You will notice your body slowing down soon. It might not be the second you turn 30, but almost definitely by 32.

If you want kids there’s a few things to consider.

1. Graduate highschool then get married before kids.
2. Kids are physically easier when you’re younger.
3. No one is ever really ready for kids, but you should have some level of financial stability and be prepared to have significantly less freedom.

Be purposeful in what you spend money on. You don’t need the best of everything, especially when starting a new hobby. You can find someone spending absurd amounts on anything, but no one can do that on everything.

Reddit has a weird obsession with wanting original content, but hate self promotion or any attempts to monetize. Except for porn, apparently that can be promoted.

A large part of wine tasting is bullshit, but different styles are definitely different.

Days is exaggeration, but there does seem to be mounting evidence that Putin may be looking for a way out of the war over the next year or so.

A shit load of bullets would destroy a solar farm.

IR cameras are good at counting bodies.

When you look globally you can expect a once a century thing about monthly. That’s just the law of large numbers.

Ads are extremely effective in aggregate though it’s difficult to impossible to assign value to any individual ad. Targeted ads are popular because they are more directly attributable to purchases, but it’s also likely that other ads led you towards that decision as well.

Passing a driving test in the US is usually one of the first accomplishments of becoming an adult, which makes it notable, but not necessarily big.

Recycling isn’t a solution for plastic.

That ending was super dark, so I’m not surprised they changed it up in theaters.

Watching butterfly effect in college. 30 seconds into the movie I jokingly say he’s going to go back and kill himself. My friend who had already seen it was pissed and held his tongue through the whole movie.

This was close enough to what the og Netflix was and unsurprisingly it was incredibly popular.

I’m pretty sure that last decade or so has shown that Europe doesn’t spend enough. It’s not just Russia’s invasion. Military action in Libya was reliant on the US to sustain more than a few days of action.

There hasn’t been direct conflict between powers since it was created, so I’d say you’re wrong. Think we’re far more tense in the cold war era than now.

The UN has largely worked as intended, even now. It’s purpose is to allow the world powers to peacefully interact with each other and control everyone else.

This is becoming a really good case study for austerity working. Argentina still isn’t great, but they were bordering on hyperinflation and are now stablizing.

Everyone should meet someone that worked in the mortgage industry pre 2008. The number of things that were not only allowed, but perfectly legal were absurd.

• appraisal was basically a bribe for any number you wanted.
• no document loans were far more available for anyone.
• mortgages had no real chain of custody after sale.
• there wasn’t any real way to verify the risk of a mortgage security pre 2008.
• variable rates didn’t have lifetime caps on rates, and reporting the details of how they functioned weren’t required.

No, it’s like saying fire extinguishers are bad because someone replaced the real ones with gag ones in a building that burned down.