I feel the need to chime in to agree with the people saying that you need a sudden and complete exit strategy ASAP, but also, I hope you’ll forget trying to diagnose them or figure them out. It could be part of a mental disorder, but everything you listed could just as easily be emotional immaturity. It’s not your problem, and leaving will be easier once you accept that.

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Nothing worse than someone really funny who isn’t easily amused. My grandma was apparently like that, could cut you to ribbons and not even smirk. Never even knew her but I still feel the aftereffects.

I see parts of myself in him, like if I was born a balding ginger Masshole manchild who somehow liked sports and cigars.

…Small parts.

Okay so I think I’m ready to resub to his podcast. I wasn’t sure about him for a minute.

Time to lift

When my kid’s your age I’ll be 52, which is practically middle aged by modern standards… If you eat your veggies.

Have gone back to BG3, checking out mods.

Also, have started trying to get better at figure drawing. Trying to wrap my head around proportionality.

There’s no question about it.

I’m not here to split hairs, we’re both talking about the same problem. I’m still happy for them finding a way out.

Privileged. British by birth.

That said my wise card is still my daily driver.

Hahaha yeah

Not bad! It’s a dictatorship, but aside from that I hear it’s quite a good standard of living. And I hear the food scene is immense.

It’s never been more true, the old saying that freedom ain’t free.

I’ve become an immigrant in the UK a few years ago when I had the good luck to convince myself all of this would happen sooner or later. Kept my citizenship so far because I wanted to vote against him this time. What’s your story?

Have literally sent work emails from the back of a cab on a highway with roundabouts. I may have a serious problem.

Spending money to make money 🤑

That’s entirely clear, at those levels. Absent some kind of chaos theory hypothesis, you’d need billions of dollars in motion to motivate that kind of action.

I still often wonder to what extent the tail is wagging the dog. If enough money is riding on an outcome, does money go towards ensuring that outcome?

Clarification: I would welcome it in this case, but I am interested in hearing from anyone who knows about betting markets generally affecting outcomes.

So there’s a frightening little maniac who constantly annoys you in elaborate ways and always wants to play.

Brethren, that’s just having a kid with hyperactive ADHD.

The toy doesn’t die and form an unbreakable death clench on me like my real dog would have. Easy to clean, 3 out of 5 stars.