DoctorMonarch
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It'd be silly to rename one ocean as the American ocean. But two? Now we're getting interesting. But we'd have to decide which is the East American Ocean and which is the West. Not for sensitivity reasons really, it'd be goofy to have the easternmost places on earth in the West American ocean.
Trump has always been deeply interested in image, not just his own or what's broadly anything associated with him, but the objective and subjective perception of anything. Certain gay men are better equipped than anyone else to talk to Trump about specific angles, historically certain black men and women too, but some of that was burned either by Obama skepticism and much more once he was the frontrunner in 2016.
I am glad the crab was rewarded and released.
"Is it immoral to eat the helpful crab?" seems like a good morals/values question a la Haidt.
Phonetically, such that we get "Daenerys Targaryen 丹妮莉丝·坦格利安 (Dān nī lì sī·tǎn gé lì’ān)"
https://ltl-school.com/game-of-thrones-in-chinese/
But the article talks about how the translation uses some classical and literary Chinese for flavor.
You could try watching 3 Kingdoms from 2010 or other adaptations? Putting a unique face, costume and demeanor to a character helped me a lot.
Have you tried Mother of Learning? I enjoyed it more than Practical Guide to Evil or Wandering Inn. A few stylistic hiccoughs in the early parts, and a few pacing issues in the middle, but great overall in my opinion.
While not a novel, Alone in the Wilderness is a great outdoorsman autobiographical documentary.
You have not defined ambition and that is annoying to me.
Looking at various definitions of ambition. There is "a strong wish to achieve something" which, I suppose when put into action might be called "Drive".
There is also "a strong wish to be successful, powerful, rich, etc." which is possibly closer to the idea you are debunking, except you're doing it by saying that successful/powerful/rich/etc. is highly relative. I think few would disagree.
I do not think your introduced terminology/acronyms adds anything and that is annoying to me as well.
How come, despite having a huge population of marks, we don't seem to have a dedicated scammer class in the U.S. like they do in Europe?
For the amount of effort they put into scams, they would legitimately make more money working a typical sales job in the US. Also MLM exists here and scams do happen in tourist heavy urban cores like in NYC.
I wonder how expensive a saunapark would be.
When I was an angsty 15 year old I punched through some drywall in the hallway going to my bedroom because mom made me keep going to school (as opposed to homeschooling). She hung up the image of a Bishop giving the sign of blessing over the hole, which wasn't repaired until I went to college. To this day the gesture inspires complicated emotions for me, because I do have a capacity for pointless and irrational destruction, I was still actually right if inarticulate about the particular school being a horrible environment for me, she genuinely did want what was best, that Grace in the Christian sense is something given to those who don't deserve it, that she and others would try to manipulate me in this way or that.
Since it's a fun thread... more than a decade ago I enjoyed a series called When Cheese Fails, a Starcraft II commentary show where two Canadians reviewed games in which one player attempts to "cheese" (use very un-orthodox or unsportsmanlike strategies which may be contempt worthy). https://youtube.com/watch?v=xftjDJBtF9U is where I first ever heard of Destiny. Even if you don't care about older starcraft ii, it might be interesting as a time capsule of gamer culture at the time in terms of both sexual and racial humor.
From personal experience, going to jail for a very brief period was useful in confirming my edgy teen high school suspicions- "This place is bullshit, I bet jail is literally better than this."- jail was substantially better than a similar amount of time in high school. If you don't start shit with anyone and are vaguely polite to guards (don't be an ass kisser or snitch though), you can spend your time lying down on a shitty mat, read {Bible} or other provided material and just kinda chill.
P.S. Cumulative Uber/Lyft/Taxis over decades are almost certainly cheaper and easier to deal with than any given best-case first-time-offense DUI deferral/diversion program and eventual expungement. If you must be arrested, preferably do something cool or brave or sexy with near zero chance of harming innocents instead of something lame and stupid.
You're absolutely correct that no credit mix = no 850, the actual perfect score.
But my understanding is that above 760 there aren't any better rates or other perks, it's just a nicer cushion.
Auto loan is certainly possible with parental cosigner.
Mortgage is kinda wacky but could be done with parental cosigner with the kid still living with parents but landlording to pay mortgage. Down payment on a house would certainly be worth more than covering tuition at most colleges/most subjects, even if housing is in a bit of a bubble and rates are ass.
Responding to you and @orthoxerox It looks like, from wiki https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_halal_and_kosher_fish#Halal Sunni regard all sea game as halal while Shia permit scaled fish and some crustaceans, but largely call other sea creatures haram. The Houthis in question are overwhelmingly a variety of Shia.
Boomers dying, downsizing, moving into nursing homes are one part of things working out, and the geographic preferences of homeschool/work from home families are another, and gentrification of blighted urban areas are another. The economic decline/stagnation of some older working class suburbs won't be great, but the houses will be filled.
Canadian Anglican is going to largely be gay is A-OK, USA Anglican is going to be overwhelmingly gay is sin, USA Episcopal (rectifying respect to Canterbury but not the crown) is going to be usually gay is A-OK.
Agree with your response directed at DashesAndUnderscores @----- rather than /u/WhiningCoil who you replied to by mistake I think
Editing because dash's name fucks with name presentation
Edit 2: Can I write dash's name in quotes? "-----"
Edit 3: Does linking to their name work? https://www.themotte.org/@-----
Edit 4: I'm just going to report my own comment to our most excellent mods, punting the underscore issue to people who might be able to address it
Try https://mathacademy.com/ ? I'd guess that the enrichment vs acceleration concern has more to do with classroom management than the best interests of a given student.
He is a boomer (well, he was born in 1960, the 46-64 baby boom was mostly an American phenomenon) and he is very argumentative.
Re: IQ 1. He did have a sample of people working for him, where all IQ scores were above 115 and the highest scores didn't reliably correlate with increased short and medium term success. 2. Lebanon scores 82, which he takes as a personal insult, and he points out that the Lebanese diaspora having plenty of very successful people.
The low national IQ score matches up well enough with the low PISA score and unfortunate economy. With any country getting a bad score, I think plenty of times it could be reasonably be said that it's somewhat depressed by malnutrition/trauma. Also different subpopulations could have very different scores. Looking at lists of successful people in the Lebanese diaspora on wiki, it's pretty Maronite, and not particularly Orthodox or Muslim and very little Druze (with apologies to Casey Kasem). Given IQs from Syria, Egypt and Saudi Arabia range from 74-76 and Jordan is 80, if we assume the Lebanese Muslims are closer to those numbers, the Maronite average IQ could be anywhere from 86-96. Also, brain drain can be a bitch.
Extremely exciting week in my suburban neighborhood due to a very evasive goat.
https://www.al.com/news/birmingham/2023/07/goat-on-the-lam-for-three-days-corralled-in-irondale-and-then-breaks-loose.html https://www.wbrc.com/2023/07/18/oh-my-goat-animal-jumps-out-owners-car-window-causes-wild-goat-chase/
Any goofy local news?
Googling, there are wireless charging compatible phone cases.
Given that the pill shifts what kind of men are found attractive, that feminism and pornography radically shifted expectations for both sexes, that there is a hilarious increase in self-described bi women who have only had men as partners over the past few years, I'd just dismiss any and all notions by default.
Re: Military Service
If you were dealing with a ~115IQ teenager graduating high school at 17, open to a few years of service/misery, would ROTC contract+ College then commission make more sense, or first a 3 year Enlistment (assume desired MOS due to prepped ASVAB, Eagle Scout rank bump) + Guard/Reserves during College paid by GI bill?
Or screw either, not worth time and stress, that answer makes tons of sense too.
A part of the calculus that throws a slight wrench into the decision is that the $0 VA loan can go for a million and can be used on a 4-plex (assume parents of said kid built credit to 725 by making them an authorized user on a credit card that mostly makes utility payments).
Women are primarily attracted to men that other women are attracted to. Your best bet is replicating the record company paying young women screeching in excitement for the Beatles to land in America (before anyone had their records in America, or radio broadcast)***, but on social media, without obvious tells that you're paying for it.
***This account was apparently inaccurate, and exists as only a pop culture legend. Particular other instances of paid or otherwise incentivized enthusiastic 'actors' to appear as fans may be real.
DeBoer elliptically acknowledges the HBD-IQ aspect of reality and then doubles down from a materialist-socialist (real Marxist, not trendy 'Marxist') perspective that he wants from each according to his abilities (HBD-IQ is here) to each according to his needs (not here).
He wrote a book called The Cult of Smart. This book has valuable insights about how charter schools can IQ poach out of normal public schools to make themselves look very impressive.
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