Dr. Bob

I wouldn’t have bought a single comic book or collectible.

You have a category error that makes this hard to follow. Brains and minds are different things. The brain is a physical organ made of cells. A mind is the conceptual something that occurs when a brain is functioning.

The issue of when you are an adult is a trickier question than you might imagine. I have written in a previous answer about how children in North America would leave home around 13 or 14. There would be transitional spaces such as rooming houses or boarding houses before they were fully Independent, but they were fully functional “adults” by 15 or 16.

You can see this in the coming of age rituals for various cultures. The bar/bat mitzvah at age 13, the quinceanera at 15, the sweet sixteen for white folks. I do note that many of these are female centered and signal availability for dating/marriage. Boys just became men without much ceremony.

We still have a gradual introduction of rights and privileges with age. In my jurisdiction courts will consider a child’s wishes in divorce starting at age eight. You can be charged with a crime at age 12, you can work for wages at 14, you can drive at 16, vote at 18. Alcohol consumption is 19 where I live but is 18 in many parts of the country.

So why 18? It matches up with other markers of maturation like graduation from high school. Could it be 17? Probably. Should it be 16? Possibly. But 18 used to be an age of independence. You could expect to be leaving home and starting a life separate from your parents. That has certainly changed. If we were to keep things in alignment maybe we should push the age back into the mid-20s? 😆

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=a2WHH3986E8%3F&t=4m06s

Jack FM was a joy to listen to - at least in the early days - because they got rid of DJs. They wanted the effect of listening to mp3s on shuffle. I have never enjoyed DJs and I think it’s pretty common. Just play music and back announce the tracks.

In my jurisdiction that is exactly how they do it. No field sobriety test is used. Just roll down the window and blow. Refusal is the same penalty as a DUI and will earn a trip to the police station for the real test.

No. It was a novel from the 1960s maybe. There was a government department of telepathic planning or something. That scene was where a character was getting a tour of the recruitment facility.

Eta it might be The Demolished Man. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Demolished_Man

And we still have delivery people. The function has never gone away.

I used to work construction and I learned that environments that keep hands busy and minds idle have a huge capacity to turn toxic. I think the lector provided entertainment and gave people something to talk about other than each other.

That was part of a plot of a science fiction story that I can’t quite remember. The government was screening for psychics for a special branch. The applicants would show up and wait in a room with a psychic blasting “go through the small door”.

Straight clickbait. My first thought before I clicked through was “I better not see knocker-upper in there…”. It was job number 1. No one thought these jobs were irreplaceable, many of them are just tasks in a larger process or the function still exists in a different context.

It means you are alive. Welcome to earth.

Yes it has. But species survival is more important.

There is almost no genetic diversity among them. You can skin graft or transplant organs between any two cheetahs without fear of rejection.

Why does anyone care? The only issue I could see is if you want to change your name to “Tom Cruise” or “Elon Musk” for the purpose of perpetrating fraud. Otherwise who cares? That’s the whole point of being able to change your name.

Current vehicle is 206k and going strong. Early Acura.

Pretty high TBH.

The whole thing is a foreign operation influencing idiots. But you have to engage because idiots still get to vote.

In a 60 year old male professor and I find your shit hilarious. I get too involved in politics and science stuff. I find the horny posting a refreshing break.