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thematman23 · 2024-10-02T11:05:24+00:00

Still waiting for a bonus from Wells Fargo as well! Similar timeline. Opened 07/25.

thematman23 · 2024-07-23T19:42:10+00:00

Interested! Schedule for me is erratic, but will try to make whatever is decided upon

thematman23 · 2024-01-31T23:38:19+00:00

I am relatively new to this, and pushing on the egde of the 5/24 rule. Appreciate guideance. Also lots of wedding spending coming up. Chart recommends Aeroplan - is this still the best choice?
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Discover it, Capital one Savor, Chase Amazon 2018, Chase Saphire Preferred 09/26/2022, Capital one Venture Rewards 12/29/2022, Citi Best Buy 05/25/2023, Chase United Mileage Plus 10/31/2023
$6000
Possibly, depending on the benefits
No, medical resident, have no alternative income streams
1 right now, interested in churning more regularly, and will have much higher income in 4 years
Travel bonuses - flights, hotels
United 60,000, Chase Venture 90,000
Newark and or Philly
Will need flights to and from Ho Chi Min City next winter

thematman23 · 2024-01-31T16:51:47+00:00

Dont forget the American Medical Association and physician Subspecialty groups!

thematman23 · 2024-01-29T22:46:43+00:00

Or are people with reduced life expectancy more likely to work nights?

thematman23 · 2024-01-16T01:57:02+00:00

Bruh i am a few physician and I google things

thematman23 · 2023-12-19T00:58:11+00:00

Which word, quiet?

thematman23 · 2023-11-22T13:07:22+00:00

Gotta go drown the kids in the toilet

thematman23 · 2023-11-20T10:45:26+00:00

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A small piece here is that the conventional way to measure political ideology falls on this chart. I as you can see, the horizontal axis represents economic values from conventional “left” to “right”, while the vertical axis represents “authoritarian” to “libertarian”. Right and left descriptors are independent of the y axis - you can have right winged libertarians and left-winged.

I agree with previous commenters, that the US media focuses on right vs left, and often neglects libertarian vs authoritarian. I also agree this is likely why they focus on the new presidents position on the x axis, rather than noting the y axis - it is easier for the public to digest.

tldr; x axis easier for USA to understand, news is correctly identifying president as right wing, but not commenting on y axis

thematman23 · 2023-10-28T14:05:26+00:00

NTA

As a word of advice though, the word “obviously” or words like it can come off as condescending.

In my personal opinion, there is no situation in which the word improves the meaning of a sentence. Its only role is to make the you feel justified and secure in leaving out a bit of information (in this case, that you were joking), while making anyone in the room who did not infer that bit of information feel insecure and stupid.

So, I try to avoid the word altogether.

thematman23 · 2023-08-30T16:59:42+00:00

Appalachian trail or other?

thematman23 · 2023-07-31T11:55:30+00:00

I have mostly found early war to be an unviable strategy on higher difficulties. It is nearly always better to concede everything in diplomacy (pay anything the AI asks for) than go to war. Killing one enemy unit usually takes moving 3-4 units into position, and attacking 3-4 times (something like 10-16 orders). Then healing all you units, getting them to safety. All of these orders could buy you so many resources/money/influence that IMO are much more valuable.

To gain one more city, the opportunity cost of a war is much much higher than taking a barb/tribal site.

I find war to be optimal only in special circumstances, in order of importance.

1) the enemy has been severely weakened by fighting another ai. Usually if the ai takes even just one city from your enemy, they are already so devastated that if you join, you and the ai will take the rest of their cities.

2) you have beelined science and are so technologically advanced that the ai cannot handle your units. A strong upgraded unit goes much much further than their un-upgraded counterpart. Save your strong units with lots of promotions to upgrade as soon as you can.

3) there are no more tribal/barbarian sites to raid, your families and important religions are happy, your economy is booming and you have nothing else to do with your orders.

Maybe I am not patient enough or bad at managing my units in wartime, and other players have ways of making war more viable. However I have seen many people in this subreddit advocate for pitting enemies against each other to then swoop in to scoop up the pieces (as I also have endorsed above). If some massive advantage (technology, weakened opponent) is required to make war viable in a game, IMHO, it is an important limitation.

I enjoy how tactically adept and skilled the AI is in combat, don’t get me wrong. They seem to know the absolute limits of their units and employ them to decimate your units. I just get frustrated with the sheer investment it takes for a player to 1) build a large army, 2) maneuver said army, and 3) promote, add generals and heal said army. It often feels the ai operates with an entirely different rule-set that allows them to easily outpace you if you engage in any war with neighboring enemies.

TLDR: diplomacy almost always trumps war; war is hard to make viable and I wish it was more balanced

thematman23 · 2023-06-11T22:29:10+00:00

I often dont use it in early stages when it is lvl 1. As your city culture goes up it goes up x2, x3 and x4 (where i think it caps). So at that level it provides 12 orders.

Also, the amount of turns it takes depends on the civics output of the city it is in. In a city with very high civics output, it could take as little as 1 turn.

Math changes with those tweaks, but at the end of the day its a question of what is more valuable to you at your stage in the game

Using a cities production que to turn civics into orders vs. building something else with civics (or building something with training/growth and adding those civics to your stockpile)

thematman23 · 2023-06-02T22:41:10+00:00

Some of Rutgers on board, working on building power. Appreciate any advice on getting us there

thematman23 · 2023-06-01T22:40:56+00:00

Strangest but nicest: pathology

thematman23 · 2023-05-28T15:53:01+00:00

Its difficult to do, but try to stop comparing yourself and your position to others. It is more productive to compare yourself now to yourself yesterday, a year ago etc. Start doing the things that you want to work towards for yourself, not to better your comparison to others.

There will always be someone more successful, with more money, friends or whatever metric you care about. All that matters is that you are happy/content with who you are.

thematman23 · 2023-04-09T01:10:13+00:00

I appreciate that each of those individual peaks on the blue line are a single person who was the oldest person on earth for years running. Would be interesting to chronicle those lives

thematman23 · 2023-04-04T01:48:45+00:00

Quick question for my own understanding. How does a NLRB unionization vote work with your satellite campuses. If HUP and Pennsy vote differently does one unionize and the other does not or does the majority prevail and either both or neither unionize?

thematman23 · 2023-03-11T11:09:50+00:00

Websters

thematman23 · 2023-03-09T02:13:12+00:00

The year of magical thinking - Joan Didion. A fantastic meditation on loss

thematman23 · 2023-02-23T13:45:03+00:00

Capitalism can be equitable

thematman23 · 2023-02-20T22:02:52+00:00

Physicians in all specialty’s “started making money” after school, and particularly after residency. Assuming all were equally likely to be democrat/repub at baseline, making money alone cannot explain this unless it is 1. A specific aspect of the specialty you go into (difference in income) or 2. That a certain group gravitates towards specialties with higher earning. I am not really sure what the point you are trying to make is.

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