tiredofsametab

I mean, if you change it to "if Bob murdered a guy in cold blood (i.e. not defense, etc.) and no one was looking, did Bob break the law?" The answer to me wouldn't be anything but yes.

Just because the offense is different or you don't agree with it doesn't change that in my eyes. It generally doesn't change it in the eyes of the law, either. Always campaign against laws you think are bullshit. If enough people do, you might be able to do something about it.

It's a Friday in the year 2000. I'm far too poor to spend gas money to get to Blockbuster, let alone rent anything from it.

A first-person, single-player AAA shooter could be exactly my cuppa. However, there'd be zero chance I'm buying a game from EA so there's that.

I will continue not using it. I was interested in Oculus until they sold to FB and then I nope'd right out of that. I really did think VR was neat, but various things kept me from pulling the trigger. If it becomes the only way to use chunks of the internet, I just won't use them; I grew up still in the analog world (though we did have BBS and very early dial-up in the '80s), and I could go back to it. I'd honestly miss educational content more than anything else, but I can get books. In my lifetime, that strategy would probably still work fine.

I didn't miss it so much as I didn't think it was that important, but you're right that it's not a bad point to bring up. That 64.9m^2 is actually bigger than the 2LDK+Loft I live in now (55.x + the loft) in a freestanding house. For two of us, it's mostly fine. Just because I work from home, I'd like a little more space, but it's worked fine. Previously, my apartment was I think 32m^2 or so, which again was mostly fine.

People here aren't used to f-off big houses like in the US (I can't speak for Aus), so I think of it less as a problem and more of a "this is what we do" type of thing. In the post-war boom in the US, it seems a lot of newer houses were around 92M^2 (single-source quick google), but I know that number is way higher today. Anecdotally, I've not found wanting bigger spaces something that a lot of my friends have mentioned (until they have toddlers and older anyway, heh), particularly when a lot of them are only home to sleep, eat, and shower.

Healthcare costs, etc. are quite different if you're used to the US system. We still pay something at point-of-service, but it's nothing like the US. We are legally required to have insurance (some companies will cover some or all of this), but it's also based on income.

I know lots of bartenders and such (and remember, no tips here) who live on their own and have money to spend. Definitely not glamorous or anything, but doable. Some, like my wife before I met her, live in fairly nice and central roomshares with another person.

I can't really use my expenses to show anything useful as I eat lots of (more expensive) western foods/meat/cheese, work from home and usually have some kind of climate control going, have propane rather than city gas, etc.

Yes. Things feel out-of-balance without it to me. However, if the meaning is unclear (something something stripping Hitler and Stalin), I will work around it and/or use other punctuation. I think I have a bit of a weird synesthesia thing going on for written text (English or written code (in the programming sense); I don't have it as much in the other languages I read/write, but it isn't absent there, either).

Yup, this is correct.

Interesting! Thank you for answering. I've met folks from around the bulkans and many speak a few lancuages

Edit: also, the Balkans. Spelling > me

How many languages do you speak? How many did your grandparents speak? How many do your children (or theirs) speak (if you have any)?

Nope. I live on an island on the opposite side of the world from my family and there are currently no seafaring options that work with my employer. In-country, the only time I've flown is to another island several hours away. Otherwise it's public transit for me the vast majority of the time (and my fuel efficient bike for when I need to go somewhere transit doesn't (in ~ 9 months, I have < 800km on it, a lot of which was going to and from Costco).

Ooooh, look at "I can sleep once and only once per day and never for longer than a day" over here ;P :)