they went past the wreckage of other recently crashed planes during takeoff

even with todays relatively good safety record i refuse to fly unless absolutely necessary, i don’t know how you could be willing to fly back then

in constrast to literally every other famous person on social media?

Or any large private or public institution.

pretty sure there are a few 2000 year old texts that people are still reading today

Pretty sure the oldest stuff I've read was around 4,500 years old (in translation, but still). Volume I of Lichtheim's Ancient Egyptian Literature.

There are a couple incomplete tales in that 3-volume work and I really wish they'd had a more stable storage medium, because now I'm stuck with accidental millennia-old cliffhangers.

The Bible doesn't count

Some Chinese and Greek tales are still universal to understand. Ditto with some Sumerian legends.

educated to vote for the candidate that you like better?

Educated enough to recognize blatant and proven lies when they hear them.

For example, the oft repeated lie that foreign countries would pay his illegal tariffs.

Educated enough to know that calls from this adminstration to "punish" the NY Fed for pointing out this lie would be in direct violation of the 1st Amendment.

https://libertystreeteconomics.newyorkfed.org/2026/02/who-is...

the ability to read the room and know how to act in different social situations is a symptom of low self esteem?

Low self esteem and conformism, especially strong in the US where the mainstream culture is based on Northern European social norms and puritanism. The tolerance for excentricity is very low.

why not?

calories in calories out isn’t true at all

as a simple example consider eating 100 calories of vegetables vs 100 calories of pure sugar. your body has to work a lot harder to digest one of those vs the other

A more importantly you’ll still lose weight if you eat 1200 calories of sugar daily if you’re burning 1500 daily.

and you’ll lose even more if those calories are not ultra refined carbs

Sure, but at this point we’re interested in helping people lose weight who just “can’t”.

Fix the major health problem, then refine the details.

feels like this post was written by a robot trying to act like a cool dude

if you had to wait an hour for the food, what was the tip for exactly?

Perhaps codazoda asked to delay an hour as an excuse to stay longer, so they did well with their part of the plan?

I tipped the waitress, who was perfectly attentive the whole time.

have you ever been to a real desert? lots of plants and animals live there