rollo_tommasi

What skills does one typically acquire as a temp packing worker in a highly automated warehouse?

I wish more people understood that the models they were taught in Microecon 101 are not a particularly accurate representation of the actual inner workings of human society.

Leaving aside for a moment the huge number of people who have moved to North Dakota - so many that energy boom towns are experiencing severe housing shortages - working in the oilfields is physically grueling, and so unsuitable for anyone not in good physical condition; and your typical boom-town is not exactly the best place to bring a family.

Clearly you ought to parcel out the women on your team to the other teams until you've reached parity across the board. Change begins with you!

Or maybe he just lied? He doesn't seem like the most trustworthy kind of guy to begin with.

Beijing is generally worse more often, partly because they get hit by dust carried from the increasingly large Gobi Desert in addition to all the man-made pollution.

You're describing one method of coping with the inevitable decline, and I think your advice is excellent and I'm glad it works well for you. But the OP was complaining precisely about a decline in energy and that 'sense of novelty'. I don't think there's any point in suger-coating the reality that for most people those feelings peak early in your youth.

You have aged. Your energy level and motivation will decline until you die.

The rate of change varies from person to person, and you can probably reinvigorate yourself to a degree with a better lifestyle (more exercise, a better diet, a stimulating job, a vibrant social life), but slowing down is inevitable.

One suggestion: Adjust the game so that the player is only presented with countries that have populations within a certain distance of each other. Right now I'm getting a lot of "Marshall Islands vs Pakistan" type questions.

Is there a difference between using Startpage through DDG, and just using Startpage?

If the jackboot fits...