Nope, no idea what that acronym means.

I do wonder what traits the wealthy would tend to select for.

I don’t think rich people want their kids bashing their brains in playing football. They want to watch the lower classes play in their gladiator battles for the wealthy’s entertainment. So if selecting for physical attributes, I see it being more around aesthetics than athletics.

And they can select for intelligence, but they’d have to figure out how to not increase mental issues that correlate with intelligence. It’s a pretty complicated relationship. And intelligence + education opportunities only gets so far without personality and random chance. Heck, I could point to some rich people who don’t seem to value intelligence at all.

If I could select for one thing, I would select for a strong immune system. Make a solid physical foundation for a person to build on and make their life of their own decisions.

The 1998 one. If you do search it out, make sure to go for the Director’s Cut. The theatrical release has a voiceover in the first few minutes that spoils the whole movie.

One of the few movies where the Director’s Cut substantially changes things for the better.

Dark City. When the city transforms overnight. I wish there was more behind the scenes footage of how they pulled some of them off.

Sit in the dark with ear plugs in and do bee breath for a few minutes.o

No. And I would not stop at teens or daughters either. No exposure to him at any age, of any gender, period. I wouldn’t want them exposed to threat of assault and rape. I also wouldn’t want them learning anything from a person like Trump or those Trump surrounds himself with.

Trump’s sons may be a little more savvy when it comes to not bragging about their crimes in public, but you know they are also rapists raised and encouraged by a rapist. Even if they haven’t directly committed a rape yet, they are ok with it and think it’s their right.

Then beyond Trump and sons, letting kids visit grandpa Trump means letting them near Hegseth, RFK Jr, Stephen Miller, Vance. Absolutely, no.

I was responsible for hiring some folks for a commercial spot. So yes, I literally picked them out of a binder the company had based on looks. Then we slapped fake glasses and white coats on them to ugly them up into the world’s sexiest scientists. That day felt like it could have easily turned into a porno set.

Low-rise jeans are equally heinous.

MPDG is wish-fulfillment for the loser male protagonist. MPDG’s are one-dimensional and quirky in just such a way to make the messy, aimless, socially inept male lead somehow attractive to them. The male is possibly on the spectrum (more likely just an asshole), the MPDG is void of real personality.

A male protagonist dating a MPDG is like him dating his imaginary friend.

Health issues due to paternal age are a lot more difficult to do genetic testing for compared to issues tied to maternal age. If planning to use his sperm, consider speaking with a genetic counselor and have some serious conversations about what it looks like if you have a baby with certain health issues.

No, I live relatively lean already. 65% would mean cutting down to rice-and-beans type diet, no Internet, no investment into hobbies, no travel.

Also, there’s inflation. At 30 years old I could expect to live another 40+ years. And 65% of today’s dollars is going to get less and less valuable as the years go on.

Weatherproofing to whatever degree needed. I check around exterior doors and windows, replace seals and sweeps, and put the cling wrap on windows if needed before it gets really cold.

Change all locks so prior occupants can’t have access.

Snow scoop and salt since you mention the Canadian winter.

Door viewer for the front door. I am currently in a rental with a metal door I can’t drill through and I HATE not being able to see who’s at the door.

I skipped cameras and just went with door/window alarms. Easy to setup. Less expensive to buy and maintain. Also easy to move and install elsewhere once I find a place that works better. My threat model for home invasion is also quite low.

I’m going to skip over the “find a hobby that gets you outside the house” because I assume you will have thought of this and/or others will elaborate in the comments.

So my attempt at novel advice is not to sleep on online relationships. If your rural community is too small to support a group in your niche interest, find a group online. Be active in the group, asking and contributing, joining and volunteering. You may find it’s still 100:1 people you interact with to people you form any sort of lasting relationship with, but that’s not really any different than IRL.

One of my sister’s longest lasting friendships is with someone she met playing an online Horse Girl^TM game in the 00s. The game has been defunct for a decade, but they stayed friends. They only met in person for the first time when the friend was getting married. You never know when our weirdness vibes with someone else’s weird; it’s a beautiful thing. She values that online-origin friendship just as much as any IRL-origin friendship.

Hopefully they inherit the psychopomp job too and it is a career resilient to AI and self-driving cars. If Waymo works in the Underworld, they will be looking for new career options like every other Z and younger.

If they want the job, of course. I’m not one of those old school escorts of the dead that insists the kids follow in parents’ footsteps.

same wages and less jobs to go around

If we’re lucky. It’s more likely to be lower wages. “We don’t need to pay experienced programmers anymore, they aren’t writing the code after all. We just need cheaper, less skilled people to review the code that is already 99% fine”.

💯 Not about the tech, it’s about who is going to use the tech to make life worse for the working class.

I don’t think there is an LLM in this application. Not all AI tools involve LLM.

From my days modding an outdoor hobby subreddit, the only “risk” I saw wasn’t direct where I was fearful of being sued or anything.

We would get posts about missing hikers, if you have info please call/email these personal contact numbers. It was the type of post I was quickest to lock down. I would pin a mod comment telling people with info to contact law enforcement, NOT the poster and definitely NOT to put details on reddit anywhere. It’s not unheard of for an abusive person to post a “help me find my loved one victim” request.

Second most urgent type of post I locked down where the “hey, I found these mushrooms/berries/animal remains on the trail, I can eat them, right?”. Sweet baby jeebus, trusting Internet strangers on something like that is almost as bad as trusting an LLM.

He still didn’t “get away with it”. He pleaded no contest to manslaughter charges. No prison sentence doesn’t mean no repercussions. It would be great if you had a non-paywalled link and an honest post title.

Edit: also, still a 2020 event with the court case closing in 2022. Why is this so important here today in 2025?

Your headline is a lie. He didn’t “get away with it”, the investigation is ongoing per the article.

It’s also an article from 2020. Rage bait much?

Edit: did you just update your post to change the article? Dude.

Never heard of it. Not gonna look into it because I’m 50/50 on you being affiliated with the app and posting this just to drive clicks.

Assuming you are legit, best of luck finding an alternate you’re happier with.