I’ve never been in a single accident and drive a basic compact sedan I bought new off the lot 10 years ago. I could buy it used today, with current mileage for about the same price I paid new. I’ve paid about half the initial purchase price in insurance premiums.

Being a good driver sucks, but it’s kind of like healthcare where…wait a minute I’m healthy and getting fucked there too. As I age I’m going to street race and try to gain as much weight as I can.

Is this a news story from 4 years ago?

Jack black isn’t funny at all. He’s worse, incredibly fucking irritating and annoying and a try hard. He epitomizes mainstream US “comedy”; obvious, loud, overstating the delivery of jokes with overwrought physical humor. He and Horatio Sanz must have studied under the same Sithlord. Can’t stand him.

“let”? They are the ones gutting!

The call was already made from inside the house, we didn’t need to let them in.

It’s great to see Steve Jobs billionaire widow, who owns the Atlantic, bravely assign progressives as what ails the lack of affordable housing, education, public transportation, skilled workforce, unending outsourcing, threadbare management as what stands in the way of a better resources and supported public, instead of the single unifying thing that actually did tear those all down which was the concentration of extreme wealth through unregulated capitalism, of which she is a ridiculously sad example.

Super brave to print this with a fascism ascendent. You could almost wonder if there were financial motivations to align with current policy. The Atlantic was also unilaterally pro-Israel with an Israeli editor. Almost feels like the press may be somewhat bought and biased?

Where does state-run media fall on The Atlantic’s list of concerns? Or Jeff Bezos’ Washington Post?

They don’t need to. What they’ve done with high speed rail in 15 years makes me want to cry. They built an entire national HSR network since the great recession. America is such a fallen empire.

I couldn’t believe it when I saw this yesterday. It’s so hard to draw a bead on exactly who he is between his senility, drug-addled body and pathological lying but it’s such a window into who he is; even though he’s taken over the playground and all his friends are running the school like animal house, he can’t even savor the enormity of the victory…he’s just glad he found his favorite pencil he thought someone took.

Other than obvious physical traits:

Power of observation. Accurately seeing the game(s) and your opponents lets you anticipate, which is basically partially seeing the future and it of course is incredibly powerful.

Analytical mind: observing is the first part, then analysis to understand how or why you can take different approaches to win, attack, defend, etc. is part two. There are almost always another level of analysis to be done.

Curiosity: most people plateau physically long before they’re mental capacity in a sport is exhausted, but even at the pro level you still see many athletes that once they’ve made their paycheck or won x, they coast or stop developing. True multi-sport athletes are curious and diversely talented and this drive to understand helps them not just be satisfied with a single focus or sport.

Employee salaries in HR; they are both correctly paid(employer perspective often), underpaid (employee perspective often), and overpaid (company and co-worker perspective). Depending on how and how often you open the box, any of these views can be accurate.

Sample bias. Any advertising, campaigning, fawning and celebrating are the exceptions. You are exposed to the “success stories” exponentially more through media thanks to government and corporate forces despite the successes being exponentially rarer than the failures: suicides, mental health disorders, divorces, denied medical care by VA, insufficiency of college fund programs, underemployment, etc. The coverage Success Stories get as the 1% or whatever, dwarfs the failures which are the 99%. This reversed representation explains why they may be perceived as equally likely, which is confusing.

The answer is sample bias; deliberately misleading. After all, who is going to sign up if they could see reality represented? Most would just work fast food–same crappy outcomes, fewer bullets.

Completely walking away from sports you followed with passion your whole life because you just aren’t interested in learning the next crop of pros. Also, you know the way money and politics and other things force things in sport and it takes the fun out of it…same can be said for music.

Just keep voting for deregulators and climate change flat earthers and see what happens. Spoiler, the fix is in.