Own occ is rarely needed for most office job types. Your financial advisor is correct - it’s really only needed for very specific professions requiring specific (especially physical) skills (doctors, dentists, musicians, tradesmen, etc).

Think of it this way - if you or I lost a finger somehow, no big deal. A neurosurgeon loses a finger, and now they are out a million dollars a year in income.

Own Occ is a lot more expensive. Anything that would keep someone from doing a typical office job would likely keep them from doing any job (such as a terminal cancer diagnosis, or degenerative neurological condition).

Some random poppy flowers I found in my garden suffice?

You will if you ever date someone who has this particular problem it's very common and yes it is largely based on insecurity.

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They say tacos are just the hotdogs of hamburgers

I thought homicides were down ~22% and nonfatal shootings were down ~25% over this time last year. I was curious if I'm wrong because that doesn't seem to track with "have not decreased in any sort of meaningful way."

out of context much?! It rains a lot here. No car and only bike means making dangerous choices.

Damn! Is vandalism common out there?

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When is going to be free to go?

What a good read! Thank you for giving me the pleasure to read such a story. It's precise, concise and well within the given prompt but it gives you the impression you've been there and came back to tell us about it.

Sex is a kind of workout / cardio while some pp is sinking into them though LOL

I mean this in the nicest way possible, you make way too much money to be this messed up financially.

>Do you hear the People Sing?

Singing the songs of angry men? It is the music of the people who will not be slaves again!

The fences at Tudor are not 6ft. Only the one blocking the parking lot is that tall.

> I’m assuming 100% of EVs right now will come off the production line with brand new batteries

The batteries will always be new. The lithium used to make those batteries will either come from mines, the sea, or recycling.

It's the same with aluminum cans. Every coke can is new but the aluminum in that can might have been mined 50 years ago or a few months ago.

> How many will have to be manufactured with 100% mined lithium before we can close this loop? Wouldn’t everyone need to own at least one EV before this is possible?

The loop will never be closed. Again using aluminum as the example. Despite how easy it is to recycle, new aluminum is always needed. Recycling just greatly reduces how much mining is needed.

> Also, the cost and energy required to recycle these things. Who’s paying for it?

The people who need to buy lithium. They will either pay for the cost to mine it or they will pay the cost to recycle it.

> And once enough lithium is mined to have a closed loop, how will we offset the damage and pollution caused by raw mining and how long will that take?

Mining lithium really isn't that bad and you have to contrast it with oil extraction as that's what EVs are replacing. Oil extraction and subsequent burning of oil is so bad we might have completely fucked ourselves for centuries. People are completely numb to how insanely dirty fossil fuels are as it's all they've ever known.

>Describe the world today in 1980. You cannot predict Reddit or Twitter. You cannot make the claims you’re making with any substantial certainty. Stop acting as if you know.

Both in this thread and the other thread you seem to not to want to extrapolate based on presently given information. That's like the best thing about being sentient too. Or at least you don't want me to extrapolate since you gave me a r/futurology tier take on working.

You are acting like I'm describing hypothetical technology. It's already here. Look through the subreddit for direct sources. You seem to only be working off of ChatGPT-like text models. Even that can be quite autonomous with plug ins. You're like those people who don't know ai is starting to create functional code.

For as much as you love markets, which I also do, you seem to not acknowledge the profit motive and how human neutral it is.

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On a sidenote, if I had access to books in the 1980s I might've predicted social media. A lot of singulitarians did. But really this is more like predicting social media in 2001 or 2007 depending how which sites you'd like to count. But I still think the analogy is flawed, as the tech is here.

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Only the ones who aren't ass hats. Which are you?

And a wet basement with a toilet if you need anything more than a 1 bathroom

Most of us have been in one. It’s a pain in the butt too. Your skis or snowshoes get tangled in the lower branches so that it’s really hard to climb out without detaching them. Detaching them is hard. My best friend fell into one when snowshoeing and disappeared. He was wearing snowshoes and a 50-pound pack. I had to lay down in the snow to help him out. We were cracking up.

Edit: Most of us who play in deep snow. I live in Oregon. There’s about 15 feet of snow in the mountains and more coming.

I don’t want to live on this planet any more.

Please tell us that it was the 13.4% loans and that you didn't pay off your lowest interest debt. That will be the only silver lining here. Nothing else makes sense.

Put it in the dishwasher.