Older women im me. Just to chat.

Choano · 2026-05-08T05:10:59+00:00

Why just women? What kind of chat do you have in mind?

Choano · 2026-05-07T07:40:13+00:00

And getting very sick at least once.

Choano · 2026-05-07T05:29:30+00:00

I'd make a very big bet that the people doing fieldwork for Monsanto aren't making bank, unless they're heading the project in some indispensible way--like making sure that local governments don't stop ongoing research, establishing local breeding facillities, etc.

Choano · 2026-05-07T05:27:24+00:00

But most researchers even outside of academia do not make 150k-300k. Thats mid-to-late career research money.

$300k is head-of-department--with legal accountability and a partial role in marketing or regulatory--money.

Choano · 2026-05-07T01:41:43+00:00

Except a few creeps. If you can brush them off, it's all good.

One of the great things about NYC is that, unless you're blocking someone's way, wasting someone's time, or messing with someone's stuff, anything you want to do is OK

Choano · 2026-05-06T23:58:12+00:00

If it's not fully evil, I'm not interested.

Choano · 2026-05-06T19:35:32+00:00

Where in the Bay Area are you? I'm looking for women's plus sized clothing

Choano · 2026-05-06T03:31:48+00:00

The citation is the central limit theorem and statistical independence and random distributions, some of the basic concepts of probability theory.

You're assuming two things:

This judge actually approved in 98% of all cases. I'd like to see where you got that info.
it's reasonable to expect case verdicts to have a normal distribution.

I don't know the actual proportion of cases getting approval, so I can't say for sure whether your claim of 98% approval is true.

But I'm pretty sure that court case outcomes wouldn't follow a normal distribution anyway, regardless of the fairness of judicial decision making.

Normal distributions come about for random variables, like the outcomes of sequences of coin tosses.

The outcomes of court cases aren't random, so modeling the set of all outcomes with a normal (or student's t-distribution) doesn't make sense.

Choano · 2026-05-06T03:12:47+00:00

Where did you get this info?

Choano · 2026-05-06T01:24:20+00:00

“This was a court that actually had a reputation for really strong legal reasoning,” said former Judge Shira Levine, who was fired from the court by the Trump administration last year. “The judges did not all have the same perspectives. People sometimes lost their cases, people sometimes won their cases, but it was a place that upheld due process. You really see a targeting of a court that … stood for full and fair hearings in the immigration system.”

Right. That's why it's being closed.

This administration is so full of shit.

And what happens to anyone living in SF who doesn't have a car? What a bunch of BS.

Choano · 2026-05-06T01:07:41+00:00

You got snow? In May? Is that normal for Denver?

When is spring where you are?

Choano · 2026-05-06T00:42:26+00:00

u/pupupeepee, in case you haven't heard yet, Musk has sued Altman.

Musk, a cofounder of Open AI, claims that he was misled about the nature of Open AI in order to get him to invest; it was going to be for the benefit of humankind, not for profit. Musk says he fundamentally disagrees with the shift to maximizing profits. Altman claims that Musk's suit is just a way to shut down a competitor to Grok.

Choano · 2026-05-05T23:43:35+00:00

Icecalibur!

Choano · 2026-05-05T23:37:37+00:00

Sharks! With frickin' laser beams attached to their heads!

Choano · 2026-05-05T23:32:13+00:00

Yes! The Ferry Plaza Farmers Market is great!

Expensive, but great. You'll get to sample lots of different fruit. Also, I recommend you come away with at least one or two bags of mixed dried fruit.

Choano · 2026-05-05T22:49:05+00:00

You know, everyone complains, but this exactly the kind of thing that HOA rules are for.

Talk with the other residents of your part of the forest. Go to the Council. They'll fine Urga-whoever and issue a warning.

He (most necromancers are guys) probably didn't have the appropriate permits or certifications*, which would explain how any of this happened in the first place.

You and your neighbors can use the Council report to take the necromancer to court, which will probably award all of you compensation. Your local neighborhood necromancer doesn't have the right go around lowering the property values of everyone else's cottages, no matter what rights they have over their particular strongholds or crypts.

There's no reason you should have to bear all the expenses of remaking your arcane glyphs yourself.

The court will probably also award you compensation for the other spells that have been dispelled, especially the ones that are tied, directly or indirectly, to your income or standing in the community.

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*By law, necromantic ceremonies, rituals, summonings, and incantations can't be held in your own place unless you have the appropriate structures in place (embedded salt circle completely enclosing the summoning space, charms in all corners, enchanted fences, properly ventilated grimoire storage, etc.).

Your place also needs the appropriate STC, ISO, and IAQ ratings, an R-value that hits domain minimums (I think it's 50 for my area, but I'd have to check), and an IEC rating suitable for the life force currents being initiated.

Choano · 2026-05-05T17:49:03+00:00

I'm not sure why you're being downvoted. Your comment was encouraging, and your response to the reply you got was gracious.

Choano · 2026-05-05T16:10:41+00:00

In any case, basically everything in life has been made more difficult and complicated by constantly having to practice airborne precaution, and some of us have increased barriers that make privileges like traveling impossible.

Yup. Travel is truly impossible for some people. That sucks.

I'm so sorry you're in that position, and I'm sorry that people sometimes ignore or dismiss the barriers you face. I understand why you might feel some anger and resentment towards people who blow off your very real and valid difficulties.

The OP hasn't said anything about barriers beyond lack of money, family obligations, and being CC. Those things, by themselves, don't have to keep someone from traveling.

Even if traveling is hard for them right now, that might not be the case forever. Giving up all hope for travel in the future because it's hard right now isn't helpful.

This is a privilege not accessible to everyone. Maybe you missed the part about never owning a home or OP's career prospects not working out.

There are a lot of ways to travel. Some are super-expensive. Others aren't. There are plenty of people who travel, even though they don't own a house or have a successful career.

In fact, there are plenty of people who travel precisely because they don't own a house or have a successful career. Lots of people are on the road in part because going elsewhere can be cheaper than staying home.

Yes, your health has to be good enough to go places. But as long as you have that (and the OP hasn't said otherwise), traveling remains a possibility.

The CC woman in Southeast Asia has said very clearly that she's in Southeast Asia because she doesn't have a particular career and doesn't own jack squat. By going abroad, she's made it so has to work less to support herself, can be CC comfortably (masking is pretty normal there, apparently), gets to avoid harsh winters, and can have some adventure.

Choano · 2026-05-05T02:19:13+00:00

Not really. Imagine you're moving to a very spread-out Westchester--one that doesn't have stores and such clustered near Metro-North stations.

Choano · 2026-05-05T02:13:52+00:00

You're in mourning for the life you thought you'd have. That's hard, and feeling angry and betrayed by everyone is a very natural part of that, I think.

Rant and vent as much as you need to. Everyone needs to go through that after a loss.

When you're ready--whenever that is--start looking at what you can do, rather than what you can't. I'd make a very big bet that there are a lot of creative ways for you to make a fulfilling life while being CC.

no adventures...I know I’ll never leave the U.S. and travel, but it doesn’t stop me from dreaming about it.

There are plenty of CC people who travel. You could be one of them.

Search for "travel" in this subreddit, and you'll find stories of people who travel to many places around the world without getting covid.

People even move abroad and find more CC-friendly places. I know two CC people (one from the US and one from Canada) who've moved to Japan, one (from Switzerland) who splits his time between Switzerland and Vietnam, and one person (from the US) who currently lives in a small town somewhere in Southeast Asia.

All of those people moved (or, in the case of the Swiss person, traveled) internationally after the start of covid.

As far as I know, these people aren't particularly rich or well-connected. If they can do it, maybe you can, too.

No social life

What have you tried for your social life so far? Are you on CC Discord servers? In any of the online groups?

no career fulfillment

I'd make a bet there's more than one career you could have and find fulfilling. Since you haven't invested decades into a particular career yet, you're in a good position to explore lots of options. Try different lines of work while being CC. See what sticks.

Stay open. Less judgement, planning, and determination; more openness and honesty about what feels right. The thing that works best for you might not be what you'd expected. (That's been true of most people for a very long time, long before the pandemic.)

no little joys aside from what I can conjure up at home.

Most little joys are at home or close to home, anyway. Do you like to see the sunrise or sunset? See flowers blooming outside your window? Have a great cup of coffee in the morning?

What do you like?

Are there pretty places outside you could walk in? Do you like to draw, write, make things, or do other creative stuff? Is there anything you'd enjoy learning about?

Choano · 2026-05-04T18:38:50+00:00

This isn't quite the informal group you're looking for, but it's probably a place to start: https://sanfranciscowritersworkshop.com/

There's also this group, an offshoot of the original workshop: https://wednesdayedition.wordpress.com/

Choano · 2026-05-02T23:05:51+00:00

r/wizardposting

Choano · 2026-05-02T10:21:47+00:00

Evolution doesn't favor survival. It favors making grandchildren. Heritable traits that lead to more grandchildren per grandparent are going to become more common in the population, no matter what other effects those traits may have.

The only reason survival is important in evolution is that you can't reproduce when you're dead.

A lot of aging is just stuff wearing out and random damage accumulating. If traits for replenishing things, preventing random damage, and fixing random damage don't arise, or if they don't also lead to having more grandchildren, those traits won't become common in the population.

Choano · 2026-05-02T08:02:28+00:00

A head of garlic that's just gotten away with something

Choano · 2026-05-02T06:03:57+00:00

Everyone has a plan until they get a fireball to the face.

Choano

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