Looking at the state of the US right now, calculus wouldn’t be where I’d devote my energy.

I feel like perhaps you don’t know enough people from the entire range of human abilities to understand why requiring calculus might be going too far.

It should certainly be an option, and it should be a requirement for certain career paths, but making it a high school graduation requirement would just unnecessarily result in more people dropping out of school.

You messed up. Plenty of people will tell you that.

I wanted to address the challenge you face with your spouse not accepting that you don’t like change.

I find myself to be much the same, and very occasionally my wife tries to get me to change. I’ve explained it like this:

I don’t like change. I find something I love, and I keep it forever. I don’t want something new. I don’t want something different. I want to keep what I have.

If I say it right and give her a chance to think about it, my wife, who I have been with since I was 16 and she was 15, figures out that she’s ok with me not wanting change.

Whip it out and piss on the desk.

All those dirty fish swimming around…

I like how everyone is gung-ho except Foreman who looks like he wants to quit but he knows no other zombie-infested hospital will hire him.

Exactly. The peel is a significant part of the banana. You wouldn’t want to waste it.

Clearly the answer is to eat the sticker.

I don’t have a lot of hope. For anything useful to survive in this country, we need progressives to take over. However, I’m afraid things would have to get much, much worse before that could happen.

I’m doing the whole peaceful, “No Kings”, protests, but unless they really, really grow, it isn’t going to go anywhere.

Despite what seems to be the case, I don’t think the right is winning solely because of racism. President Pedophile won both the first time and, bafflingly, the second time because he promised to make things better.

It was a lie, but it was a lie too many people were desperate to hear.

Giving hope is a winning strategy, but it needs to translate into results.

I’m not really hoping for the Democrats to win. I’d like to see the right (both Democrat and Republican) lose. I’d like to see a real progressive option emerge. What we need more than anything is people to run. However, the people who actually care about the people are mostly also struggling to survive.

I do think there’s a better chance of a progressive revolution in the Democratic party than there is in the Republican party. These kinds of flips have happened several times before. I’d like to see it happen again before it’s too late. However, we (the people) have to get a whole lot nastier.

Meanwhile, the Democrats have growing concerns about their nightmare scenario, that it will result in a net gain for progressives.

I had to Google that to know what the hell you were talking about.

His handlers are starting to worry that the number of maga morons who voted for him have dropped so low that even the steps they’ve taken to disenfranchise their opponents won’t be enough to prevent progressives from swooping in in 2026 replacing Republicans and Democrats.

They are banking on people being too dumb to realize that they’re going to have to borrow more than half that money to pay it out.

They are, sadly, correct.

Prices go up even higher because corporations need to maintain will increase profit margins even if more than the base costs increase due to tariffs.

FTFY

I don’t know if it would bother you, because it can be noisy, but:

Flowbee

People thinks it’s ridiculous, but I’ve been using one since well before the pandemic. It does as well as a barber ever did.

My son and his fiancee have three fairly screwed up cats. The least physically disabled one had been in a situation where he couldn’t get enough food. So, for a long time he would eat anything, even things that weren’t food. He has often had bad diarrhea. Everywhere.

I’m hoping it has improved. I’m afraid to ask in case I jinx them.

They don’t consider and Christian who isn’t also a fascist to be a real Christian.

Well…if he had gotten the justice department to actually nail Trump, then we might have avoided this.

Those are the “Stand Your Ground” laws. Basically means you don’t have an obligation to retreat.

Some people keep journals. When those people write their autobiographies, they can check the records.

Other people have good memories.

It’s probably also more important for it to be a good story than for it to be 100% accurate.

I know it will never happen, but I’d rather see a cell in a federal prison named after him.