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I’ve looked at the FBI’s Uniform Crime Report (UCR) for my little municipality and learned that the local crime rate has fallen by over half since the early 1990s, yet I’m constantly having to argue with neighbors who swear that the town is going to hell in a handbasket and that crime is out of control. When I explain…

I’m the last person whom you’d expect to be quoting the Bard of Long Island, but Billy Joel sang it best:

Well, he took a 60% haircut so if he was worth $1.5 million, he’s walking around with $900 k. Granted, still a lot, but he’s technically no millionaire. I’d like to see what he has to say in a year and whether or not he considers himself to blame for not being a millionaire as he digs for ham scraps in a dumpster.

It’s because people have short memories. 

Pat idk how much leverage you have at kinja. But are there any thoughts to having a newsblog with only uplifting or positive news? Like the opposite to splinter. I could sure care to have that as my go to place

The one thing I always try and counter when I hear or see it among people is that the United States is more dangerous than it has ever been. It’s actually pretty damned safe, close to the safest it has ever been in the past 40 years.

A Jewish man on the subway is reading an Arab newspaper. A friend of his, who happened to be riding in the same subway car, noticed this strange phenomenon. Very upset, he approached him. “Moshe, have you lost your mind? Why are you reading an Arab newspaper?” Moshe replied, “I used to read the Jewish newspaper,…

I’ve really been fighting this in conversations with friends lately. We need to remember that people have been predicting apocalypse for as long as there have been people. It’s partly an ego thing - we all feel like the events of our own life and times carry special, eternal importance.

I mean, 20 years ago I was young and in great shape so the world was totally better then than it is now...

Knew confirmation bias would be here, and because it is, I know I’ll be right about any unsubstantiated claims I make.

I think if you’re able to sequester yourself, it’s because you’ve got the luxury of a support system (either paid help or a spouse/partner) that allows you to do so and not have to worry about the day to day, mundane things that need to get done. Or you just don’t do them.

“Successful female artists” have nothing about their lives that is generalizeable to the rest of us.

Is everyone else not alive while at work? Have I been doing this wrong the whole time?

I might have partially estranged myself from my parents in my twenties because they constantly put me down for wanting free time, a hobby, and a functional (for me) amount of sleep. They thought I should be busy, high achieving, and miserable not happy.

This line hit me particularly hard: “while women often didn’t believe it even exists—and they don’t really distinguish between “work” and “life.”

I will work my whole adult life my child will only be a child for 18 years. I will always choose my kid over work. I am lucky that my profession and my union help with that.