escapedmoose

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by escapedmoose 5y ago
I think it would start with "not having to work to live" and from there cascade into lots of time spent building personal projects and playing Scrabble with my parents. What would yours be?
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But the Higgs boson! Who doesn’t remember the good old Higgs boson?
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Another data point for you: I knew ~80% of the words from both sides. Because I read sci-fi, study Japanese, and sew. I feel like I broke the test.
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by escapedmoose 5y ago
As a tech/sci-fi nerd and avid crafter, I accept your collective awe at my knowledge of the majority of these words
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by escapedmoose 5y ago
Kierkegaard being an existentialist, I was thinking along the lines of secular existentialism. I like this line of his, on the topic of Abraham’s sacrifice: > Abraham ‘resigned everything infinitely, and then took everything back on the
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by escapedmoose 5y ago
You must be referring to monthly payments, which are one of the smaller hurdles in the path to homeownership.
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by escapedmoose 5y ago
I haven't been on the other side, and I think I mentioned that I feel silly complaining about this life. But my version of life also feels like "a life of quiet desperation." I suppose it's better with a partner than it
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This essay also left lots of room for a non-religious person to adopt the same kind of non-ownership mindset. Maybe we should infer that this kind of happiness is something that could be cultivated without religious faith.
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by escapedmoose 5y ago
At 28, this describes me exactly. Found my partner in college, bought a nice 4-bedroom house in a nice area close to friends/family. Financially stable with plenty of time to spend on creative hobbies. We both “jumped in” to moderately
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by escapedmoose 5y ago
I don't think homestead exemption is big enough to realistically expect a broad shift in behavior.
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But not nearly as good as being able to buy it (assuming the single-family, multi-year home that the author is describing). Communities need both options, but the current climate leans far too heavily toward renting in situations when buyin
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by escapedmoose 5y ago
>One man or small team software projects in general are better for this reason as well I think these fall on both sides of the bell curve. One person can design something clean and beautiful, and one person can also be a one-man mess of
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by escapedmoose 5y ago
I've been using the same technique as you for at least 2 years now, and while I probably do get more done that way, sometimes I feel like it's sapping the life force out of me. Even when what I'm executing is creative, the pr
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But I don’t wanna talk to the other kids. :I
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What are you referring to? Source?
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> The other side are the number of people going to the hospital in a panic because they have a cough and think they're going to die out of panic. Extremely high test positivity rates show that this isn't the case. And yes, flu
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by escapedmoose 5y ago
I've been using one of those "short clip everyday" apps for the last 6 years. The only noticeable effect it's had on my life is that I have mundane/everyday/real-life footage of people/pets who have passed
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by escapedmoose 5y ago
Yep, my SO and I have aligned our expectations with the Spanish Flu since the start of all this. And while I can't say it's an encouraging comparison, I feel like it's at least helped to keep our expectations grounded in real
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In the US, I remember the "fear drum" dying down considerably once vaccinations got more widespread, and then ramping up again once Delta started hitting hospitals hard, then moreso with Omicron. It seems to follow peaks in infect