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2002… uff, that would be hard. As a ten year old there is so little you can do!

I guess I would steal an identity and get some ground breaking research out on a quicker time scale. In particular trying to get ahead of the climate deniers. I would invest in some whatevers that made it big as soon as possible, then during the 2008 crisis, then Bitcoins.

I would find it impossible to not look for my friends and family, even just stalking them from afar. That would probably drive me insane.

I’d use my wealth to lobby hard for climate justice and climate research. Probably still hide my true identity. I’m not American, so I would need to think really hard if preventing Trump is worth it, but I would lobby for a quicker energy transition and for a better social net. I’d assume with the knowledge I have at hand, I could even tweak the end result of the 2008 crisis… but that would be a massive butterfly to introduce.

On a global scale, I would think that some properly timed interventions in Africa could have dramatic impacts both socially and ecologically, but I’d have to study more to figure that out.

I think it really depends on how narrowly you define normal and if you expect anyone to be 100% normal.

I have some very normal sides of me: I love going out for a beer with my colleagues after a day of work, I have a stable partner and the 2.5 kids you were talking about (actually 1.4, right now), a stable job, bought a house…

I also have some odd sides of me: we meet on Lemmy because fuck Reddit (and I try converting people to Lemmy every second day), I have a bunch of unusual hobbies, I love painting my hair weird colors, I pursue my own happiness caring little about what others say (comments I heard: I should drop my career now that I am married/have a kid, I should present seriously now that I have a serious job… honestly I forgot most of them because I just don’t care), I married my partner “way too quickly”, I moved internationally way too many times - including with my partner and recently with our kid.

I expect most people to be similar: a mic of normal and not so normal, with normal defined most by your immediate surroundings.

One of the many, many aspects of this clusterfuck that I want to point out is that doing science is not like riding a bike. You can’t park your science in the garage for a couple of years and then come back and expect it to work out. Science is, on the practical level, a lot of very sensitive instruments that age fairly quickly and require a lot of maintenance. But it’s mainly a web of people, each having their own specific set of skills, all collaborating towards a given goal. No one knows really everything about a collaborative project. Stopping funding means waving a hand through a fine web of connections that are impossible to quickly set up again. It takes some 3-5 years to set up a good working group on any given project.

Totally support Dan Da Dan S1. I honestly was quite disappointed that S2 did not keep up.

I would add Attack on Titan S3 (I think? The one with the war themed opening) that send chills down my spine.

That’s insane! It also seems like a figure of diminishing of returns. If your company puts out the only ad out there, that will be incredibly effective. But one in 4K? Does it really make a difference?

Not only that, on the other end of the graph it is known that poverty is a great stressor requiring constant mental bandwidth - that therefore can’t see used to “be smart”. So poorer people are not less smart, they allocated their mental resources to take care of their situation first and only later try to look smart in the test.

I am grateful and envious: I would love to have the same ability. Stuff is crystal clear in my mind, and I still hardly can transform it into something someone else can parse… analogies are great, but finding the correct one is often beyond me

Abstract math.

The formulas lock together, setting themselves easily in complex patterns that represent something. I have preferred formalism because they have different flavors, even while having the same meaning.

That’s definitely how the government would like us to work. But we would like piles on cash in the form of a living wage, thanks

The short answer is that I don’t know.

I think there are enough apartments, just not enough apartments that are nice and in the city. Being in the outskirts could add a good half an hour to your commute (that is pretty big on EU standards) and are mostly hundred-year-old social housing, not really glamorous. If I remember correctly, Berlin’s population has also been increasing dramatically since the fall of the wall.

What I noticed is that some 20-30 years ago there was a lot of artsy undergrowth in the city, because you could live off of a 2-day a week odd job and dedicate the rest of your life to anything else you wanted. Nowadays that’s not viable anymore and a lot of cheap artsy places don’t exist anymore (I had skateboarding lessons in a squatted building, I went to a small club set up in the basement of a half-demolished house whose owner was still undetermined, I went to small “pop up” art galleries set up pretty much anywhere, I went to art flea markets set up in abandoned buildings, none of this is possible anymore)

Do you really want to be that person? I rather enjoy being with similarly funny and smart people

Horrible, but I can’t say I am against it… my approach of “let’s wait and see before making a judgement” is usually completely drowned out…