And I don't care where you stand, it's also funny to laugh about that time Trump tried to fuck a flag on national TV.

If fire cooks food, why isn't my steak grilled if I wave it over a candle?

If sound can damage eardrums, why am I not deafened by the pitter-patter of rain?

If alcohol kills germs, how can I get sick when I'm drunk?

There's an application of UV that will sterilize. That doesn't mean the simple existence of any kind of UV will fully sterilize all things.

In my experience, most apps have a feature where if they can't show you ads, they just won't function, period.

Well, that's just it. Discipline is not motivation. What you had was motivation. What you need is discipline.

Motivation is wanting to go, and that fades. Even if it's something as simple as "it's freezing rain right now" will make it at best less-fun, and lower your motivation.

People commit to new things when they are disciplined. That doesn't mean you find a way to always feel like going, cuz that's unlikely to ever happen. You remove the "feel like" from the equation, and you just always go.

It's not as "fun" an attitude but it's the attitude held by most of the people who commit to positive lifestyle changes.

...well you said "athletic career" so I think you did and now you're just lying and trying to cover.

And why would you need to get used to it? There's a club for any sport you'd care to name pretty much anywhere you go. If all you want is "play a game once a week during a season" there's no reason not to do that.

I feel like the fix has to come well before you start to think of yourself as a teenager as having an "athletic career". The fraction of 'college athletes' who continue in the sport is miniscule, and the ones who do spend their lives in minor teams, get a sudden career-ending injury, or simply never make anything of themselves. If you start in high school actually convincing yourself that you're gonna be one of the maybe three or four boys your age to actually end up making something of themselves, enough to make it the focus of your life, you've already made a massive mistake.

Long before the end of college, any athlete should understand, this is not my career path, this is not going to be helpful or good for me, this has a soon and immediate expiration date. I should treat this as a hobby and build skills and friends and a network and a plan assuming that it will soon be gone and I'll be doing nothing but playing pick-up games on Fridays.

Anyone who gets to the end of college believing this was going to be their career who now suddenly has to backtrack... gosh I don't even know how to deal with the problem once it gets that big. It has to involve recognizing that something you just devoted some of the most formative years of your life to was a waste of time. I don't know how you'd begin to do that. Therapy, I should think.

...I mean OP said he wanted to be in sports so kinda the same thing, unless you're one of the top like six guys in any given sport. And yes I am deliberately gendering that.

My day is perfectly fine. You think my day gets "ruined" just cuz I see someone being dumb on the internet? You give yourself far too much credit.

Try to grow a few braincells.

I mean, are you? Why did you think it would help anyone to say "if you're getting wet, come in out of the rain"?

This is the most redundant, pointless LPT I have ever seen. It assumes an awful lot about the person and the gathering and is basically as helpful as saying, "If you're thirsty, drink something." No duh.

Most car accidents happen within five miles of home. That's why I moved 12 miles away.

Never put anything in a work survey you would not say to your boss's face.

If you wouldn't feel comfortable saying something to your boss/manager's face, then likely you work at a place that will find some way to figure out who you are from your survey, whether they say it's anonymous or not.

And if they actually won't try and track you down, then they're prolly the sort of people you could say something to their face.

Have you ever read the short-story sequel? Two Hearts, I think it's called. Beagle calls it a "coda".

What incentive would the companies have to "hire" people?

I have a tendency not to be wrong.

People hear that and think I'm saying I'm always right, because people for some reason think they always have to be certain. My trick to rarely being wrong is to try not to make a judgement until I have the facts. When I first hear of a situation I don't immediately think "okay well I'm picking a side" and then seek out information that justifies that stance and ignore anything that proves me wrong. I start asking questions, I try to figure what the facts are and see what conclusion, if any, arises from it. It's not as hard as people think to have an opinion on something without deciding your opinion has to be right; you can say "I don't know all the facts and there might be more out there and when I learn them I can change my mind, but for now, this is what I think."

This is a pretty useless LPT at best, but my big problem with it is that it still reinforces the paradigm. You still phrase it like it's assumed everyone has to always be right-or-wrong about any given topic. It would be better if more people stopped thinking "I came to an idea and I will fight anyone who disagrees," and started thinking, "I know some facts, you know some facts, we've both thought about this for a while, let's share our thoughts and have a discussion."

With his last gasping breath he hits 'send', his one regret that he doesn't have the time to type out "last post"

Yeah that's better than using a lighter, in my opinion, but I didn't wanna just come here and say "don't do that thing."

Well the hard-won wisdom came from not being smart enough to avoid burning my own dumb ass.

Be careful about this one, in all seriousness. You only need to warm the spoon for a moment. It only takes seconds for a spoon held in a lighter to get hot enough to actually burn you.

For those wondering why: A mosquito bite itches because there is a small amount of poison in it. It takes very little heat to do what's called "denaturing the proteins" which basically means it's just turning the poison into something harmless.

Anything that applies enough heat will do. Run it under hot water. Hot water on a cloth. Heat a spoon in hot water or near a candle or something (be careful with lighters or flames or anything of that nature, it can rapidly get hot enough to burn you).

They do not handle snow at all. Roads will go unplowed for days. People will never shovel their walks and will just wait for it to melt away. Everything will shut down. We have had the entire school system closed on the threat of "we think it might snow half an inch overnight" and nothing ended up falling.

One winter we had some snow. I stayed up until 2am shoveling every hour or so until the snow stopped so my walk was perfectly clear.

It was not expected to snow again for the rest of the week. I woke up to see that my housemates had decided to "help" by taking the entire full jug of snow-melt I had purchased and absolutely carpeting our dry-as-a-bone walk. The full jug.

Taken either as the city of DC and it's government or just the individual inhabitants, they have no idea how to handle snow and they never will. The barest dusting will cripple this entire city.

The plus side is that this entire winter long we're not expected to get more than an inch or two.

EDIT: To the people downvoting me, is there one single thing I said that's other than fully accurate? Or are you just throwing a tantrum because you don't like hearing ugly truths?

The only reason I don't mute it is so that I can see it scroll past sometimes in my feed and feel better about myself. Hey at least I can tell an actual joke.

So you only provided one example and you admit it's a terrible one? And it's the entire basis of your point? And you're still going to sit there acting like you're obviously right and just "proved" something instead of coming across like a whining little brat screaming because he can't have someone else's toy car?

This reads like you personally have a specific fetish you're hoping to satisfy more.