Turniper
12d ago
Thanks! Well, we're 1 for 3 aiming for 2 of 3. We've had the house for a while, are planning on kids, but are pretty committed to separate finances. Both of us had parents who had disputes over money, hers more severe than mine, and feel better about a hers/mine/ours situation where we have a shared account for shared expenses. Having kids might change that, but I don't think it will.
Turniper
12d ago
Our whole event is pretty low-key, so I'll actually be spending much of the reception with my dad grilling lol.
Turniper
12d ago
Getting married today. I suppose that counts as fun. We've been together for 10 years already, so I think we've a decent hand on this whole romance thing, but does anyone who can beat that want to chime in with advice for love and life?
Turniper
14d ago
If I'm gonna be honest, I continue to not care that much about the events in Iran. We've spend 40 billion dollars and lost 13 soldiers. That's not great, but it's also a drop in the statistical budget. That's like 4% of the yearly defense budget and one week of the armed forces all cause mortality. The deaths, including civilian, in Iran are a tragedy, but they're a tiny tragedy compared to the numbers of protestors butchered in the last few months.
The destruction of natural gas plants is possibly extremely bad for Europe and parts of Asia, but doesn't really impact America. If Iran keeps tolling the strait long term, that's bad and entirely on Trump. If they get the bomb and means to deliver it, same deal. I would prefer the Iranian regime fall, but I don't think that's an outcome achievable at any price America should be paying, and a mistake to attempt.
But overall I frankly just do not care that much, and I won't have firm opinions on the conflict until consequences have shaken out for a year or two or things escalate substantially.
Turniper
17d ago
This survey is structured so that not supporting subsidizing renewable energy counts as pro-coal (See question 2 about the role of government). I don't think it is surprising that when energy prices go up many voters care more about increasing whatever form of capacity is cheapest than subsidizing greener options.
Unlike your theoretical darknet version, Polymarket actually has a reputation for reliably paying out. For all crypto's fancy talk of solving trust with escrow and game theory, we've still yet to find any actual solutions for allowing anonymous parties to handle huge amounts of other people's money that works better than the US legal system.
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