I agree with that.

By the fall after high school, I was in the army, and a paratrooper. Many of my high school friends and acquaintances were already dead or in jail (for attempted manslaughter).

I understand neither meditation nor therapy.

Both seem fraudulent to me.

Interesting that this seems to be true cross-country.

My high school was very rough. (So were all my schools.) There were fights every day. I was in a large percentage of them. Bullying and hazing were extremely common. I was one of the main targets, but by no means the only one.

I fairly routinely got in 2-3 fights a day. And I mean real fights where one or both of us was bleeding at the end of it. That is not normal anywhere anymore. Nor should it be.

Good for Poland. Someone should resist feral third worlders parasitizing their nation.

Minnesota wrong-way driver blames her dog for deadly head-on crash

It’s almost always a mistake to let the dog drive.

However, it’s always a mistake to let the cat take the wheel.

I don’t get really any of my identity from my job, but I do enjoy being the guy you call when you’ve run out of guys to call about a problem.

It has its drawbacks, but it does feel good solving an issue that sometimes dozens of people have worked on unsuccessfully.

People make their jobs their entire identity in ways I cannot comprehend or even empathize with.

I have absolutely no insight into that at all.

For sure. True of the UK. When I visited there around 1989. it seemed roughly on par with — and perhaps wealthier than — the US. Now when I go back, it’s clearly a lot poorer than the States. It just feels shabby.

That’s a good point. Read books like I did I guess.

Yes, 170 pounds is fat for a woman — unless she is very muscular and above 6’2″ or so.

Ain’t nobody want to hear it, but a woman can improve her appearance 2-3 points on the 10-point scale by simply not being fat.

And a man can do the same by consistently working out while staying relatively trim. Yeah, the man has to work harder, but that’s nearly always the case as we’re the disposable class. And all that is just reality, like it or not. Most don’t.

Wow, Paola is just like me. Any group is off-putting to me. I just cannot do nor care about group cohesion. I’m not on any team and I do not want to be part of one. This is fundamentally alienating to me. I do think it does separate me from some fundamental human experiences, but it’s not deliberate. I just do not feel the things that others do.

I both believe most places should be more walkable and that the urbanism “walkability” fanatics are completely fucking nuts most of the time. Most of what they imagine doesn’t apply to the majority of Americans, cars are in fact great, and hardly anyone wants to give them up.

They are just delusional about a lot of these facts.

How likely would 4 pregnancy tests would be false negative?

Simple math problem that even I can do — with a caveat!

If each test has a 5% false negative rate, about 1 in 160,000.

If each test has a 1% false negative rate, about 1 in 100 million.

However, that caveat is that in real life errors are frequently correlated. So if there is something hormonally odd going on, you could still be pregnant and all simple tests could return negative every time.

I’d sink every invading migrant boat storming the shores of the UK if I could with no qualms and no regret.

Eventually, they’d stop. The incentive structure would be high negative then.