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I found this book when I was almost 30 and it changed my life.

“Discover What You Are Best At” by Linda Gail.

It’s a series of self tests you can complete in a few hours and a list of the jobs that use those skills.

If you have a job that you don’t hate, you’ve solved a lot of life’s problems.

Hap and Leonard have entered the chat.

Also, free range kids are likely to be reported by ‘concerned’ neighbors.

Pretty soon, ‘Stand By Me’ and ‘The Goonies’ are going to be classified as dangerous propaganda.

Battle of Little Big Horn was in June, 1876.

The first telephone call was made March 10, 1876.

Man Walked on the Moon in 1969. A few weeks after the Stonewall Riots.

Rich parents can afford nannies who force the children to interact with them.

Poor parents use TVs and smart phones to amuse their kids.

https://www.newsweek.com/qatar-gift-trump-unsold-plane-2072564

It’s as if a fat guy who brought a bike for exercise and then threw it in the garage gave it to his pot dealer so the kid could deliver faster.

That’s why the slave traders wanted to enshrine their ideas.

They knew that there were Abolitionists at other universities; they wanted to make sure their reputations would remain unsullied.

Kind of like how oil companies today fund their own ‘climate research.’

Just remember that even fifty years ago the ‘scientific’ name for Down’s Syndrome was Mongoloid Idiot.

Check around where you live.

There are shelters that need cats boarded. I suggest you try caring for a few and see how it feels before you commit.

My opinion.

Big Trouble In Little China.

Marathon Man [Dustin Hoffman, Lawrence Olivier] seems to have been designed for multiple viewings. A character seen briefly in one scene turns up later in the movie. A quick telephone call becomes incredibly important but you have to be paying close attention to every minute.

Talk to people besides the women you want to date.

Old people love to talk to strangers; it was something they did before cell phones came around.

Take some acting classes and or volunteer at the local community theater. Acting is talking, and actors love to chatter.

Get a hobby that appeals to all sorts of people. Gardening/riding a bike/soft ball/football/whatever. It actually helps to have something to talk about, and there are clubs full of people who do that activity.

Duh!

This is a favorite GOP tactic for decades. Back when the Supreme Court cared about the law, the Right would pass anti-abortion laws that they knew would be struck down. But since they were in power, they could use tax payer money to pay for the cases. Meanwhile, people on the Left had pick and choose where their money went, to a good candidate or to the legal funds?

Thanks for the information.

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New Yorker here. Yes, it’s possible for a working person to have a great apartment in Manhattan. Either they moved in early and have a rent subsidized/controlled place, or they won an apartment lottery in a new building.

The thing that’s most unrealistic is when you see empty parking spaces any where.

You always see at the same speed. Your reaction time slows down.

Think of it this way. You step on a Lego and it hurts instantly. Doesn’t matter if you’re sleepy or drunk or wide awake. You feel it right away. Same with seeing; it’s instantaneous.

Tech bro Libertarians love the novel “The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress” by Robert A. Heinlein.

One plot line in the book is that the main computer for the Lunar penal colonies achieves self awareness. A computer repair man discovers that the HOLMES computer is starting to tell itself jokes and gives it the name ‘Mycroft’ after Mycroft Holmes.

Later, Mycroft meets a woman and creates a female personality, Michelle.

It’s a pretty good book.

“Penny Dreadful” The first two seasons are great, third gets a bit weak.

You want a major mind fuck?

“Stand On Zanzibar” by John Brunner. Brunner’s novel won the 1969 Hugo for Best Science Fiction Novel. It is set in the early 21st Century. The author based his predictions on Toffler’s work. He imagined things like Detroit being a ghost town; legalized pot; the internet; AI ; well paid adults needing roommates and a lot of other things. He got enough right to be very scary indeed.

https://bookshop.org/p/books/stand-on-zanzibar-john-brunner/7252770?ean=9781250781222&next=t

There is a book that gave a scientific explanation and it was written fifty years ago.

“Future Shock” by Alvin Toffler. Toffler was a sociologist. He studied what happened in the past when there were radical changes in society. The first great wave was the switch from hunter/gatherer tribes to farming towns. 5,000 years later there was a leap from farming to industry. Both times there were people who couldn’t or wouldn’t adapt themselves to the new order.

‘Future shock’ was his name for the madness of people who would do anything to hold on to a past that was already dead.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/tech-billionaire-parents-limit/

Not even the first story to pop up in the search.