Interesting. In The US in The South(Southeastern US) when something is offered it's often polite to decline twice and then accept a third time if you actually want something being offered.
In North America drunk driving is a huge problem. You can't get anywhere without driving a car so if you're drinking and not in your house you have to drive home.
Social pressure/not yet fully formed brain etc. leads to ppl under 21 being more likely to drive drunk. That's the rationale for not being able to drink until 21.
"The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) estimates that minimum drinking age laws have saved more than 31,000 lives from 1975 to 2017"
Leangains is a relic of time. Martin Berkharn(the guy who made it) was a VERY prolific poster on the bodybuilding.com forums around 2005-2012 or something like that. The tone of his entire brand is born out of that forum and style of communication. You had to fight for your life on there if you wanted to communicate.
When I was doing my CS degree I was watching youtube lectures in Hindi(I don't speak Hindi) and following along with what was on the board. I did my degree just before the wave of Indian teachers in English was a thing. Respect to these people.
My entire online social life(which got really big due to friends moving and covid) is 100% on discord.
Many of my friends also don't have social media and we all exist within a discord server and share our lives and game together very often.
Discord has this buy in like a social media platform for a lot of people.
It's what I've described above--plus communities moving to discord and away from reddit.
If you do an online game now you will end up on discord if you're even halfway serious about the game.
One of the big things discord has allowed for my friend group is it's the first platform like this that has brought in the "normies". People who would never visit a forum and didn't even know teamspeak or ventrilo ever existed.
It's a smooth experience at almost all times on desktop and mobile.
If you go to college nowadays most of the majors have discords--and study groups have discords.
My friends don't even text me anymore, they DM me on discord and have for years at this point.
You can do whatever you want. As long as you're employed enough to meet your bills and retire one day.
I also haven't done the switch, but consider getting into a physical hobby AND also perhaps switching to a lower hours less stress role in your current field that will free you up to spend more time on your hobby.
I worked manual labor through high school and most of college. Be careful of a job that has repetitive motions that can cause you overuse injures. They're very common in the 50+ crowd in the blue collar area I'm from.
IMO, just make that 3 day retreat during work days so you don't require people to work weekends. With that small change I think this would be great for software teams. Perhaps too, every month is too often for anyone with a family. Consider making the interval larger.
Most would love to, but the rent is too high and they need a car to be able to get to their job so they can tread water. Owning a primary home as a means of "lazy wealth generation" is only accessible to people with family money or career titles like "Software Engineer" and even then the homes are much lower standard than before for older people working the same job.
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