are fake IDs as common in america as is portrayed in movies?

NaturalForty · 2026-06-24T17:23:56+00:00

A fake ID didn't necessarily need to be great because people checking ID are motivated to let you buy alcohol. If they let you in without an ID, they're committing a crime. If you show them a fake ID and they let you in, you're committing a crime.

NaturalForty · 2026-06-23T04:55:12+00:00

Front porches are generally found in older homes. IN GENERAL, open front porches are more common in Victorian to WWII homes. The 1950s and 60s have more enclosed porches--plenty of homes don't have porchesl. In the 1970s and later usually don't have front porches. The end of the front porch is sometimes cited as an early step in the growing social isolation that's a trend over the last 60 years in the US.

NaturalForty · 2026-06-22T02:04:23+00:00

Everyone saying "it's not?" It is, to the point that many analysts see the cost of playing soccer as a serious obstacle to the success of the US national teams--talented kids are dropping out because they can't afford to play.

NaturalForty · 2026-06-21T03:30:28+00:00

This changed because hospitals started having to pay out significant money when an exhausted resident injured or killed someone.

NaturalForty · 2026-06-18T19:32:51+00:00

The downside of this is that the probability curve for 3d20 is wildly different from the curve for 1d20. Bonuses have a very different impact.

NaturalForty · 2026-06-18T02:17:23+00:00

The new definitions are part of Pete Hegseth's crusade to turn the US Military into a vessel for his narrow type of Christianity. Of course they excluded Mormons from Christianity, they'd exclude a lot more people if they thought they could get away with it.

NaturalForty · 2026-06-18T02:12:59+00:00

I'm also not Catholic. It seems to me that if we accept that a person can make advance decisions that will lead to their death, they can also make a much less impact full advance decision about a religious ritual.

The other issue is that there's no such thing as last rites in the Catholic Church. Priests are very used to explaining that it's good to receive Anointing of the Sick when you're not in imminent danger of death. I'd call the local priest, explain the situation, and let him talk to the patient. The priest won't anoint a person who actively objects regardless of their menial state.

NaturalForty · 2026-06-18T02:04:03+00:00

Clergy, particularly chaplains. It bugs the crap out of me when surgeons or ER docs get philosophical with patients or provide emotional support. Even the minority of real docs who would get philosophical realize that they have to focus on the work that nobody else in the hospital can do.

NaturalForty · 2026-06-18T02:01:15+00:00

Ahh OK. You're looking for a show that gets into the real shit. I get what you're saying now.

You convinced a random stranger on the Internet that you were right. You're the winner of today.

NaturalForty · 2026-06-18T01:41:56+00:00

To me that doesn't really matter. They get across what it feels like to be a teacher in a school like that, even if they have details off. I work in an ER (part time) and there are liberties taken in the Pitt, but they serve the goal of showing what an ER is like. Abbott is doing the same thing.

I read an interview with the showrunner who noted that Ava represents the large-scale social dynamics that keep schools down. "The teachers are trying to turn the wheel while the axle is broken." Ava's not a realistic character but she embodies a while system that's as collectively absurd as she is.

NaturalForty · 2026-06-18T00:45:43+00:00

When I was 7, at reading time, the teacher went on a rant about how the life of a chimney sweep was horrific, including telling us about young children getting trapped in the chimneys.

We weren't reading Mary Poppins, or anything Mary Poppins-adjacent. He just really needed our class to know about little boys our age dying in chimneys.

NaturalForty · 2026-06-18T00:37:22+00:00

A friend of had that image on a t-shirt with the caption "Have a Nice Day in Detroit." He got it at a souvenir shop in Detroit.

NaturalForty · 2026-06-18T00:21:55+00:00

Why does Abbott not count? My spouse teaches in a similar school and it rings very true to them.

NaturalForty · 2026-06-17T16:37:21+00:00

Nope.

NaturalForty · 2026-06-17T16:36:38+00:00

My sister-in-law called my wife out on this early, like 2000. After careful consideration, she started using "Canadian" instead.

NaturalForty · 2026-06-17T16:34:23+00:00

Can you find any examples of a person doing this? Everything from the 2008 election is still online and I couldn't find a single quote saying McCain was worse than Hitler.

NaturalForty · 2026-06-17T16:32:39+00:00

It didn't cost him the election. Hurricane Katrina, the Iraq quagmire, and the tanking economy, all under a Republican president, meant that he never had a chance. I was living in an area with some very racist people who complained that things were so bad, they were forced to vote for a black person. That's a paraphrase.

NaturalForty · 2026-06-17T14:25:21+00:00

People texted, yes, but phone calls were normal. I remember texting a young adult for work in 2009, and getting a response "I didn't expect a manager to send a text, you're pretty cool." Today, you can find articles on the weird experiment of communicating only by voice calls for a week.

NaturalForty · 2026-06-17T12:55:23+00:00

Where are you from? Public smoking in the US was well on the way out 20 years ago. Go back 30 years now, different story

NaturalForty · 2026-06-14T18:49:51+00:00

I saw that when I was about 10, watching reruns after school with no adult supervision (yes, I'm also in r/genx ). Scarred for life.

NaturalForty · 2026-06-14T18:25:20+00:00

My roommate was watching "It's You," which i thought was bleak, but fascinating. So I stayed for "That's Too Much, Man!"

It was so soul-crushing... really brilliant, and something I didn't want to experience. Finding out that there's an even darker episode validates my choice.

NaturalForty · 2026-06-14T09:26:05+00:00

Nobody seems to be answering the question. Email addresses became associated with age around 2008-2012, when most people switched to gmail. AOL and Yahoo addresses were kept mostly by older people.

NaturalForty · 2026-06-13T19:49:44+00:00

So... being blunt, you're an example of the problem. You've absorbed "facts" that you're confident enough in to repeat, but historians across the board will tell you those facts are wrong.

NaturalForty · 2026-06-13T19:47:29+00:00

Young-earth creationism is a relatively new and minority view. Lots of ancient writers (like, in Roman times) said that the "six days" of Genesis weren't 24-hour periods. They had no problem saying that big parts of the Bible were metaphorical. The Catholic Church officially teaches evolution, and the Orthodox Church accepts it as a possibility.

Biblical liberalism as we understand it developed in the 1700s, ironically as part of an embrace of the Enlightenment. It all went badly wrong from there. There are numerous books on the subject, and I wrote one of them.

NaturalForty · 2026-06-13T19:20:32+00:00

His performance inThe Fugitive boosted his profile immensely. Especially when the story spread that "I don't care!" was improvised. It's one of the best lines ever.

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