She’s a young teen. Maybe she’s aroace, maybe she’s a late bloomer

I’ll add that adding distance is the only thing he can do that has a possibility of changing his parents

Yeah Catholics are supposed to like vaccines

Oh, Cuba resisting foreign imperialism even when suffering to do so? Who ever saw that coming aside from everyone who’s heard literally anything about Cuba‽

Yeah, also just, when I’m active moving my body takes less effort. I’ve got more muscle, a stronger heart and lungs, and I’m typically more trim. I’m also getting more sun.

And yeah competetive exercise is great if you love it, but I find only functional gains improve how I feel. Speed is good if I need to build cardio (I normally ride at a leisurely pace), but I like sticking to aerobic and keeping it at a pace I enjoy, mostly ramping up my capacity in distance and terrain. It’s far more valuable for me to be able to bike my mental health better or keep up with a riding group than to achieve a personal best.

For all he knows the ot is preventing you from finding a partner

I’m 31 and have been in and out of shape my entire adult life, and yeah, I’m not surprised by either of your comments. When I’m out of shape I have no energy to even do all my chores and I definitely don’t have time, but by some miracle spending half an hour to an hour of biking most days leaves me with more time and energy after the initial hump. Add in some bodyweight exercises and for some reason then I have the time and energy to keep my home clean.

I don’t know why I let the periods of tiredness go on as long as I do.

I’m generally in favor of that except its timing is weird. Eugene to San Francisco should also be phase 1. It seems more interested in connecting a lot of places to somewhere first rather than making sure that when things connect they go where people want them to. It’s very clear phase 1 is entirely focused on making every region get a piece, which I get, but at the same time, the draw of HSR is connecting regions.

Like, yeah Seattle-Portland would be nice, it would get used, but it’s a 3 hour drive. The killer feature that gets the PNW on the high speed rail is going to California.

No coast to coast until phase 3, but phase 2 connects Denver to Albuquerque, Oklahoma City to Tulsa, and Toronto to Syracuse all disconnected to anything more significant at that time.

I think taking the American pursuit of freedom as a given is an incorrect assumption. Freedom is used here not as an idea that must be analyzed and fought for, but as an identity marker that’s trotted out to defend oneself both from others disapproval or disallowal of one’s actions and as a cudgel against those whose actions one disapproves of.

The easiest place to see this is in the concept of religious freedom. The same people who harp on religious freedom often want to declare America a Christian nation. They’ll whine and sue that their religious freedom is being attacked when they’re expected to treat a gay couple as married, but they’ll stand firm when other religions demanded the right to marry gay people, or when people wanted the religious right to psychedelic use (including indigenous use of peyote).

I’ve been reading The Dawn of Everything and it brings up indigenous critiques of European settlers, especially those attributed to Kondiaronk, and some of these groups have a much more complete and realistic understanding of freedom than even the better end of the average American today. And yeah the book goes into how their perception of freedom includes duties to enable others to actually engage in it. The freedom to move far away requires the duty to show hospitality.

When many Americans talk about freedom these days it’s just a virtue signal, regardless of if the virtue is actually possessed. We still do have those who genuinely believe in freedom, the ACLU remains as such, but they were considered radical from the start.

Ok, but a lot of research chemicals’ intended purposes are opening your mind, and them doing anything helpful is a bizarre off label usage that happens to work.

Yes, secret third thing, yes, secret fourth thing.

Psychedelics for discovery are different from ones for fun and also from ones for dealing with ptsd or addiction

That said, doping to cheat is maybe recreation, but doping for body modification without attempting to resolve any issues is far closer to a piercing or tattoo than a line of coke imo.

In general look up drug interactions for your recreationals and prescriptions. It’s not much work and can spare you a very bad time

Yeah, the wife’s excited every time I come home. Also my friends insist on going out of their ways for me and actively putting in effort to spend time with me. I’m surrounded by love and appreciation

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You can still make coal, it just involves bogs hostile to decomposers these days

A lot of things are older than furniture. Furniture dates to the pleistocene at the earliest.

Not even, you have freedom to, right up until a cop or busybody decides they don’t like it

Yeah 23 is a bit old for that, but only a bit. I wasn’t much younger when I lost my virginity and had my first partner. Go out, meet people, flirt, ask people out, and it should happen

This is key. And if you don’t get along with one, that’s ok, look for a different group.

If you don’t have any interests, browse meetup or something looking for something that you might enjoy. You can just try things, and it’s probably good for you to do so.

My general recommendation is board game groups are awesome. They often split up into people interested in social games and people interested in a more involved game (I like both, but my wife wants the most difficult and involved fame she can attempt to solve). Sitting there chatting as you do something fun is basically a cheat code to making friends and community.

3. Oh sorry, you said divisions, not continents worth of countries each with their own armies.

Ok really 2 halves (Europe and Africa) and a whole (South America).