Overall, I am fairly happy. I’m just annoyed that I’ve managed to live in an extroverted world for 50+ years. But extroverts fall to pieces after a few months of being by themselves.

I was just fine during the pandemic. Perhaps others should learn how to be more comfortable by themselves.

I’m having trouble unpacking this statement. I wish they would be more clear.
“Although not being exposed to respiratory viruses for a year won’t affect a person’s immune system, the unusually low number of cases during the 2020-2021 season may be part of why we are seeing such high numbers of flu and RSV. “There is…

Stuff like this makes me want to see a series based on the club in Stephen Kings The breathing Method and The man who would not shake Hands

US police absolutely have to ‘take this’ for an answer. Nobody needs to answer any questions of the police. You can respond politely, as in “With all due respect officer, I don’t answer questions”. But you don’t have to answer.

I see that Lindsey Ellefson lived in New York City. So I suspect that the restaurants she frequents may be quite different than those in my suburban life. 

Wait, when did reservations go away? I always did made them at restaurants I knew would be busy.
This sounds like it might be a regional thing, and the author doesn’t know that other places are different.

I just tried it out and it doesn’t sort by sender. Dropping it

That news story was probably about Southwest Airlines. A flight attendant said “Eenie, meenie, minie, moe; pick a seat, we gotta go,”. https://cnsnews.com/news/article/southwest-airlines-cleared-race-discrimination-lawsuit

“grouped” or “sorted”? For example, if I have 25 emails, all from different senders that start with ‘A’, I want to see them all on one screen. I don’t want to have to open different groups to see them.

Does it let me F**king sort Gmail by sender?  Because that’s all I want.

I didn’t know until my thirties that the “catch a tiger by the toe” rhyme was not the original rhyme. I always thought that the racist version came afterwards

II didn't know that Catholics had the sign of the cross put on their foreheads in ashes during Ash Wednesday until I was in my late 20's and someone came back from lunch on Wednesday with the smudge on her forehead

For restaurants I generally eat in the bar, where it is more normal to be alone. Before smart phones I always brought a book, so I had something to do. Movies? When once the lights go down no one cares.
I admit that travelling alone is hard - I only do it when I go to work conferences and then do tourist side trips.…

Not all of us play video games 24/7 or binge watch Netflix all day. Some of us actually, you know, go outside.
And when you have $300,000 invested in a house, you are very aware of other peoples property around you.

This shows the temperatures calculated from ice cores, since the last ice age. Look at the uptick near the end since the 1950's. You can’t tell me this is just part of the normal warming after an ice age.

Yeah I admit that some HOA’s have rules that are pretty restrictive. Maybe a most people in a neighborhood like it to be a sleepy bedroom community (where people only come home to sleep). So they might have rules against having too many guest park cars out front, or restriction on backyard BBQ smoke, or something like…

When you have toys that haven’t moved in weeks and have weeds growing up through them, then the house looks like an abandoned property. It’s ugly. Its not attractive to live next to. And if you want to sell your house, it turns off buyers.
In contrast, a house and yard with maybe a swing in the front, and the…

I admit I didn’t understand how HOA’s could “keep minorities out of the neighborhood”. My experience with HOA’s has been that they never had a say in whether or not you could buy a house in the neighborhood.