To me the rule of thumb is if you can see it, Sharkbite is fine. Sharkbite is probably better than any weld I do, because I can’t sweat pipe.

No, it must be some change in how we see or count.

It’s not a trend if it’s just one person. They’re really streets behind.

Expectation of someone who doesn’t interact with women.

They teach you that one in boot camp. One day they bring you to the training rubber and teach you the combat roll. You roll, stand up, yell Marine Corps, do it again. You just roll and roll and roll. It’s dizzying, you’re covered in little bits of rubber. It feels pointless.

Until, one day you’re getting your weekly head shaving. You’ve already gone, but Recruit Ahearn is coming out. You are instructed to run everywhere, so he’s running, but missteps off the curb, and as he goes down, he peforms an absolutely flawless combat roll. Regardless, drill instructors come up and start losing it on him, unintelligible yelling followed by “aye sir” over and over, until eventually one DI says “What did you do wrong?” And Ahearn says “This recruit doesn’t know, sir!” And the DI gets into his face, real close, real quiet, and says “You didn’t yell Marine corps.” And then proceeds to tell “Now do it again!” and makes Ahearn do combat roll after combat roll off the curb, yelling Marine Corps, until we were all done getting haircuts. All 63 of us.

Appreciate your clarification, and I probably agree with you.

The article does a nice job of breaking out who votes how and kind of helps you say “I see” as to why the results are skewed the way they are. We all know why: religion, with a sprinkling of old. So I don’t necessarily doubt these results. America is the land of religion, and not just white evangelicals. Black religious folks absolutely don’t like homosexuality. Muslims don’t. Hispanic Catholics are very puritan. Jews are generally okay about this stuff.

But the common thread tends to be religion, and we have a lot of places of worship here. When you think about wealthy first world countries, America sits up high when it comes to religion, and how many people are religious. And while we’ve seen a decline, it’s still a big population.

EDIT: I would also be curious to see who said porn is morally wrong, and still viewed it anyway. I think religion comes with this crazy amount of hipocracy, and not just hipocracy but this sort of uncertainty, and it’s that whole fear of God thing.

Eh, a consideration. There have been accidental babies that get raised well by decent enough people. (I’m one). I get what you’re saying though. The option ought to be on the table and available for people, because a factor in people growing up to be shitheads is definitely parents who didn’t want them.

40% is closer to 1/3 than 2/3, but your point still stands. The fact that 40 think homosexuality is morally wrong is nuts. It’s that damn religion thing.

I live in Jersey, and we have tons of them. And fortunately they are turning some into pedestrian paths, rails-to-trails style, but we have literal (albeit old) infrastructure for rail lines between places that are only accessible via rail by going to Newark, changing, and hopping on a different line. We’re talking hours for a 30 mile ride.

I need me some eminent domain. There’s some major hubs west of Newark that you can only drive between.

But yeah, seeing them turned into trails is at least better than nothing. But I want moooorrreee.

Meh, I’m 38, been very active my whole life (small blip because of the Vid and the crippling depression and chronic drinking that came with it), but I notice recovery time for injury, while not permanent, is way longer than it was at 27, and more for 18. Goes for exhaustion and hangovers too. Shit just lingers.

But we beat on, you know? Can’t just stop.

For sure, I was just coming in with a tush push.

Perfect summation, only people saying one is tougher than the other do so from the other side of the TV screen.

I’m glad you got whooshed because I like seeing the progress pics. It was all for the best!

This would make a killer puzzle.

Credit where it’s due!

America Bad, of course!

Don’t lump the entire country in with wherever you are, because I can go to plenty of places within walking distance of my home – in the United States – and just hang out, hard, and it’s fine.

There’s plenty of places by me where you can do this, and I live in the most dense state in America.

Yeah, but the alternative now is a private sector dedicated to forcibly removing people from places. I agree with your sentiment, I personally think cops need to be reminded of the fact they’re civil servants, but I also don’t want private security conducting evictions.

Hopefully. I could see it turning into massive layoffs, cutting things all across the board, and it’ll be a war of attrition, who will cave first, me fighting my crippling desire for potato chips, or PepsiCo. needing to gouge prices. And the problem I see is that they’ve been winning this whole time, and the royal we are weak and dumb. But maybe we need a bigger push.

Beyond that, I’m not sure we can legislate the problem away either. And so we raise the minimum wage, we squeeze the middle class, and we probably end up in a worse position for it. But who knows, maybe we are capable of banding together as proles and speaking with our wallets.