Well, that’s just not natural.

Do you really think a three or four year old is capable of deciding they want to live life as the opposite gender? There is a big difference between “figuring out gender stuff” as you put it and deciding you are in the wrong type of body.

Yeah, I have no doubt that at at certain age kids have a pretty good idea if they are trans or not. But I’ve seen stories about kids who are 3-6 years old being identified as trans. Maybe they are. But I have an almost 3 year old who sometimes identifies as Cookie Monster or dinosaurs. I’m pretty sure that’s just a…

Community policing is great. Unfortunately, it does not work retroactively...

You understand that the cops *did* investigate and reached a dead end, yes? And that they likely have other crimes to investigate and can’t put a special task force in place to spend months looking into a single case of vandalism?

Why would you assume anyone besides the actual vandal knows? People don’t generally make a point to stare at their neighbor’s houses all night long to make sure nothing happens.

We have gas, but also in our city, all the lines are underground. We don’t lose power from weather — just from the occasional transformer blowing. I realize that makes us part of a fortunate minority. 

Eggs and milk are also things you can go through pretty fast if you do lose power without making the same thing over and over. If I make french toast for breakfast, egg salad for lunch, chocolate milk for a snack and any number of milk- or egg-involved dinner entrees I can go through a dozen eggs, most of a carton of…

Aw, that’s sweet. Thanks. I’m just doing my thing, trying to avoid doing actual work. ;)

Or even just 2.5 years, the frequency of herds that size should be greatly diminished.

In fairness, they did address it on Lost and they weren’t quite as hard up for supplies.

These are all good points as to why people would be driven to extreme actions, changing social norms, etc. It can explain, for example Terminus or the Governor. It does not come close to explaining the Heapers’ dance numbers or the apparent de-evolution of their speech. That shit, as the kids say, is just cray. It…

I s’pose that’s true, but it means the writers did a shitty job, so ...

Yeah, I think they just sort of hand-wave that point away. 20 years into the zombies, they will still be driving cars.

They have glandular issues, OK?!?

That’s fucking crazy then. I could live off my pantry and mild scavenging for that long. And canned goods don’t go bad within two years absent serious problems during manufacture.

Not much to say about it — she swore to secrecy and she has, so far, kept the secret.

I think it’s been tough just because the writing has been terrible ...

At MOST, they are about 4 years in, based on Judith Time (which is also my method.) I think it’s more like 3.5 years. It makes no sense that some of these groups would have formed in the ways they did this quickly.

Having their own in-group customs and terms is one thing. And Ezekial even says that all the kingdom “stuff” comes from his theatre background. That has a certain kind of logic that is understandable.