Titus_1_16
2yr ago
Can i just say, absolute banger of a reply (and definitely better than chatGPT, to whose writing I've been comparing literally everything else today)
Titus_1_16
2yr ago
It's age dependent. At 35 that's crazy high, at 15 it's not really unusual
Titus_1_16
2yr ago
If the boss doesn't come into the office, but instead works from his home, does that mean "the real office" is the boss's house?
Yep, higher-ups often choose to work from their home country. Check out average pay in the Paris office, or Zurich. Also both higher than Dublin. Doesn’t mean they are also headquarters.
Finally, I suspect that Dublin figure excludes equity, due to the ridiculous way it's taxed here.
Titus_1_16
2yr ago
Dating is actually very similar to sales. I've bever met a successful salesperson that couldn't get a date (many that couldn't sustain a relationship, but that's a different matter). This is because sales requires you to hone skills and behaviour patterns that specifically are useful in dating, not solely because of x inherent trait that makes a person good at both sales and dating.
Titus_1_16
2yr ago
That name is actually Sadhbh, not Sidhbh.
Very nice old Irish name, pronounced "sive".
Titus_1_16
2yr ago
The nitrites are proven carcinogens
Titus_1_16
3mo ago
Eh, tastes vary and, while distributions differ, there are attractive women of every race. Personally (anecdata doesn't count etc I know) I've met women with very Bantoid features, dark skin etc whom I was attracted to and thought beautiful. Certainly for me personally it's not an aesthetic malus, pragmatic considerations aside.
I'd think it likelier that the white man in question just likes black women, rather than making the best of things. Women are pretty good at sniffing out genuine interest, better than men, and I'd imagine the black women in question (given that she's described as "nerdy" AKA intelligent) could discern if the level of interest were up to standard or not
Maybe I'm overly optimistic, dunno
Titus_1_16
3mo ago
Your "ought" question is actually just a second "is" question
Titus_1_16
4mo ago
There's no distinction in taxation of ETFs based on their location for people currently living in Ireland. There ARE distinctions between Irish, UK, EU and global individual shares which I can't recall off-hand - something about reporting cadences though I might well be wrong on that. In practice it has made very little difference for me. There are no specific incentives to hold Irish shares, for example - though there are some "investment schemes" that amount to an incentive for Irish investment in practice. Not an expert and they get kind of complicated
Titus_1_16
5mo ago
Not a final solution until you master your cummy innards perhaps.
Semen has potent energy, and there are reliable reports from eg several West African nations of semen autonomously teleporting itself to places it's not supposed to be. Much mischief is created this way. So for this reason alone I wouldn't recommend superglue on one's member.
Titus_1_16
6mo ago
There's an interesting question about what "fundamental science" research (is not practical or applied research) really is in social science, and how/why any country might fund it.
$NZ 75M presumably would fund a lot of work in social science, since research is less reliant on equipment than in harder sciences.
Titus_1_16
1yr ago
A couple of points: first, in terms of English proficiency being a cultural solvent - English already is the lingua franca of Europe, as it is in many other parts of the world. When an Italian meets a German, 9 times out of 10 they will speak English. When a Finn meets a Spaniard - English (although the Spanish are generally pretty bad at English). And so on.
If Europe is to achieve some manner of proper confederation and thereby preserve itself as anything other than a relic over the next century or two, it needs a language with which to do this. English in Europe (and remember it is after all a European language) doesn't just mean Americanisation, it also means the coalescing of pan-European consciousness.
So English proficiency is not purely a malus, or purely a tool of globohomogenisation.
Secondly - I know you're talking about Latvia as a long shot in terms of migration and integration, but actually its neighbour just to the north, Estonia, explicitly is pursuing a strategy of welcoming ambitious foreigners from the likes of America. They've set up an E-residency scheme that's kind of notoriously open to abuse, but it's meant a lot of foreign tech setting up shop there. Estonia is a more reasonable shot for someone of your profile to move to and integrate into, if you're interested
Titus_1_16
1yr ago
Which Jesse Singal article, the trans kids one?
Titus_1_16
1yr ago
This is a wittier version of the same point I was going to make - bravo
Titus_1_16
1yr ago
Would the USA be "more democratic" if toddlers could vote?
Titus_1_16
1yr ago
You might not believe this, but he's not.
Titus_1_16
1yr ago
Personally I think a 50 year limitation seems fair.
Do you agree that Israel should stop accepting their annual "sorry" payments from the German government, pursuing old men who were Nazis, etc?
It strikes me that it's basically impossible to make proper restitution for millions murdered, but relatively easy to make whole someone that's had their land connived and stolen away from them. If anything, all the Israeli schmaltz and guilt about WW2 should stop well before the Palestinians give up on regaining their rightful homes.
Titus_1_16
2yr ago
Ishiguro is British, not American.
Titus_1_16
2yr ago
Damn, that's how I'd classify you too. 4 times a day at 40? What are you, top 5% of age-weighted wankers?
Titus_1_16
2yr ago
A niggle, but:
aren't African Americans more like 10% of the population, with the other 2.5% that's black being mostly African immigrant
It seems intuitively incorrect to me that one in five black Americans have even recent African ancestry. I would guess it's more like one in ten at most. Can any Americans vouch for the likelihood of this?
Titus_1_16
2yr ago
Re: eating well all the time, it sounds like you've accidentally reinvented French food culture. I don't think it's a problem, but it may certainly be a shock to the system if you have an Anglophone background
Titus_1_16
2yr ago
Dive
Titus_1_16
2yr ago
Oh right, I didn't realise that was the spelling she's using herself. That's totally, totally stupid if it's actually legally spelt that way; Sadhbh is already a name you need to know how to pronounce, so why bother chsnging the vowel and not the cluster of consonants at the end? Maybe to avoid having the letters S - A - D in her name?
But if I were anglicising that name I'd just spell it "Sive".
Titus_1_16
2yr ago
"Death con 3" seems deliberate and funny to me. The man clearly has a knack for language, and I think it's more likely this is deliberate.
Fair play
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