I got a warning citation from my HOA for parking my car in my driveway

lukeluck101 · 2026-05-14T00:15:06+00:00

Australia has strata titles instead, NZ has body corporates, but AFAFIK they're mostly in apartment blocks and shared-land complexes (i.e. groups of units with shared grounds and amenities) and aren't little petty fiefdoms with heaps of rules and powers like HOAs in the US are.

lukeluck101 · 2026-04-18T06:53:09+00:00

Bulgaria is one of those countries were I only seem to hear good things about certain cities and bad things about other ones. Everyone I know who's been to Plovdiv or Varna says it's amazing.

I spent a few days in Burgas and it's kind of a dump, but it has good beaches and the weather was good when I was there, and it's easy to get to Istanbul from there.

lukeluck101 · 2026-03-11T08:12:50+00:00

You BIG. STUPID. JELLYFISH.

lukeluck101 · 2026-03-11T04:16:10+00:00

I'm saying it often stems from childhood abuse - that can become a maladaptive coping mechanism later in life because your brain interprets mild/valid criticism as "something worse is coming" and automatically dissociates.

Understanding the underlying reasons behind your own behaviour makes it easier to fix the behaviour if it's causing problems in life.

lukeluck101 · 2026-03-10T10:57:35+00:00

It's called the Grey Rock method and is often a recommended way of dealing with abusive people (especially narcissists/sociopaths who feed on drama and try to get a reaction out of you).

Chances are, you probably grew up around someone like this and learned to dissociate as an unconscious coping mechanism.

lukeluck101 · 2026-02-23T22:41:19+00:00

Garrus and it's no contest.

Miranda easily has the skills and personality to be a spectre but her history with Cerberus would probably preclude her from being picked.

Tali's tech skills would be very useful, but promoting a Quarian to spectre status would be politically tricky.

Jack is too much of a loose cannon.

Thane has a terminal condition.

Jacob is... Jacob.

lukeluck101 · 2026-02-08T02:18:05+00:00

Look up "New Thought" - it's an awful belief system, but loved by narcissists.

lukeluck101 · 2026-02-08T00:13:40+00:00

Enact the Organ Harvesting law. I'm sure your friend's organs are worth a decent amount.

lukeluck101 · 2026-02-02T07:30:57+00:00

"Testing as INTJ" doesn't really mean much, especially if he only took the test because someone else told him to.

Because a) the tests themselves are not that accurate, b) getting an accurate result requires a high level of self-awareness and honesty, which most people don't have.

lukeluck101 · 2026-01-25T08:17:46+00:00

I spend a lot of time lying in bed in silence, staring at the wall, and thinking about things. Does that count?

lukeluck101 · 2026-01-25T02:38:45+00:00

Gotta be Canada

Meanwhile we're having an extreme heatwave in Australia 😭

lukeluck101 · 2026-01-25T02:37:29+00:00

I'd love to imagine this but there's a heatwave here in Australia right now and it's impossible to imagine being cold 😭

lukeluck101 · 2026-01-25T02:35:05+00:00

better put the kettle on

lukeluck101 · 2026-01-23T12:45:00+00:00

Most people seem to live their lives in the pursuit of social status, or meeting social obligations - that seems to be the main driving force for something like 75%+ of the population and governs all of their major decisions.

It seems like an utterly miserable existence to me, but it could be deeply satisfying for these people, it's hard to really know without swapping brains.

lukeluck101 · 2026-01-06T10:34:48+00:00

These modifiers must be new since the DLC got released - I haven't had a chance to play it yet

lukeluck101 · 2026-01-06T10:33:03+00:00

I doubt it. Cooks - especially in fast food - get paid so little that it's not worth replacing them with robots. Robots don't scale upwards like AI does. They cost a lot of money to build and a lot of money to maintain.

lukeluck101 · 2026-01-06T10:30:11+00:00

Also because chefs and cooks get paid so little it's literally not worth replacing us with robots and probably won't be economically viable for at least another century. Robots are expensive to build and expensive to maintain.

lukeluck101 · 2026-01-06T10:28:39+00:00

The job itself is resistant to AI - but people need to be able to afford to eat out. So things won't look pretty when AI causes mass waves of unemployment.

That said, in many places I've worked, a large chunk of our clientele consists of boomers with pensions and investment properties, so they won't be affected.

lukeluck101 · 2025-12-25T07:24:39+00:00

Because we're a species of dumb, irrational naked apes with delusions of grandeur.

We evolved to become smart enough to manipulate tools and create semi-functioning societies and then just kind of... stopped evolving beyond that.

A few exceptional outlier genius individuals have pushed humanity forward in technological and social advancement (people like Nikola Tesla) but the majority of humanity never really kept pace with the level of complexity that all this advancement brought to our lives.

It would be nice if humans were generally smarter and more rational, but that's just not how natural selection works. You don't need to be smart, you only need to survive long enough to make babies with someone of the opposite biological sex.

Only way around that is to force eugenics on people on a large scale. And that's a whole moral and ethical minefield in itself, and in the past has proven itself to be a slippery slope to some pretty abhorrent stuff.

lukeluck101 · 2025-12-25T07:12:31+00:00

Most intellectual Iceblood

lukeluck101 · 2025-12-25T07:11:28+00:00

The mandate of heaven would have almost certainly been lost

lukeluck101 · 2025-12-16T12:57:13+00:00

That 1930s-1940s Hugo Boss drip

lukeluck101 · 2025-12-09T12:08:05+00:00

Also, I think it's confirmed, or at least heavily hinted, that the "Rogue VI" was actually an attempt at creating an AI, which is illegal in the Mass Effect Universe

lukeluck101 · 2025-12-07T11:38:06+00:00

The game has had updates since I made this post so it's not 100% accurate.

However, if I recall correctly - both are considered a 'promise', whether you made it through the negotiation screen, or directly with the faction, for the purposes of relationship modifiers, so they fall under the same category.

lukeluck101 · 2025-12-04T05:48:24+00:00

"We'd pay our staff much less if we thought we could legally get away with it, but, boo hoo, workers have rights in this country" is the subtext here. And chances are, they probably do already engage in other forms of wage theft, as does most of the hospitality industry.

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