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Thanks a lot in advance for helping me out with this.

I am visiting solo in the middle of April 2026, and I have 7 full days excluding travel. Air tickets and hotels are already booked, so I can't change that, but I would really appreciate if you could advise whether Q#1: the days below look too packed, i.e. if I should cut a few things, and any other itinerary tips?

Day 1 (Sat): arrive at 8am at Athens airport, take train to hotel in Psyrri, store bags.

Ancient Agora

National Archeological Museum (NAM)

Day 2 (Sun):

Early morning stroll through Monastiraki Flea Market

Changing of the guards at Monument to the Unknown Soldier

Potentially Kotsanas Ancient Greek Technolo

The dilemma between "monger" and "mongerer" has always bothered me. I would really appreciate if someone can help me understand why the former is typically considered the more correct usage.

I have often seen arguments like the one linked below, claiming that the second "er" is redundant. It says that we don't say "dealerer", therefore it is wrong to say "mongerer":
https://brians.wsu.edu/2016/05/19/warmongerer/

I never find this argument convincing though. The root form of the verb "to deal" is "deal". Therefore it makes sense that for the agent noun, we add "er" to the root form to get "dealer".

However, the root form in our case here is not "mong". Rather it is "monger", be

Hello, I am trying to optimize my itinerary with things other than museums (since history and traditional art museums are too tempting to me, and always creep into my itinerary).

I know these have some overlap: so which ones would you recommend skipping without losing out on too much?

History: Tokyo National Museum, Osaka Museum of History
History again (but considering that these have life-size replicas, hence tempting in a different way): Osaka museum of housing and living, Shitamachi Museum Tokyo
Art: Tokyo National Museum, Osaka Ukiyo-e Museum

Thanks a lot in advance! :) I am hoping that your experience helps me filter out the ones that might look good on paper, but aren't a

Hello, I recently booked my flights to Tokyo for 2025, and have been trying to plan an itinerary. I would really appreciate any thoughts or feedback for the below:

(FYI, I am a relatively young man travelling solo and without a car, who likes walking, and doesn't mind long days, but they can start getting exhausting if there's too many of them consequently)

Day 1 - Arrive at Narita 4:30pm, Narita to Asakusa train, hotel check-in
Day 2 - Tokyo - Sensoji, Kappabashi Kitchen street, Akihabara, Hitachino Brewing Lab, Kanda Myoujin Shrine
Day 3 - Tokyo - Shitamachi museum, Tokyo National Museum, Shinkansen to Osaka
Day 4 - Osaka - Osaka museum of housing and living, Osaka castle (outs

TLDR: What I am doing to reduce my support to the U.S. via my investment portfolio, with the objective of not sacrificing investment performance, and request for thoughts/suggestions.

I have been struggling for the past few days of how to do this, because any financially reasonable portfolio would not have a choice but to include a significant exposure to the U.S. given the dominance of the U.S. in the world economy. I am not as righteous as to swallow major investment misses simply because I don't want to support the U.S.

So I have been trying to figure out a way to reduce my support to the U.S., without sacrificing investment performance too much.

Here's what I plan to do when the

TLDR: A new idea to solve for issues commonly raised with regards to calendar reform: the proposed calendar below has 365.25 days a year, 7 days a week, 12 months, and is therefore easy to implement in one country at a time while being accordant with rest of the world.

Calendars have always fascinated me, and this evening while being trapped in my room (to not have to sit with unwanted guests downstairs), I came up with what I’m calling: the accordant calendar.

The Wikipedia article about calendar reform cites several issues with the Gregorian calendar. However, not all of those issues can be solved simultaneously. Therefore I have placed emphasis on the following issue

TLDR: A new idea to solve for issues commonly raised with regards to calendar reform: the proposed calendar below has 365.25 days a year, 7 days a week, 12 months, and is therefore easy to implement in one country at a time while being accordant with rest of the world.

Calendars have always fascinated me, and this evening while being trapped in my room (to not have to sit with unwanted guests downstairs), I came up with what I’m calling: the accordant calendar.

The Wikipedia article about calendar reform cites several issues with the Gregorian calendar. However, not all of those issues can be solved simultaneously. Therefore I have placed emphasis on the following issue

Does anybody know why the September Cinematheque movies are not posted yet? Does this have something to do with the festival?

Hello, I am going to watch this movie at the Lightbox at 6:30pm tonight. I have 1 free ticket left in case anyone wants to join. I am 32M, work in Finance, my hobbies include poetry, philosophy and hiking. Guys or girls are welcome to join me tonight. I am firmly in a relationship, so you shouldn't have to worry about that, haha. I'm just happy to watch a movie together and chat.

Question: Are all of the following ethical systems basically just dead ends?

I am a layman interested in philosophy. I did some reading on SEP, and here are the problems I can't seem to find a solution to:

• Deontology --> absolutist --> dire consequences (not lying about who's in the house when a mass murderer is at your door)

• Consequentialism --> practical impossibility of measurement/calculation of good, ignores justice/rights (kill one person to save others)

• Threshold Deontology --> arbitrary thresholds

• Rule consequentialism --> if criteria includes
  (1) rules should be based on consequences
  (2) agents must follow such rules
  (3) agents must have overriding comm

Is it just me or is Seeking Alpha's marketing total bullshit? Here's what I got in an email from them:

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First they seem to admit that active investors underperform the market. And then somehow convert that into a pitch for active investing?

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for that exotic pop-bellied
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buy one get a swift frisk with it
quick ticket to the back of the line
plus a side dish of chicken wings
wash it down with a stiff drink
no tonic with this coloured shit.
play it cool for a minute.
til it’s too hot in the tanning booth
but you can’t wash off
what you don’t mimic
and the chains won’t rust
no matter how hard
you bless the rains down in africa.
the thick lipped face in the mirror’s
unfamiliar;
you want it, now you’ve got it,
sign the receipt with your slave name,

nigger.

(I have to thank u/ParadiseEngineer for introducing me to this poet wh

TLDR: The title of the post is basically the TLDR of my question below.

I like stoicism in general, but have always struggled with how stoics see the world. For example, are we supposed to accept the cardinal virtues just because?

I am unable to accept an argument such as that one where we must act like the leg that is happy to be soiled in mud because it serves the purpose of the larger whole. Some of this stuff feels laughable and contradictory to our current understanding of the world and our physiology. The leg in this instance is not conscious in itself, and solely acts based on what the brains tells it to do. To compare a body part such as a leg to a human being seems ridiculous