Hey, so do bribed ones

Big same

I love that he went to a coastal city to fly to a different coastal city to see the ocean

Comparatively though…

And once you hit 9 you’ve gone too far and are back to unhappiness

Seconding it. When I’m really out of shape it can take a few weeks for me to start feeling better, but it always happens and I kick myself for letting myself get out of shape and miserable.

Anyone who thinks they’re the exception do it at a reasonable pace and suck it up for a month. If you hate the activity but like how you feel when you aren’t doing it, try a different one. Running sucked for me, but it turns out once I’m in proper shape I love being on a bicycle.

No, but if I’m in a time and place with writing someone there can, and if not I guess I’m teaching writing

Yeah, the proliferation of casinos has led to just massive amounts of advertising for them

I think it should be heavily regulated when not done informally.

Informal gambling is fine. Not my vice but you do you.

Gambling as a business should be heavily restricted because of its destructive and addictive nature. The current state of things is like if everyone had a tap with running vodka in their home. Sure plenty would be responsible, but the people who use it most would be the ones who need it to be less accessible, while the people who use it responsibly would be fine having to go outside town to a casino or something to get their fix.

Personally I’d prefer it only be legal in parts of my country where it’s traditionally legal such as las Vegas and Atlantic City, but that’s not an opinion I can firmly justify.

Lodestone carved into a cylinder in a wooden housing with copper wire coiled around it. Batteries would be copper and zinc bar in vinegar in a clay pot that holds them apart from each other. It isn’t much but it’s enough to start moving towards water wheels

I think 14 year old me would be most disappointed that I’m no longer catholic. She’d probably be a mix of angry and excited that I’m trans. Shocked and confused when I explain to her that her parents’ marriage is really really bad and she’s going to need therapy for the way her dad treats her. Then she’s going to be kinda pissed when I tell her that her dad is right about her needing to do better in school, it’s just that he shouldn’t be yelling at her until she self harms about it. She’ll be proud I’m still friends with her friends and that I got out of Ohio to somewhere cool.

Oh then she’s going to be incredibly disappointed I married someone with tattoos, especially since I’ll call her a classist little shit about it, and that I never had kids.

Yeah a lot of bi people feel that way. I lose all horniness when I smell “man smell”. And I can say it’s absolutely about that because the incident was with someone who had just stopped testosterone and after a few weeks we were sleeping together a few times a week for months.

Personality is nice for me, but it’s body shape and feel and smell that do it for me, and it all points to women for me.

Nah nah you gotta introduce them to the concept of beer

And discover tungsten

Gods, I’d try so hard to figure out how to explain how to make a basic diode… Like how do you explain silicon to people who have no reason to believe you and don’t know that air is a soup of a bunch of different gasses, and from there doping it with the elements on each side of it?

I’d probably just stick to electromechanics. Any time after the invention of permanent iron magnets I can do a lot of cool stuff.

Because yeah it’s not enough to say it. Try explaining the periodic table to Trajan and you’re going to sound like the time cube guy. You have to demonstrate the veracity of each step. If anything, the best place to start might be the scientific method.

Yeah, it was a populist concession to the protestant Reformation. The high middle ages would leave you just being seen as a cunning person or a lunatic depending on charisma and reproducibility.

If I could go back in time my contribution would be electric motors/dynamos. I’d also teach basic battery technology, but with basic motors and wiring you can drastically jumpstart anywhere in the Eastern hemisphere starting really fucking early. I’m talking shitty transports in early Rome and streetcars in 11th century China.

You get massive labor saving devices early on and the basics to move forward and invest in more metallurgy.

But most importantly I understand how they work, how to demonstrate their usefulness, how to build them from ancient materials, and how to explain exactly why they work. Only problem is I won’t speak the language and Romans ain’t listening to a galla explaining engineering.

Is asking for money for coffee in your home not considered assholish prima fascia in the Netherlands?

Here in the US within the bounds of the home food and drink that is offered is expected to be a gift, and if you charge for anything it’s admission to a party or you pass a hat around for people to pay what they can. Typically though it’s either basic hospitality for small things or you should give in kind (bring a dish or some alcohol to share) for parties.

Nah it’s public opinion. People don’t want to change. The costs are annoying, but we can budget for them. We tried to metricate at the same time as Canada. They had less money per person than us but succeeded because they didn’t have a large mass of people unwilling to learn and change.

Ah yes, the “acid and meditation will fix all my problems” instead of “acid and meditation will sit me down and force me to confront some of my problems”. Such a simple mistake but so many make it