The currency of Turkey is cheap and international investors don’t have any faith in their government to run the economy. The latter means that there is less foreign investment, so coupled with the aforementioned cheap currency, properties are cheap there.

I’ve worked with programmers who actually look after their physical health too - it’s nuts!

The only times I struggle to admit I’m wrong is if my interlocutor has an attitude I find grating. Sometimes in online debates I just don’t reply and give people the last word instead of continuing a heated conversation if I think they have a point.

Otherwise happy to admit that I’m wrong if someone cites a study or whatever that says something counter to what I’m claiming.

I think many social “issues” can be resolved with empathy after speaking to an individual on a human level instead of grappling with an abstract “issue”.

Yes, I’d like to think I’m open to having my mind changed about things. I try to follow both left wing and right wing media (New Statesman and The Spectator respectively in the UK) to try to get both points of view on current affairs.

Cancer is an umbrella term for a huge variety of diseases and once you reach a certain age you’re likely to have at least one of them. It’s just not worth treating if you are in your 80s/90s.

I kind of think the “fuck cancer” online discourse is a bit misguided since it’s the price we pay to have regenerating cells.

Yes, combination of the exhange rate and external market factors

• Dark Souls + DLC
• Metroid Prime
• Super Metroid
• Persona 3 Portable
• SMTV:V

Edit: Might swap DS for Sekiro

In Scotland we had a VHS the class watched when we were 9/10 which had a basic diagram of intercourse. The voiceover said, “Note how they fit together, like a jigsaw puzzle.”

Seared into my brain. I remember asking if the sperm from the video “could think” like tadpoles did. Never got a proper answer!

Then secondary school had lessons about the reproductive cycle in mandatory biology class. Slightly later, when we were 14 or so, they had demonstrations about how to put on condoms.

Edit: btw does anyone know if sperm can think? k thanks

Argentina has made huge strides towards fixing their inflation whereas Turkey has a megalomaniac leader who refuses to even ackowledge it exists.

I’d also have a pre-Ghibli film as my favourite with Lupin III: Castle of the Cagliostro. Although hard to argue with Mononoke or Nausicaa.

Not a baby name but I worked with a devops engineer who had dyslexia so all of our IaC variable names had misspellings in them. We just lived with it because it would have been expensive to teardown the resources and reprovision them with the correct spellings.

You pretty much need networkmanager for eduroam. If you are a wpa_supplicant enthusiast you need to swallow your pride. Otherwise no issues with using linux for higher education.

Learning Latex for your dissertation will make referencing easier, as an aside.

They should teach basic philosophy in schools; common formal fallacies and such.

Appreciate the well-thought out response.

Will readily admit my theory is folk psychology as opposed to anything that could withstand scientific rigour. Just subjectively, have you not personally experienced the sensation of the years passing by more quickly as you age?

Edit: Forgot to mention that I also agree that psychedelics can be like hitting a reset switch. I believe there are scientific papers which describe synapses lighting up in unusual patterns in clinical trials, which corresponds with the subjective experience of people seeing things with a “fresh pair of eyes” or whatever.

Pretty much never off tv from what I can tell. I don’t live in the states so don’t have any exposure, but pretty sure my weak joke doesn’t make much sense.

Can’t say too much about the episode but think it could have been more harsh. I don’t work for the crown company, that seemed completely trashy and of questionable legality.

You son of a bitch - I’m in!

Managing data pipelines doesn’t exactly give me the skinny on how to beat the house.

Gotcha

Ah my bad misread it as you having some genetic predisposition towards them or something lol