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You can just use "hug" passive-aggressively...

So... Musk would be cool hiring an engineer that got his degree in four hours rather than four years?

You know, reading through this thread, I keep seeing comparisons between the modern US with that of the 50s and 60s... Here's the thing: as a highly developed country, the US's main economic competitors are western+central Europe, Japan and, to a lesser extent, eastern Europe and China (there's also Australia and Canada…

A distinction no one seems to have made so far is whether we're talking individually or statistically. To give a non-political (at least for the past 1400 years) example of the difference, the empress Theodora started life as an... entertainer, to sanitize it for mfp (a child entertainer from a modern perspective, to be…

I mean... the country I live in does have social assistance programs open to single, able-bodied adults (though not liveable ones) and the system I outlined is more or less inspired by that of nordic countries (who generally have their kitten together)...

Off the top of my head: - evening out the balance of power between employees and employers without infringing on the rights of either - promoting healthier, fairer competition in society by not forcing anyone to take ''a job, any job'' on account of an unlucky roll to starting wealth during character creation - sanctity of…

Why not? Survival, as in basic food, shelter and clothing, is cheap enough in first-world countries that the government providing it wouldn't mean a huge increase on my taxes. ETA: and beyond the extra tax burden, it's none of my business.

Well, personally, I'm quite cool with giving everyone a free ride on surviving. Different strokes for different folks.

I'm surprised this thread is still up... If anyone's curious as to my particular brand of crackpottery, I rather like the idea of having no minimum wage at all but the government providing welfare that is sufficient to survive on for people with low or no income. It effectively accomplishes the same thing while reducing…

That last sentence feels very exotic to me... Anyway, the reason many itt have focused on survival is that it's fairly objective: shelter, food, clothing and a modicum of creature comforts to maintain mental and physical health. When you go beyond that, things quickly become quite subjective: for instance, and to echo what…

Liveable or comfortable? Where I live, 1500/month net, canadian dollars, would be more than enough to live for a single person: you can find a decent apartment at ~700 rent, public transport is ~100 a month and good enough not to need a car, healthcare is free and that leaves 700 for bills, food and miscellaneous expenses.…

Is there any way to heat those hot dogs up? Because cold hot dogs :s

I like parsnip as an ingredient in soups, stews and rice, it's like carrot on steroids... But yeah, it's a very strong flavour. Would get tiresome as a main ingredient.

Honestly, the standard american diet gets more kitten than it deserves in fitness circles (and for the record, I didn't grow up with it). Sure, it includes a lot of sugar (or high fructose corn syrup nowadays) as a source of cheap non-filling calories, but most historical diets included some source of cheap non-filling…

I grew up in a commieblock in a city in the 1-3 million people range (depending on how you define the metro area). I live in an apartment building in a city in the 1-3 million people range (depending on how you define the metro area). Fits my style ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Congrats on the weight loss :) I like my dranks and my walks as well, but can confirm one thing said in this thread: you're not burning all of the beer calories on your walk. Mfp's exercise calculator has an unfortunate tendency to count your base calorie expenditure into your exercise calories, which can be significant…

Is it weird that I've always had a bit of a crush on this painting... I mean, how weird?

Not even warm, freshly baked bread with the crust still super crispy? I could eat an entire loaf (and have😳) Pasta does need some sauce and/or cheese to help it along, though.

Watermelon and straight-up salt sounds weird, but I do know people who love watermelon with feta... Not me, though. Said it before in this thread but sweet+salty anything is not my thing.

Weird one, but "On Occult Philosophy" (De Occulta Philosophia) by Cornelius Agrippa. Translated because my Latin isn't quite that good... And I started with vol. 2 because couldn't find vol. 1 :D

Ha ha, I had the exact same reaction when I first saw the term. It's 240 ml (not exactly but close enough, like 237-something).

Well... where? It depends a lot on the country. +1 on farmer's markets, though, I miss those a lot...

I was born a country or two northeast of @chuckle_bunny (depending on which of the republics they're from) :p

Not quite as old. Don't have time to track down a source atm but, before modern medicine, the life expectancy if you survived to adulthood would have been in the 60s (varied by period and place). But yeah, there was never anything unusual about someone living into his 80s. It wasn't an uninterrupted upward trend, btw.…

Seeing as how it was semi-recent, mucenici. They're not even a thing in the rest of southeast Europe (aside from the Republic of Moldova, obviously).

The tomatoes sound weird but pasta baked with butter and feta was my childhood...

One thing I can add to the discussion is this: I was born and grew up in eastern Europe, let's say, and moved to north America in my mid-late teens. Even being relatively young, the "shock" part of "culture shock" was pretty real... and the fact that most people around me had roughly the same complexion as myself didn't…

Technically speaking he's saying wealth -> physical attractiveness -> attraction rather than wealth -> attraction, so he agrees with you that attraction is primarily physical just that it can be influenced by wealth. IIRC, there is correlation between wealth and physical attractiveness. Not sure about causation.…

That's not the point I was making, though. People are basically arguing that no one goes to the same lengths to satisfy overeating as they do drug addiction. While that's certainly true, it's also true that there are no such lengths to go to anyway. If you live in the developed - or most of the developing - world, food (by…

My personal opinion on food addiction has been stated multiple times already (no addictive foods, overeating could, in some cases, be likened to a process addiction) so I'll leave that dead horse alone, but about the "no one robs convenience stores for donuts" comment... it's a funny witticism, but that's all it is. I…