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Yeah, my mother had me young due to some ...interesting life decisions but I'm verry happy that she did. Having a gran who can do things with them is wonderful for my kids now. I regret how long it took me to get around to having children, though I do miss the freedom. We were especially unlucky in that it took like two years to actually get pregnant the first time.

OK, thanks.

What would you use?

I scrape my face under the shower with the same gilette MachX (forget the number) for months on end with no problems. Least fuss, soonest mended. My wife nixed any attempts at facial hair, probably rightly so.

It's the better version of that stupid philo. 101 thing that everyone was raving about a while back. e: found it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophie%27s_World

I can only say that I always end up happier when I do.

Not through the channels I follow. I'm pretty far outside the mainstream by now I guess.

I only heard about it from reading one of your posts about it. I'm not really in touch with Disney at all anymore.

Sterrenoorlogen is also not great. Especially since it contains stropdasvechters en Luuk Luchtloper.

I....uh....may be guilty of this one.

The biggest change in myself that makes me feel adult is that these days I'll occasionally do shit I don't feel like just because it needs doing.

What's white and when it ends up in your eye kills you?

Well I guess I done got told.

Thanks! Just need to double-glaze everything and replace the bathroom and we're good to go. Duolingo's gamification worked positively for me until I broke my streak at which point I lost all my motivation. So yeah.

Vandermeer's writing is amazingly alien. His Ambergris stuff gives me chills.

Tie Fighter is better IMO, but it's close.

The thing is that you only have so much time, and according to a certain perspective, time spent not improving something about either yourself or the world in some manner is, in essence, wasted. This is probably somewhat a product of age. Youth does not recognise its unavoidable end (nor should it, probably). YA fiction and the like generally poses so few questions and has such a one-dimensional perspective that it's definitely not self-improving and thence is, according to the above perspective, is a net loss. Opportunity cost is a real thing. Of course, the counter is that relaxation/pure enjoyment is required by most people. But exclusively consuming nonchallenging media is definitely a poor choice in my book.

Duolingo works great for building vocabulary, and then you do immersion to become fluent. Learning French is not expensive anymore at all, if it ever was. Courses for languages are terrible value/$ anyway.

Have you considered learning French anyway? It's great for the brain to speak multiple languages and it opens a lot of doors. e: the door-opening thing miht be less-so in the Americas, I dunno.

If all goes well we'll probably be signing the purchase act of our new house late september/early october. So hype. (only EUR 380.000, ouch)

My Nexus 3 has been stable as a rock for quite some time.

That part might need tweaking for sure. In general though I don't think the early part of life is necessarily the most productive to go to university in. Also, yes that is affordable compared to the US and UK as far as I'm aware. Finally, that's assuming you don't do anything remunerative in those ten years.

Honestly, I was unaware that anyone takes the IGF more seriously than a very loose recommendations system. Knowing the ridiculous workload of the judges, it seems obvious that the system could never be accurate or even complete.

It's amazing how the Russian state has managed to be pretty much evil for centuries.

A very European point of view to be sure. My view on the matter has been for a while that two things are necessary to prevent total destabilisation: - tax use of resources/energy rather than labour/income - provide everyone with the same basic income that is sufficient for a 'normal' life (in most Western states this is easily affordable by eliminating all subsidies/doles/etc and their attendant bureaucracies). - make education affordable on this basic income (possibly with some saving up required, say 2 years scrimping buys you a year of university) This lets people do what they want, which will in turn make them most likely be more productive in the long run. Because labour is now cheap due to the lack of tax on it, it's also much more efficient to get someone else to do what you need for an affordable price, and odds are they'll like doing it. Finally, garbagemen (until they are automated away) shall finally be paid like kings.