FD4280
18d ago
Fantastic nature, small enough to avoid soul-crushing traffic, comparatively sane government, and freedom to homeschool with decent private options if you’re not into that.
If I could tolerate remote work, it would be my top choice in the US.
FD4280
19d ago
Given your constraints, Coeur D’Alene or its suburbs would be excellent (with international groceries, cultural stuff, and a major airport fairly close by in Spokane when you want them).
FD4280
1mo ago
Do you know a bit of programming and a bit of higher math? Project Euler is not a permanent fix, but it certainly helped me in the depths of depression, and it may well be a step to something good.
FD4280
1mo ago
You’re smuggling in the assumption that it’s symmetric in the first place. Model as a directed graph imo.
FD4280
1mo ago
The goats that people fuck live after them; the math is oft interred with their bones.
FD4280
1mo ago
They all equivocate on verbs, whereas what I had in mind usually goes noun->adjective.
FD4280
1mo ago
Is there a term for the joining of two phrases or expressions with the last word of the first phrase starting the second phrase? For example:
Mobius strip club
Augean stable genius
FD4280
1mo ago
This would be the literal manifestation of “If my aunt had balls, she’d be my uncle.” Human descendants who develop such technology would have changed enough in the intermediate steps to no longer be the same species.
FD4280
2mo ago
This is played straight in Joe Abercrombie’s “A Little Hatred,” where one of the MCs, a lady in her late twenties who had trained with the best fighter of the period for many years, asks said fighter to stop restraining himself.
(Abercrombie had screwed up on this front in the past with Ferro, justified by demonic lineage, and Monza, unjustified even without her injuries).
FD4280
2mo ago
I wholly agree, and chose to make a weaker statement because I’m not familiar with the Persian diaspora outside the US.
FD4280
2mo ago
Zoom in a little. Muslim immigrants are not homogeneous. Persians might well be a net positive for their host countries. Pakistanis, in the aggregate, very much aren’t. Most other nationalities fall somewhere in between.
FD4280
2mo ago
According to Wiki, he lost his legs while serving in the US military in Afghanistan in 2010, and then volunteered in Israel (presumably not in a combat capacity) several years later. It’s not a good look, but he at least has dual loyalty!
FD4280
2mo ago
Trace,
At some point in the past, iirc in a discussion of LibsOfTiktok, I wrote that you can be counted upon to investigate only in the political direction that doesn’t threaten your daily kibble. I was wrong and you have my apology.
In a very old instance of nominative determinism, apparently there is a former world champion of correspondence chess with the surname Sloth. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C3%B8rn_Sloth
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