I was smarter.

That did not prevent me from being foolish like all kids are.

Generally frowned upon to invade countries.

Ludicrously costly. Your tax payers will want to know why it’s more important than everything else you do with their money.

Immense suffering. Mostly by the people you’re trying to liberate but also your own troops and their families.

They have nukes and could probably blow up at least a few regional cities. If the regime is threatened they will most likely use them.

South Korea or China or Russia are the only countries with land borders. China and Russia find NK useful to have arround to annoy US. Seoul is within artillerty range of the border.

Building up a new state in it’s place is very difficult. Remember how the Taliban took back power about 15 minutes after the US left Afghanistan?

If you don’t date because you are ugly/mental/whatever and thus black pilled then that is a part of your identity. Instead you spend all the time playing games.

If you don’t date because you put zero effort into your looks because you’re busy playing video games then games becomes a part of your identity.

You’re doing exactly the same thing but your choice is what emotional baggage comes with the crowd you choose to identify with. That in turn will influence you and your own mental well being over the decades.

It does not sound like a happy bunch to hang around. Is that what you aspire to have as a part of your identity?

Possibly. But there is a good reason that is not the way swimming is taught and I’d not jump in the deep end based on book knowledge.

That being said read, then practice, then read, then practice loop is a very quick way for me to learn.

A piece of paper and guesswork to begin with many years ago.

My bank app has an automated thing that guesses (i can correct it but it’s right 90%) what every non cash transaction is and puts it in a category.

I can go back and look through how much things have cost me month by month.

There is a bar or some device that is there to prevent your stuff from sliding forwards. I’ve not been crawling on the airplane floors enough to see any weight rating on it but I would bet money on it being crash tested and rated according to whatever the overhead compartments are.

The overhead compartments have a weight limit because they must be designed to keep the stuff in there during an emergency.

15-20 years ago I lived on about subsistence minimum for about 5 years.

No subscriptions. No TV. No car. No kids. Cook myself only cheapest food, no tobacco, no alcohol, no candy. Most of my furniture was used. Moved to a cheap-ish part of the country.

That does not sound right. Do you have a source for that claim?

You’re in a situation where you have to cut spending and raise taxes while the left promises to not cut spending and the right promises to not raise taxes. It’s an issue the last handful of administrations have not been able to deal with…

It’s going to be painful. Hopefully not a drawn out depression like the 1930s.

Duck auto carrot.

Jokes aside, I prefer to have errors be marked with an angry red squiggly line and suggestions. No automation beyond an upper case letter at the beginning of a sentence. Even that is too much on a computer.

Takes longer and usually don’t get it hot enough.

Has that happened to you? I’ve not managed to make super heated water in the microwave.

Vim takes your keyboard shortcuts to the extreme. If you can be bothered to learn it.

Tax laws are usually made to make it easy to collect, hard to dodge taxes.

If companies pay all the tax I could create a company, invoice my current employer, pay myself a salary that is equal to the entire profit margin. There is nothing left to tax.

You could try to patch the loophole but then you’ll break down something else.

Where I live a majority of the voters are generally okay with high taxes (35%-50%) as long as it’s only shared with other people who works and pays taxes.

It’s evil to take someones money. It’s necessary because it funds the surrounding. A necessary evil, as op asked for.

Twice as many mattreses as needed.

Tax. Noone wants their money to be taken away. But it’s probably a good idea to have at least some government funded stuff.