DrQuickbeam

@DrQuickbeam@lemmy.world

Humanitarian technologist & big data wrangler, on a quest for evidence-based policy. Rational optimist, post-statist, contemplative humanist, mystery enthusiast, bardo tourist.

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DrQuickbeam ,

Emergency humanitarian response program planning/monitoring/evaluation with a UN agency.

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I don't understand how letting players pay money to avoid grinding for items isn't a douchy move. It either means they think you will have less fun if you pay less (otherwise people wouldn't be motivated to buy shortcuts) or that they are making you pay extra for an easy mode.

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Is this Winamp for Finns or a financial amplification device?

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https://www.linkedin.com/in/waltmonk?

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I moved from the US to Italy, where everything is cheaper and better quality, and we get free healthcare, free college, retirement pension and six months paid maternity leave. All this on a 35% tax rate. Public daycare is about $300 a month, housing expenses are about half of what I paid in the US, and while groceries are about the same, they are all local, organic, non GMO and -get this - crops are grown for flavor rather than weight. Houses are smaller here and wages are usually lower, but working hours are less and less intense, and the pace of life is much chiller.

DrQuickbeam ,

Have visited cursed chapters of other lives on salvia.
Have had full lives on ayahuasca... tired stare ... no flute though.

DrQuickbeam , (edited )

American here, I agree, our anachronistic measurement systems and twisted pride in them is insane (but insanity is perfectly normal here).

In the lower Midwest it is currently -22C (-8F) in Kansas City and Chicago.
In the upper Midwest it's about -25C (--13F) in Fargo, North Dakota and 27C (-17F) in Billings, Montana.

Temperatures are usually 10-15 degrees C higher this time of year, so this weather is quite dangerous.

Edit: I'm only citing air temperatures above. We use the term "windchill" in place of what most countries call "perceived temperature" which tries to estimate what it feels like outside by factoring in wind and humidity conditions. The windchill in those cities would be much lower than the air temperatures. When it gets this cold though, numbers are pretty abstract. It would be more useful to say like the number of minutes exposed skin has until frostbite sets in.

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