I’d say that what I hear from people out and about in daily life is that they are really and truly afraid that Trump could get us involved in a war with NK that could include some nuclear strikes or escalate into a confrontation with China. But no, no one (that I talk to) is afraid of some armageddon situation where…

I don’t know but that’s the best scenario of events that I can come up with too. I think it will be a few days before some good journalists parse it for us.

I don’t understand it myself, but I also have friends in South Korea who are alarmed and annoyed, but not at all freaked out. They think this is a game that our media and our president are playing for our attention and that it doesn’t have very much to do with reality. I don’t know enough about the situation to know…

Yes, but that’s exactly the problem. It’s too many variables. We are not super heroes with amazing reflexes and the ability to see 3D. Keeping up with what is in front of you, what is behind you and what is in either lane and all their potential moves is well enough for most humans. When you add to it the additional…

What should be illegal is motorcyclists riding at fast speeds between lanes in the first place. It causes loads of accidents. Motorcyclists go on and on about how they are so experienced as to be able to avoid accidents themselves and they are skilled enough to not get in an accident. Hospital trauma wards tell a…

He scooted over because the cyclist was lane splitting which can be terrifying if you are the driver. The space between lanes is not big enough to allow for even the slightest mistake, and so when you see a cyclist coming up from behind between lanes, it’s natural to want to scoot over to give him a little more room.…

Hmm, I must be seeing this video differently. The car started to switch lanes before the cyclist was out from behind the recording car. Moreover, when you check your blind spot, you look into the lane next to you- not at someone that might be coming up between the lanes from behind those cars- that’s nearly impossible…

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Basically: I spent my life doing everything I wanted to do without making any sacrifices, and now that I’m old, afraid of death and have giant depreciating properties to maintain, I’d like a young woman to give up her youth on childrearing without an active father, taking care of me when I’m old, and managing my…

I would have had children if my husband would have taken the primary caregiving role. Instead, he wanted to do an equal 50/50 which I’ve never seen work out in practice. There is always someone who does the primary caregiving / homekeeping, even if they try to share responsibilities. I was afraid that role would fall…

It’s the internalization of the feeling that is problematic. If enough of us talk about it, however, we could start to see that it’s a societal problem. Then neither the kids nor the parents have to feel shame about it. The way we attempt to raise kids in this culture is insane. It doesn’t work for most families- even…

Also, I think it’s pretty normal to like being a parent in some phases and dislike it in others. And that does translate to how you think about your kids. When we hear a parent say they love their teen but they don’t like them, we all understand that sentiment exactly. But if a parent says that about a toddler, we…

The mother that didn’t feel affection (the story of Stuart) was talking about in the immediate months after birth. It’s a myth that all women feel a surge of affection for their newborns the moment they are born. This actually does NOT happen to all women. It’s a very common experience for women to bring home a baby…

Hold up. When a large minority of people say the same thing, we should listen. We shouldn’t think of this as the individual and isolated feelings of some parents. There is a long history of women in our culture feeling that their individual discontent is shameful or problematic. Then they get together and talk about…

I think that’s how it is when new sentiments are aired. The truth is that it’s normal to feel this way, and if children find out something normal and unpleasant and carry it into adulthood, then an entire generation of adults will realize this is normal. So long as a parent loves their child and does a good…

I guess if that becomes a reality, we’ll start listening, but right now I can’t face needing to prepare for it either. Though this scenario is not something I’m super concerned about. If history has taught us anything, it’s that the catastrophes never come in the way you think they will. Here we are worried about…

I think it’s incredible that you are opening your life and family up to helping refugees. I also don’t think there is anything at all wrong with wanting to protect your own family. It’s human nature and the first priority of any of us. I can see on re-reading that I sounded like I was directing that last bit at you…

As pointed out by ME in the very first sentence in my very first post in this thread. (Not several OTHER posters, it was ME). I don’t know why you are trying to act all gotcha here because I don’t know much about individual weapons or what makes them tick when literally the first thing that I wrote was that I don’t…

Right, I’m not sure why you are diverting back to that except that it’s just an interesting detail to talk about. This really has nothing to do with the larger institution of slavery nor its effect on the power structure, war, economy, political issues, down today. As I said, it was highly unlike that any poor white…

Don’t be daft. I learned about the efficacy of this particular weapon before posting, not about the larger situation in general obviously. Where in our conversation were we talking that? Are you going to follow me around, take my comments out of context and apply them to different conversations? If so, you’ll find…