Random Thoughts.....What Are You Thinking?

My whole take on not liking Ironheart

Isn't racist, isn't sexist, it's ageist. Actress is 30, looks 40, pretending to be 18, acts 12. "super genius" but dumb as *** actually.

If they went like young sheldon, super genius pre teen and made the story more focused on that, it'd be less bad.

That whole show is riddled with holes.

Protagonist starts off stealing property and pretends it's all bueno. Feels the need to constantly tell everyone she's hella smart. Smart people don't have to advertise it.

The big make a suit thing was hand-waived as "magic bro, don't worry about it." Still lost.

Only good thing about that show is Sacha Baron-Cohen.

Its the lower starting salary and delayed entry to the workforce.

That lower starting salary can be overcome. But not by many. Easiest way is to go for a complementary or advanced degree. Not all can afford that.

Well yeah, luck always plays a role when it comes to getting advantages in life. In the lifespan of 43 years though, I think this number is long enough to use strategy to minimize the disadvantage from bad luck. I know it's hyperbole, but I wouldn't use "life is ***" to describe someone graduate during a bad time.

Certain life choices sometimes get people drastic advantage but for whatever reason it isn't encouraged, which is always mind blowing to me.

For example, living with parents, even when you have a job and married. This saves your rent/mortgage and it can help you save $500 more per month. After 43 years that extra $500 you put in SP 500 every month can add another one million dollars in your portfolio due to compound interest.

In my culture, living with parents even after marriage is a popular choice, about 30%+ of married couples choose to do that. But it seems that in English speaking world living with parents is discouraged or even laughed at. Which, IMO, just leads to more lower income people having money problems because their monthly saving is $500 less per month due to rent/mortgage.

This kind of life choice is simple to make, but it makes all the difference in the world after 40 years.

Same can be said for owning a car v.s no car. Buy your Nvidia 5090 or don't buy, go on a trip or don't etc. every small money decision like this, can add up in the lifespan of 40+ years as compound interest from savings snowballs. And IMO, the difference between lower starting salary due to bad luck eventually become irrelevant.

I'm really confused as to why a person that's on a first name basis with the Queen of Wakanda is living in squalor resorting to crimes to fund her operations.

For the same reason that Thor doesn't just fly in and kill everyone

"reasons"

Why doesn't Dr Strange just portal all bad guys in every story to the shadowrealm.

"reasons"

The same reason the idiot goes into the haunted house.

"to make the story happen"

Hmmm guess I should spoiler this just in case

Brave is one hell of a browser btw. Chromium w/o the ads-stuff.

Good morning you filthy degenerates

If you knew my mother you would understand.


DISCOURAGED? Laughed at? Most Americans consider the idea appalling.

I will have you know I am not filthy.

I understand how terrible it can feel and why some people made such choice, due to their feels about their parents.

But the US also has extremely low household saving rate (less than 5% according to Google) compare with other countries (China has 30%+ for example). So I think those cultural behavior and numbers that leads to potential poverty are probably correlated.

Don't forget these too!

AMERICA *** YEAH!

Happy 7/4 ;)

If you look at American citizen's total savings vs. their total debt I will bet we are negative BIG TIME.

Never have so many been conned into buying so much unnecessary crap on the installment plan.

The biggest loss any American faces is buying a new car then starting it up. And many do this every 3 - 5 years.

Curious whether that figure is declining, and, if it was, the rate of it.

Not directly related, but it's a funny coincidence that just last night, a relative of mine told me that he just leased an apartment & is leaving his parents' house (something I advised him to do a while back, based on my knowledge of his family situation) after 10 years of living there with his wife and kids, because, well, he is sick of the unnecessary drama, and wants to buy his peace of mind.

My impression is that cultures that encourage married offspring to stay with their parents are ones where parents tend to be overbearing and hence less respectful of the personal boundaries of said offspring (and their spouses), which is quite ironic, because what you need for this kind of situation to work out is awareness of the potential problems, understanding boundaries, and managing conflicts with a reasonable approach etc

RIP - Michael Madsen.

I thought Lady Luck would smile at me.

But I was never popular with girls, and Lady Luck spat in my face, instead.

If you compare with decades ago, then yeah, this number is probably declining due to modernization.

We were agriculture based society. The traditional housing architecture is designed to hold a very large family number with several wings. This is also great when you need manpower for farm works.

A big family = more man power for work and such. So it is encouraged that the whole family stay together. Generation after generation.

Modernization definitely weakened this family centered system. In modern economy many well paid jobs are in big cities. The high housing price in big cities also makes it hard to buy enough space for a big family. So more and more adults leave their parents due to jobs and modern lifestyle.

However, in more rural area or semi rural area, living with parents after marriage is probably more common, due to much cheaper housing price to buy a big space. I know at least 2 friends/relative do that, personally.


Fun fact, part of the reason why I left home and go work and live in another country for a decade is to escape from my parents as far away as possible, so they have no way to contact me in any possible way(lol). This decision put a very large hole on my saving progress however.

Eventually I learned to tolerate my parents as I got older. It's just tons of compromise on both sides, that's all.

I don't regret this experience of traveling to many different cities and experience very different lifestyle for years. This life experience is valuable.

But it's absolutely fact that I could have save 3x more money for my portfolio now if I just stay at home after I graduate, find a local job and never leave the city.

Money or life, decisions decisions....

I think I'd rather be homeless than live with my parents.

My gf and I spent 2 months living with my mother and her bf while I was waiting to close on my first house and doing the most intrusive renovations. It wasn't that big a deal, and nobody felt rushed to get into the new house asap. Obviously, that's a relatively short term compared to a situation like Zeig's relative.

I'm still curious how many of the people who see this sort of arrangement negatively have good relationships with their parents. I think that's important, whether or not you live together.

My relationship with my mother improved vastly after I moved out.

The basis upon which the decision (to stay or to leave) should be made is definitely a case-by-case one. The important thing is that there should be no stigma from neither choice. People should do what they gotta do according to their circumstances.

The brother of that relative I mentioned earlier moved out when he got married, and has had a much better relationship with his dad because of this. There are less chances for interactions = less chances for fritcions. Also the parents will not act as bossy when they realize their kids are not part of "their house" anymore, and will start missing their kids, and would make compromises on issues they're usually stubborn about in order to have more family gatherings with thier kids' families.

I guess that's why my parents now have waaaay less opinions on things after I disappeared from their sight for long, haha. :D

Same. Loving via distance I describe it as.

My 18th birthday doubled as my first day of college orientation. I never went back home for any length of time after that, since I worked summers at the college.

My relationship with the rest of my family is fine, if somewhat distant, but that is entirely on them.

"Who is Calmwind?



....oh right, I forgot."

A filthy Galka that doesnt know its place is rightfully in the mines!