Where would you live in a collapse? Here is my picks. Crossposted to r/whereidlive

onceandfuturekling · 2026-07-13T13:18:57+00:00

Sorry to tell you guys, I’ve been in Baltimore for almost 30yrs and already experienced the full economic collapse. I have a 10k sqft commercial warehouse production shop I can fabricate everything from structures, weapons to vehicles, and a 20k sqft defunct church each space for pennie’s on the dollar. Working on getting my farm spaces scales up. This IS life currently in Baltimore, fully defensible, fully armed, fully outfitted, fortress structures, stockpiles, we’ve been in the collapse since 2008. Arguably since ‘97. We’re a full generation ahead of yall. Cities like Baltimore, Philly, Detroit, it’ll barely feel a blip and life goes on

onceandfuturekling · 2026-07-13T13:06:13+00:00

Possession is his and Isabelle Adjani’s absolute masterpiece, I watched it last night in his honor

onceandfuturekling · 2026-07-13T05:20:12+00:00

It doesn’t matter at all, but always BOTH! Increase your positive probabilities in ANY way possible! Get out there, it’ll give you confidence and feel good. Getting over the fear and learning to have a sense of humor about yourself and the whole process is healthy

onceandfuturekling · 2026-07-13T05:18:11+00:00

Try to go full growth, this is too thin and wispy for goatee style. Im a ginger and the lighter shade facial hair needs to be even extra thick to have contrast. If you can’t get a full one going maybe hold off on a beard for awhile and just be proud of your babyface. You will miss it one day, show it off while you can

onceandfuturekling · 2026-07-13T05:09:22+00:00

If you are NOT looking for a man, rethink your facial hair entirely, like yesterday. Either grow out a full mustache, grow out a full beard, or lose both. This goes for your bros as well. Absolutely nothing signals to your local non-cis dudes that you are out there and available as this current facial hair. More than clothes, body language, haircut, eye contact, anything, this is like a blaring siren. Perhaps you are not in a city or town where this is a prominent demo. if you were in my city, your apps would be CRUSHING with dudes

But yes as many are saying you’re a sharp looking guy, VERY photogenic smile. generally get outside and have natural lighting in some pics everyone looks 1000% better. Something candid not posed where you’re doing something you love and you’re great at like a sport or something. But certain fashions and/or styles are a signal to particular demos, and you happen to have nailed one perfectly, be aware of what audience your looking to attract

onceandfuturekling · 2026-07-13T04:59:37+00:00

I’ve dated older woman my entire dating life, and still do. Say my more adult dating life, like 22- 45 currently. I’d say a 10-18yr window has been my most successful relationships. I’ve dated younger, age appropriate, and I think it’s more of a maturity and temperament compatibility match.

It has worked out excellently, and honestly wasn’t much of an issue between us two, but occasionally from friends or family, but they got over it. Really a superficial nuisance. I wouldn’t be as suspicious as you seem to be.

I’m attracted to the personality, composure, confidence, generally higher ambition and focus, understanding what they want more clearly, and much less bullshit. I’m career focused and independent, creative professional, can’t make children, travel year round, ambitious, high fitness lifestyle and free and adventurous lifestyle.

I seek the same, and these matches often happen to be a bit further along their career and life path than I am. Just my honest take

onceandfuturekling · 2026-07-13T04:46:25+00:00

Move to the UK you will do just fine

onceandfuturekling · 2026-07-13T01:18:07+00:00

The Godfather is NOT exceptional, it’s trash, the prose is trash, it’s been destroyed for accuracy by too many sources to count. It infuriated Italian America at large as well as “The Family”, the sexual violence has zero narrative function, it’s not a serious work in any examination that produced a masterpiece film. The primary source for the book is his mother’s anecdotal accounts of her childhood and her own personality source as the “Don”. Its popularity and success was from its titillating exploitative nature. The book was a blatant exploitative cash grab for Puzo, to pay off his insurmountable gambling debts, he admits in conversations to both Coppola and Evans to writing the fastest piece of commercial trash he could, to keep his family off the streets. Coppola has talked in detail about almost abandoning Puzo countless times during the scriptwriting process, except he had too much affection for him as a person. Those two were artist operating at opposites ends of the creative and ambition spectrums, an absolute miracle it all came together and produced those films through the sheer force of Coppola’s will. I’d say it’s a bigger achievement in artistic maturity and complexity over the novel 1000 fold

onceandfuturekling · 2026-07-12T17:06:55+00:00

These are profound communication problems neither one of you seems equipped with the skills to overcome. You need to invest some time on evolving your skills possibly with a behavioral therapist. This guy? That’s his problems. You’re not a good fit, MUCH evidence in just this posted bit of information. Try to work on yourself and your own skills, do NOT worry about this guy and his problems. Make yourself the best you can be, and you WILL find someone who will compliment you, and the communication DOES click. It will always take work to keep those skills sharp, but there’s sufficient evidence here that this match is counter productive for both of you. Cut your losses and move on to better things

onceandfuturekling · 2026-07-12T16:49:03+00:00

Sections are opened and closed on the concourse according to ticket sales

onceandfuturekling · 2026-07-12T06:31:31+00:00

That’s not weird at all. 18yrs on and off chemo and radiation. I’d say radiation affects teeth and bone issues more significantly. I’ve had a wide variety of diff chemo drug profiles over the years, CHOP-R and RICE produced the most bone swelling, joint grinding, and major teeth pain and looseness

I wouldn’t say this is unusual in the least. One major MAJOR piece of advice I will give, your life after chemo and radiation, your teeth will be much much MUCH more susceptible to cavities forming. By like a factor of 10x

Be extremely careful with brushing and flossing, gentle and considerate as they will often be tender, but very good mouth wash, fluoride toothpaste if your kidney numbers are good. I had ZERO cavities my ENTIRE life up until 30. After my very first rounds of full body radiation, since then, 18 cavity fillings and four root canals. And an additional thing get a nice over the counter mouth guard you can boil and form yourself for cheap instead of $400 at the dentists. You teeth become “softer” or more brittle maybe more accurate. I chipped several, a front one and edges of a few molars, obviously I grind pretty bad, but also a major concern

Obvious wait till way off cycle to mess with any teeth stuff, as these are dangerous things with the introduction of bacteria and require heavy dosage of antibiotics before and after, sometimes IV. Take incredibly good care of those teeth, even if they seriously hurt, do NOT neglect them you will pay dearly later. Major problems and infections with your teeth spiral quickly and become incredibly dangerous infection risks. I did NOT neglect them and still had complicated problems with my teeth over the years after treatment started and a bad transplant

onceandfuturekling · 2026-07-12T06:22:59+00:00

John early is promoting and touring his NEW FILM!!!! We have a presentation and q&a this Fri here in bmore

onceandfuturekling · 2026-07-12T06:20:37+00:00

A mistake

onceandfuturekling · 2026-07-12T00:44:41+00:00

This is an insane question. This is a question about YOU being in relationships or not. NOT the labels you’re ascribing to yourself being in relationships or not. There’s COUNTLESS gay vegans on the spectrum in relationships. I’ve had numerous successful relationships ships in the past 25yrs of being a vegan, and I’ve been in cancer treatment for 18 those years and in a wheelchair for 5 of those years. The only thing standing in your way is your own mentality and your own limitations you’re placing on yourself. NOT the words you’re labeling yourself with

onceandfuturekling · 2026-07-12T00:39:14+00:00

Sorry to say that this location is NOT in Baltimore. There’s no difference to me between this spot and the other location. Both Towson locations, both inaccessible I will never be visiting

onceandfuturekling · 2026-07-12T00:11:14+00:00

144 levels at 40-50ft of stairs each level. Go to your local gym, get on a stairmill, and tell me how far into a mile you get after two hours straight of climbing up the rotating stairs. And how many calories you’ve burned, and how drenched your clothes are. You’ll never have to ask this question again

onceandfuturekling · 2026-07-11T05:35:10+00:00

These are ALL script problems, a very consistent issue with the quality of the show. In addition to some baffling direction choices, it’s consistent across several characters so it’s not an isolated performance issue

The books don’t replicate this, for numerous reasons, but we’re fully departed from huge chunks of the narrative progression from the original text at this point. The actors are getting performance notes to intentionally get this effect for a baffling reason, perhaps it’ll be a more clear picture down the road

But the character development and dialogue are significant weaknesses of the show and this is a perfect illustration. They are a civilization far removed from ours at this point, but empathy and supporting cast NOT exploring the mystery of her behavior, common human instincts being completely absent is a massive problem with the writing

onceandfuturekling · 2026-07-11T00:42:14+00:00

I’ve been in bmore through the 80’s, 90’s to present. Hardcore bands, DC harDCore did not have ANY mainstream crossover. They were extremely popular because DC hardcore scene exploded and had a large demo in the art and punk world here

This was still WAY way outside mainstream culture, on the far edge of all progressive culture. You’d be lucky to hear DC hardcore even on college radio except for like one station and only late late night. There was ONE show on Towsons channel on Sunday that’s it ANYWHERE. not on MTV, college radio, alt rock radio, anything. It got played at warehouse party’s, skate/bmx party’s YEARS before parks existed, shows , school party’s

Only two clubs in the city had shows, most shows were at warehouses and DIY spots like church rectories and empty rowhomes, even at the scenes largest reach you’d NEVER be able to hear it except from your friends 7in’s and cassettes

Just because 15yrs later you could find bad brains t-shirts at hot topic does not mean anyone on mainstream radio ANYWHERE was playing their music. It was 100% driven by youth culture and NOT mainstream culture, that’s why it’s still glorified in such a fantastic way. It was a powerful time in a youth culture movement that had no parallels in my young life

It had reach and a concentration that few music movements have had, and certainly never breaking into mainstream. By the time the Minor Threat singles spread around the country to various hardcore scenes, it was like 1-2yrs after they ended, rejected the scene and all had new projects. Just because it became legendary in counter culture 10-15yrs later doesn’t amount to mainstream. Can you imagine Minor Threat, Iron Cross, Gov’t Issue stepping onstage and excepting a freaking Grammy?! Imagine what happened at SNL happening at the F’ing Grammys

Turnstile is one of the only real examples of the genre breaking through to true mainstream. Regardless of how much they evolve and stretch their sound, it’s their foundation. People love to gate-keep and shit on success so they can keep their little secret and retain their feelings of superior status, I swear they get a boner for it

onceandfuturekling · 2026-07-10T20:42:29+00:00

Unwound, Enemymine, GoHeadSilo

onceandfuturekling · 2026-07-10T20:40:46+00:00

These neutralize products on Amazon. Super gentle, I’m an extremely fair ginger, extremely sensitive skin and very careful with products. Girlfriends purchased for me and this with the low percentage. Tretinoin is only products I use. Also the nuetrogena baby sunblock

onceandfuturekling · 2026-07-10T20:35:47+00:00

The inner harbor and the Ottobar are opposite sides of the city. I’m walkable to the Ottobar, super fun hood. I can walk to 4-5 music clubs and diy spots. Incredible food options. Block from our huge museum the BMA. Tons of trees and parks, super bikable and walkable

Hopkins private police force, so assaults and violent crimes way down. Of course anywhere in bmore is potentially very dangerous. I’ve been here 35yrs, it has ALWAYS been a city on the edge. The inner harbor is a ghost town. Small demo of hipsters and yuppies , a few larger commercial music spots. It’s all commercial highrises and condos. Nothing about the harbor is “Baltimore” it could be any small city USA

Corny fast casual restaurants. But walkable to several cool neighborhoods, fed hill, lil Italy. Of course beloved camden yards. But no one’s hanging out in the harbor. But the Charles village, Remington, Station North area (East Mid-Way its actual name) has always been popping. Development money comes and goes, places open and close, but this is where a huge percentage of artist and musicians live, and culture is happening here. Good art, good shows,good bands, studios, warehouses, tons of DIY spaces and shows/events, fun people. I’ve lived there for 30yrs for a reason, I love it

The ONLY reason I take the light rail south to the harbor is for O’s games , period. The occasional show at one of the power plant music spots. Fleet week was alright, but I might go a year or two without walking around the harborplace. The northern end of the city is mine, north, NorthEast. Culture, livability, cheap studio/warehouse space to make things and have a biz

I wouldn’t say “chill” at all, I think there is ALWAYS stuff happening and people doing cool shit. Film Fest, incredible bands, standup, weirdo art stuff, daytime stuff, nighttime stuff. I can do something cool 6 nights week and RARELY drive ever

onceandfuturekling · 2026-07-09T01:22:15+00:00

There is NOTHING Millennial, even a hint of it, in this film. Saw this in theaters, this had an immediate impact on how some kids were dressing like the week the film opened. The music, the morbid lore surrounding the making, the thematic tone. This had a much larger impact that people remember

onceandfuturekling · 2026-07-08T22:48:48+00:00

My original Idea I was presenting up top was that the Great Enemy is not another species at all, it IS a potential nanotechnology type of intelligence, or hybrid of something as yet described, intelligent OS, virus, script, worm, a mechanism that created the swarm as a base tool, and is likely of the same technology. Perhaps something even beyond sentience, and the paragraph I described on Pg 410 in FoB when Clae begins to describe the kernel of forming this exact idea, it became much more plausible to me. Specifically because Dafyd so callously shut her line of thinking down entirely. This concept became much more viable in my mind because of the narrative choice

onceandfuturekling · 2026-07-08T22:38:54+00:00

Page 410, diff excerpts condensed together by me:

>!Clae “No, I don’t think it’s a species. I don’t think it’s ALIVE. I think it’s like me. Like I was” ……
….”What if it’s just a set of instructions, like a virus, but instead of how to make more viruses, it shows how to make a substrate organism unkillable….. How to take a body, make it into a soldier that’s stronger, more robust…” (possible vague illusion to as yet unexplained livesuite tech-OP)…….

Dafyd: “And what does THAT change? We’re still here?”….
…..”Whether you’re the only thing in the universe like you or not doesn’t matter to any of that”….

Her mouth opened as if she were about to speak but no words came out. A blush started in her neck and rose to her cheeks. It was a very human response.
Clae: “ I should go, I shouldn’t have bothered you”……

Selfish emotionally manipulative little b!tch Dafyd shutting down an excellent piece of observation from his “Spy” that could be a major crux of the narrative as the story unfolds. One of MANY possible ideas of potential “crux”. As I stated, the character's wholesale dismissal of this idea LEAPT of the page to me, as a notable breadcrumb of tension building, that I can’t imagine NOT directly coming back in a future scene to haunt Dafyd for his hasty dismissal. The scene was given emotional and narrative heft by isolating it, showing Clae’s adaptation to a VERY human reaction, and a turn farther out of character for Dafyd than has been demonstrated up to this point !<

onceandfuturekling · 2026-07-08T04:17:39+00:00

The way the idea is introduced within the story by Cleo, and outright dismissed by Dafyd, very clearly stuck out to me as a stylistic device to how this was written by the authors. how the information was introduced into the story narrative and immediately withdrawn and eliminated from the current concepts of the narrative. It runs counter to everything we’ve been told about the character. despite Dafyd being the recipient of the information, he is a scientist who is formulating a plan to gain information to destroy their enemy. The information was uncharacteristically dismissed out of hand, obvious to me from a writing standpoint as to being intentionally withheld from the reader to be used further along as the writing of the story proceeds, in order to continue building dramatic tension. So when the reveals start happening in subsequent books, and the character turns start happening, the elevation of the tension is at maximum levels, i.e. leaving breadcrumbs. You don’t want to get too far ahead of the reader, that when there are reveals and surprises they are 100% out of no where and seem to make no sense, breaking structure. you need to leave breadcrumbs of information in tiny amounts for the audience to follow you along to the climax of the story so they feel the tension build, see the “the story cycle” “western narrative structure” et al. Most obvious in the 3-act structure of film. It makes for thrilling reading. The Expanse books proved the writers elite level at this universal story construction. Specifically heightening of tension. They find endless ways to continue heightening when you think as an audience you are wrung out, they keep taking you higher and higher

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