Don’t ever be ashamed of something you didn’t choose or do. People love to be inflammatory but nobody really judges a guy just for being a guy. Vast majority of men are doing the best they can, we know. I work in a company about half men, all of them manage to be clean and together and nice, same as the women do. Some of the guys are for sure dressed better than me most days.

Can’t judge a group on the worst of them.

717 parking here is a cartel. Never park in a private lot in Tampa or St. Pete, there are plenty of city lots & street parking, cheaper too.

I was about to ask how in the world a Kentucky clerk of the court could have enough to pay a half million settlement, but inheritance, I guess makes sense.

I am still mad about that too. Why the fuck did Al Gore concede before the count was finished? I feel like the timeline split and I ended up on the wrong one. Absolutely agree with you, that is the beginning of all this bullshit.

Nah. We did - this may get long but is relevant. I went to school here when we were 49th in the US and the US close to the bottom worldwide. Literally had no teacher for half of 6th grade, had one book for 5th, kids getting high in elementary, fighting a every day, no art, science once a week. I really only got educated in college. When I had kids I homeschooled them because I remembered how bad it was. But then I found schools to fit the first 3 using the school choice and WOW, it was so good. Those 3 were so prepared for college, 2 got good scholarships at private schools and one got through state school in 3 years, all with amazing grades. The schools in my county were very good.

But it’s getting so bad again, my last kid unfortunately missed the good schools wave. They are at community college and crawling back, and yes it’s the fault of the continued conservative government wrecking education with their back to basics bullshit. When they were just about diversity in education and different paths for different kids it was great, now they don’t want kids to learn anything outside of their doctrine and while it’s not quite as abysmal as when I went to school, it’s very bad again.

If we are ranked well we are just skating on earlier success, it’s getting worse.

Low cost area you won’t be making $50/hour though.

North Florida is the South.

South Florida is farther south than The South.

We are kind of two different states.

I am so polite on my bike when in the sidewalk. Just today, waited first for a guy to walk by slowly, and went onto the grass (thankfully it was the part of my route with a grass strip between road and sidewalk) around another.

It’s my understanding that the sidewalk is for pedestrians and I am supposed to ride in the road, but of course the road is dangerous. We are allowed the sidewalk with a speed limit of 10mph. So I yield always to anyone on foot.

And you HAVE to be careful. Monday night coming home in the dark there was someone sleeping on the sidewalk! If I had been going fast I’d have run them right over.

Maybe Australia needs the sidewalk speed limit? Or if your motorists aren’t so aggressive, ban the bikes from the sidewalk?

I mean, a progressive here would be a centrist in most countries. So in a way, yes, trying to drag the center closer to the actual center.

I am so confused by his looks. Like, I have at least 15 years on him but he looks older than I do? He is aging like people in the 1940s &50s, does he smoke? Or it’s just the evil aging him?

Not to excuse him, since he hasn’t grown out of his asshole behavior, but teenagers, especially of the past, are not reasonable people. I think you could find more recent quotes.

Also how TF is he only 41? He looks at least mid 50s!

Yeah it’s still about half & half, (not the government, we are one of the most heavily gerrymandered states so the state legislature does not represent us) and we aren’t the only place the establishment Democrats run Republican-Lite.

But I agree, they ignored Angie Nixon because she was too authentically progressive for them. But nearly everyone I know, she was the person they were most excited to vote for. And she did win the primary.

Medical degree can be used for research though? Anon doesn’t need to work patient-facing to use his education, surely there is a better position for them.

And this sounds like a pretty good life, time for reading and working out, enough free time to have a relationship. Most doctors don’t have such a cushy schedule.

I’m old enough to remember Ann Richards, and Lawton Childs here. Texas, and Florida too, are still close to 50/50, just gerrymandered to hell and back. It’s nice for Texas, I am happy for them, and Georgia too. Sorry that we couldn’t get enough people out, I kinda like Angie Nixon, it would have been great to have a progressive voice for FL. 4,207,947 votes for Moody (the traitor) 3,969,186 for an honest to God progressive.

Nile crocodiles eat about once a week on average and can eat twice a year and survive. I wouldn’t count on a t-rex expiring from hunger in a month. Maybe from all the new germs, if it was time-traveled in, but not starvation.

BMI is bullshit but mostly in the other direction - people who are overfat without being overweight by BMI. It’s much less common to be overweight without being overfat.

What is also true, though, is that the risk curve for underweight is sharp but for overweight is pretty flat - a few pounds over just doesn’t add much risk, while a few pounds under does add some risk.

I was very surprised too, but that’s what the records showed. Of course the records that go on are well off Europeans and English and Irish, and the ones who were in Louisiana since it was French. I can’t know anything about the rest. I did expect to find what we would consider child brides but no, way more were mid-20s. I was under the (apparently quite mistaken) impression that the past was more “marry young or be considered unfit”. Didn’t really note the ages of the guys, as I didn’t have any preconceptions about that.

My own mom was 30 when she married, had 4 kids pretty quickly. Her mom married at 24. Her grandma, though, at 18. But on my dad’s side it’s 25, 27, 20, 22, 25, if I go up the patrilineal line. Which gets up back to the freaking 1700s, seems so long ago. But even back to the 1600s, one 16 year old & 2 who were 25.

I found that remarkable but more it seems likely that my perception was shaped by stories, and less likely that my dad’s family was outliers.

I grow Red Cuban bananas, there are still plenty of other types available to grow.

Look how many different varieties at this one nursery near Orlando

https://sowexotic.com/collections/bananas

You know how the Mormons keep genealogy records for, like, everyone they possibly can? I am American so we may be more mixed than some places but those records went back pretty far and out in a lot of directions geographically. No overlap, lots and lots of people. I mean at some point mathematically it’s more people than the population of the world so you have to be right but they had 20 or more generations in some directions, it was thousands of people on that chart going back hundreds of years, it was crazy.

I also did notice that most of my ancestresses did marry between 25-28, not 14 as Little House on the Prairie had me believing before.

What impressed me more was just how MANY ancestors you would have at that 40 generations back.