Windex007

Not even about what you want, it's what do you want MORE.

Do you want to be in a privileged position of elected power faithfully serving the best interests your constituents?

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I got in deep shit because of a stupid "creative writing" project where the inciting incident was prewritten and you had to finish it. It was something like "you threw a rock and accidentally hit a car and dented it, and you felt terrible so..." , obviously bait for apologizing.

Fuck that. In mine the character refused to admit wrong-doing, went insane and was institutionalized and eventually lobotomized (a la jack Nicholson).

DEEP shit.

If he doesn't solve problems with chmod 777 then he's already more competent than the ops teams at my fortune 500 company

You saying Ford is paying $800 per ton for the formed steel they use in their vehicles?

I think you raise a good point, but I disagree with your conclusion as I understand it.

My read of your thesis was "There aren't more in the US, they just get more attention so appear to be a higher relative proportion". If I misunderstood, then my b.

I do think the feedback loops actually entice people to emulate those behaviours. I think there is an inductive effect.

I also don't think it's strictly tied to world-power status either. I think the "Manifest Destiny" mindset which predates world power status plays the bigger role. The unbridled entitlement culture feeds into emotional reactivity. "I WANT something, so I DESERVE something, so I'm going to TAKE something".

I'm not going to say that emotionally reactive idiots are exclusive to the USA. They clearly aren't. But I think there are centuries of USA-Specific culture (predating world power status) that feed into a higher-than-global-average instances.

I want to know what such a book store smells like inside. Is it more books or more building?

Beavis and Butthead. It's a great show now. It was a great show then.

My wife insists she hates it but sometimes I can hear her giggling when she hears it from a room over.

Even people who proclaim that they hate it when they secretly don't?

I actually don't think it gets enough hate.

I have nothing personal against the premise of some nerd saying things "too smart" for the social context. That's just Frasier and I liked Frasier.

The jokes just weren't funny.

Pilots are 100% on their phones in the air.

They shouldn't have been on the plane and shouldn't have been anywhere NEAR the terminal either.

Imagine the pilot's buddy in the terminal texts him in the air like "lots of cops on the tarmac, wonder what's going on?"

If their hand had been tipped that they were on the plane or on the ground, there is a real chance that everyone on that plane would die.

No, I still mean it. The variance from pole to equator is 0.5%.

Although it's technically an oblate spheroid, technically anything you think of as a "sphere" isn't a sphere either.

This is why it makes sense to talk about the earth scaled to objects you can comprehend. Is a ping pong ball a sphere? Is a basketball a sphere? When you blow bubbles, are those spheres?

Be consistent with your pedantry. Either they are and so is the Earth, or none of them are.