Spot fucking on.

Portugal and a lot of effort (Plus cash to invest).

Basically going through the Golden Visa process (Which has changed substantially the last year, happy to explain more if curious)

The question doesn’t need to be hypothetical. I am moving to a country exactly like that. From the US.

Lack of modern health care coverage alone is enough to justify it. A bonus is that the quality of life across the board is significantly higher.

This was the first one I thought of too.

Did you know that Christopher Walken used to be a professional tap dancer? The parts of the video where he’s doing that are 100% him.

You absolutely nailed it. This has been my exact experience.

Microsoft has been contributing a ton to FOSS the last 5 or 6 years.

Their flagship programming language, .net, is fully OSS and runs best on Linux.

42, U.S. I can, very well. I used to race cars on the track. I don’t do that anymore, but it’s a useful skill to have when I’m in Europe. Manual transmission is the norm for any rental car.

You’re my hero.

Same. This all feels so similar, but different at the same time. In a good way tho.

Holy shit, I totally remember them and trading cards in the 90s. Always wondered what happened with that, now I know.

What a fall from grace. Then and fleer were the shit.

Because they’ve benefited significantly from the results. Generational wealth for white Americans is significantly higher than black Americans because of this very thing.

They want to keep that flowing and avoid being told that they’ve had a leg up on almost half the population because of what their ancestors did.

Maybe I’m in the minority here, but please God no.

I’m so exhausted by LOTR stuff at this point. It was good for its time and absolutely advanced the high fantasy genre by immeasurable bounds, but holy fuck it’s actually really, really, boring.

He really is.

Shame he ends up being the- “well achsssually” guy in online Twitter interactions. Sort of blunts the humble effect.

The sock gap.

Gotta be: Fluffer.

“It will not be we who reach Alpha Centauri, and the other nearby stars. It will be a species very like us – but with more of our strengths and fewer of our weaknesses.” — Carl Sagan

This one has been my go to for years and years.

It gives me comfort. In that we probably won’t every get there, because of our evolutionary failures as a species, but that’s ok. Because the next species or evolution of our kind will stand a better chance.

Love this movie, as you say, despite Jared Leto.

This is the one that’s stuck with me as well.

We’ll start a new ancient Egypt, with hookers and booze.

Absolutely terrifying read.