Pretty sure the term solified itself after the 1968 Prague spring, when most communists condemned or remained silent and ashamed of the Soviet/Warsaw pact invasion of Czechoslovakia, and the ones supporting the violence became the Stalinist minority? At least that’s when our major communist split happened afaik.
If you ignore it for long enough, you can replace burn out with depression.
allows you the luxury of studying to increase the value of your work output
I’ve always wanted more value from my work output! Or contentment and self-actualization, it was one or the other.
luxury of ennui that gives you philosophical dread on your idle hours
I’m assuming you mean that those idle hours are the luxury? Because I’m pretty sure tedium and boredom existed in the fields and cobalt mines long before it got a fancy French name.
others would kill to be on your not-working-in-cobalt-mines shoes while being fed and safe
Relative privation?
Also, is eating ramen being fed? Is it safety if you’re one illness and insurance fuckup, or a job loss and six(?) months, away from homelessness?
this while having thrived up to an age that for most of human history has basically senility
Extreme infant and childhood mortality explains most of the short historical lifespans. 30 was never senility.
The same logistics and industrial development… is the one that gives you the climate change.
Every step of towards lessening greenhouse gases brings us closer to the fall of western civilization! Fly more, abolish public transportation, eat only beef, set your AC so low you have to wear a sweater!
In your 40s your body begins to break down. Often your mind slows down too. And you’ll have people relying on you, whether at work as a senior colleague, your children, your aging parents/other relatives, your friends whose bodies have begun to break down, or whatever responsibilities/opportunities you’ve taken in your various communities.
Depends on how out of reach. Stocks exchanged in other, possibly hostile countries? (Edit: Right, needs that account to hold them that others are talking about, duh.) Property in other countries that allow it (eg. most of EU does afaik)?
Well shit, I wasn’t planning on assassinations but some people already behave like they have a baguette up their ass, and this could be improved.
There has to be a pretty good vegan french toast recipe somewhere for inspiration on egg replacement.
“Lukee kuin piru Raamattua” (Finnish).
Literally “to read like the Devil reads the Bible”.
Meaning to examine something in bad faith. Never heard it used it in context of the Bible or anything religious, but eg. when interpreting law or contract, looking for the details that could be twisted for your purpose, rather than what the text attempts to convey.
Homeless. My country has decent social security and “housing first” policy, it’s reasonable to expect to be able to exit the situation soon.
US, same, but exit for edgier reasons.
I accidentally told my 50+ friend what shibari is. No, she didn’t know, she cancelled going to a planned event that would have included a lecture.
She also claims she didn’t know before what “bondage” was, and isn’t in the habit of lying to me. So yay for being a good influence, I guess?
Is anyone into watches at the age when rich men try to pick them up? I could be easily impressed by a watch now (a personalised G-Shock $50-300, any diapason $500-2k, an enthusiastic watch geek explaining their Jaeger-Lecoultre…), but not part of the target demographic.
Well, if you’re for real, you pretty much answered your own question there. Many guys online are creeps, and you’d prefer to talk with women rather than try to find the golden fun normal person in a haystack of men.
Non-US
Completed
Should still do
This, so much. You majored in philosophy, you know more about absurdism than I do. You also know there’s no such thing as “being ahead” or “being behind” in life, just being closer or further to your own values.
You’ve got an approximate 30-40 years of good cognition and physical ability left, and soon after you’ll die and nothing will have mattered anyway. “Existed safely until s/he died” is one possible path to take, but it sounds like you want permission to stop being scared. Go for it, the world doesn’t care.
Try to buy over 50% of ExxonMobil or Shell (Saudi Aramco and Sinopec probably aren’t up for grabs) and shut down everything I can while holding on to the owned/leased land so nobody else can start there either. Fossil fuels get more expensive, hopefully pushing for a green change, and at least some of them remain in the ground.
So you think 16 is a child?
I’m 40+ and would still have major reservations about dating someone 13 years younger. “Compatible personalities” makes for friends across age groups, and yes, even that you are more likely to find with a 3- rather than 13-year age gap. Being a long-term couple takes more.
The first thing is the younger party being protected and allowed to develop, which it sounds like she is.
For me the rough time comes from realizing that either your son is dating her for her age (legal I guess, but ick), or he has so much in common with a 16-year-old it’s enough to carry a relationship, which… Dude, what did you do in those 13 years to not grow as a person, ick. I can definitely understand why it would change your perception.
Then again, there isn’t really anything you can do about it, except express your disapproval every now and then, but make is easy for either party to end the relationship without an “I told you so”. Of all the actions for you to not condone, this is pretty mild. He could have joined a cult, committed crime, or “date” a 12-year-old.
Anything to excuse our unhealthy diets, huh.
Not American, but definitely would. I’d get it a new fun/tacky paintjob for shits and giggles, maybe a realistic/stylized total rust bucket look, or grandma’s crocheted lace. Or, if possible, just black and enhance any scratches with fineline gold paint, overscratch swastikas and replace them with flowers, etc.