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@7W5 Well it's the common script used to make the other side the evil side. What's the quickest way to establish a villain in a narrative? Have him harm a woman in some way. I mean the quintessential narrative is one of the hero rescuing the damsel from the villain that abuses her. It's something qu...

I mean even in the US you can have vastly different experiences. If you were to travel to Miami, New York, Anchorage, Houston and San Francisco you would get very different experiences from each of those location and that's just staying urban. If you were to go camping you would get an entirely diff...

Crypto won't actually succeed at the goal of being an alternative currency until it has managed to reduce the insane amount of volatility, yet this volatility is the reason many got/are getting into crypto in the first place. Seems almost like a catch-22 for crypto to catch on it needs many people u...

Also a jacket is far less likely to experience malfunction and can be repaired much easier by the owner. I have plenty of articles of clothing I have had for over a decade, yet precious few electronics that have.

I just wish somebody would ask him why everybody (men AND women) having 3 partners wouldn't be even more egalitarian? I get the downside of 10% of men having 5 wives, while 50% have zero, in terms of social instability, but I would argue that if every woman took on, in part, the responsibility of 3...

I would say there are a lot of factors at play some of which people have some control over and some they don't. People definitely would be taking these shifts less hard if they were able to manage their spending, however things have also changed to where it is more important not to make mistakes and...

A way for me to feel it was more appropriate of the punk moniker would be if it was dystopian, but the ones rebelling against the system were fighting to change the world to an eco friendly one. Say for example set in a world where none of the climate agreements ever occurred because some oligarchs ...

@jacob I agree with most of this in that having a larger investment in space would actually be good as it would hopefully increase funding an interest in things such as the comets and asteroids you mention and other possible extinction events caused by external factors which would be good. Also hope...

I mean by that measure star trek would be solarpunk or futurepunk or something like that since it imagines a future where we have overcome the need for capital and have near unlimited clean energy. The punk moniker to me just doesn't fit with a utopian world. There has to be some sort or rebelling o...

I think for any genre that ends in punk there is a certain amount of grunginess that's supposed to be involved. They generally don't paint positive pictures of the world they live in. Even ones with lighter elements often contain a certain level of grittiness. From the description on TV Tropes I don...

Is it the best financial decision? No. Is it a terrible decision? No. Of course this depends on the interest being charged for the mortgage, but in most cases your return for having that money invested in the market rather than your house is likely to earn higher returns if you purchase a house in t...

Congrats on the birth of your daughter. I don't have kids myself, but have heard the first few months are by far the worst as far as exhaustion/sleep and time are concerned. Hopefully this is true and after a few months you'll be able to feel a little more relaxed. Also it seems men on average tend ...

I probably have too many, many of which I probably won't read again for a long time and would probably be better off selling/donating. They are currently being stored in large Tupperware style containers.

Welcome to the forum. So long as you have a plan for getting through college with minimal debt a computer science degree could be a worthwhile investment. As for cooking I would recommend against buying either takeout or pre-made/mircrowave food. Being able to efficiently and effectively shop and co...

The problem for third parties in the US is that the two primary parties have gotten very good at squeezing third parties out of the process and even when someone runs not as a third party, but within the party while having positions they don't agree with it's unreliable. It worked for Trump, but you...

@shadow Well it's good that you'll be eligible for scholarships and your parents are willing to make up any extra costs beyond that. That would take care of the not going in to debt part. The other part will be finding something you are good at, is likely to make a good income and something you don'...

If call forwarding is enabled it won't ring Google Voice, but instead will try to forward to the connected phone number.

Welcome to the forums. Congrats on finding out about ERE/FIRE before making any major financial decisions. I wouldn't say don't go to college, but I would say don't go to college if you aren't going to be able to leave with minimal/no debt or it isn't for a field that is in demand and accordingly co...

@jacob Not sure why the second one isn't working for you. When I click on it it opens the image. This is an image of a similar one: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7b/Kitchen-Modern-Can-Opener.jpg/2560px-Kitchen-Modern-Can-Opener.jpg Variants of the above one seem to show up i...

9 years is an awful long visit XD. I've had these kinds: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/38/Kitchen-Classic-Can-Opener.jpg https://www.dhresource.com/webp/m/0x0s/f2-albu-g6-M00-32-E5-rBVaSFqcwjaAaYVIAADh1zE9rd4853.jpg/high-quality-heavy-duty-stainless-steel-can-opener-manual-metal-t...