clear in the title; our cognitive and moral development may not be adequate to all manner of complex problems we are now facing, but I do not recall that he directly tied this to energy availability within the system? However...

Alphaville sometimes reminds me of my youngest extremely bright and verbal sibling* whom I would sometimes pick up and place on top of the refrigerator so that she would stop pestering me, but... ...I believe that I have read much more of the ERE curriculum than most members of this forum, and I do ...

A lot of us have all sorts of conflicting preferences. One of the most commented upon columns in Savage Love was one where a guy revealed that he had married very thin woman for class/status signaling reasons, but he was truly sexually attracted to thick women, so was having secret affairs with them...