I used to think it a nice enough place to visit after I moved, but now I kind of feel obligated to not even go camping there so I don't support to local batshit economy.

I grew up there, and I completely agree with you. I consistently feel bad for the people there I know that are not completely bananas (if my anecdotal evidence meant anything we could say there’s a lot of them), but they’re all old enough to escape. Same as I was.

Based on the typical talking points cited above, it doesn’t appear that “long-term” and “healthcare” go together in a sentence. Every decision, including raising taxes to cover budget shortfalls and simultaneoulsy not reduce the supports to 10 year olds forced to have babies conceived during rape, or anyone else who…

I’m going to leave alone how comments like this smack of the same well-intentioned blather that might’ve surrounded a paper on eugenics back in the day. As a person with a chronic disease who has had well-intentioned people like you ask “why would you want to have kids?” I can tell you your sentiments are hurtful,…

You have more problems than cells. That's pretty impressive.

Yeah, no. This is just as creepy as child beauty pageants. The fact that "if you could go back in time" you would ask for this, as an adult, is telling. Adults decide to get married, decide whether they'll wear a white dress, their other favorite color dress, or even a dress. This whole concept is developmentally…

Thanks a lot for this particular script and for letting me know that Google scripts is a thing. Looks like it will be tons of fun. Quick q:

That's a great point, but the point of traffic systems is to reduce the likelihood of those things happening either way. If more people are acting like panicky assholes or following too close, these systems won't stop that or absolve them of blame. They should just reduce the likelihood that people doing those things…