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  • People should keep right except to pass, typically.

    Over short distances, the difference between going 40 and 30 or even 20 are miniscule. I’ve still had people lose their shit when I wouldn’t blaze through a school zone. Just chill out bro, the fast food will be there all day.

    But I live somewhere I don’t need to drive anymore, and I’m happy with it.



  • Probably any game with a story. Voiced might be better, but written has advantages, too.

    Might not want games with a lot of fictional words or idiosyncrasies. Like Baldur’s Gate 3 is really good and well acted, but you’d pick up a lot of less useful fantasy words.

    Just looking at what I’ve played lately.

    Guild Wars 2 is a great game. Lots of content. Most of it voiced. There’s also other players you can talk to, and some might speak your native language. It has some fantasy jargon.

    Grand Theft Auto 5 would probably teach you swear words and other stuff you shouldn’t casually say. Be careful with that one.

    My time at Sandrock was fun. That probably would give you some vocabulary.



  • The most important thing for people, and by people I mean all of us at times, is in-group belonging. None of us are immune to that. We look to our peers for cues on how to behave and what to believe.

    Some people consider like scientists and experts in-group, and trust them. Some don’t.

    This need for in-group cohesion is more important than facts and figures. It’s more important than the text of some book.

    So when all your friends and family are saying that Christianity means one thing, it’s unlikely you’re going to disagree.









  • Oh I read something interesting about that once. I think it came at it as big city vs urban modes of thought.

    Someone who lives in a big city surrounded by many people realizes quickly you need robust systems. You just don’t have the time to handle every case as a unique circumstance. So you have laws and regulations to shift things earlier in the process when they’re easier to deal with (eg: fire codes before the building gets built, instead of no codes and a fire hazard)

    The other mode doesn’t think like that. They can have simple laws on the books, and if there’s a problem they’ll just go talk it out with Brian the sheriff. Sure abortion is bad but you know little Suzie she just made a mistake, you can make an exception for her, right?

    Obviously the “treat every case as special and rely on informal social connections” doesn’t scale or consistently deliver fair, just, outcomes. But according to some half remembered post I read, that’s how some right wing people view the world. You can have draconian laws, but the people enforcing them know when to apply them (against those assholes) and when not (for good folks who made a mistake)

    So, I guess, corruption.