I felt kind of safe there, depends of a district. But I know personally a guy 1,9 meters, boxer, that got drunk and took a taxi, the guy drove him to darl alley where friends were waiting and took his stuff. So it is always about using your brain and a bit of luck. But that was more than 10 years ago. Maybe with uber, these situations are safer.
It must be historical and also how cities are settled. South America has huge influx of uneducated, poor people into the cities. It is easy for them to get entangled in bad activities in the slums. Like Rio. Beautiful city and some government reforms pushed ex slaves into city with no prospect for life. and government forgot about them until there was a problem. And maybe there is different social net in Asia. Culture based on shame, more than power/status(?).
Honestly I felt more unsafe in certain touristy parts of Paris than anywhere I went in Lima. But not because of violence but because of pickpockets and scammers. I would chalk that up to the fact that most foreigners visiting the Plaza des Armas in Lima are probably an order of magnitude less wealthy than the busloads middle-class tourist crowding Montmartre in Paris.
I was there couple years ago. If you don't go to places you shouldn't, you are mostly Ok. I felt much safer in Peru than in Brazil for example. It is not europe or some parts of asia. But for central/south america it was farily safe. Not sure about some changes in the last years.
A lot of carbonated water gives me gas, especially when not eating enough. But I am not sure it is an issue. People have various gas levels, it just goes in and out.
I always considered drinking a lot of sparkling water an antipattern. I think this is connected with microbiome or people who I knew and who abused the sparkling water. I'm refraining myself from such activities because of the same reason (gas) but I also am sick (SIBO or another inflammation, have to hit diet hard)
Well, i don't see what is wrong with it. Apart that common people don't invest even a bit. This is what happens always with everything. Some people find joy in accumulating stock and others in drinking beer every evening.
To invest, you need to have a surplus, and receive some form of education, not necessarily on investing per se, that would enable you to think in certain ways.
Asking why is it wrong is similar to asking why it was wrong that most people couldn't read or write, for many of them were quite happy being illiterate.
Poverty exists because people choose to drink beer instead of investing their wealth in the stock market? That's really the only explanation you can think of? If only all those people living paycheck to paycheck works just have the sense to put their money in the S&P 500! #endworldhunger
> That's really the only explanation you can think of?
Another is the fact that many choose to own luxury items or buy drugs (tobacco, alcohol are included) instead of... you know... saving. And then self-proclaim to live "paycheck to paycheck"⋆.
Middle class gets poorer and the rich get richer because inflation is literally eating away the former's life savings while the other has doubled his net worth in just 10 years.
⋆I am not discrediting those that are truly living paycheck to paycheck. But a lot of people blaming the system and getting poorer are usually spending a shitton of money on useless things. Financially literate people prefer to save and invest this money because they understand the cost of opportunity.
My public school never gave me any classes on financial literacy while children of global elites receive the best guidance for it. My classmates and I were then instructed by every counselor and parent to take out six-figure student loans with variable interest. We were teenagers in high school without fully-developed brains.
I can keep pulling examples out of the rabbit hat, just let me know.
> My public school never gave me any classes on financial literacy while children
None do. Even private schools don't. It's not part of the curriculum and children don't care about those topics. When you reach your 20s you realize how important it would've been but how boring you thought it was at the time. But since you graduated, "learning is over" so you won't teach yourself financial literacy.
> children of global elites receive the best guidance for it
Yeah... from their parents. I worked in the industry and I know that children from UHNW individuals do not want to talk and be taught about money. They are not financially literate, but they have money that allows them to delegate to someone else. This is true for anything in life, by the way: you either learn to do it or you pay someone else to do the job.
What fascinates me is that serious scientists are surprised that life is random anfinds a way...
"However, the motivation for its extensive journey into Egypt is still a mystery that demands further research." Like, food?
Causation != correlation. Not all bad moods are caused by bacteria and you’re not factoring in the fact you were sick and got well as a potential mood boosting factor
I'm inclined to believe that GP is rational enough to be able to notice if there were symptoms other than low mood that were so severe and troublesome that GP reacted with chronically-low mood.
And I'm inclined to believe that GP is competent enough at writing comments that if there were such non-mood symptoms, GP would've mentioned them.
(I don't know anything personally about GP: I'm going on the average rationality level of the writers of HN comments that report on the writer's own health.)
