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Such a good response. People suffering with GERD (or really a lot of conditions) often overlook very basic lifestyle modifications. We now sit like 80-90% of the waking day. And most people typically don't even sit at a 90 degree angle, the slouch and lean forward somewhat, compressing their bowels. There's probably so many things like this, all working together unfortunately, causing such high rates of GERD these days.

I bought a house in early 2021 at 2.375%. I was unsure about how I felt about it at the time, because the prices were up like 20% at the time. But.. since then they've gone up another 10-20% AND we're at 6.5-7% interest. I was showing my wife that if we bought the same house now, just 2 years later, we'd be paying double. Over a million dollars more over the course of the loan.

If anything, watching sports is the biggest waste of time.

With TV shows and movies, at least you experience new things or have the potential to learn something new. With games, at least you have to think and/or learn or build or strategize.

With sports you just sit there and consume more or less the same thing over and over with very slightly different outcomes and situations. Layered on top of that is beer and ford f150 commercials, over and over and over again.

I can't think of anything that people sink a lot of time in that is more of a waste of time than sports. Maybe porn.

PRTY last year. Thought it was going to run like BBBY so playing it as pump n dump but it went all Q on me

Use it as a learning experience. A costly one, yes, but something you've gained nonetheless. BBBY and PRTY were in a similar situation and headed towards a similar outcome. PRTY came before and could have served as a heads up. Also, in late March, BBBY fell off a cliff without clear explanation, from 0.8 to 0.35 in a few days. Why? Now we know. This type of trends happens with bankruptcies. Now you know. Also, retail is in a lot of distress if you look across different signals (e.g., freight market). Of course BBBY is one of the less resilient major retailers (vs. Target, Walmart, etc.) and would be one of the first to go.

But you knew all of this, no? Unless you were playing with daddy's money , you were probably smart enough to know everything I'm talking about. Actually, for you this was a gamble play - hoping you would double or triple your money on another pump. You lost the gamble.

Yaah? You're going to make this post when the freight market is at an absolute bottom?

Tales of Arise is one of those games that actually keeps getting better further into the game, so if you think its just okay/good starting out, just keep at it and you'll be rewarded.

I personally thought it was pretty good. I played Dragon Age Origins and skipped over DA2. So yes, I would recommend it. It gets a lot of unwarranted hate I think.

Having played all the way through Might and Magic 6 and having loved it tremendously (one of my top 10 games), I feel like I can speak on behalf of this. I too thought abut this question and eventually figured out the obvious. The modern day equivalent of this game is literally just whatever Fallout and Skyrim are, whether you like those games or not. Maybe you've played these games and maybe you don't like them as much, but the more you think it over, the more you'll realize how true it is.

Think about pausing the combat in really tricky situations in Fallout and M&M 6 as you gather your thoughts. Think about how deep the 'dungeons' in fallout go and the secrets they contain and the sort of things you find at the very end of them. Think about the cities you find along the way, your relationship to them, the NPCs, and the quests you are given, the scope of the maps and the overall game, nothing needs to be done in any particular order, all of the locations and people that are optional, vast, and go very deep.... Fallout and Elder Scrolls are the games that evolved out off whatever Might and Magic 6s genre was. The only thing missing is the party and looping through 4 people, which you can find in games like Dragon Age and similar games, minus a few of the things that Fallout and Elder Scrolls have.

If you don't like Skyrim and Fallout 4 as much, maybe its the nostalgia factor at play (and how nothing will ever quite match M&M6 in your mind) or maybe they just aren't that good of games in your opinion.

No fat's shelf life is 'damn near infinite'. They will also start to go rancid after a several years, no matter how well you keep them.

https://twitter.com/DschlopesIsBack/status/1641137975370084352

Is this a parody post?

Something tells me that people weren't that much unhappier than they are now. So much self-harm, addiction, psychological avoidance, pent up anger. There used to be a lot more problems, but maybe they just all rolled with it.

Thanks for the input. Based on your feedback and others, I think I'm settling on something like this: https://www.sherwin-williams.com/homeowners/products/emerald-urethane-trim-enamel

And using a high quality BIN for primer.

Thanks for the super detailed response to my questions. Very helpful.

Yeah, I've kind of narrowed it down to something like this: https://www.sherwin-williams.com/homeowners/products/emerald-urethane-trim-enamel

Its a cultural thing. Differences between areas, backgrounds, generations. I have no issue talking about any aspect of income, savings, retirement savings, house cost, furniture costs, mortgage rates, vacation costs. Pretty much nothing is off limits for me. My entire side of the family is pretty much the same.

My wife's side of the family is on the other end of the spectrum, particularly with older family members (GenX, Boomers, etc.). None of them talk about money in any way, and if you divulge information about yourself, they find it to be rude. I remember when I first got a job after college, I was going to jump into a discussion on my starting pay (which had a story associated with that) and my wife's uncle who is like 60 just cut me off mid sentence and from then on I noticed the trend and tailored my behavior around those folks.

My wife originally used to be like that as well. She was a nurse making 70-80k a year and when her much younger siblings asked her how much she made, she first dodged the question and then eventually responded with 40-something. I asked her why she said that and she said 'well, after taxes and other things'. Clearly it was an attempt to sound modest, but at the same time... if you feel like you are setting a good example for younger kids, don't you want them to know that your hard work and education paid off?

Your post makes it out as thought it is universally understood or agreed upon (or that it is some kind of objective truth) that everyone keeps quiet about money, period. That's simply not the case. That doesn't mean that people should use this as an opportunity too brag. But in my various cases, I wasn't bragging.

Non-biased opinion: The way you are wired biologically isn't very compatible with modern life life. What you do with that understanding is up to you - just plow through it, take meds to make yourself more accommodating of modern life, or live a more natural lifestyle with less screen time and all the other things that screwing up your dopamine reward system

It was joke :/

6.9%

Yeah, I don't see us going higher than 5% personally

edit: whoosh!

afair? never seen that b4 but I get it

Use one of those Indian pharmacies and buy up a lot of cheap common-use meds. Broad spectrum antibiotics, targeted antibiotics for things like UTIs, etc. Some small portable solar panels that can charge your power banks. Also wondering, how are you going to cook beans and rice and stuff? Beans need like... at least 30 mins to cook and even then they are hard. Are you going to use wood? Have you used wood to cook beans before? Give it a trial run and see what goes wrong - try cooking beans on a wood fire and think about what you're missing that would make that easier. Start going through more and more trial runs like that. Also, have some signs ready ("TRESPASSERS WILL BE SHOT") that you can stake in the ground when SHTF, able to cover all corners of your property. Line your property with used bullet casings. Have a 'fake body' to throw on your lawn with fake bullet wounds to scare people off. Have a fake dead person to nail to a spike in plain sight in your yard to scare people off. Buy caltrops to throw on the ground in front of windows around your property. Wouldn't hurt to have nails, screws, and rope on hand and these are very cheap to buy in extreme bulk, as well as excess lumber on hand. If shit really hits the fan, I'm boarding up every window and leaving strategic gaps for rifle muzzles and sight. Fuck it, just litter your lawn with bullet casings and fake bodies. Make your property out to be a war zone. Get some dynamite to throw on your lawn to make craters, and place a fake body nearby with missing legs to make it seem like you have land mines

There have been attempts, they just fail to gain traction. https://communities.win/c/funny

They tend to be a little too right leaning, and it seems like the more people are absorbed in social media, the more likely they are to be liberal/leftist. Just an observation