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I wish I could, but once I'm awake enough to be up, that's it for me.

10 is late for most of them - 9 is pretty common. If you're at the kind of vacation place where you're hanging out and relaxing, maybe staying up late, waking up at 8 so you can get ready and get down to eat breakfast, doesn't feel like last relaxing, which is OP's point. Of course people can do it, but a lot of times we want to sleep in on vacation.

The margin of older voters who voted for Trump in the last election wasn't that big. People think the vast majority of boomers are conservatives, but it's just a slight majority. Similarly, only a slight majority of younger voters voted for Biden.

Yeah, I'm not sure what OP is thinking. It's like thinking it's an unpopular opinion that pepperoni pizza is best. Sure, there are people who disagree, but regular potato chips is by far the most popular, it's in no way an unpopular opinion.

I've never had a migraine headache, but my wife gets them like three or four times a year, usually pieces by a visual aura (and sometimes if she just goes into a dark, quiet room, she only gets the aura). She always described it as an "electric caterpillar" crawling from the side. I was glad she had told me about it in detail because several years ago I got one, and that's the only reason I knew what was happening. Mine wasn't as colorful as what she described, but otherwise the same.

Here's a short video simulating one, and it's very similar to my experience (and, apparently, hers).

The plane on a treadmill one has seemed straightforward to me. Lift is caused by the air moving over the wing and the obvious intent of the treadmill in the thought exercise is that the plane is only moving relative to the belt, so there's no opportunity for lift (no air flowing over the wings). Any other interpretation seems disingenuous.

The one that made me scratch my head for a while is the bicycle on the treadmill. People generally know that it's easy to stay balanced on a moving bicycle, but hard to balance on a stationary one, so is it easy or hard to balance on one that's on a treadmill?

A lot of people think that the stability of a moving bicycle is caused by the gyroscopic effect of the spinning wheels, but that turns out to contribute relatively little compared to the force of a body leaning one way or another.

What actually makes it easy to keep a moving bicycle going straight (or what contributes the most) is that the design has self-correcting steering. When you lean to the right, the shape of the forks causes the front wheel to point left, and vice versa, keeping you going relatively straight as long as you have some minimum amount of forward motion.

And since that forward motion is relative to the surface the tires are on, it works just fine on a treadmill. You can even find YouTube videos of people who ride their bikes on treadmills, and it's very evident.

That's great, at least as long as you're truly letting go of it and not pushing it down someplace.

It's pretty easy for me to feel sadness, but anger is just a very unnatural state for me. Probably to an unhealthy degree in that there are probably times when I should be mad, but instead just get despondent.

I was looking at that too. Hard to say for sure, I'm not a digital forensic, but it looks kind of that way. Which would explain how he had the full details of the man behind her.

You misunderstand: I love them so much that when I see any kind of dust or anything on them, I brush them off.

"Things;" I'm leaving that typo, but fixed two others. Proof reading for the win!

There really isn't a norm. I don't get mad very easily- I brush off thighs that upset other people - but if I get mad it takes a long time to get over it. I had a gf once who got mad at the slitest thing (often really mad), but would get over it really quickly. There's a lot of variation. And, of course, it can depend on the issue, too. A guy leaving the toilet set up is different from a guy kissing his gf's sister.

They did stuff like this - maybe not with AI - in the last two elections at least. The Mueller report made the Russian activity pretty clear. And 2016 was a really close election; they only have to shape the opinion of a small number of people.

It's also curious that Republican lawmakers, who historically have been overtly anti-Russian and anti-Putin, have become pro Russian in recent years. What changed?

That is so completely insane. Do you know how many workplace injuries and deaths were eliminated because of things OSHA put in place?

I don't know, it seems like when she even mildly went on the offensive, people on both sides (and especially the media) ripped her for it. Remember the "deplorables" things?

For ages, I don't think even Trump's campaign thought he had much of a chance (many sources have said he didn't even want to win). And remember, she did win the popular vote.

I don't think she did nearly as well as she could have, but there's a lot of hyperbole about her that I think is misplaced.

I honestly didn't get the joke and was trying to figure out what was wrong with the. Like, maybe if it was instead of raises or something I'd be pissed, but otherwise looks great.

I completely agree. Hillary was subject to non-stop manufactured scandals insinuating she was a complete criminal (Benghazi, the emails, etc.). Plus Trump successfully tapped into the "punish the libs" and "it's okay to be racist" contingents. It wasn't a great campaign, but to suggest that it should have been a cake walk for her is ridiculous.

Exactly right. They might consider it initially, but then they'd realize that they got an increase in support from the MAGA base and they'd lean into it.

Funny, I came here to make the exact same analogy. I totally agree - a mature kid and an immature adult have a lot of overlap.

In case anyone is worried, the worm is named for what it looks like, not where it lives.

I didn't say any of these guys were gems of humanity - what does any of what you're saying have to do with the fact that they were all workaholics?