Their large cities are on the smaller end of the city spectrum and both states have lots of small town populations rather than mostly empty spaces, so it makes sense. Its different than having a situation more like Illinois with a huge city

Makes me wish spray deodorant was banned in schools. I remember a major part of middle school gym class was people getting into axe spray fights in the lockers. You couldnt breathe in there with two or three people spraying them at each other

You especially never get anywhere faster when 2/3 people will just slow down if you tailgate them. Nothing makes me want to go from driving 5 over to driving 5 under like some asshole trying to get into my back seat. Ill let them pass illegally if they want to be that stupid. Only successfully baited one person into a ticket doing that but its so rewarding

Technically not true but also true at the same time. Its one of those things thats against the rules these days (used to not be) but also we work in them 24 hours a day most days a year so no one ever cares or can tell if people sleep in the lot unless they are in campers. Depending on the location the cops come through more or less frequently though and will sometimes be looking for people.

OP can pm me to ask location but our Walmart lot is safe to sleep in and I am located in MA. Im not sure but my area may also have more resources available to help women in need

Not true necessarily. Ive hit a deer straight on at 50mph and they didnt go off. Ive also been rear ended by people and had them not go off.

There is a minimum severity needed to make it go off because getting blasted by an airbag sucks and fucks your face up. Im glad it didnt go off when I hit the deer for example, as I would have gotten blasted in the face to protect me from nothing. I assume its not just about force of impact but about how fast the vehicle stops

I dont think it even has to do with intelligence necessarily. The vast majority of people want their job to be easy to do. The same way that someone running a restaurant doesnt want to deal with a picky customer, the same way that a mechanic wants to work on a nice car with a few easily identifiable problems, etc.. Doctors also just want peoples issues to be quick and easy for them. Most dont like dealing with complicated people who they dont know how to help quickly. Often they will make a quick fix solution to your problems even when it does nothing to help you holistically and can make other things worse.

Ive seen a lot of doctors and the vast majority strike me as people who went into it for the money. There are a few genuinely good doctors who want to help people first and foremost but a ton of them just want easy patients and a nice paycheck

Correct, I think its just called greek life because of the naming convention using the greek alphabet, which maybe stems from an older style of club naming in colleges that was pre-fraternity. Fraternities were basically self-improvement focused social clubs a long long time ago so it is ironic that they now are basically the opposite of that

On the one hand I feel like this is just former frat dudes hyping up frat life as they normally tend to, over glorifying every aspect of it. But also on the other hand there could be a few reasons why it makes sense in some ways.

One, from the opposite sex perspective sorority girls are also often viewed as more attractive. So maybe just the relationship between sex, party culture, and greek life drives attraction towards people in greek life.

Two, people in greek life are usually well-off financially. Frats and Sororities are a way that people literally pay to build a social circle and have friends.

Three, going back to the party thing, its probably just that frat parties are a longstanding and consistent location for women to find casual sex despite the fact that its obviously a pretty sketchy place to do so.

Overall though, I think you have to view it through the lens of the shallowness that is greek life. Being in a frat doesnt make the guys more desirable, its just that being in a frat leads them to be more central to the social functions that drive a lot of sexual encounters

Before about the 1890s in the US there were very few monuments built to anything specifically because early Americans did not want anything to be revered above the institution of democracy. That in and of itself was people’s source of patriotism.

In order to control people during tumultuous times of social and economic strife during the 20th century the government started building tons of monuments and designating places as historical, specifically in order to push the myth of American progress and narratives of patriotism as methods of controlling the populace. Many of the monuments that you will see throughout the country were built either following the Great Depression or during the Civil Rights Movement/ Cold War era. Local places bought into this government push because of the rise of auto tourism, creating an opportunity to make a big business out of retelling history.

Of course neither the government nor people building tourist traps want anyone to remember the past for what it was, and instead would rather us exercise a highly selective memory. Monuments rarely provide any actual lessons about history, nor do they tell us the hidden truths about why they were constructed. Some of these monuments need to be torn down, but many of them would better serve society if they were given context that explains both the actual history they obscure as well as the underhanded creation of the monument. Its the only way to undo the damage that monuments do to society, especially how they separate us from the actual past by presenting us with feel-good bullshit that doesnt connect to our actual lived experiences and relationships to historical events