A Motley Arrangement of Various Tidbits
I am Erik, though I may go by Kai.
Oh, you know why you are here. Because you made me come here.
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The one place where you can go to a club and most people there are above 40.
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Love, Jilly :):):)
P.S. When I was in Salt Lake City, it was drizzling and sunny (and there were lots of hills and Mormons!).Asked by eyesclosedmindsopen
Thanks you! You know, this does not show correctly in email… much better in tumblr itself.
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A bit late on this, but it's still Tuesday so whatever, right? Here you go, bud:
If happiness was the national currency, what kind of work would make you rich?Asked by eyesclosedmindsopen
Teaching (university and not grade school), something with foreign policy, translator, professional student
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TMI time! If you had one day as ruler of the world, what would be the first 3 things on your agenda?
Asked by dani-de-barbarac
With everything else being equal, having a global ruler would solve many of the problems of the anarchic international system (e.g., totalitarianism and state-sponsored conflict and terrorism). These are my three:
- Universal healthcare for all people.
- A global framework for drastically reducing anthropogenic climate change (probably a cap-and-trade system)
- Create a robust legal system with capable institutions for international criminal, public (state vs state), and private (corporate) law. I wouldn’t rule as a despot now. :P
And that is what you get for asking someone in international relations a question like that!
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TMI question :))
If you could travel anywhere in the world, where would you go first and why. What would you do there?Asked by stateofindifference
This is tough, but I would say it would be Spain. I would not spend time on the beaches like most tourists because Spain is like a microcosm of everything you can find in Europe from Ireland, the Alps, southern France, and even Morocco.
Every type of food and drink: cider and hearty stews in Asturias, wines in La Rioja, tapas and beer in Madrid, the best cured ham in the world in Andalucia, and paella in Barcelona.
It is also a pretty cheap country to travel in compared to the rest of Europe.
I already know the language and have wanted to go for more than 7 years now, but seem to end up everywhere else in Europe.
I couldn’t hate a place that has real siestas! I love sleep!
And it has thousands of years of history, sometimes in the same city or building. There are roman aqueducts, Moorish palaces, monasteries and thousand-year-old cathedrals, and modern architucture and painting (surrealism especially).
With all of this, who would not want to go?!
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tl;dr: It is slightly better to buy but only for the tax exemption for mortgage payments. You also need to take into consideration the thousands of dollars of fees for buying and selling houses.
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Kirpeä - adj. (KEER•peh•a with an ‘a’ as in ‘cat’) - tart (flavor); crisp (weather); e.g., Mutristin suutani koska mehu oli liian kirpeä, I puckered my lips because the juice was too tart.
I didn’t know kirpeä could be used for weather too. I like to discover foreign words that mean several things that are unrelated in English but have some connection in that foreign culture. It makes you think out of the box.
