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  • They work well in moving vehicles but beyond that we could ditch them entirely. Edit. I should have said for most purposes. They do work well for kids or someone injured, hospitals etc.

    Straws are a strawman argument to begin. That plastic drink cup has about 50 times the plastic of your typical straw.

  • Try audio books for sleeping. TV didn't work at all but audio books work great. And I really enjoy then as well. Typically just set a timer so they shut down and if I wake and can't turn off the brain, just start listening again.

  • I read your posts. Interesting. I also find privacy to be an important desire on these platforms. That being said, being that anyone can open an instance and have access to the raw data, wouldn't many of your features be logically impossible to implement under a distributed server philosophy.

    Or maybe better said, individual servers could certainly implement certain features but they would no be able to share the raw anonymous data without breaking their security. Or they could anonymize their data but what server would allow this and not block them rapidly. Thus I would need an account on every platform to access all content.

  • The only one they changed is the double l. ll to sounds like a y. But in some circles they consider that a seperate letter to the Spanish alphabet. Overall it is fairly consistent.

    Even better, Spanish words are typically broken into two (or is it to or too) letter syllables.

  • All those words that are pronounce the same but have completely different meanings. Particularly the common words.

    To two too

    No know

    Their there

    By buy bye

    Then there there ones spelt the same but two different meanings and silent letters to even be better.

    Go right, you're right.

    Didn't know how messed up English spelling/pronunciation is till I started to learn Spanish and nearly every word is pronounced exactly as spelled.

  • In future we all expect you to list the average tax rate you are in and which two tax brackets that it lies between by calculating all the taxes paid and dividing by your gross wages then looking up the tax code to verify it has not changed. Please provide sources every time on your tax code.

  • Two weeks (or weekly) is very common for people on hourly wages in most countries. Particularly those with overtime rules. It gets a bit confusing if you have a bi monthly pay and say overtime rate for any hours over 40 hour weeks. Your checks land on 14 to 15.5 days per monthly but your overtime may need to be calculated based on hours of a previous pay period.

  • Countries like China can certainly enact unpopular opinion with little opposition. That can get policy thru that may be beneficia at times. You can see this with their recent energy policy. They are bringing online coal power production at a rapid rate. I can understand how that will help them from an economic standpoint. It is certainly something democratic countries would have a tough time implementing where as they can do this with little opposition.

  • Socialism into communism has been disapproval far worse from an environmental point of view. Well from nearly every metric.

    Even with the best form of political and economic systems, people still will use every resource possible if it makes their life that much more comfortable.

  • I recall reading somewhere making new friends as an adult takes 200 hours (it some arbitrary number) if time together in some social aspect. This requires some level of common interests as you speak of. I also noticed this factors in a couple of friends I have made. Those hours together though must be due to mutual interests and this the reason you build hours.

    I see this in my personal life and those around me. As a child you often have many good friends. I have noticed the ones that survived into adulthood are those that took similar work paths. The ones that work in different fields tend not to be so close anymore. It also factors if you move away for work. Like I did. You simply don't see the people you had such strong ties to and that is difficult. You get busy and prioritization changes. Same if some have kids and others don't it do it at different points in their lives.

    Work then becomes your next place to find people with common interests and skills. Generally this applies to jobs that are more career oriented and not the temporary mcjobs. The risk is that people job shop much more now so that friend of yours may move away. As stated joining social groups are also possible. But it takes effort and you need to be engaged to keep going. That can be difficult.

  • This exactly. Pretty much every Republican politician hates him but knows their career is down the toilet if they don't pay him lip service. The 10% of hard hard core Trump supporters would see any criticism of Trump as traitors. Being a traitor to them is worse than being a Democrat.

  • One year is nothing. Even for crap work. It seems like a long time but when you look back it often was a breeze.

    I recall signing up for the military that was going to be A 4 year stint. When your 19, that seems like a lifetime. It gave me 4 years to sort myself out. You can have a girlfriend and social life in that period but you do not start a family or great commitments. That year or few years is to get your life started.

  • Do you have roommates? If not that is rather expected as a single guy with no family. Check you budgets but if you're working a mcjob, likely will not see any real future. Mcjobs are for kids or those that just want some spare cash or don't need the 'responsible' type of job. Job shop as many say here. Just do it. Keep in mind that real career type jobs that can eventually pay higher require you to take a real investment in what you want to do. Pick something that fits you in other words.

    Sorry if it is kind of tough love advice. Most other posts have covered your typical suggestions but ultimately it comes down to solely the direction and effort you take.