lvxferre

Sometimes ghosting is for people who value their own peace of mind, who predict that saying "sorry, I don't want to be contacted further" will either cause drama or be ignored.

Plenty people. For stuff like

• insisting on a subject after I clearly said "I don't want to talk about this"
• throwing a tantrum against me for something that is clearly not my fault
• sending me multiple messages sequentially, containing nothing of value
• trying to proselytise their stupid superstition, whichever it may be
• bossing me around with uncalled advice, after I said to drop it

And I don't feel bad for ghosting any of those. At all.

My two choices:

• Pontic Steppe, around 3000 BCE. Likely region where Late Proto-Indo-European was spoken.
• northern Lazio, around 650 BCE. If possible/reasonable I want to spend a bit of time in an Etruscan city, then in a Faliscan city, then in a Sabine one. I'm OK travelling by foot if necessary, as long as there's always people talking around me.

In both cases I want to be able to record everything people say. Preferably video, but audio is good enough. I just want to know better about languages of the past.

It's kind of tempting to include 1450 Uruguay as a choice, since we barely know anything about the Charrúa language. However the Charrúa weren't exactly friendly to outsiders, so this option would be only if neither side can interact with each other.

Brazil is a Bad Idea®.

• There's a reasonable chance that a Trump-like clown wins in 2026. Probably a Bolsonaro ally, or even a relative (there have been talks about his wife running for presidency).
• Repeat with me the Latin American mantra: Nothing Fucking Works®.
• 
• Ask Haitians and Venezuelans how they're treated.

I spend most of my day reading, as a translator. But it's almost always stuff that I wouldn't read, if not being paid to.

If counting only books that I read for fun, I guess it's ~2 books/month? Typically fantasy light novels. I also read a fair bit of manga (~5 chapters/day).

Beyond those LNs I think that the last book I've read was in September; Um Copo de Cólera (lit. "a glass of rage"), from Raduan Nassar. Short but good first person story.

I'm almost 40. I'm... tired. I don't read stuff to feel myself cultured; I read stuff when I need to (because of my job) or when I feel in the mood to do so.

Federation woes?

Your comment has a different take though, and adding value to the discussion, it isn't just the same as I said. Both are complementary.

Mid-December I'm travelling to Foz, to ~~eat my quota of chipa and pira caldo~~ see the Iguazú Falls again. With my family this time. It has been, like, 15 years since I've been there, and unlike last time I'm not going with a drunk womanchild rushing to Argentina because she was missing her grandparents. ~~I'm not smuggling whisky again either.~~

I think that it depends on why, how, and how much. If she's feeling neglected and/or isolated I wouldn't say that it's a red flag, but if she wants your exclusive attention, to the expense of your son, it might be.

Even more accurately: it's bullshit.

"Lie" implies that the person knows the truth and is deliberately saying something that conflicts with it. However the sort of people who spread misinfo doesn't really care about what's true or false, they only care about what further reinforces their claims or not.

Reddit might have originated as a link aggregator but for all intents and purposes it's a clusterfuck of forums anyway.

That said the difference between Reddit and old style forums in this case is that the permaban is never enforced; that place is so corrupt that you're expected to circumvent the rules and the punishment. A hypothetical 5y ban would be the same.

Predictable outcome for anyone not wallowing in wishful belief.

shrug them off