It’s hard for me to believe that I might ever be attracted to someone past retirement age

If you’re looking for a connection beyond just physical, someone drastically younger (yet still an adult) is missing much of the life experience you have. They maybe unrealistically idealistic. They may not have experienced other cultures. They may take religion at face value as the truth. All of these things are usually things that change with age. I think I would run out of patience interacting with someone that wasn’t my peer in life as a partner.

What “Be yourself” means is: “Don’t pretend to be someone else because you think that will make you more appealing. It will likely show through that you’re not that other person and your attempts at deception will drive away the people you want to attract. Further, if you find that being your authentic self is something you are ashamed or embarrassed being, perform some introspection on what those things are about yourself you don’t like and take action to change on things you can. Examine rationally whether the thing you think is shameful is something you even have control over. For example, are you ashamed because you’re not tall? You have no control over that one. That is nothing to be ashamed of. Are you ashamed because you don’t have good hygiene? That one you DO have control over. If you don’t know how to correct that, ask for help and get to the place where you won’t be ashamed of your hygiene. You will ‘be yourself’ that is not as tall as you like, but with good hygiene.”

That’s a lot to say so it gets boiled down to “Be yourself”.

There’s a dying local mall that has an ever increasing number of interior mall storefronts rented out to an ugly furniture store. Its a larger two story sprawling mall. The last time I was there a couple of years ago they must have had 15 to 20 store spaces with all the walls knocked out in one giant contiguous space. I fully expect more storefronts fall to the mushroom like furniture store slowly feeding on the decomposing body of the dying mall.

"You said a ‘jackdaw is a crow.’ "

Good news! You appear as adult Feruchemist with full metalminds. Bad news, you’ve just been kidnapped by a bunch of Steel Inquisitors.

Dogfighting of sentient beings. Some of which have the capacity for human speech. All of which show clear signs of experiencing pain. Some of which can have full conversation with you and speak intelligently. Yeah, that’s who you’re sending in for your personal blood sports. Pocket Monsters indeed. Not the creatures. You, the “trainer”.

That isn’t pedantry. This is valuable information! Thanks for the correction.

Haibane Renmei,

You’re one of the few people I’ve heard talk about this one. It was a unique story and world and was very powerful to watch. I almost feel like it never happened because no one knows about it.

I have no answer for you. Maybe the Bajoran religion itself was just stupid.

I always enjoyed how the few encounters shown with The Prophets/Wormhole aliens were nearly completely divorced from the Bajoran religion and the teachings of the Kai. It was a nice commentary on how religious leaders can pervert a religion to their own agenda.

Anime - Log Horizon - I’m a long-time fan of both .hack// and Log Horizon. Both are incredible series. But Log Horizon is maybe a bit more compact and easy to follow for outsiders and is generally a more casual watch experience while still having solid continuity across the series.

I gave up on this one when it switched focus to the kids in the (2nd or 3rd season). Did it get any better afterward?

You know who opens for the Sneaker Pumps? The Sox Pistols.

All because a narcissist rapist, convicted felon, Nazi and his African sugar daddy are robbing America into the ground.

FTFY

They will correspondingly increase their prices to mitigate the loss. T

Being good capitalists, they’ll also increase prices over and above their tariff increased costs for a little extra profit, as a treat. Since it is common knowledge tariffs increase prices, the extra profit over and above the tariff costs will be blamed on trump too and everyone will believe it. So while the tariffs will indeed increase prices, we’re going to be even more than the tariff costs as American consumers.

Yes to speed-of-light limitations for latency, but again, the military is already doing things while also firing precision weapons from the same platform halfway around the world. My guess is that the systems are mostly autonomous except the humans issue short term commands. Like:

• plane, turn left bearing 180.
• turning left bearing 180, my bearing is 180

Morticia and Gomez Addams.

"Oh 'tish…that’s French!

The 1990’s naming conventions are back baby!

• Greek gods
• James Bond villains
• colors
• incremental naming: server1, server1a, Copy_of_server1a, otherserver1, ServerA)

Transpacific flights would become Lord of the Flies for 19 hours. Whoever holds the Conch shell holds leadership of the plane.

Once that is proven they will reduce responsibilities for the single crew until the plane is fully automated.

Once the fully automated flight is trusted and proven they will remove the single pilot.

There’s a middle step isn’t there? Where there are real human pilots that are sitting at a remote location on the ground somewhere doing the actual flying. We have this with military drone pilots already. I have to imagine it would be far easier to implement this than full AI. You still get 70% of the benefit of “pilotless” flights because you don’t have to get the human geographically to the place the plane is flying.

Because American educational institutions are not and haven’t been about academia and learning for some time. It’s a good ol’ boys club you pay with daddy’s money or massive amounts of debt to be a part of, to give you a piece of paper you can use to virtue signal to other people who wasted similar amounts of money in the same place.

There are some of those, yes, but far more colleges and universities are NOT those than are.

Hiring in IT has been an eye opener, I actively distrust people who present their degree as their first and foremost point of hirability; because they’re usually useless.

I do IT hiring as well. I don’t fault the younger folks that lead with their degree. They’ve been told all of their lives how important it is to get one and the it will make them stand out from their peers. I’ll agree with you however that a degree by itself does not make someone competent at the subject matter.

When I’m dealing with recent grads, I’ll ask for things outside of the degree coursework that deals with problem solving or demonstrations of conceptual knowledge (as oppose to rote). Lots of them fall flat when put to these question, some, however, shine. Where a degree (any degree) is useful is that it usually means they can write decently enough. They know at least some etiquette and professionalism. Hopefully it also means they know how to look something up, which really is the key skill of IT.