The world would be filled with old people.

You are thinking it would just be a gentle way to reduce population but even if women did artificial insemination to keep your 1/20 birthrate, the world as you know it needs a lot of people to run it - farmers, network engineers, maintaining all the systems that make your comfortable existence possible requires a baseline population with particular skills, of working age. There is a reason technology increased with population growth.

The natural world would be better off, probably. Humans would be in for a rough ride, and would probably die out.

FedEx not bad where I live, but UPS? My friend said she always knew when they were delivering when she heard the box hit the house, they literally just hurled packages from the truck. I used to sell Avon and had to get it delivered to the local office not my house because UPS was the carrier and nothing would survive. My ex heard the driver that delivered to his work negotiating to sell the stuff on his truck.

You know who likes CK Obsession? Cats. Big and small.

I was an anorexic teen and young 20something and though I am long recovered and take good care of my body now, I do not think I see what others do. We have one mirror in the house, though, that is so flattering. I will sometimes stand in front of it, naked, and ask my husband if I really look like that - I thought it was stretching me vertically; but he says yeah, that is exactly what you look like.

So my money is on lighting.

Also there used to be a saying (before filters) "the camera adds ten pounds". People look better moving around than frozen in time, even models, it's a thousand pictures and picking the best one.

Sure. But they ought not all be enforceable.

Oh boy, does this depend. I strongly suggest you wear what you like, and not worry about compliments.

Personally, Kouros and not too much of it is one I both notice and like but I do think it's polarizing. I dislike aquatic musks and overly clean smells, laundry musks.

But again - it's so individual you are better off pleasing yourself, if you smell good to you, you will be happier and that is attractive.

Stress can wreck memory.

I am not great with faces, apparently, because people recognize me but I don't recognize them, a lot. Like, no shit the FedEx guy bringing stuff to my work recognized me from grade school. Some people are REALLY good at recognizing people.

In general I'd say I am much better at figuring things out, than remembering them, and it has ever been so. Even in school I passed algebra by remembering the quadratic formula and just figuring out the rest of it each time. I don't do things the same way every time. When I try to do things by rote, without thinking I fuck them up.

If it's bothering you, try mindfulness - throughout the day take a breath, relax and become more aware of what you are doing and hearing and seeing and feeling. Get in the habit of paying close attention.

But I do think it's normal to sort of discard a lot and only remember a little.

So apparently the job of answering the question "what job should be replaced by AI" is a job that can be replaced by AI.

I'm not so sure. If I went around standing at doors waiting for them to be opened for me, I think it might get laughed at.

Good pornography (I am a woman and it's slim pickings), and lots of more in depth reporting like NPR sometimes does - the sort of articles that are so satisfying to read, they feel like eating a good meal.

I don't think it would be created by AI, but do think AI would be helpful for finding it.

The Babbel app Latin American Spanish course gets pretty close. There isn't some standard US Spanish but when I switched it from European Spanish to the Latin American one it got much more familiar. I am sure that would help and it is conversational language learning.

I like group fitness classes, yoga, dance, etc so don't mind paying something to have that space to do it; but yeah I stopped going to any that were too far away to walk in, say, half an hour. Driving to gym to work out freaked me out too, it feels crazy - a gym should be on your path home from work or really close to work or home, otherwise you are less likely to use it. But I say this as the privileged spouse of a man so rich in free weights that I can always lift heavy at home - if we didn't have those I might be willing to drive and pay to use the equipment.

I think a lot of things are scammy, most investments and crypto are pyramid schemes, the US private healthcare system and I'm not sure Medicare fraud isn't what the public system was built for.

I played this in my house when it came out because I liked Skinty Fia; my kid immediately said "play that again please, the whole album". I love it!

They are just propagandized. In general, it's so much like racists - they may know trans people and just think they are the exceptions, like them as individuals and still think they hate them as a group. They are intentionally riled up by being forced fed edge cases and disinformation.

Trans people are just people. They aren't angels who are never criminals and they aren't degenerates who are always criminal, they are a diverse group like all of us are. But you can bet your ass that whenever a trans person does something criminal it will be blown up so big in conservative media and used to paint them all as criminals. It's just the right wing media machine.

I'd like to have a deep understanding of a few things, a pretty good understanding of more things, a passing knowledge of a lot of things, and think it's impossible to know a whole lot about a whole lot of things.

I think it's fine to say you have not the means to evaluate the sources of "information" available to you, if it's not something immediately necessary to you. As I said to someone else, your time and attention are not unlimited resources. Better to use them on things that matter to you.

The way things are going with the censorship here, he likely wouldn't need to buy any books for it anyway. It could just be a fire pit.

I like cooking, I like gardening. Husband likes washing the cars. Sure I like convenience - live about a mile from work so can easily get there without a car, have a Roomba, hire for biweekly cleaning so we can have weekends. But some sorts of activities you think of as inconveniences may be stuff other people enjoy doing.

Is your planning theoretical at this point? Your responses sound like you haven't actually implemented these plans.

Our summer/rainy season. Warm mornings building to hot early afternoon, then thunderstorms, rain to cool everything off, then warm evenings with crazy beautiful lightning, all different sorts, so you can have dinner and a show.

Plus I would pretty much always rather be too hot than too cold. Most people come here for our winters but I really love the rainy season.

The chaos is my favorite part, the people. I am hosting so make the turkey plus a bunch of vegan sides because one kid is vegan and otherwise she gets not much. So for her a stuffing, mashed potatoes, gravy, roasted sweet potatoes with chili paste, green beans & mushrooms, "creamed" greens in coconut milk, confit of parsnips.

Now would I rather be putting butter in most of those,and eggs in the stuffing, and sausage? Fuck yes. But I'm her best chance at getting something that is delicious not just vegan, so I do only vegan sides. We have two grandmas attending and one insists on bringing a whole Thanksgiving no matter what I ask so there is all the regular stuff. Like sometimes she literally brings another turkey with her, it's ridiculous. I only want her to bring pies, I cannot pie.

Marquise, is that you?