Lewis2
1hr ago
One could just as easily say that women used to stay home and so had plenty of time to clean. Now that they work too, they’re more concerned about preventing messes. That also tracks with who usually seems more worried about people wearing shoes in the house. In my experience, it’s rarely the men.
Lewis2
5hr ago
I swear almost all Zoomer women have debilitating anxiety. When my department used to go out to lunch every week, I had multiple female Zoomer coworkers ask me to order for them, because they had too much anxiety to order from a stranger. They eventually began to complain if we went anywhere that wouldn’t let you order from a kiosk or iPad, since I and my other older coworkers refused to coddle them in that way. Even the ones who could handle ordering their own food couldn’t handle phone calls. They’d all, without exception, rather cancel an event than spend five minutes trying to work out the details over the phone. And this is even with their friends and coworkers, not people they don’t know. If they can’t figure everything out via text and email, they’d rather skip and stay home. It’s insane.
Lewis2
6hr ago
My private school teachers did home visits in the summers before 1st and 2nd grade. I’ve never heard of a public school doing it though.
Lewis2
1d ago
At least until the Boomers die, at which point the Millennials and Zoomers will probably screw over Gen X.
Lewis2
2d ago
I lost my best knife when I accidentally took it into a federal building in D.C. a few years ago. To their credit, the security officers offered to let me turn around and leave with it, but I was miles from the hotel by then. I’d even reminded the rest of my group to leave their knives at home or in the hotel, but my mind was overcome by force of habit. I’m still annoyed by it to this day.
Lewis2
2d ago
The women too? I live in a rural area, and I think I might know one woman who regularly carries a pocketknife. Of course, like you say, the majority of the men do. I’ve been both gently chided and ruthlessly mocked for not always carrying one.
Lewis2
5d ago
How do you think underage callboys got into the white house?
To what does this refer? Google isn’t helping.
Lewis2
7d ago
Just a nit: A quick search shows that there are about 500 filicide cases in the U.S. annually. That’s rare enough that I would expect almost all of those to make at least the local news, even if they don’t become national stories. Sexual abuse, sure, that’s distressingly common.
Lewis2
8d ago
I really wish this stupid, vapid phrase would die. At the very least, I would have hoped no one would use it here, let alone as a standalone, low-effort response.
Lewis2
8d ago
Lewis2
11d ago
I think a major region why terrorism isn't such a big issue is that most of the terrorists are basically retarded, they're drawing from a population of retards.
Aren’t Islamic terrorists generally an exception to that trend though? Bin Ladin and the other Al Qaeda leaders were pretty much all college graduates, and ISIS recruits tended to be more highly educated as well. That’s arguably why they were more successful than other terrorist groups.
Lewis2
12d ago
There’s the German U-boat that had a catastrophic toilet failure…
Lewis2
14d ago
For example, reddit now blocks people from viewing old.reddit.com without an account.
My experience is the opposite. I can browse old Reddit all I want, but new Reddit throws up a sign-in screen about 20 seconds after the page loads.
Lewis2
16d ago
That’s a variant I’ve never heard. I grew up with
Beans, beans, the magic fruit
The more you eat, the more you toot
The more you toot, the better you feel
So let’s eat beans with every meal.
Looking back on the rhyme as an adult, I suspect foul influence from the UK.
Lewis2
17d ago
I know this is a predictable response, but I nevertheless want to point out that I am American, and there is literally no sum on earth you could pay me to live permanently in New York. The smaller cities and towns are indeed far different, as other people already told you.
Lewis2
17d ago
Most people with an employer-sponsored high-deductible plan and no dependents. Depending on the employer, you might even pay less with a standard plan or dependents.
Lewis2
18d ago
I share your hatred of debt, but I ended up going with a 30 year mortgage anyway, for the reasons that Amadan laid out below. I calculated that getting a 30 year mortgage but paying it off as if it were a 15 year mortgage would see the house paid off in 16 years. That extra year of payments is not an insignificant amount of money, but I figured the flexibility was worth it in case I should lose my job, get hit by a bus, etc., and find myself short on cash at some point in the next 15 years.
I ended up paying the mortgage down pretty aggressively in the first two years, leaving me with only 15 years of payments to go by last summer. At the time, I debated refinancing to a 15 year mortgage, and I kind of regret not doing it since mortgage rates went back up again. But if I keep paying it off at the same rate, I should be mortgage-free in less than five years anyway, so I’m not sure it matters.
Lewis2
18d ago
Maybe true in New Jersey, but not true in my experience. I was once speeding down a country road going about 25 over. I passed a cop who turned to follow me, flipped on his lights, pulled alongside my stopped vehicle, rolled down his window, and told me to slow down. He then went on his merry way, without bothering to get out of the vehicle or even ask my name. Another time, some friends and I were stopped by a cop while walking down the street late at night. He asked what we were up to and then asked for IDs. When he got to the second person’s driver’s license, he recognized the last name, asked who her dad was, and then they spent a couple of minutes shooting the breeze before he left. He didn’t worry about the rest of the IDs. Small town cops are also usually a lot more forgiving about underage drinking and other minor infractions. Sure, they’ll break up the party, but they’re not going to get anyone in legal trouble unless they really have to.
With all due respect to the SSPX and the Roman Catholic Church, I don’t think this affair will turn out to be nearly as important as you seem to think it is.
One thing that did surprise me about Rome’s response was how all-encompassing it was. Not only are the bishops and priests excommunicated, but so are the laity (“As regards the lay faithful, those who formally adhere to the Priestly Fraternity of Saint Pius X are to be considered schismatics and excommunicated”). I’m not sure anyone predicted that. It’ll be interesting to see if the laity are as willing to openly defy the pope as the SSPX clergy are.
ETA: If this event ends up marking the final break between the SSPX and Rome, it’ll be interesting to see if the SSPX remains just as committed to its über traditional beliefs in 100–200 years, or if they’ll end up like the Old Catholic Churches that split off after the First Vatican Council, many of which now ordain women and bless same-sex marriages. Not that anyone alive today will ever see any such progression, of course, though the SSPX could end up in communion with some of the more traditional Old Catholics within our lifetimes.
Lewis2
21d ago
I don’t think that gives them much of an out. Other sections of the CCC address these groups pretty unambiguously.
Protestants:
818 “... the Catholic Church accepts them with respect and affection as brothers.... All who have been justified by faith in Baptism are incorporated into Christ; they therefore have a right to be called Christians, and with good reason are accepted as brothers in the Lord by the children of the Catholic Church.”
819 “... Christ's Spirit uses these Churches and ecclesial communities as means of salvation, whose power derives from the fullness of grace and truth that Christ has entrusted to the Catholic Church. All these blessings come from Christ and lead to him, and are in themselves calls to “Catholic unity.”
Jews:
839 When she delves into her own mystery, the Church, the People of God in the New Covenant, discovers her link with the Jewish People, “to whom the Lord our God spoke first.” The Jewish faith, unlike other non-Christian religions, is already a response to God's revelation in the Old Covenant. To the Jews “belong the sonship, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the worship, and the promises; to them belong the patriarchs, and of their race, according to the flesh, is the Christ”, “for the gifts and the call of God are irrevocable.”
Muslims:
841 “The plan of salvation also includes those who acknowledge the Creator, in the first place amongst whom are the Muslims; these profess to hold the faith of Abraham, and together with us they adore the one, merciful God, mankind's judge on the last day.”
Now, I’m sympathetic to the tradcaths on this point (though they’re usually so loathsome, it makes it difficult to have sympathy for them at all), in that Rome didn’t always have such an inclusive attitude, so they have plenty of prior writings to point to that make the opposite claims. But those are just the sort of problems you have to put up with when your church changes its doctrine while pretending both that it hasn’t and that it can’t.
Lewis2
21d ago
I have had multiple tradcaths tell me that Muslims, Jews, and Protestants cannot be saved (“there is no salvation outside the Catholic Church”), let alone adherents of non-Abrahamic religions. Many also support the death penalty, don’t like government welfare, oppose immigration, oppose religious freedom, oppose separation of church and state, and hold several other positions that don’t fit comfortably with modern Roman Catholic teachings.
You put on your smoking jacket and slippers, obviously.
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