Oh no… thanks for letting me know, I will have to update my knowledge. Then please disregard my suggestion.

And here it goes, on my reading list! Thanks for the suggestion!

For psychology: Thinking Fast and Slow. A discussion of different types of thinking patterns, when they get triggered and why. It was very famous at some point and rightly so. The writing is made more engaging by the author relating the concepts to anecdotes of his life, in particular how he discovered some of the concepts described during his research career in psychology.

My go to reference for historical non-fiction is Arms Germs and Steel. The book sets out to answer the question “why did Spain discover and conquer South America and not the opposite?” The answer is the title, and so much more!

Greatly written, very engaging, spans so many sections of history that left me fascinated - and I wasn’t a history nerd before this read.

US hell hole…

You write about (a quite shitty) reality, but the picture is somewhat of a dream, everyone is projecting their own wishes all around it. Running water, electricity, in the vicinity of supermarket/restaurant/pharmacy… it’s all there, in magic country land.

I am also a city person. I love disconnecting for holidays, but then I am back with similar minded friends, in a city with all city commodities and I don’t think I would switch.

That’s terrifying…

My position is a state position in Europe. Since the specifics of the contract are standardized, and can be found online (theoretically), I didn’t have to sign a contract to start working. I hated it… still do, even if the job is overall good. I only have a piece of paper from HR stating that the state granted me the position.

During the last evening of a short campaign, my character got unreasonably upset about their pet being killed and as a level 3 ranger climbed on top of an undead dragon and started stabbing it. Rolled an absurd sequence of nat 20 to make it happen, but all luck has to run out, and rolled a 2 at some point. The dragon yeeted me to the skies and I flew away, smashed against a tree, with just the time to yell to my party “I regret nothiii”-SPLAT.

I loved that short lived character, loved the death he encountered!

Not only for any number of fucks there is a corresponding complex number, but the basic operations (+, -, x, /) work in the same way for fucks and complex numbers

Overall, if two things are isomorphic you can consider them «  the same »

My family hogs age old chairs. I don’t get it. So uncomfortable! “But great grandma sat on it!” Still uncomfortable (and falling apart)

That sucks, I’m sorry to hear it…

Care to elaborate?

Somebody really not understanding what free means…

Social protections are not free, we all pay into them. Europe has much higher tax rates than US. These tax rates are there to pay for healthcare, public services, education, and a host of employee protections (infinite sick leave, significant maternal leave, various forms of care leave, protections from exploitation and unfair dismissals…)

Our grandfathers fought for it, so we can live a healthy work life next to a healthy personal life. And every day we fight to find the correct balance to maintain this system.

Unless… are taxes the trap??

Each Tuesday?? Isn’t that extremely overwhelming?

Scale it considering that a president is appointed for 4 years, a monarch for life. Overall, I don’t find it weird that people need time to mourn when their political system gets a good shake…

I found the current price point of matcha oddly low considering its difficult production and limited output… I was wondering how it was sustainable and the reason is “sucking Japanese evening allows for high value export with low price point” :/

But Queen Elizabeth was not “former” queen. What would happen if a President would die (of natural causes) on the job?

How are the two on the same level?

Production is absolutely not the bottleneck, here. We are producing too much, constantly.