"I am beginning to suspect that it is surprisingly common for intelligent, competent adults to somehow make it through the world for a few decades while missing some ordinary skill, like mailing a physical letter, folding a fitted sheet, depositing a check, or reading a bus schedule. "

I need to learn almost all of that...and several other things.

How would someone in El Salvador legally move to Canada in no more than 3-4 years? How much money would that take and how does one find a job?

I tried looking at the newspaper for one but nearly all of it was either terrible or requires something I don't have (like X years of previous experience or being 25-30 years old. Some ads even looked for people of a certain gender for some reason.

It is embarrassing to admit but I used to think I really had dog ears and a tail until I was about 16.

Well, at least older students found it completely adorable when I made noises...and the school authorities thought I was like smart or something and didn't really care either.

I don't really know the cause, I don't remember knowing about kemonomimi until a bit later but I had delusions not only about seeing these body parts in myself but also felt them. I thought I broke my tail once, for example.

I'm curious about what happened to homosexuals and bisexuals with same-sex preferences in the story. I imagine they were put together somewhere...

I'm on the camp that isn't very happy with replacing romantic partners with superstimulus pleasure bringers, in part because I get so attached to people I care about (and objects, too. Especially cute ones.)

Also I imagine it may be because my standards and tastes for partners are really narrow yet my current partner fits them so well...you might as well make a slightly tweaked clone of my partner to make an ideal interest for me specifically.

As a side note: Not only would I feel bad if I was cheated on but I would feel horrible and unworthy of love if I cheated myself (and why would you expect a good and loving partner if you are not going to behave like that yourself?) so that would be another way in which this failed utopia scares me.

One and a half cavities per year..? Is that normal? I'm pretty scared if it is...I haven't had cavities myself as far as I know (one may not be aware of their cavities but seeing that I have been seeing dentists and even had my wisdom teeth removed recently I probably don't have anything visible)

I am reading up on dental caries right now because I don't want to ever get them...does anyone have relevant information?

Edit: Looking at other comments, it sounds like they may not be as common in certain people, but seeing that dental cavities are one of the most common diseases according to wikipedia...

pandering to the masses

What do you mean by that and how is it different from making a game "fun and interesting"?

I found World of Warcraft's addictiveness pretty overrated myself. The quests are repetitive, the dialogue is narmy, the community in general seemed mostly unpleasant (I didn't really communicate much with anyone I didn't know from somewhere else but a few minutes in a city reveal this...)

The only real fun I had with it was playing with some people I knew. Still, a lot of games (especially western games) these days seem more interested in getting money through addiction tricks (online RPGs) and pandering to the masses (Call of Duty?) than by being really fun and interesting...and it seems to work too.

What really causes me to lose sleep is reading, writing RPG-like statistics just for fun and listening to music. I have spent hours in the early morning going from listening to a song to wanting to listen to another to wanting to listen to either of them again or a different one...I truly end up mentally begging myself for "one more song".

It is 1:46 AM right now too...and I am caught in it again...though at least it doesn't hurt me as much as it normally would since I do get all my sleep through getting up later.

I would physically attack teachers and students when they were aggressively dumb. I don't think my social skills really recovered.

A little long, but a hell of a site tagline.

I am a (shy) NEET who has been stalking the blog for some months now but only recently made an account.

Unfortunately, I cannot really remember how I came across Less Wrong but it quickly started affecting me in the same way TV Tropes does (I have about 10 LW tabs open at the moment).

I find the site really interesting and helpful, yet don't expect to comment that often. I feel as if my English and general knowledge are still not on the average level here so I'll read and read until that improves.

I enjoy anime, computer games, looking at images of cute things, Lolita Fashion and reading, among other things.

I dislike sports, don't -usually- find television or movies interesting and mostly dislike social interaction in person (its fine if I do it through the internet).

I tried studying psychology at a local university but all of the classes were full of nonsense (picture a statistics teacher who said his class was not about math but about arithmetic...) and the hall just outside was full of smokers at all times. I have sensitive lungs and can't tolerate smoke.

I hope to learn a lot here~

-Marcy