Certainly some of it is on me: I don’t like to plan ahead enough for an appointment but also don’t want to wait. I prefer a place that does walk-ins and I learn when they’re unlikely to have a line.

Supercuts is a great example. My town had two of them so I went to each several times before learning that one was consistently better, so I started going there regularly. Then they closed. So now I’m going to the other but they’re a mess: employees consistently do noticeably worse job and are not attentive to incoming customers. I don’t think I set a high bar but they’re not achieving it. And specifically they insist on giving me a combover even when I say no: I know my hair is thinning but it’s past the point where a combover is anything but sad. I also don’t comb my hair to the side so a combover just looks uneven and sad. Why can’t they just accept when I say no?

My town has been going through a generational and demographic shift so all the old places are being replaced with shiny new ones. While I’m sure those new ones will do a basic haircut, they put so much effort into being shiny and modern with modern hairstyles for young adults or hairstyles traditionally associated with various demographics. Great but why can’t we keep it simple? Why can’t I walk in, ask for a haircut, give my preferences And just get it done?

Not often enough. It looks pretty ratty by the time I force myself to go. Maybe 4-6 months?

I’ve always been annoyed by haircuts so it’s difficult to motivate myself to go. However by the time I settle on a new location to regularly use, they close down. Then it’s that much more annoying o find a new place I don’t hate

I do trim my beard weekly though. Since I have the tools and know how to use them. Currently I have a full beard but cut very short, and shave my neck - shaving a straight line is tough to do

Usually neurodivergent isn’t relevant. People are bullied because they’re different and because they’re an easy target, regardless of why they’re different

government leaders and other prominent persons for political purposes

I guess it depends on who you call prominent but yes, the billionaire? CEO of one of the biggest healthcare companies in the US was in a prominent (important) position regardless whether anyone knew who he was. And yes there is evidence of a political purpose.

I have to say that going into this my reaction was no, this is not an assassination. However looking at the linked definition and thinking it through changed my opinion

Hahaha. When I was in college I visited the Boston area and fell in love with it. It took me a couple of jobs but I eventually made it and would never turn back

• love the history
• love the academics, more youthful society
• love the politics, quality of life issues
• I’m in tech so I love the job opportunities

…. And yes I love the mild weather while still having seasons. While this is essentially the same latitude I grew up at, being on the coast moderates it a lot. It never really gets cold (relatively), never has much snow, and the snow melts quickly. Although I don’t like the humidity

I definitely am, and other people seem to be, more aware of germs, epidemics, etc. it’s not just the effects of COViD but the ongoing efforts to deny science and modern medicine.

Every time taco don disbands another public health agency or brain worm spouts nonsense, it reminds me how easily we lost so many people. We not only didn’t learn anything but are somehow worse off, but I’m reminded to wash my hands better and more, seek out annual vaccines, get a supply of masks for the winter

You’re not supposed to use regular paper

Even if your costs only break even, you’re building equity

Often the difference in profitability is whether you pay for a property manager or do the work yourself

I know a couple people who did it and made money, fwiw. They gave up so they didn’t have to deal with people

That option 2 wiring would be wrong for a dumb switch, so they’re relying on smartswitch behavior. I didn’t read too far into it but

• they specify only certain models for the virtual switch. Are you using one of those?
• those switches can also pair directly with smart bulbs: was the old fixture using those?
• the writing diagram assumes three colored wires on the traveler (black, white, red) however older wiring commonly used only two. Can you verify you have three? With older two wire setup, the neutral was repurposed to traveller, making it easier to screw up
• could you have lost some configuration on the switches when the power was disconnected?

My house has been a bit of an adventure for wiring.

• family room addition, post and beam with vaulted ceiling. Walls an ceiling filled with foam, no gaps
• exterior walls plaster and lathe over block, no gaps, depth for only the smallest electrical boxes.
• basement and ceiling are open, phew.

I’ve made good use of those flexible drill bits to grab wire up from the basement or down from the attic, but the family room has no access.

An example workaround is the family room air conditioner. There’s no place to rum vents back to the central hvac so it’s a mini split. The wiring goes from basement, along the chimney up to the attic, across the attic to the far end of the house and out through the wall, then run externally to the compressor

I used to read analog clocks to the nearest five minutes. It’s just a quick glance and you (used to) rarely need to be that exact.

However my kids never got used to analog clocks despite an annoying number scattered throughout our house. It takes them too long to process what I mean by “quarter of”. They’re in college this year so it’s time to surrender in that battle. Now I’m the one who spends too much time reading analog clocks, trying to read them to nearest minute.

With digital clocks everywhere, gps exact trip times, scheduled meetings, society has gotten much more exact with time anyway. Being within five minutes is no longer good enough

My tablet is running afoul of the Netflix “home” network lock. I speculate it’s either that I have location disabled or Apple Private Relay. Perhaps you have similar?

I have to say, I feel some regret for doing that to my kids. I understand it’s not really my choice and height is a shallow characteristic, but I’m 6’3” and my sons ended up 5’7” and 5’9”. Sure it’s about average but the one physical plus I could have given them, and I married someone 5’2”

As a jet of energy, assuming you haven’t actually crossed the event horizon

There’s also the difficulty of a identifying any originator, since “mythology” usually means many versions known by many people, and is typically an oral tradition before being printed

Yeah, but now it’s tiny compared to Antarctica

Why should that be it? Throw in Deism to understand the attitude of the US founders, then round out most of the population with Islam, Hindu, Jainism, and probably many more. You have to cover Judaism because of its influence on Christianity. And of course agnostics and atheism to round out the beliefs. You’ll never hit all the possibilities but perhaps it would be ok to cover families of beliefs, such as if native belief systems are similar (I have no idea and that’s a shame)

Personally I do think it should be required to post some amount of Islamic concepts. Among the many ways we are too provincial is seeing everything through the eyes of a single religion family. Even our friends and neighbors seem alien when we aren’t even aware there are other religions.

Let’s require at least some comparative religion study, perhaps in social studies and history. The major religions have had a huge impact on the development of our societies and we should all be more familiar with beliefs held in common or u destined where they’re actually different (and not just the Fix News version)

In any sane world that would be a trivial lawsuit to win

Apparently a plaque of an apple with lots of gold can buy a pass