I have never had this shower thought due to my parents taking me to Thailand every summer since I was a child. Understanding geographic distances, terrain barriers, along with seeing cultural differences in behavior, language, and manners from a very young age, I intuitively saw why this was the case.

This is true.

There are a lot of miserable people now a days who have it far better than their ancestors yet handle everything far worse. It could be the victim mindset that modern media has implanted into the new generation, whether it be to reap power and wealth, or whatever, but the fact is too many people now are miserable and it will lead into terrible future decision making that will inevitably lead to war/violence/mass death. The cycle will continue.

Unless you have a family that actively maintains genealogy records, then yeah.

This will probably change with modern tech and modern databases.

I like Scotland people. The accents get to me.

Happens with a lot of words.

There are two words I can think of to describe female genitalia, yet calling someone one word means they're a coward, and the other word will pretty much set off a world war if you call a female that word.

A lot of people don't know a lot of things that they should know in general.

Alec Baldwin didn't know the first things about gun safety even though he handles guns for example.

True.

I know a family who adopted 10+ kids. Only one finished college and is a successful professional. The rest had drug and developmental issues and still rely heavily on their adoptive parents who are still working well into their 60s and 70s now. I'm just a friend, so I never or want to know, but I'm sure these are great people who are dead tired by now. But they've never complained about their adoptive children. They help them even well into adulthood without complaint through the rehabs, through helping their adoptive grandkids, just....always working in one way or another.

The mother of this whole family is in the hospital right now. She collapsed last week. Her husband is in tears and stuff. I don't think he'd live long if she dies.

I've only watched True Grit, Hondo, Rio Bravo, El Dorado, The Shootist, Rooster Cogburn, The Alamo, Hatari, Rio Lobo, Big Jake, Rio Grande, Red River, The Man Who Shot Liberty, The Longest Day, The Green Berets, The Conqueror, Fort Apache, Sands of Iwo Jima, North to Alaska, War Wagon, How the West was Won, Blood Alley, so yeah I've never seen a John Wayne movie and nothing he's ever done, which covered topics like the western frontier and world war 2 have any resonation with today's purple haired gender fluid censorship demanding generation.

Maybe. I was getting hit on a lot by this woman in Thailand I have no interest in. She followed my facebook and would comment all the time. One day, I saw she went to Germany and was dating some old German man and I simply "liked" the post......very very quickly she blocked me on social media.

Not like I care, but it made me laugh a bit. Well, maybe it had nothing to do about liking me, probably she was just mining for gold.

Did you know the Celsius scale used to be reverse and negative numbers were hot.

My parents worked for 30+ years in nursing and all they did was bitch about work my entire childhood. When I became an adult, they kept encouraging me to become a nurse as if I wasn't already a pissed off at people young adult. I went into information technology. Sometimes I think I should have listened to them, I would have met way more women. IT is mostly dudes. It's a sausagefest.

1 million can barely buy a house....1 million now is what 400k was a decade ago in that regard. You might be able to retire with 1 million, but only if you are older with Medicare, living in a cheap area of the country, 1 million might be enough....maybe.

Currently, a comfortable living and feeling wealthy would need at least 4 million in California. That would be enough of a buffer for living expenses and enough to do travelling here and there and maybe buy a few luxury items.

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to be fair, everything causes cancer. Sitting here reading this thread is a potential carcinogen.

If you sit and meditate and focus on your inner organs, you can at them if you really want, sometimes I have to meditate to tell my kidneys to chill the hell out, drink more water, and then let them expel all that extra calcium.