if you’ve hit the point you’re stocking up on gas you’ve likely hit the point you’re moving closer to the border or fleeing.

Yes?

Why?

I mean, it’s a career where you sign up to maybe die at 18 by giving up all your autonomy. So… yes.

Dog hotel is a nice name for a kennel

Why not?

I’ve thought of having kids occasionally, and have largely decided it is not a good idea. However, I decided that if I ever did have kids, I would need to meet a number of requirements first.

Beyond providing basic necessities like food and shelter, the most important thing a parent can do for their child’s happiness and well being is be happy. The parent needs to show their child, through their everyday actions, how to deal with adversity with grace and how to enjoy normal days with happiness and gratitude. While these things may be achieved via sufficient mental training - like hours of meditating per day - likely the more efficient path is to ensure their own higher-level needs are met.

The parent should feel secure in their ability to provide for themselves and their family, even in times of economic turmoil. They should feel their work is not just tolerable, but generally enjoyable and meaningful. They should have a large support network of friends and family with whom they can interact regularly. They should be be generally physically strong and healthy, and able to maintain that level of health easily - barring outside sickness or physical trauma. They should have the time and resources to engage in enjoyable and meaningful hobbies. They should have the time and resources to participate in their larger social communities’ gatherings such as festivals, time spent in the bar meeting strangers, or town hall meetings.

And then the child needs to be cared for. The child needs to be fed healthy food; be given stimulating activities to engage in; be provided with ample opportunities to interact with peers; and be given support and guidance not only with object-level tasks like homework, but with emotional issues around navigating social interactions, learning to appreciate necessary rote tasks, maintaining a regular routine, and finding what is personally meaningful to them. And the child also must be given ample unsupervised time where they can be alone or interact with peers (while not staring at a screen), so they can learn to be independent and self-motivated.

So basically my requirement is to form a commune of like-minded people that is walking distance from a small city’s walkable downtown, which has a transit line to a large city’s downtown, where everyone involved has a common understanding of the responsibilities of shared childcare, and also everyone is financially secure enough such that they don’t need to work full time. Further benefits of community organization would include reduced food costs via economies of scale, reduced labor burden of chores like cooking and cleaning, and social support for shared activities like exercise, sleep, and focusing on mental health.

But I have to say, this seems quite unlikely, so I almost certainly just won’t have kids.

and am closing on my first house in 2 weeks, which is VERY far away from them, and I have refused to disclose its location.

Good for you! This is also how I deal with my family.

Acceptable? I mean, if it’s what you’ve got it’s what you eat. But if you’re an adult who cares about their health and this is what you’re eating every day… it looks both sad and unhealthy. It isn’t what I would accept for myself if I were able to choose what I was eating.

The annoying thing is that people seem to think they need to have so many things to make a meal. You have pear juice and apple sauce and a sandwich and a pickle… you can just make and eat a sandwich and it would be tastier and more nutritionally complete, assuming it is a large sandwich with lots of protein and veggies. Or just pack yourself a bowl of soup (again, with lots of protein and veggies) that you meal prepped earlier and pop it in the microwave. Then drink water.

Autistic people need to not eat trash diets, too. It isn’t bullying to tell someone that their eating habits will lead them to poor health

Problem being - average is pretty shit

Otoh, it also provides jobs for the community, either directly (cleaning, handyman work, management) or indirectly (additional tourist dollars in local establishments).

The reality is, in almost all places, short term rentals have an extremely negligible impact on the housing market. And in the few places where they have a measurable impact, we need to ask: why can’t that area just build more housing? And the answer, almost invariably, is restrictive zoning codes, coupled with land speculation. Solving the problem of lack of housing doesn’t require banning short term rentals, an action which would likely have a significant negative impact on local businesses who rely on the tourist dollars. Solving the problem involves liberalizing zoning ordinances to allow more housing to be built, and adopting Georgist Land Value Taxes which preclude investors’ ability to speculate on land value rather than only earning money via value they provide to other people.

Turns out the correct spot was “on the table with everything else”

Are they comfy and easy to wear?

I thought you were talking about short pants for a second before I read the body.

And yes, I do hate wearing shorts, because I have ugly knees.

1. The human brain is a spectrum, and is highly malleable. There aren’t types of people - just people with more or less predisposition for certain traits.

2. That’s not how evolution works. Groups of humans don’t just naturally produce the “emergency thinker” phenotype when the group has too few. Individual genetic lines might find a set of local minima that work to them and stick to it, but this is because it is beneficial to those genes fitness - not because it benefits the group.

… yeah. That’s the “quitting” part. You aren’t doing your job, but you are quiet about it so you keep getting paid. That’s what this phrase means.

I dunno. I’m not Japanese.

I mean, that’s not what quiet quitting is. Quiet quitting is doing the bare minimum to not get fired from your job, which is different from the bare minimum that would be reasonably expected of you. Most of the time, if your employer actually knew how much work you were doing, they would want to fire you, and it would be for-cause, because you are doing essentially nothing.

This is possible because many workplaces have very little accountability. One of the classic moves is to always be working on multiple projects - so anytime someone asks you to do something, you say “I dunno how quickly I’ll be able to get that done, I’m pretty swamped from X” - at which point everyone sagely nods and agrees that the team working on X is definitely swamped.

If your bosses actually knew that you were just lying, and were spending 7.5 hours everyday playing video games, you’d be fired. But since they don’t know that, you can keep getting paid for showing up to a few meetings every week. That’s what quiet quitting is.

This is the way. Have a vibrant, diverse social life where you contribute to group efforts and show off the skills you have. Introduce yourself to everyone with a smile. Be nice to old people and make friends with them - they are the ones who know about jobs that will never be posted to job boards.

Yes. That’s why quality keeps declining there.