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New Mexico Katılım Ekim 2020
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Melian Refugee@escapefrommelos·
it’s incredible how japanese some mayan artwork looks (“Shell with Seated Noble”, 600-900 AD, now in cleveland museum)
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@OriginalA_the_P Going back into an already decided past to escape the challenges of the present is the ultimate retreat into irrelevancy.
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@Paul_America @Mihoda There should actually be a few more time zones, to keep 12:00pm closer to solar noon. Central zone in particular is way too big.
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Cassie Pritchard@hecubian_devil·
Lotta Butlerian Jihad/Orange Catholic Bible jokes about the new encyclical, which made me realize that Pope Leo is a 70 year old math major from Chicago, so it feels virtually guaranteed he has in fact read Dune, and probably up through God Emperor of Dune.
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VB Knives@Empty_America·
To my knowledge, neither my father, nor my paternal grandfather, nor my great-grandfather ever bought a house. They lived on an inherited property and rented during the long periods of life they were away from that. I bought a really cheap house but it's not an investment.
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Portrait of the artist as a middle aged man.
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@Ltdsoltd For some reason I cannot understand, proposals to stop changing the clocks always gravitate towards year round DST. I don't get it, that is the oddity to start with, just get rid of it.
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Augustus King@Ltdsoltd·
@Empty_America I don't understand not simply getting rid of it. Noon is when the sun is at its highest point not an hour earlier
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VB Knives@Empty_America·
@Paul_America ? DST is the change from normality. It moves the clock so that noon on the clock is actually 1:00pm solar time. This idea of having DST all year is even stranger. Just have normal time and let people adjust.
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Paul America@Paul_America·
@Empty_America not everything has to change start times. Why couldn't a school start at 9AM all year? why force a change on everyone? everyone who wants to adjust their schedule can still do so. There are many operations that have no need of it
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VB Knives@Empty_America·
@JC_1901 Old New Amsterdam Dutch, but my mother and grandmother were both of English ancestry.
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@Empty_America What’s your ethnicity? Polish, Baltic? Or Anglo-American? You look one of the former
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VB Knives@Empty_America·
Right this instant is the PEAK material consumption that has ever occurred in the United States. Average person has never had more Sq. Ft. of living space, with stronger HVAC, a more luxurious car, more flights, more resturant meals. Social malaise is a different question.
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VB Knives@Empty_America·
@mopaksus @MichaelCrews6 I work with them about daily, I don't know much about cows but they will babysit each other's calves and will sometimes even let herd calves nurse. They seem good.
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Michael Crews@MichaelCrews6·
If there was one breed of cattle you could completely eliminate in the next cycle tell me why it would be anything but a gelbvieh
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VB Knives@Empty_America·
We had literal "see through" rust holes in the car when I was a kid, but sometime in the 2010's (around age 60) my mom started having money, taking very nice vacations, etc. No one denies boomers consume, but it's all happening NOW, there was no prior golden age.
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@Empty_America It's amazing how quickly it happened too. My dad went from "do you really need all that salad dressing?" to Mass Affluence-level consumption in the span of about 10 years

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Rancher Steven Nephew@vibeocracy·
I don’t care about Mexico City becoming Americanized, I think that’s a good thing. I love how CDMX has become a node in the jet set from LA to Miami to NYC and beyond. @JustSkadi I don’t fear the future, I embrace my ability to surf the demographic waves—I’m from SoCal after all! My lines will live on, as they have all the way back to Eden. I have strong sperm.
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VB Knives@Empty_America·
@fde_enthusiast7 @UfoHitch I have a weird take on that, I'm about 99% sure that I would be more successful if we had stayed in Saudi Arabia and I had gone to international school rather than doing school back in hometown. We could have come back for summers, it would have been a nice lifestyle.
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FDE (Feudal Age Peater)@fde_enthusiast7·
@Empty_America @UfoHitch I could ditch the middle class lifestyle easily and move overseas, I’m not sure I want my kids growing up in a foreign country though. It would be a major leap Might spend a year somewhere else though
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VB Knives@Empty_America·
The end game for objective quality of life is having a fairly high passive income somewhere like Italy or the S. of France. So in effect a "passive dollar" is worth perhaps 5x more than a "wage dollar." 30K passive in Italy > 150K wage income in USA.
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I see people from Europe dreaming to go to the U.S. (I know a few who earn top 10% salaries in France and still apply for the green card lottery) and see Americans leaving everything behind and to go live in the Mediterranean. Tens of thousands of people from the third world risking their lives to go to the West and Westerners living as expats in Bali, Morocco, Malaysia, etc. (Though I know the flows are asymmetric in scale) I think quality of life in (Med) Europe, America, or even many cities in the Third World isn't really that different if you have money. My French friends applying for the green card lottery want a higher career ceiling and salary multiples Meanwhile Americans moving to Thailand or Lisbon are often already financially comfortable and are now optimizing for pace of life, weather, food culture and lower stress. Different life stages and different utility functions, but it's interesting that no matter what stage you are in, you always can move somewhere else to improve, including to less developed countries than where you already are now And the highest stage / the endgame seems like a lot of money + life in a place like the Mediterranean, Bali, etc.

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VB Knives@Empty_America·
@rabcyr_alt Free haircut! We have clippers, must have saved $1,000s over the years.
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