ToaKraka
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ToaKraka
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3mo ago
The story does not indicate that Scrooge had any enjoyable hobbies. Rather, immediately after work:
Scrooge took his melancholy dinner in his usual melancholy tavern; and having read all the newspapers, and beguiled the rest of the evening with his banker’s-book, went home to bed.
Also, he obviously had not retired.
ToaKraka
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3mo ago
I have no idea if you're being serious here or not.
I am being completely serious.
Did you really think this was an appropriate thing to respond with?
Your post does not really pose an unambiguous question, but its most specific requests appear to be "I don't know what to do with myself after I move out." and "Basically, I need advice from smart people.". I have been considered smart by my teachers and my coworkers (though perhaps not by the illustrious denizens of this forum). So I think my comment is responsive.
That's autism on another level. You are not the person I want to hear from.
As the kids say, "o7".
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3mo ago
I know one thing: I actually do need a [romance], regardless of my misgivings of hurting my partner. I predict that if I move out and don't start a [romance], I will quickly wither and crash out of my job, lacking any warmth in my life. Regardless, I need to start before my parents die, or my life will either end with a quick romp through alcoholism and a gunshot, or something similar to Brad Armstrong, a purposeless journey more brutal and agonizing without any end in sight.
Maybe I'm just a killjoy autist who is badly disconnected from normal human motivations, but every time I see a person whine about """needing""" romance I become more disgusted. The recipe for happiness is simple:
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Accumulate money
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Retire
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Spend the remainder of your life and money on enjoyable hobbies
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Die alone and unloved
Who cares about friends and romantic partners? Familiarity breeds contempt. Gradually you will begin to hate any person to whom you become close.
Reddit, DAE lack any intimacy and fear the unknown? AITA?
Definitely YTA. Get some goddamned hobbies.
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3mo ago
This forum has previously discussed how people who make excessive use of online personas often allow those personas to become Flanderized and even to bleed back into their real-life opinions. Still, when doxing/doxxing/SWATting/phonebooking/unmasking can lead to being fired by your employer or ostracized by your family members, some measure of detachment between one's personas seems advisable.
But at what point does it not matter any longer? When should a person abandon his online personas and walk proudly under his government name? After he retires, so that he need not worry about his job? After his parents die, so that he need not worry about his inheritance? Never? Or perhaps, after retirement, his government persona will become the secondary one, and his online persona the primary one.
ToaKraka
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3mo ago
I think there are a lot of visual-novel fans who would disagree with you.
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3mo ago
I hate controllers.
I also can't adapt to controlling the camera with a thumbstick.
I picked up this habit back when you had to enable mouselook in Quake console.
Very interesting.
I see that Quake was released in 1996. Personally, I was first introduced to keyboard/mouse-controlled action-focused video games by Claw maybe around year 2003, and quickly adapted to gamepads when my father bought a GameCube with Bush II's 2008 stimulus check. But I guess different people have different preferences.
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3mo ago
Is it fair to say that I am not a fan of videogames in general and should only describe myself as a fan of those 9 categories?
IMO, yes.
I can think of another standard that addresses your complaint, but it's even less workable than the first one.
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There is a list of all non-video-game creative works, numbered n from 0 to nworks − 1.
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The list is organized in ascending order of quality q, from 0 to 1.
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There is also a list of what those non-video-game works would look like if they were video games, numbered n from 0 to nworks − 1.
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For each work, the imagined video-game quality q′ presumably will not be the same as the actual non-video-game quality q.
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If ∑0nworks − 1(q′) > ∑0nworks − 1(q)—that is, if you think that, on average, the overall quality of a non-video-game creative work would be improved if it were turned into a video game—then you are a fan of video games.
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3mo ago
Even funnier idea for a Victoria 3 mod:
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Problem: The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland overshadows the entire game as the world's sole superpower.
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Solution: Recreate the empire of Charles V as an ahistorical balancing force. Make Nederland, Spain, Sardinia, and the Two Sicilies into
<del>personal unions</del><ins>crown lands</ins>of Austria.
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There is a list of anime shows, numbered n from 0 to nshows − 1.
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The list is organized in descending order of quality q, from 1 to 0.
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You like all shows from 0 to nyou − 1. (nDradisPing ≈ nshows × 5 %.)
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If ∑0nyou − 1(q) ÷ ∑0nshows − 1(q) > 0.5—that is, if you like more than half of all anime shows on a quality-weighted basis (or if you estimate that you would like them if you were to watch all anime shows and could judge all their quality)—then you are a fan of anime.
(epistemic status: probably only 25 percent a joke)
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3mo ago
The bare-bones Mitsubishi Mirage is only $16,000 (and was $10,000 not that long ago), and it isn't exactly flying off the lot.
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3mo ago
>he doesn't have his own personal website to which he can upload images
ngmi
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick, policy director of the American Immigration Council, questioned the legality of the new fees. "Congress has only authorized the government to set fees to recover the cost of adjudicating an application," he said on Bluesky.
Almost certainly illegal and likely to be struck down in court. Congress has only authorized the government to set fees to recover the cost of adjudicating the application. There is no statutory authority to impose fees designed to limit the use of a visa.
We haven’t seen the text of this yet, but to be clear, the president has literally zero legal authority to impose a $100,000 fee on visas. None. Zip. Zilch.
The only authority Congress has ever given the executive branch here is to charge fees to recover the cost of processing the application.
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3mo ago
I actually haven't played much Victoria 3 either—I've just made mods and observed what the AI-controlled countries do with them in "hands-off" campaigns. But, from watching YouTubers play Victoria 3, I imagine that adding sea access to the interiors of North America and Europe would significantly increase those regions' economic output by alleviating infrastructure bottlenecks that otherwise cannot be overcome until railroads are constructed and expensively (due to the high cost of engines) maintained.
In the vanilla game, these navigable inland water bodies are represented with a flat +15 or +20 bonus to infrastructure. This is equivalent to getting a blockade-immune level 5 or level 7 port building for free, which IMO is a bit extreme.
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3mo ago
Funny idea for a Victoria 3 mod:
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Change the Great Lakes and the St. Lawrence from nonnavigable lakes/rivers to a navigable sea zone. Change the Mississippi and the Illinois from nonnavigable rivers to a navigable sea zone. Add to Chicago a canal connecting the two new sea zones.
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Change the Rhine from a nonnavigable river to a navigable sea zone. Change the Danube from a nonnavigable river to a navigable sea zone. Add to Neumarkt a canal connecting the two new sea zones.
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3mo ago
Legally: The cited New Jersey law does not define "solely as a residence for himself". However, if you live in the house for two years before selling it, the federal IRS will refrain from taxing the first 250 k$ of profit that you make from the sale, and presumably the state authorities would use the same guideline. (Pennsylvania has no restriction at all.)
Practically: Even if the plans are not "signed and sealed" by an architect, you still have to abide by the building code in order to get a building permit from the municipality, so insurance and mortgage companies should still be perfectly willing to deal with the house.
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3mo ago
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Around 2 AM in Philadelphia, a 12-passenger van rear-ends a car at low speed, causing the car to spin out and the car's driver to receive a minor injury. The van flees the scene, but the car follows. After a 12-block chase at 50 miles per hour through several stop signs and red lights, the van turns into a parking lot from which it is unable to exit. The responding police officer observes that the van driver appears drunk. The municipal judge acquits the van driver of drunk driving, but convicts him of reckless endangerment, and imposes a sentence of 18 months of probation.
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The appeals panel reverses. There is no evidence that the rear-end crash with the car was the result of recklessness rather than of negligence. (Drunk driving is not inherently reckless, especially when it was not even proved that the van driver was intoxicated beyond the legal limit.) And there is no evidence that, during this early-morning chase, any other vehicles or pedestrians were on the street in front of the van to be endangered in the first place.
Fun fact: It may be legal for you to design a house even if you are not a licensed architect.
NJ Statutes tit. 45 ch. 3 § 10:
No person except an architect licensed in the State of New Jersey shall engage in the practice of architecture in this State.
Nothing herein contained shall prohibit any person in this State from acting as designer of a dwelling and all appurtenances thereto that are to be constructed by himself solely as a residence for himself or for a member or members of his immediate family.
PA Architects Licensure Law ch. 5 §§ 8 and 11:
No individual shall engage in the practice of architecture in this State unless such individual holds a currently valid license issued pursuant to this act.
Nothing contained in this act shall be construed to prohibit the preparation of any drawings or other design documents for detached one-family or two-family dwellings not more than three stories in height and their accessory structures.
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3mo ago
So does the quintessential suburb, Levittown, NY.
Well, I guess the UN definition is not necessarily dispositive.
Kenosha actually doesn't—it's 1,360.46/km2 according to Wikipedia.
The Census Bureau includes in its numbers the entirety of Kenosha's legal area, including an airport and some rural land to the west of the part where the actual people live. In contrast, the EU map that I linked works in 1 km × 1 km squares without regard for legal boundaries, and shows that the eastern part is denser.
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3mo ago
It's urban under the UN definition (1,500 or more people per km2).
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diaeresis_(diacritic)
The diaeresis diacritic indicates that two adjoining letters that would normally form a digraph and be pronounced as one sound, are instead to be read as separate vowels in two syllables. For example, in the spelling "coöperate", the diaeresis reminds the reader that the word has four syllables, co-op-er-ate, not three, *coop-er-ate. In British English this usage has been considered obsolete for many years, and in US English, although it persisted for longer, it is now considered archaic as well. [citation to 1993 book] Nevertheless, it is still used by the US magazine The New Yorker. [citation to 2012 article] In English-language texts it is perhaps most familiar in the loan words naïve, Noël and Chloë, and is also used officially in the name of the island Teän and of Coös County. Languages such as Dutch, Afrikaans, Catalan, French, Galician, Greek, and Spanish make regular use of the diaeresis. (In some Germanic and other languages, the umlaut diacritic has the same appearance but a different function.)
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