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Coordinated Universal Time.

The system by which every computer in existence now keeps count of the passing seconds.

And I mean that literally. To a computer system "now" is a number that represents the total number ov seconds that have passed since midnight on the 1st of January, 1960.

1960/01/01 00:00:01 is literally the beginning of time as far as a computer is concerned.

This is a you-problem. Most people don't have issues recommending me things. It was a follower who suggested I watch Ascendance of a Bookworm, which I loved enough to pick up the novels and read the entire 33 volume series over. I think you're projecting a lot of your own personal tastes onto everyone else, but it's not as widely-applicable a stance as you might believe. I guess I've mentioned a few things I've outright disliked that you liked? Sorry 'bout that... ahhahah.

I watched season 1 of jobless when it came out, so your assumption about me being 'too good' for certain shows is off-base. The show had good qualities, but was ultimately marred by its sleazy protagonist coupled with its own weakly-reinforced themes, and the tonal-incongruency that that caused for me. There's a pretty crucial difference between intent and claiming intent. I don't think claiming a story does something always means it actually succeeds in doing said thing, and in this instance, it doesn't. At least, it didn't do enough regarding his perversity for me to feel he learned the lessons needed in order for the story to justify his adventure happening as it does.

Sometimes when an action makes NO sense to us ("he's like a stupid alien"), it's bc we are not understanding its true motivation/purpouse. If his goal was control, financial pressure and limiting her options due to lack of funds, it makes perfect sensie to buy the truck.

This is classic abuser behavior: maneuver the partner into a situation where they feel trapped and cannot escape. The timing on this is too perfect; he saw her gaining agency & power in the relationship and moved to short circuit that.

I am SO GLAD she got out.

If this happens to you, try reaching out to friends & family first. Chances are they've been watching your situation and are aching to help, but have felt powerless. I can't tell you how many times I've watched this scenario unfold. Ask. For. Help. Nobody will judge you, and they're probably waiting for you to make a move. People notice abuse and want to help.

if you feel truly alone, start out with some free online resources.

They're trying to signal that they, too, like the thing you like -- enough to know some things about it that most people do not know, which you will certainly recognise (as you are an expert), and thereby understand that they are cool and smart and into the same things you are.

If you watch men with each other, you'll see things like a man at a barbecue grill cooking weenies and burgers, and several other men will come over and talk to him about why he should use a gas grill -- which he is already using -- and how he should tell whether the food needs to be turned, which he is doing just fine. They will all stand around, five or six guys who all know perfectly well how to make burgers and weenies on a gas grill, telling one another how to do it and why you do it that way while the rest of the men nod sagely and make encouraging noises.

AT NO POINT does the guy running the grill lose his shit and snap another guy's head off for telling him things he already knows. This is how men interact. It is how we relate to one another. It is how we make friends.

Now, when a guy tells you something completely wrong and you go "actually that's wrong" and he says "nuh-uh, it's right, this is a thing that I know" when you are an expert and he is some random jackass who doesn't know shit?

If you draw some rectangles on a piece of paper and imagine that every inch of line you draw costs $5,000 but every square inch of space inside the lines is $10,000 you'll see fairly quickly that a one-inch square costs $20,000 to draw but is only worth $10,000. Meanwhile, if you draw a two-inch square, that will cost $40,000 and be worth $40,000... breaking even... and if you draw a three-inch one it will cost $60,000 and be worth $90,000. A four-inch square cracks the 100% profit margin at $80,000 to draw and $160,000 value, and if you draw a five-inch square it will cost $100,000 and be worth $250,000.

This doesn't take into account building codes. It's not hard to work out that you can save a lot of money by building row houses or town houses, so two homes can share the same wall. A pair of two-inch squares will share one wall and save $10,000. Line up half a dozen of them and you save $50,000 -- more than the cost of an entire unit. You turn six break-even houses into a fairly decent 20% profit. But imagine if you build another six houses right behind them, sharing a back wall: that saves another $60,000. Now you have $480,000 worth of housing that only cost $320,000 to build. This is a Good Idea. We should do more of...

Not so fast there, bucko. First of all, every bedroom is required to have a window, so you can get out if there is a fire. Eight of those houses have only one exterior wall, which means they can only have bedrooms at the front of the house. But in addition, every home is required to have front and back exits, so if there is a fire blocking one of them you can get out the other one -- and with only one exterior wall, you can't do that, so the home cannot legally be built. And then you can add the further issue that houses often must have a minimum amount of space between them, again because of fire: if the houses are too close together, fire can jump from one to the next.

We have a lot of building regulations because of fire, and it's because a lot of those cheap houses you could buy on a working man's salary were absolute firetraps that burned down and killed the people living in them. That's why you're required by your mortgage lender to carry fire insurance, and... well, they won't insure a place they don't think is safe. So even when you're passing all the building codes, you still have to make the insurance companies happy, which is more rules and more requirements and more expense.