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What is the ideal leisure activity?

We don't answer requests for opinions. --Jayron 32 15:11, 7 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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What is the ideal leisure activity? Yellow Sunstreaker (talk) 03:18, 5 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

That is highly subjective, and as stated in the header above: We don't answer requests for opinions, predictions or debate. Whatever you most enjoy doing in your leisure time is "ideal" for you. 136.56.52.157 (talk) 04:32, 5 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

The ideal leisure activity is playing all of the head-to-head fighting games which Takashi Nishiyama was actually involved in developing (as opposed to only providing the funding). These games are:

1. Street Fighter (1987)

2. Fatal Fury: King of Fighters (1991)

3. Fatal Fury 2 (1992)

4. Fatal Fury Special (1993)

5. Fatal Fury 3: Road to the Final Victory (1995)

6. Real Bout Fatal Fury (1995)

7. Real Bout Fatal Fury Special (1997)

The greatest out of these games is Real Bout Fatal Fury Special (especially the Neo Geo CD version). However, the first of these games you should play is Street Fighter. Fightinggamesimp (talk) 04:36, 5 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

The ideal leisure activity is, indisputably, expanding and improving Wikipedia, the greatest encyclopedia in history. Did you expect another answer here? Cullen328 (talk) 04:38, 5 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

There is a book entitled Time and How to Spend It: The 7 Rules for Richer, Happier Days.^[1] You might spend your free time reading this book :). A summary of its recommendations can be found here. --Lambiam 06:12, 5 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

First, define what "leisure" means for you. ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 06:54, 5 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Tetris Andre🚐 07:02, 5 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I was big into playing Asteroids (video game) 40 years ago until I figured out that playing video games was a complete and total waste of time and money. I then left video games behind and let other people choose to waste their time and money. Cullen328 (talk) 07:12, 5 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Hagenaars, Muriel A.; Holmes, Emily A.; Klaassen, Fayette; Elzinga, Bernet (2017-11-10). "Tetris and Word games lead to fewer intrusive memories when applied several days after analogue trauma". European Journal of Psychotraumatology. 8 (sup1): 1386959. doi:10.1080/20008198.2017.1386959. ISSN 2000-8198. PMC 5678449. PMID 29152159. Andre🚐 07:28, 5 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

"We don't answer requests for opinions", say the notes at the top of the page, so you should narrow your question down to make it possible for us to answer it with references. Thus far we have the ideal leisure activity for success and profit and the ideal leisure activity to mitigate trauma. In what way did you mean "ideal"? Card Zero (talk) 13:24, 5 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Shouldn't be that hard to figure out. The ideal leisure activity would combine different things that are necessary for human health and thriving. Physical exercise, being in nature, harmonious socializing, teaching and learning, music and storytelling, laughter, eating and drinking, mutual orgasm, and religion. Your ideal activity will be a stone soup potluck in the forest where people sing edifying and humorous songs, dance to them, and everybody has sex after. If that's not spiritual enough for you, you can go to church in the morning,. Temerarius (talk) 18:18, 6 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

It would be whatever the OP regards as an ideal leisure activity, which only the OP knows for sure. It could range from video game binging to skydiving. ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 18:25, 6 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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Clarity?

why is the executive often interchangeably called the government although the legislative and judiciary are elements of government. -- 21:58, 5 September 2022 Grotesquetruth

Because words can have more than one meaning, Grotesquetruth. It's called polysemy. --ColinFine (talk) 22:11, 5 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I suspect that when many people say "the government" they are really talking about the bureaucracy ... be it at a national, regional or local level. Blueboar (talk) 22:35, 5 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

The idea of separation between executive, legislative, and judiciary was basically invented by Montesquieu. Before his time, many working governmental systems often ignored such distinctions, and in some respects some governmental systems still do today... AnonMoos (talk) 03:25, 6 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

The obvious exception is the widely-used Westminster system, where the executive is made up of members of the legislature, and a ceremonial head of state is not the head of government. Alansplodge (talk) 10:08, 6 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

It depends on when and where and in what context you are using the words. In the U.S., the "Executive" only refers to the part of the state bureaucracy consisting of the President, and the people who work for the various cabinet-level departments (State, Treasury, Health and Human Services, etc.). The term "Administration" is often used in the U.S. for a similar context. In the U.S., "government" generally refers to the entirety of state apparatus, including legislature, executive, judicial, everyone from the President down to your mailman is "the government". In the UK, the words are used differently. In the UK, the word "Government" generally refers to what in the U.S. is called the "Administration", which is to say the bureaucracy that is in charge of the day-to-day operation of the state. --Jayron 32 11:14, 6 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

correct me if I'm wrong but isn't the administrative body the state bureaucracy? Grotesquetruth (talk) 16:31, 6 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Not necessarily… there are local and regional bureaucracies. They are “the government” as much as Federal agencies. Blueboar (talk) 16:44, 6 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Indeed. The word "executive" is perhaps too doctoral to a number of people for feeling easy with it but Mark Twain has apparently The Executive impersonnating government: "The government is merely a servant―merely a temporary servant", attributed to Twain. Noone is expecting that Mark Twain set his sight onto an end to the Constitution - there is a perpetual rotation within the three components of the government - so it seems that "government" would be meaning "the Executive". The correct denomination is "the Executive Department of the Government" [2]. However it's not in Mark Twain habits to be thoroughly explicit when there is some risk in taking such an attitude. Thus "merely a temporary servant" may very conveniently apply variously to public servants. They are, individually, occasionally impersonating the government face to the individual citizen, often being unreachable to him. Thus the two interpretations are possible. --Askedonty (talk) 17:03, 6 September 2022 (UTC)The consequences of an edit conflict I had failed to locate have been happily repared by invisible hand - My apologies to Blueboar. -Askedonty (talk) 19:31, 6 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

so can we say that the Executive, Legislative, and Judicial departments make up the government in its whole and that the government cannot exist without any one of them? Grotesquetruth (talk) 17:39, 6 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Which country are you talking about? ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 18:23, 6 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

the US and UK. Grotesquetruth (talk) 20:09, 6 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Although the constitutions of both countries have shared roots, they have evolved into very different systems. In the US constitution, the three elements are distinct, but in the UK, the boundaries between the executive and the legislature are less clear. You probably need to read Constitution of the United States and Constitution of the United Kingdom. Alansplodge (talk) 10:27, 7 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Another way to look at it is there are all of the functions that a State needs to do in order to be a sovereign state. Different states have "cut the pie" up different ways; the U.S. has a tripartite separation of powers into executive, legislative, and judicial branches, with clearly defined roles for each. However, there is nothing about that kind of organization that is necessary for any State to do it the same way. The UK has a different organization, and other countries may do so in completely different ways as well. --Jayron 32 15:10, 7 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

how do each of them impact in economic development in their own sphere? Grotesquetruth (talk) 16:33, 8 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Much as the asteroid impacted Yucatan. —Tamfang (talk) 00:46, 10 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]