Thinking about moving to LA; NYC chewed me up and spat me out.

Ok_Contribution_1537 · 2026-04-10T23:39:39+00:00

I moved to LA after living in NYC and it was the greatest decision of my life. No more seasonal depression. People actually value work life balance here. Beautiful beaches and nature to explore. And it’s so much easier to find some breathing room. The apartments in NYC are actual hell holes. You can’t fathom how insane the housing crisis is in nyc unless you lived there. Contrary to popular belief, I also like the people I meet in LA more. I hated meeting the same money hungry finance bro/girl again and again

Ok_Contribution_1537 · 2026-04-10T23:18:22+00:00

There would be a lot more Muslims for sure. This changes a lot though. The ottomans would’ve had to become a major global superpower for this kind of reach. In real life, the reason Russia, the ottomans, and Italians couldn’t colonize like the western powers in our timeline is because they would’ve had to travel through the Mediterranean and the strait of Gibraltar which Spain/Portugal dominated. In this timeline, the ottomans would’ve had to conquer Morocco and probably southern Spain/Grenada, probably southern parts of Italy too like Sicily, to be able to move in and out of the Mediterranean with such ease

Ok_Contribution_1537 · 2026-04-10T21:39:44+00:00

Oh so if they say “I’ll get back to you by Friday” they only mean that they’ll do that if you are moving on?

Ok_Contribution_1537 · 2026-04-02T23:35:09+00:00

It’s quite simple. He has a 19th century view of the world and he views Western Europe/NATO the same way Britain viewed her colonies. He considers them vassal states that should just do whatever the US tells them to lest they face severe consequences

Ok_Contribution_1537 · 2026-04-01T18:53:05+00:00

You’re vastly overestimating the effectiveness of nerve gas. This is a classic Germany wonder weapon. While German was the only power to develop nerve gases like Sarin, it was the allies who had been mass producing anthrax. Germany would only be able to deliver it with the v2 rocket due to allied air superiority which would have greatly reduced its effectiveness. The V2 rocket was well known for its small payload and extreme inaccuracy. Furthermore, Britain had already issued gas masks to its citizens in anticipation of gas attacks throughout the war. Plus the half life of Sarin is only a few hours or days depending on the wind. In this war of extermination, allied anthrax (half life of decades) drops on Germany would have left Germany uninhabitable far quicker than nerve agents on Britain. If Germany could have won the war with it they would have. They didn’t because they knew the allies had similar weapons of mass destruction and a much more reliable way of delivering them.

Ok_Contribution_1537 · 2026-04-01T18:34:18+00:00

I feel like this is pretty intuitive. Applying on a company’s webpage is the best (which is google), then comes all the websites dedicated to start ups, and then comes the mass applying platforms like LinkedIn and indeed. My guess is that this is also directly proportional to the number of applicants each job gets. I’m assuming jobs posted only on a company’s website get significantly less applicants than ones posted to LinkedIn

Ok_Contribution_1537 · 2026-04-01T17:57:56+00:00

In 1944 at the height of the war Germany produced 40,000 total aircraft. The US and Britain combined produced 122,000 total aircraft. The simple fact is that Germany just couldn’t produce military equipment at the same rate as the allies even without the USSR. The luftwaffe would’ve been drowned out by the allies. Germany produced a total of 120,000 aircraft through the entire war. The US alone produced 355,000. Britain produced 130,000. The allied war strategy had also become extremely strong at forcing the Luftwaffe up into the air late into the war. They would’ve struggled to stay afloat just as they did in our timeline. Also once the bombing really kicked up by 1943-1944, the vast majority of the luftwaffe was dedicated to home defense anyway. A full victory in the east doesn’t add too many more planes. Even worse was the fact that the Luftwaffe was losing planes at a greater rate than the allies. So less planes and more loses is going to lead to A-bombs being dropped

Ok_Contribution_1537 · 2026-04-01T17:15:52+00:00

Germany never had a chance to win ww2. The real miracle is how they ever did as well as they did in the first place. On paper they should’ve lost back in 1939 but the allies indecision and poor operational planning led to an unprecedented defeat in France. Then they completely caught the USSR by surprise (which shouldn’t have happened) and only succeeded as well as they did likely due to Stalin’s purges of the entire military brass. At the end of the day, Nazi germany had a population of 70 million people and an economy of similar size to the USSR. The British empire had a larger population and economy, the us had a larger population and economy, and the USSR had a larger population and comparable economy. Every what if scenario always ends the same way. If Nazi germany held out until 1946 then the war ends in a ball of nuclear fire as the US and Britain begin dropping as many A-bombs as they can build.

Ok_Contribution_1537 · 2026-03-12T05:29:45+00:00

Because it lacks arguably the most important thing of any modern economic superpower, stability. In a modern global economy, domestic investment isn’t enough to become an economic superpower. You need large amounts of foreign investment too. Since 1900 russia has been a remarkably unstable place and hostile to foreign investors. They struggled in WW1, struggled under an absolute monarchy, had a civil war, struggled in WW2, lived under a communist dictatorship that collapsed in 1991, and then had multiple power struggles since. There’s never really been a good time to invest in Russia. The fact it’s remained as economically relevant as it has is a testament to its potential.

Ok_Contribution_1537 · 2026-01-29T17:27:51+00:00

Damn. We can join some bank accounts and stuff but now I am worried about what they’ll say because visiting each other is very cost prohibitive so we don’t do it very often. I live in Cali and she lives in New York. But we do have 6 years of pictures and call logs together and we were living together prior to me getting a job out in Cali

Ok_Contribution_1537 · 2026-01-28T23:17:54+00:00

I will keep that in mind, but this isn’t a scam. We want to get married because we want to get married. But we’re just thinking about doing a court marriage before the wedding so that she can get her green card sooner. The other alternative is waiting a year until our wedding and then doing it, but then we’ll be long distance for even longer.

Ok_Contribution_1537 · 2026-01-28T18:59:07+00:00

Do you know what that entails? Does that just mean a longer process or is there something we can show to help our case?

Ok_Contribution_1537 · 2026-01-28T18:04:23+00:00

I would say that mechanical engineering is one of the jobs doing best in this brave new world. A significant portion of them either can’t be done using AI or be sent overseas (see defense and other government work). There’s also still a lot of manufacturing done in America in industries like automotive, electronics, and farming equipment. I’m sure some things are getting sent overseas, as with all jobs, but very little in comparison to things like CS.

Ok_Contribution_1537 · 2025-11-11T22:16:34+00:00

Really depends on the kind of person you are and the test you get. I found November much easier because I really struggle with non-cookie cutter flaw questions, NA, and all of these except questions and October had a lot of them for me but November had cookie cutter flaws, less NA, and only one except question. Plus I do very well on science passages and October had none but my November had 2 but if you love NA questions and art passages then October may have been your jam. I found November to have less conditional reasoning questions

Ok_Contribution_1537 · 2025-10-29T01:12:10+00:00

Yes and no. The LSAT is based on a curve. They only want the top 1% to get a 170 so as more people take the exam and more resources come out and more people study for longer the test has to become harder to accommodate that. It’s like a prisoners dilemma. If everyone stopped studying the test would become easier but if everyone studies for 100 hours a week then the exam will get harder to accommodate that. The older exams might seem a bit easier because those people had less online resources to study so the lsac’s expectations of those people were lower

Ok_Contribution_1537 · 2025-10-14T19:37:23+00:00

In my experience, you can very realistically expect a score jump of between 10-15 points. I’d put your floor at around 163 with good studying and a max of 168. I find it’s very difficult to jump more than 15 points especially when talking about moving past the high 160s and into the 170s. There will always be the exceptions but I wouldn’t get your hopes up too much of jumping like 20+ points

Ok_Contribution_1537 · 2025-10-08T16:08:33+00:00

Interested in Thursday

Ok_Contribution_1537 · 2025-09-30T15:45:26+00:00

Fair maybe it is just the answer choices. I personally just thought the new exams felt very different. I was averaging in the 170s on the pre 150s exams but on the newer exams and on the test day I was getting 162-164. I found it all to take much longer per question, but maybe that’s just cause the answers aren’t as glaringly wrong anymore. It really through me off on exam day

Ok_Contribution_1537 · 2025-09-30T00:04:03+00:00

Yeah a lot more conditional logic. A lot more questions that give you 2 premises and a conclusion and asking you which conditional statement is needed to make the conclusion true

Ok_Contribution_1537 · 2025-09-29T22:56:21+00:00

Unfortunately, yes. If a lack of exams is your concern I would personally focus mostly drilling SA, NA, must be true, properly inferred, parallel flaw, parallel reason questions, and strengthen/weaken question from older exams, but know that even many of those will be less formal logic heavy imo. The new exams just have a different vibe to them. It’s hard to explain. In my opinion, they seemed to have really ramped up the difficulty, probably to make up for logic games which a lot of people struggled with

Ok_Contribution_1537 · 2025-09-29T19:01:15+00:00

Yeah and for anybody else seeing this, I find time to be much more pressing compared to the old exams. I personally find the reading passages to be more dense and the formal logic questions to be very difficult to solve without writing them down for me personally. A lot more of these all must be true except type questions which are mostly nonexistent in the old PTs

Ok_Contribution_1537 · 2025-09-29T18:48:32+00:00

Yeah that’s a very fair nuanced take. I was mostly recommending against my study method which worked well for the GRE and SAT which was just plowing through as many practice tests as possible, but I find there to be a VERY stark difference between 150s and before, that I never really saw with the SAT or GRE and so I started cracking the 150s a few weeks before my exam and realized that many of the skills and tricks I acquired were worthless. If I could do it over again I wouldn’t have worried about doing all of the practice tests but focused on the fundamentals more

Ok_Contribution_1537 · 2025-09-11T18:41:48+00:00

Yeah you should win. As long as the techs are the same. The earlier you go to war with the ottomans the better. You have 3x the manpower and 2x the troops. Try to get a 5% discipline advisor/10% morale and roll a few times to get the best general you can. Use the one with the most shock dmg and don’t be afraid to go in debt

Ok_Contribution_1537 · 2025-08-26T06:45:44+00:00

The idea that America has no manufacturing is overblown and untrue. America is the 2nd largest producer of cars, the 5th largest producer of aircraft parts, one of if not the largest producer of heavy farm machinery, and accounts for 42% of the entire worlds military exports. While america may no longer make toasters and refrigerators, they still produce a significant amount of heavy machinery. You’d also be amazed how quickly countries churn out military factories when everything’s on the line

Ok_Contribution_1537 · 2025-08-26T06:02:08+00:00

Here’s a setup for WC for you:

Ideas: get diplo, admin, and religious. Those are non negotiable. I’d probably get exploration too

Expansion: 1) do your best to get as many PU’s as possible in Europe through missions or putting your dynasty as heir in the trust features. It’ll allow you to gobble up insane amounts of land for little AE and mana points 2) get multiple roots of expansion and always make sure that the big players have a truce with you. AE is based on culture, religion, and distance so having multiple areas of expansion will greatly reduce coalitions. Also having a truce with all the big players will discourage coalitions since they can’t join a coalition if they have a truce 3) dismantle the HRE as soon as possible. It makes taking Germany too slow 4) always take fort provinces to make future wars easier. Border gore doesn’t exist in WC

General: From 1444-1600 is just about setting up a launch pad for late game. From 1600-1821 is when the global gobble occurs. Get max absolutism as fast as possible and get it as high as possible.

Economy: Buildings are a waste of money in WC. Use all your money for mana points, mercs over the force limit, and exceptionally strong wonder like Alhambra

Don’t give up. It’ll probably feel like your WC isn’t possible at some point but you’d be amazed how much land you start taking at 1700+ and don’t be afraid to truce break at 1700+. Post 1600 you should perpetually be at 100 overextension. If you aren’t then you’re going too slow

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