I was a fan of the musical long before the movie, and the movie was meh. The celebrity performances ranged from yuck to average, and the attempts at added humor were way off.

But I can’t see how it could be translated into a movie much better (I missed Growltiger’s last stand, and felt Beautiful Ghosts detracted from Memory as the emotional peak). Dancers in tights would look ridiculous (and we have the 1998 “movie” for that), and any more realistic cats would remove what little remains of the physicality on film.

So no issues with the maligned CGI, would watch again, no match for the adorably ridiculous stage show.

You have to admit the “leftist” ideologies tend to be about working together and supporting each other, and the “right wing” ideologies about encouraging individual accomplishments, though?

Got excited enthusing about watches I thought are cool. Very long and deraily for the original topic. But in summary I think there’s a factor to the dance of advanced mechanics, so to say, and the deliberate absence of contemporary smart functions. A “soul”, if you will. Someone showing you their watch can be like them telling you their favourite Linux distro, it says a lot about a person, and just having one suggests they may be “my people”. 😅

Though Rolexes are imho fugly often gaudy pieces that do have in-house movements but it clearly isn’t their main selling point. Please don’t use them as an example. I don’t know what the Linux equivalent would be, ChromeOS?

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Is anyone into watches at the age when rich men try to pick them up? I could be easily impressed by a watch now (a personalised G-Shock $50-300, any diapason $500-2k, an enthusiastic watch geek explaining their Jaeger-Lecoultre…), but not part of the target demographic.

My answer to any “maybe glue back together” question is some homemade kintsugi hack. Sand the outer edges of both pieces to widen the “surface groove”, mix some gold-ish/silver-ish/copper-ish/etc powder with some resin adhesive, glue.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eO9CnS-NqO8

Idling at sc, spamming heal all as regen allowed. Good times.

Met my partner in a MUD, kind of a text-based pre-MMO. He was tank, I was healer, it was meant to be.

In general, talking with people who are doing a thing you are interested in too. The way I see it, maybe 10% of people are “friend” potential, 1% “good friend” potential, and .1% partner potential. You’ll want to look in populations where you have something in common with the people, and thus the odds a bit higher.

Well, if you’re for real, you pretty much answered your own question there. Many guys online are creeps, and you’d prefer to talk with women rather than try to find the golden fun normal person in a haystack of men.

As a relative newcomer to the privacy community, I don’t remember constantly hearing about things being overreacting. What I do remember hearing is to think about your threat model and behaving accordingly, to not over-sacrifice convenience for things that aren’t a priority to you.

Non-US

Completed

• living will
• life insurance; no reason for choosing that particular one
• am aware of how my inheritance goes without a will and am fine with it (lower inheritance tax this way)

Should still do

• power-of-attorney paperwork to trigger if I’m deemed incapable, apparently makes it easier
• funeral “instructions”, something to follow if they don’t want to think about it too much, but they know I really don’t care
• make sure they do the same

This, so much. You majored in philosophy, you know more about absurdism than I do. You also know there’s no such thing as “being ahead” or “being behind” in life, just being closer or further to your own values.

You’ve got an approximate 30-40 years of good cognition and physical ability left, and soon after you’ll die and nothing will have mattered anyway. “Existed safely until s/he died” is one possible path to take, but it sounds like you want permission to stop being scared. Go for it, the world doesn’t care.

Try to buy over 50% of ExxonMobil or Shell (Saudi Aramco and Sinopec probably aren’t up for grabs) and shut down everything I can while holding on to the owned/leased land so nobody else can start there either. Fossil fuels get more expensive, hopefully pushing for a green change, and at least some of them remain in the ground.

So you think 16 is a child?

I’m 40+ and would still have major reservations about dating someone 13 years younger. “Compatible personalities” makes for friends across age groups, and yes, even that you are more likely to find with a 3- rather than 13-year age gap. Being a long-term couple takes more.

The first thing is the younger party being protected and allowed to develop, which it sounds like she is.

For me the rough time comes from realizing that either your son is dating her for her age (legal I guess, but ick), or he has so much in common with a 16-year-old it’s enough to carry a relationship, which… Dude, what did you do in those 13 years to not grow as a person, ick. I can definitely understand why it would change your perception.

Then again, there isn’t really anything you can do about it, except express your disapproval every now and then, but make is easy for either party to end the relationship without an “I told you so”. Of all the actions for you to not condone, this is pretty mild. He could have joined a cult, committed crime, or “date” a 12-year-old.

Anything to excuse our unhealthy diets, huh.

You’re aware of low-volume HIIT? Max 15 minutes per day, evidence-based for cardiovascular health same as “normal” exercise. Not for building muscle afaik, and finding your own among the many more-or-less tested ones can be a chore. The popular “Scientific 7-minute workout” and it new versions would probably be a good place to start, and are targeted more for building strength afaik.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37939367/ https://archive.nytimes.com/well.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/05/09/the-scientific-7-minute-workout/

Edit: Oh, and to answer your question, I don’t. I do move about by bike and play BeatSaber because it’s fun, otherwise decomposing.

This is mild, but I once read a paper with an author called Warwick Blood. Apparently he was a leading researcher into the role of media in public understanding of social issues who died in 2022, and not the big bad of a D&D campaign.

Her name is Gerd which in Germany is a male name.

Gerd as a woman’s name sounds nordically normal. But I still snicker when I hear about someone with “Maria” as a male middle name. Like Rainer Maria Rilke, or Carl Maria von Weber.