Depends. First, if you need financing, it’s probably not a great time to buy although if things ever get sane, you can refinance. The interest has been high. If you can buy outright, though, that’s a non-issue.

Second, it depends on where you get your income. Some sectors are shakier than others. Rely on public contacts? Avoid. Healthcare? Probably fine. Tech? No idea, probably a bad idea. If you might get replaced tomorrow, do not finance a home.

Lastly, consider where. You don’t want a place that’s going to be hazard prone with global warning. Places are priced accordingly but if your home ends up flooded, set ablaze, or lifted to another location by a hurricane, probably not a great idea. There won’t be enough public support to make up the loss.

I’m personally holding down my starter home but I had to buy points to pay down interest to meet a debt ratio, and my math suggested 8 years to make that a net gain. But the above reasons have factored into my holding back.

I want to add an additional point or two; unlike Reddit, people generally don’t care about karma (total up votes aren’t really counted and some instances don’t even do downvotes, etc) so even if we were mainstream you won’t see much karma farming. People post genuinely, although it might just be a dudes memes on their phone, etc.

Another is regarding the culture, as you may still get banned from specific instances. For instance, there are tankies (authoritarian communists) in places we mostly defederated from that ban you if you criticize the Chinese government or even North Korea (!). World, a typical go to for Redditors, tends to be center left but had their own controversial moments. Personally I don’t mind their defederation choices except I have to use another instance to access pro-piracy stuff (which div0 folks have the best of).

I hear my neighbors yell from time to time but our kids are like 2 weeks apart in age and… We get it. We don’t do it, but we totally get it. And they tell me they don’t hear me singing in a silly voice when they must certainly do, and is perhaps embarrassing on the other end of the spectrum, lol.

When the prefrontal cortex is mostly formed, somewhere around 25 to 30. It’s the part that helps inhibition, like controlling your emotions and impulses, and also the last part of the brain to be finished. It’s quite downhill from there!

I drink it with milk but my wife is lactose intolerant so she has it with oat. She prefers it to almond and soy milk, however there are vast differences between brands and types.

If you want to try something genuinely competitive, I found the “barista” Oatley to be very good. Typically if it’s marketed for barista use, it’s thick and uses a different binding that works better in coffee. It’s not good for cereal and stuff, though, it often feels like drinking half and half. Lol

It would be social psychology. And I teach social psychology, so mission accomplished.

We did ours as soon as we had the documents, around mid Feb. Despite how incredibly awful everything is lately, there’s still child tax credits and daycare credits from smarter times. No reason to procrastinate that, especially as we can invest it in a long term fund for the kids.

Win the cyborg over by accident with my overwhelming charisma and together we overthrow the BBEG.

“Yeah, but the Epstein fiiiiiiiles” followed by death.

Kidding. I’m with you, but more “ah, fuck.”

Lol, I can’t believe you’d say Love Hina since that was the first anime I pirated for a friend on his request and it ended up being the first one I saw that wasn’t like, Dragon Ball or Sailor Moon. It wasn’t great, but the second one I pirated and therefore saw was Chobits, which was.

I guess my childhood isn’t too different from others, although we’ve never had the money to actually buy anime until streaming was a thing. Back then, it was like 30 dollars for a few episodes on dvd l…

My wife’s at a major video game company that, oddly enough, hasn’t gone crazy over AI. Since she’s in localization, she uses DeepL which has some machine learning, but not really an LLM and LLMs aren’t really being pushed on her since it’s a downgrade. From what I can tell, their dev team is also just keeping things human made, although they’re in Japan so that might contribute.

They aren’t saints, they did try to union bust a few years back, but their stance on AI, as well as creativity first mentality and recent pay raise guarantees and whatnot, kinda show they’re paying attention.

For me it’s obvious: my dad’s an alcoholic. There was a sufficient reduction in random hallway pissing, insults, death threats, and so on.

I still somehow have a relationship with the guy, but living with him w/ vodka in the house is a miserable time.

The lack of encryption is exactly why Porygon Z exists. A bad transfer along with a dubious disk and sure enough, your Porygon 2 gets a virus. And that’s not even 1996, but Gen IV.

That happened to me, but I’m happy with CachyOS now for most things. I can’t believe how much it a step down 11 was from 10 though, it was astounding. Worse than 7 to 8, even.

Shame and regret.

If you add a second hand (or get really flexible) you can give it eyes that move. It’s 8am for me so no sharing, but my kids like that one. It’s super creepy projected into the ceiling, too.

:o

Time to do another run later tonight, too, I suppose… lol. Thanks!

Most recently, Slay the Princess. It’s a VN, and I typically do not play VNs, but wow. It’s actually quite amazing and I can’t actually tell you why because it’d spoil it.

I get pleasantly surprised all the time though, since I like to use a randomizer to choose my next game sometimes. I think one of the other experiences was the Rusty Lake games. I got them in a bundle and since it was a puzzler, I had my friend join me in comms and it was… very strange. But we will use references from those games as insider nods to one another.

Yes, but when I had a 7 recently it was hard to aim. The whole shower looked like a Jackson Pollock.

Given that I will sometimes reflect for a whole day on just a comment getting a couple down votes, I can’t imagine how someone who actually posts stuff feels.

But hey, it’s the world wide web, you’re bound to get a few people like that just like driving on a freeway, there’s always a possibility of someone brake checking you because they disliked your coexist bumper sticker or something.