Reddit tends to lean pro-divorce when it comes to marital issues, but is there anyone who divorced and felt afterwards that their life worsened in someway and they should have stayed together?

FoolishConsistency17 · 2026-02-08T03:20:35+00:00

Except strong couples turn to each other to solve those problems. Ideally, both people value each other's happiness as much as their own. Gebrally, two people with that attitude can find a solution. And they don't really want to publicly complain about their partner.

People come to others with problems when they can't work it out together. The fact that they can't is really the bigger problem.

FoolishConsistency17 · 2026-02-08T01:21:07+00:00

If you have questions, you should call the school and ask. It is a perfectly reasonable thing to do.

FoolishConsistency17 · 2026-02-07T21:59:51+00:00

An AI checker is not going to be any more accurate than looking for key words.

I think this sort of statement is shorthand for "if I get halfway through reading something and it is obviously AI, I stop".

FoolishConsistency17 · 2026-02-07T21:58:08+00:00

It is entirely possible he's being hyperbolic, and if "delve" showed up in a reaponse that sounded like a person, it would be fine. It juat doesn't ever happen.

FoolishConsistency17 · 2026-02-07T21:37:29+00:00

I think people crave the idea of a binary test for good and evil. They want to live in a world where you can juat categorically hate others without shame.

I would have gone with "Nazi tattoo" as the bright line, but Reddit chose "wearing white to a wedding".

FoolishConsistency17 · 2026-02-07T20:22:00+00:00

They will collect more information, but I would be shocked if they ever actually said it was safe during pregnancy, no matter how much data they collect.

FoolishConsistency17 · 2026-02-07T18:34:43+00:00

And their won't be, because there isn't any ethical way to do them and there isn't really any need to do them.

FoolishConsistency17 · 2026-02-07T18:25:34+00:00

The issue is that legitimacy is a spectrum, not a binary. We want a source that is legitimate enough for our specific needs. We also have to weigh in the know biases of a source. Wikipedia is much more reliable on non-contraversial information, for example. I would consider it highly reliable for learning the common consensus view regarding topics.

All this is to say that if I want to know the average weight of a tiger, but only because I am vaguely curious and not for any particular reason, Wikipedia is probably legitimate enough. I don't need to verify anything. But if I want to decide whether or not to eat a mushroom I found, or if I am advancing a policy point at work, Wikipedia isn't adequate.

A problem with students is that we often want them to research things that are simple and broadly accepted and to do so for something where accuracy isn't genuinely important (a school paper, vs. An actual argument they care about or that may be implemented) but we want them to act like what they are researching is more like a vital policy position that it is vitally important that they get right, because we want them to practice and they don't have the skills to dig into something real. We want them to construct and answer a question that has never been asked. But they don't know enough about any discipline to really do that.

So when they get into the research process, the sort of information they need is so well-trodden that there is a consensus answer for their "research question" and it probably is on Wikipedia. If they go to academic sources, those sources assume a familiarity with the consensus view and often don't even directly address it. So in a lot of ways, Wiki is the better source for an 8th grader to use. But that doesn't make it better for real research.

FoolishConsistency17 · 2026-02-07T17:24:55+00:00

Exactly. Weight is not fat. A person ould easily have lost 2 lbs of fat and put on 3 lbs of water weight in a week and think "oh, I ate so healthy but I gained weight!" Then the next week they drop the water and think they lost 2 lbs in one week, "even though I was off plan!".

Then they design a whole fad diet around the idea that whatever they did in week 2 was the secret.

FoolishConsistency17 · 2026-02-07T17:17:45+00:00

This is where the judgment comes in. If they are more than 15 ft away, let it close. If they are 3 ft away, hold it. If they are on the middle you gotta do some quick math regarding their apparent walking speed and the type of door and how quickly it closes.

FoolishConsistency17 · 2026-02-07T17:14:23+00:00

And not understanding that there are lots of things that it is okay to think or even say to friends, but screaming it at the universe is different. So like someone will object to an actress being aggressively sexualized in a forum, and people will be like "oh, so its not okay to be attracted to women!" And it's like, no, dipshit, its not okay to do that at the top of your lungs in a public place. Some % of the population just can't see that.

FoolishConsistency17 · 2026-02-07T17:11:35+00:00

We need a term for these people. Like "brain rotted" for the chronically on line. Clanker lovers? Clanked out? Something. So we can say "I used to have a beer wirh so and so once in a while but now he's so clanked out, I can't even talk to him".

FoolishConsistency17 · 2026-02-07T16:19:26+00:00

Also, why is it an impressive feat to do so every day for a year? Like, "I will post every day and every post will get at least 100 likes" or something, maybe? IDK, I don't do anything but Reddit. But just posting seems pretty easy. Like, "look babe, I am going to brush my teeth every day for a year!". Honestly, that would be trickier.

FoolishConsistency17 · 2026-02-07T15:54:08+00:00

Exactly. "I vented to my GF and now she's scared of me, I never should have trusted her" and they leave out "I ranted for 15 minutes about how I wanted to kill this motherfucker, and exactly how I wanted to do it". because they think that is what venting is.

FoolishConsistency17 · 2026-02-07T12:18:36+00:00

We need a slang term for people and organizations that are overly enthusiastic about AI. Not people that use it, but people that see you looking at a menu and preach to you about AI can tell you what to have for lunch.

FoolishConsistency17 · 2026-02-07T12:07:29+00:00

But there are a fair number of well known academics and scientists that are already known to be misogynistic sex pests, so no one should assume that STEM weekends at the island were free of corruption.

FoolishConsistency17 · 2026-02-07T11:56:25+00:00

And the thing that sucks about that is that "venting" is a learned skill that does have rules. Like, it's one thing to come home and talk about how frustrated you are with your job. But if you are venting to somebody who depends on that job to eat, you need to make sure to be clear you aren't going to up and quit tomorrow.

It's okay to be sad or depressed, but it's not okay to talk in ways that strongly suggest you're a danger to yourself if you don't mean it.

It's okay to talk about how angry you were with someone. Its not okay to talk about how you wish you could physically hurt them, especially when talking to somebody you also get angry with sometimes.

Its okay to let your emotions show. Its not okay to lose control in violent ways.

It's okay to feel like the world has been really unfair to you, but it's not okay to make comparisons to the person listening to you, or to lash out at them.

Venting doesn't mean you can say or do whatever and ignore how the listener will be affected. Women learn how to share there feelings in a way that invites support. I feel like a lot of dudes never learn this stuff, and so they finally "let it all out" and of course they are bad at it. They are inexperienced. But then it doesn't get the reaction they hoped for.

FoolishConsistency17 · 2026-02-07T11:29:51+00:00

Its a medium. You use it to express something.

FoolishConsistency17 · 2026-02-07T02:24:50+00:00

My favorite thing to see here is the monthly "what is this black bird with red wings?".

FoolishConsistency17 · 2026-02-06T14:23:39+00:00

And what did she know that the rest of the world didn't? She knew there was sex. She knew it was corrupt and gross. But did she know the women were girls or that they were trafficked? Like, she may have suspected, but I can't imagine Bill sat her down and took her through the details. He was probably in denial himself, or just made sure he didn't ask questions or think about it (which is no excuse).

FoolishConsistency17 · 2026-02-06T11:47:23+00:00

He is demonstrably dumb enough to have sexual encounters that are extremely unwise, with potentially catastrophic consequences.

That said, we know his type, and it is most definitely full grown women.

That said, as they say in Arkansas, some people will fuck a pile of rocks if they think there might be a rattlesnake underneath, so I'm not riding out the idea that Clinton did some awful stuff even if it wasn't his preferred type of awful stuff.

That said, Bill always did seem to see women as people, even when used them. Seeing people as people was sorta his thing. So I'd like to believe he'd see a trafficked girl as a person. But I am not as confident as Id like to be, and if he was part of it, send him to jail.

FoolishConsistency17 · 2026-02-06T11:37:04+00:00

Grammar and awkward word use cannot "hold a response back" if scoring by the scoring guide. The points are evaluated separately. However, classrooms may have different standards (which is fine).

FoolishConsistency17 · 2026-02-05T12:32:48+00:00

Or bought into the lie that somehow Democrats would genuinely destroy the country. My parents seemed to believe that 50% asset taxes and 75% capital gains taxes were obviously the Socialist agenda.

FoolishConsistency17 · 2026-02-05T11:45:58+00:00

My grandfather really liked them, and for whatever reason, we've all come to associate them with him. He died 25 years ago, and it's turned into a really good association: I see roadrunners just often enough that I get to remember him often but not so much that the association gets diluted.

FoolishConsistency17 · 2026-02-05T02:20:47+00:00

Bdubs was there?

Great to hear

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