Either a whole load of books, fiction, tabletop RPG sci-fi. I would also need to buy more bookshelves to put these on.
A decent upgrade to my computer, maybe a new graphics card.
A sword or two, some better protective kit for sparring.
In summary of the nature article:
Listen and be interested in why they hold those opinions, use motivational interviewing techniques (I explain this as Inception, trying to get the patient to have the ideas) and provide solid evidence, be realistic about data and certainty, ie the MMR vaccine is safe (and doesn’t cause autism) the COVID vaccine has less data as it’s newer, but it is still safer for the vast majority of people than COVID.
34 male. Grew up with 3 siblings. Always wanted kids when I was younger. As I got older, met my wife and started living together we had lots of discussions about kids. She was never really interested in them and the whole pregnancy and giving birth thing terrified her.
On lots of reflection I realised that I was only interested in kids because of family and societal pressure, I think the world is over populated and generally heading downhill (fascism is massively on the rise globally, global warming, various wars) so decided that I didn’t want to bring a child into that.
There’s plenty of children in the foster system so if we change our minds later we can adopt and give a good home to a child that needs one.
This isn’t a question random people on the internet can answer easily, but I can offer you some things to think about which might help.
I’m in a medical field in the UK and do some interviewing so I’d be asking you why you want to pick a job with long hours, bad pay (comparatively for the responsibility), poor working conditions? Medicine is not a job for people who want to breeze through or are just a little bit interested in biology and people.
I’d recommend you get some work experience, health care assistant jobs are commonplace in the UK and a great way to see if medicine is right for you, universities here look on it very favourably as well. If you can do a 12 hour shift where you are exposed to blood, poo, urine and vomit and still want to go back for more then I’d say medicine is probably an ok field for you.
What are your goals? Helping people is a common response in medical interviews but you can help in lots of ways, law like you’ve already been considering, engineering, accounting etc. What do you get out of medicine that you can’t get elsewhere?
Do you want to make lots of money and have an easier life, don’t pick medicine, pick something else.
Yes please. I love seeing how other GMs prep.
No. Chavs were the school bullies for me growing up so I get a pretty strong visceral ewe from that style choice.
Dragons dogma 1 and 2 fit the bill I think. 2 more so than the first.
Link to the first post. I’m using boost via my phone without a VPN.
The ml link has posts, most recent was a week ago.
My Dad’s gone totally off the rails conspiracy theory nutty.
Fake moon landings, fluoride in the water is mind control, vaccines cause autism and maybe microchips and mind control again, foreign people are simultaneously lazy stealing benefits and stealing all the jobs, my god the racism. He fell into an echo chamber during COVID and hasn’t come out again.
The best one was when I was telling him as a healthcare professional on the front lines watching patients and colleagues die that COVID was serious and we should take any opportunity to avoid it and make it better, he told me it was just flu and all fake news.
Yeah I don’t talk to my parents much anymore.
Generally speaking a beer is 2 units, in the UK we recommend no more than 14 units in a week. If you want to stop talk to your doctor if you can or seek help. Stopping or reducing is much easier with help.
I might be reading this wrong but I’m not convinced it helps. My read of this is basically we get 1 free go at surviving and can send messages back to the start point for the second go to try and survive.
You could keep a running commentary of what you’re doing and where you’re going which would give you a little bit of notice of where and when you die but unless you can time loop and continually adjust the plan until you find something that works I don’t see how knowing 1 point of failure is enough to keep you alive.
Maybe someone smarter than me has a better idea though, or I’ve got the prompt wrong.
I work in a hospital so: scalpels, oxygen bottles/ wall supply explosions (hard to do without disabling the safety’s which I don’t know how to do), plenty of radiation sources in the building, loads of dangerous drugs from sedatives to painkillers to chemotherapy. If I’m lucky the monster might just die of MRSA or pneumonia before they get to me.
Any recommendations on the mods? There are loads!
My wife and I have been playing Vintage Story. We’re really enjoying it. It’s a block survival game ala Minecraft but it’s much nicer to look at and the mechanics are way more in depth.
We’re in our first winter currently and doing things around the house we built at the start of the cold season (so we can stay close to somewhere warm). We’ve just made our first windmill and are building a chicken coop and making our farm look nicer with fences and paths. I’ve just started tanning to make leather using barrels full of borax and tannins (which you get by soaking oak logs in water for a day or so).
It’s also highly customisable with the world gen/ server settings and mods. For example we’ve moved our default spawn to our base and have a mod that sets spawn at beds for when we are off exploring.
It’s in early access but there’s definitely enough game to justify the cost at present.
The state of your mental health is not necessarily your fault, but it is your responsibility. It’s ok to be having a bad day, week, or year but it’s not ok to hurt other people because of that.
But those days where you just relax and enjoy yourself count as good days so that’s ok too.
I love Iron Sky for this. Nazis on the moon. It’s satire all the way through. Such a goofy film but a lot of fun.
Yeah they are common beach wear but a visiting a site for looking at women wearing them is not something most people would do at work so they are probably right.
For car camping a double roll mat and double sleeping bag has made a world of difference especially for my wife who’s a cold sleeper, sharing a bag let’s her steal my warmth. We’ve had a Vango comfort roll mat for a good few years now and it doesn’t pack small but it’s nearly as comfy as my mattress at home.