I think 1000 or 2000 for me. I know it’s optimal to put it on my mortgage but that’s an amount I would use the excuse of “having to spend it” to spend it on myself. 20k in cleared debt is like 1.4k yearly expense reduced which really moves the needle. If you pay off 1k a month you’re effectively increasing the payoff rate by 12%.

Yeah, and once you get going it’s easier to keep going because of momentum

Only good way to get a house by age 30 is to become a plumber, electrician or other type of job that pays well with minimal study and save up while living at parents or sharing a flat with 3 mates.

Then you need to save heavily and invest in stocks and/or bonds with the saved money so you can beat inflation. With around 30k saved per year it’s possible to get pretty early onto the property ladder.

Going to college and living somewhere in NYC for example will get you nowhere close to 30k a year with student debt and if you have a kid you’re screwed.

Wizard of Oz sepia “filter” fits in here?

I’m also going to in honesty pick Brazil (1985). It still holds up really well.

I really want to see a blockade on the shadow fleet. They don’t even have insurance if they spill the oil in EEZ of countries they’re passing through. It would be a major blow to Russia.

Yeah, with Putin’s approval at 80% it’s hard to see a civil war happening any time soon.

I wouldn’t mind it, only 1% waste is pretty good for a social program.

Also remember the shinobi tournament school shooting.

Download a picture from the Internet, move it to the desktop with the file explorer only. Then print it out.

I live in Iceland and we try to predict volcanic activity all the time and it’s off by weeks or months. To be fair, that’s a blink of an eye on a geological scale so it’s pretty accurate but the nature of the problem is that you have so many forces that all interact with each other.

It’s pretty similar to “how far can you tip the chair back before it falls” but we don’t know the size, weight and shape of the chair really well. You just need one fracture in the rock from previous earthquake to throw all the calculations off.

I don’t know the context of the post but I imagine it’s media related, like a seismologist saying “could be as soon as tomorrow” and the journalist just saying “earthquake tomorrow”. Also seismologist don’t shut up is true.

When it goes on sale 5 years later probably

Also that he’s just blindly following a false emperor so easily while never having even seen his rotting carcass

I hear Mexico is also beautiful and cheaper

Musakhan, a Palestinian onion pizza topped with 1/4 chicken.

You know, my best trick for social things is to do structured activities such as board games or as exercise class. In these situations the topic and activity is already decided and I feel like it removes a lot of the gap between neurotypicals and me.

It does sound like you have some work ahead of you. It’s unfortunate that autistic people need a lot more work to be able to communicate with most of society but it pays off.

Unmasking helps a lot, the outward difference is that you look eccentric instead of uncanny valley and it costs waaaay less energy.

Also don’t try to simplify the way you think about yourself. “You don’t shut up” doesn’t have to be a bad thing if people are participating, some people enjoy it when I talk for 10m about sunblock and how the Australians have the best regulations for them.

I’m very curious about pretty much everything and I’m shit at conversations but I can keep people talking about themselves and their interests for a long time by just asking them questions and rephrasing with “so it’s like when you” or something. Neurotypicals just loooove talking, especially about themselves and you showing interest makes them like you. People say I’m fun and nice to hang around with but in my opinion I’m incredibly dull, speak in monotone and mostly just don’t because I like not talking.

Another fun point, I think of autistic people as normal and everyone else as weird. When I talk to autistic people it’s like a breath of fresh air.

Now that you pretty much found out you’re autistic you can start to look into how other autistic people cope and thrive in society. Good luck out there!

Yeah, it’s pretty weird still. Some people think you can’t be autistic unless you are incapable of living in society or act like Rain Man. As the diagnosis numbers go up and people become more aware of autism this will hopefully stop.

If the argument is fair and both parties are open then I think I could win an argument that exercise is crucial for a long and healthy life.

I really liked the first AC game but when I played Odyssey I was disappointed. Beautiful game, fun mini-games, nice subsystems like upgrading the ship and whatnot. After the initial couple of hours I started to feel like everything is a chore.

Need a map? No way to buy, you have to run/ride and climb the chore tower.

Want to use equipment? Grind chore for the XP to meet the level requirement.

Want to beat a quest handed to you early? Grind XP

Want to complete side quests? All of the boilerplate fetch/kill quests.

Just please, give me a starting weapon that’s good enough and I can just stealth kill my way through the main quest. Also, just allow me to buy the map.

I personally think you have autism. Autistic people are somehow on the same wavelength and most of the people I know that are autistic I find conversation flows a lot better.

The tricky part of diagnosing autism is that it’s an rich internal experience that only you can properly assess. An expert would always be at a disadvantage this way compared to self diagnosis.

Problem with self diagnosis is that neurotypicals tend to answer questionnaires as if each question is a loose criteria but autistic people will consider each question as a strict criteria.

Example: “I have trouble maintaining eye contact”.

NT: I look away sometimes when I get distracted. 2/5

ASD: Not really, it’s just easier to not look at people. 2/5?

I personally don’t have trouble maintaining eye contact but I pretty much can’t process what the person is saying then. If they look away I get 80-90% and if I look away it’s 100%. A better answer to that question in my case is 3-4/5 since I have trouble with eye contact.

Here are the tests on a website made by autists for autists. After these you can look at some result distributions to see where you land. For example, if you score >95% of NTs on the AQ it’s almost guaranteed that you’re autistic.

https://embrace-autism.com/autism-tests/

It’s a writing thing they did so they didn’t have to swap actors all the time. The first book spans several generations after all.