Sunset Rose

Probably a long string of expletives that are inappropriate to repeat here.

I'm more of a wine person. I'm not super big on beer, but local company Labietis makes a beer called Pokaiņu mežs that I like.

I do, but I sit all day for work so I still have issues keeping my weight down. I'm always 10-15 lbs away from where I want to be...

I got a compliment from a coworker today that I didn't know how to respond to. This bloke is like six and a half feet tall, usually very quiet and always seems pretty self-sufficient but he more or less called me a role model! I've been working with this man for almost 10 years now and we have almost never spoken. And it was the weirdest thing to see this huge guy call the little sys admin lady something like that, but it felt really good! Haha

I've lived in both England and the United States and the differences can be a little annoying, but so long as I know who I'm talking to I can adapt to their preference. I currently live in Eastern Europe and when speaking or writing in English, we use British English so colour, 'have you' instead of 'do you', recognise instead of recognize, etc. Some of it does blend together for me though and I'll sometimes use both interchangeably, and honestly never hear any complaints from anyone. But it does feel less proper and therefore I feel dumb when I slip up with my consistency in either.

What does life even mean if you live forever? If you don't have an unaging body, then what do you look like 300 years from now? 1,000? 1,000,000? Can you eat or drink anymore? Enjoy good food, good drink? Not anymore. Can you still survive mortal injuries and disease? Extreme pressure, heat, cold, radiation? Would you want to? There's a huge number of things you could bump into and survive just because you're immortal, but does it still affect you, or bounce off you like a child throwing a rock at Superman? We have fragile bodies and minds, many of us don't mentally survive aging to 80 even if our bodies do. I would never want to live forever, I wouldn't even really wanna live to 100. We like, dislike, are attracted to or repulsed by things in life due to experiences and biological imperative designed by the circle of life. If you suddenly don't need anything, none of it means anything to you anymore. If, in a perfect immortality scenario where you don't age, you don't suffer diseases or anything like that, 0 kelvin doesn't restrict you, any amount of friction doesn't affect you, pressure, gravity- nothing can physically affect you. You somehow manage to keep your mind intact over centuries and help countless lives while their times come and go- one universal rule will still be the end of you one way or the other; nothing lasts forever. But in this scenario, only you would. What happens when way off in the future you come face to face with the heat death of the universe, and there you are just floating in a frozen void? Living forever was nice for a few thousand years. And now it's just eternal loneliness and suffering in black nothingness cause unless you also have some kind of superpower to identify and travel to very distant universes to find other life to adapt to, simply existing in a void isn't something that sounds like fun to me. tl;dr I'm happy with my life how it is.

Close, but the diacritical ļ in Latvian makes it grammatically sound more like yehl-yay-nah.

I just got my second dose recently, but once it comes time for it, I'll be getting it for sure.

I hardly ever forgive people who aren't close family for even the smallest things.

Caffeine, alcohol, snarky behaviour.

I just got my second dose some days ago. Thankfully so- cases in this region of the world are getting a bit out of hand at the moment.

Faith in myself. I've been through a lot of awful things that shut a lot of other women down and I'm still running steady, every day. My family- my husband, mother-in-law and sister-in-law are very supportive even when I'm not very receptive to it. But they're always there for me no matter what and even if somehow I fail myself, they never will. And I'm always there for them no matter what. And when all else fails, there's always alcohol!

I hope they say they rely on me. And if they've got criticism, they bring it to me. But if not, then it doesn't really matter what they think about me. I don't think about them at all.

Bhutan has a number of conservational laws promoting afforestation and protecting wildlife. That, that, more of that!

I don't have any but my husband has a lot of Fifa posters and they honestly all look the same to me...

Sweet potatoes are the best!

I do like to travel, I just don't like flying very much. I've had to travel for work a lot over the years but I usually try to go by train or bus if I can.

I do, and my accent is a bit complicated. My mother taught me English and Latvian at the same time, and as I grew up we've lived in the UK (Manchester) and the United States (midwest) so my accent sort of evolved as we've moved around. I've also lived in Estonia when I was 20 and the bit of Estonian I learned tends to affect it as well since learning words like veoauto and häid Jõule forced me to change how I pronounced those words in my own tongue for them to actually make sense to people. Now that I've been living in Latvia again for some time, I don't actually speak English or Estonian aloud nearly as often so it's gotten a bit thicker and harder to understand both ways. My Y-sounds and vowels in general while speaking Latvian don't sound very natural and I speak more from the front of my mouth because of English. And when speaking English, my enunciation is kinda hit or miss and S-sounds and T-sounds are much more pronounced. They don't really flow like a native English-speaker. Some English Ts sound like Ss but I can't really do that very well myself.

I used to get tons of fanart for my character way back in the day, so on an MLP-themed forum I feel obliged to use it as an avatar. It doesn't get any other use if I don't.

If breathing underwater also came with some measure of pressure resistance at deeper depths then I'd definitely prefer that over flying. But honestly they're both really neat to imagine.

Jeļena. In English my name would be Helen or Elena. I've never been entirely sure which. And it's fine, I guess. I get annoyed at how poorly English-speakers tend to pronounce it so I use nicknames with Americans and Brits to avoid being annoyed.

Not really. It relieves boredom when Reddit is down or there are no interesting topics there for me to spend time in.

God no. Anonymity is one of the hardest and most valuable things to maintain these days, and I think it's much more useful for a person like me. Also, I'm very shy and fame would probably wreck me emotionally.

I suppose that depends on how nebulously you want to define those terms, or probably more relevantly, it would depend on the situation they're used in. The word control sort of implies situations where the two elements are people and people, and that word is more designed for people and things they use. In the context of OP's post, I'd say they're referring to systems of government in which case it can either be contracted to indefinite concepts that again differ case-by-case/person-by-person or expanded to encompass age old debates of capitalism vs communism. Or theology vs philosophy. Pineapple on pizza or no pineapple on pizza. Personally it feels fashionable these days for people to ignore order for the more exciting chaotic options. But I've come to wonder if that's just me getting older and more cynical/not being able to see good qualities in people. So... psychologically speaking I guess that means I put more value in the concept of control and order over freedom and chaos. (There can be some mutual exclusivity to those concepts, but by and large tend to be antonymous imo.)

The Real and the Unreal, Ursula K. LeGuin