fwiw, I agree with you

Most likely prefabs on land you dont own. Houses really arent expensive. Land is expensive.

Hot take: this move was completely predictable and almost no one cares. As Sony said in their press statement - basically no one buys physical copies of games anymore. Even if some would prefer a physical copy, they tend to want to get the game immediately, without having to leave the house, more. Those who are completely committed to buying physical media are an extreme minority, and by sunsetting support for it, Sony saves a lot of money. Most gamers, if they hear this news at all, will probably think “well, that makes sense - I haven’t bought a physical game in years.” It’s like saying your favorite taco shop is nazis because they stopped making your favorite fish and nutella taco that no one else ordered.

Also, the hero getting injured, then goes to the hospital, recovers, and goes right back to his super cool action hero activities. Instead, they would at have a permanent limp or funky shoulder for the rest of their lives at the very least.

MWOP

Also ghosts. As far as we know ghosts are not real. Yet there’s an entire genre of movies about ghosts with varying rules.

Yeah, and what’s up with all the flying people with super strength, and talking animals too? So dumb

Getting in shape, all things being equal, makes you sweat more, not less, since you are training your body to sweat more in response to the greater thermic effect of more intense exertion.

I mean, as a general rule, you learn better in low pressure, reactive scenarios. High pressure scenarios where you must make descisions tend to be bad for learning intuitive skills. I wouldnt be surprised if mostly following is the best way to improve at dancing.

Anyway, to your point - as a guy, my desire to engage with partner dancing of any sort as a hobby would be driven by a desire to have fun and meet hot girls to sleep with. Competitive dancing might be kind of fun to watch sometime, but I simply don’t have any interest in competing myself. If I can dance well enough to have a good time and flirt with hot girls, my goal is accomplished and I’m not going to put huge amounts of effort into improving. I have rocks to climb and a motorcycle to fix instead.

As a guy - I feel like it would be presumptuous to offer to help someone simply because they gave me a compliment. They would need to express a desire to be helped for me to do that.

This is an important topic, and I appreciate the work you did compiling this list and starting the conversation.

But oh my fucking god, your emoji use makes me want to punch you

Because only Americans are smart enough to make science…

Or, I mean, simply having disposable cups. Disposable cups are quite common in developing nations as well - just look on the side of any highway. The only “American” thing about it is the ubiquity of the red color, which is simply a cultural phenomenon

Holy balls, what is this post title?

Same in the US. My stack is nearly a mm thick. I imagin someone could steal them… but it would be faster to unscrew the whole plate and take it home to work on it

Another factor is probably cultural. These countries simply don’t have rhe obsession with football during childhood that other nations have. I might be misinformed, but I’ve not gotten the impression that every Chinese child, no matter how poor, spends all their time outside playing football. But that is the impression I have of, say, Brazil.

Yes. Classical

Well duh. DC isnt a state. Do they think we’re stupid?

I don’t think the positive differences would be as dramatic as some here are proposing.

It would immeditately benefit a lot of people with existing large medical bills or chronic health conditions. But this probably wouldn’t be an immeditately noticeable economic boon - instead, it would take the form of these people unburying themselves from debt and building up savings.

Over the long term, I would expect more small businesses, more people starting families, and more people choosing to retire earlier. But I think it would probably take a decade or more for this change to really be felt by those not directly impacted.

In the short term, there would be a massive economic restructuring as the entire health insurance industry collapsed overnight. Literally millions of people would be out of work. In the long term, this would be a good thing - but short term, it would be a very big problem.

Sounds like a good plan. What I would suggest:

Max out your 401k and IRA as soon as possible each year. These accounts are tax advantaged, and time in the market is the most important thing. They are your most solid investment vehicles. Do this with your paycheck as soon as your emergency fund and monthly expenses are accounted for, and before you put money into a home fund or non-tax-advantaged index fund.

Then, plow money into index funds.

Then, build up your home fund.

The balance of these two depends on how soon you plan to buy a home. I would say that if you are planning on less than 5 years, your hysa account is a good idea. But if it is 5+ years, then I would slowly build up an hysa while largely expecting to withdrawl money from my index funds to pay for the home when the time came, since, again, time in the market.

It sounds like you are pursuing FI. So I would do some reading into that. At the very least, understand the 4% rule.

And finally, I would say, congrats! You got a good job - now make sure you still enjoy your life while you work it instead of just grinding yourself into the ground. Take time off, make new friends, try new things, and have adventures. Life is made for living - work a little longer in exchange for living a little more right now!

In any kitchen producing food at that scale, they are going to make huge amounts of food in bulk. Then the people they are feeding line up, and are handed plates of what they want to eat. At the end of the day, the pots or trays the food was served from are often still full of food. Partly because some people won’t like creamed corn or baked chicken or whatever. But mostly because at such a large scale, there is going to be a significant margin of error in how much food is produced and how much is consumed, and you always err on the side of making too much so that you don’t have any unhappy customers when you run out of something.

The manager of such a kitchen typically has the overall responsibility of ensuring everyone is fed, making hiring and firing descisions, and making purchasing descisions. They know the kitchen intentionally overproduces in order to have a safety buffer. And if this was all there was to it, they probably wouldn’t care if the kitchen staff ate what was left over in the serving trays after a meal.

The problem is that the kitchen staff get used to this benefit. They start expecting to be able to eat as much as they want of the best parts of every meal. They bring home huge trays of food that is left over, feeding themselves on their off-days as well, and possibly feeding their families. And this is still all fine from a food waste perspective - the problem is when kitchen staff start making 3 extra trays of chicken thighs “just in case”, to make sure there is enough left over for them to take home. Or when they grab the small serving spoon for the potato salad, so the people they are feeding get a smaller portion while the kitchen staff get a larger amount of leftovers. The manager’s incentive is to produce just enough food to feed all the customers with no leftovers (and accepts some leftovers as a buffer), while the kitchen staff’s incentive is to produce as much food as possible so they have as much leftovers as possible (while not becoming so excessive as to raise the manager’s suspicions).

Hence, management institutes some sort of rule about eating the food produced. What rule is implemented can vary. Some managers might decree that all kitchen staff can have one plate of food. Some might say it is fine to take home leftovers. And some might say (as in OP’s case) that eating any of the food is stealing.