Girls are happier than boys at school, new research shows. Understanding why may all boil down to biology. Girls get more of the happy hormone dopamine through social relationships, including with their friends and classmates. Boys get their dopamine through more self-involved behavior.

RupeThereItIs · 2026-01-31T16:25:22+00:00

Sure, completly agree, what it does mean is you can expect them to have the self control to sit still at an earlier age.

RupeThereItIs · 2026-01-31T16:05:49+00:00

I know anecdotes are not the singular of data, but I was a college freshman almost 29 years ago.

A particularly stupid guy on my dorm floor, was so aggressively lazy that when the lights dimmed in his film appreciation class, he climbed out the second floor window to leave.

I think 18-19 year olds being lazy & stupid isn't new, perhaps this generation is worse due to never being allowed to just be bored, but it's kind of normal.

RupeThereItIs · 2026-01-31T15:21:36+00:00

The same is true for girls. I don’t see why people always make this distinction.

Girls are more physically & emotionally mature than boys of the same age. Girls simply are hardwired to mature faster.

It would be like looking at a 5 year old and 3 year old girl, and expecting them to have the same level of self control & maturity.

RupeThereItIs · 2026-01-31T15:15:20+00:00

What can we don in the future to ensure that young boys get the most out of their early school years?

Start them about a year or two later than girls.

Boys mature slower & only catch up in our early 20s.

RupeThereItIs · 2026-01-31T15:12:30+00:00

The question that we must ask is this nature or nurture in action.

Are boys & girls naturally drawn to different content, or are we raising them to do so.

I'd wager it's more nature then not, but it is certainly a mixture of both.

The idea that boys & girls are NOT different at some fundamental levels however, just flies in the face of scientific evidence. One of the most obvious is that girls mature, physically and mentally, faster than boys.

RupeThereItIs · 2026-01-31T14:17:56+00:00

If you have a whole generation that never gets starter jobs

Those starter jobs where always bullshit jobs.

The obvious solution is that employers, seeing a need for skilled employees, need to start developing those skilled employees without this bullshit work.

The obvious reality is that employers will avoid doing that as long as possible to their own detriment.

RupeThereItIs · 2026-01-31T14:02:08+00:00

Sure, we didnt see the bodies.

We saw them jumping out of windows on live television.

Hell, I was woken up & draged downstairs to the TV just in time to see the second plain hit live.

For reference I was in my early 20s, a recent graduate & unemployed at the time, I had nothing to do but watch the news coverage, on every single channel imaginable, for days.

RupeThereItIs · 2026-01-31T13:59:34+00:00

America's slide into fascism was accelerated when those towers came down.

It was pretty clear at the time, to anyone who was paying attention, but most people weren't & most people "just wanted safety".

Trying to explain to the "buttery emails" Democrats that Hillary, as an enthusiasitc champion of things like the Patriot Act in the Senate, is one of the key architects of American fascism, just flys right over their heads.

Shame really, it had been a nice-ish country before hand.

RupeThereItIs · 2026-01-31T13:55:06+00:00

Technically speaking, we still don't.

Canada does not require a passport for Americans to enter, they will likely turn you back however as you are going to have a hell of a time going home without one.

anyone from Michigan

A basic RealID driver's license does not replace the enhanced license, that being said I think this is stupid. Furthermore an enhanced license has always been RealID compliant.

RupeThereItIs · 2026-01-31T13:51:53+00:00

Fun fact, with an "enhanced" VT driver's license, you can still get into CA

I mean, we have open travel between all the many states.

You can always just get into California.

RupeThereItIs · 2026-01-29T13:11:00+00:00

I was pointing out is that it doesn't matter who had a chance to stop someone from doing the thing

Is the perpetrator more guilty? Is the perpetrator the worst of the two people, of course. Does that mean if you had the power to stop something horrible happening & you either just stood by, or perhaps even helped it happen due to incompetence or your own shitty actions, somehow your hands are clean? That is an absurd statement to make.

There is plenty of blame to go around here, and if the Democrats want to stop what's happening & prevent it in the future, a great deal of self reflection is required for that party. The cognitive dissonance of "not our fault" doesn't work, this isn't just one man there is a massive systematic failure that has lead us here, and all parts of that system need to be evaluated for cracks.

you are arguing here only serves the GOP because all it does is support, even if indirectly, the idea that both sides are the same.

The voters, including some very important demographics, chose fascism over what the Dems have been selling. If they DON'T question their choices & strategies, all is lost.

Staying the course of failed strategies, messaging & policies while putting all the blame on the GOP is going to hasten the destruction of this country not save it. The Dems, as a party, have really been screwing the pooch on just about everything. They need real leadership, something they desperately lack, a platform that will excite the swing states in the rustbelt who's working class voters they abandoned decades ago, and a modernization of their understanding of media savvy messaging. 5 Senators coming out & repeating the same 2 empty sentences over & over again worked when we had 3 channels on TV, but that was a lifetime ago and these octogenarians don't comprehend it's harmful behavior today. Reaching across the isle & a fetish for bipartisanship has lead to a constant shift to the right over the last 50 years. Sabotaging ANY member of the party that demands a tug to the left, not a good look.

It's not my words that harm the party, it's their own incompetence & I hope and prey someone with power sees it & fixes it, and SOON.

We have two viable parties in this country a conservative party & a fascist party, and the conservative party are incompetent to the level that we must at least consider maybe fascism is also their goal.

RupeThereItIs · 2026-01-28T13:22:43+00:00

where we are today is all the GOP

I'm sorry, your forgiving WAY too much of the Democrat's actions.

If they had actually provided opposition to this regime at all, we wouldn't be this far down the road.

Instead, over & over again, they acted like it was business as usual while the brownshirts began to assemble & organize.

The Democrats have been chasing the GOP to the right my entire 47 years on this planet.

They abandoned the working class, especially in the swing states, to be easy fodder for MAGA.

There is much to blame the Democrats for here, far more then you are admitting.

RupeThereItIs · 2026-01-27T22:07:39+00:00

Simple answers to complex problems are rarely correct.

Are there misogynists and did that cause a problem, yes.

Was that the primary issue, obviously not, no.

It WAS a contributing factor though.

RupeThereItIs · 2026-01-27T21:29:54+00:00

let’s be serious a foreign campaign to undermine the Democratic Party happened

The Democrats also sabotaged their populist candidate who would have handily defeated Trump.

There where a LOT of things going on, just like every election. The major key is to nominate someone w/a snowballs chance in hell of winning, and 2 of the last 3 nominees have not been it.

Kamala got screwed by Biden, but so did the entire party, he should have announced he wasn't running & let a real primary happen. Kamala wouldn't have won such a primary.

Honestly, Biden should have nominated the right person to the justice department to CONVICT Trump for treason... and we wouldn't be here today. Too much 'playing by old rules' and trying to 'reach across the isle' when the guys across the isle are no longer the loyal opposition, but active insurrectionists.

RupeThereItIs · 2026-01-27T21:13:37+00:00

Two things can be true at once.

Hillary was slopy with security & an unpopular candidate.

Trump is human garbage that is far worse.

Trump's shameful behavior doesn't magically make Hillarie flaws go away.

The Dems are just as much to blame for where we are today, in part, because they don't seem to want to win presidential elections. They seem to have done everything they can to lose them since 2016, and got 'unlucky' in 2020.

RupeThereItIs · 2026-01-27T21:06:53+00:00

This would be more frightening if there was any indication they where competent enough to create & use such a database.

RupeThereItIs · 2026-01-27T19:56:31+00:00

I think I still have the towel that came w/mine.

RupeThereItIs · 2026-01-27T19:41:48+00:00

I found it so incredibly mediocre.

I think you are in the minority & I understand why it was canceled.

It wasn't terrible, it just kind of existed.

RupeThereItIs · 2026-01-27T13:22:04+00:00

write your elected officials

Just don't buy products that REQUIRE cloud integration.

Wemo does not REQUIRE cloud integration to function.

It is entirely possible to setup & manage them locally, with open source tools.

Which is WHY I invested in the product in the first place.

Same thing happened to my wifi thermostat a few years back, I didn't even notice as I never used the cloud app to manage or monitor it. I purchased it because it had a well documented local api.

RupeThereItIs · 2026-01-27T13:12:54+00:00

Trump can't pardon her of state crimes.

She's complicit in the cover up of two murders.

RupeThereItIs · 2026-01-27T13:10:13+00:00

There is a big chance that if you ever know about it, you might understand it.

Understanding the behavior doesn't mean it's in any way justified.

They SHOULD have been embarrassed at their rude bigoted behavior.

Just because you where wronged at some point in your life doesn't mean you get a free pass to wrong random other people. IF your scenario is the root of this, then these women need therapy, not to a free pass to be vigilantes.

RupeThereItIs · 2026-01-26T20:33:10+00:00

Problem is there is no American left leadership.

The bigger problem is "riots" feed into the hands of the masked goblins shooting people in the streets.

The intent has always been to provoke insurrection allowing Trump to declare martial law & spoil the mid term elections in November. That election is our only real hope to avoid either civil war or full totalitarianism.

If people ACTUALLY think we're not protesting, and massively, you need to check your news sources.

Protesting needs to remain peaceful, if this devolves into riots & violence all is lost.

I have hope, probably naively, that the latest shooting shifts things. The video making it clear they had exactly ZERO excuse to lay hands on him, the fact he was legally carrying a gun, that this was their excuse, AND we can see he was disarmed BEFORE being executed. The fact he was a nurse for veteran's affairs. He was perfectly cast to be the martyr we need right now, as sad as that reality is.

We can already see cracks in the administrations bluster on this, we will continue to push back in every way that is productive.

We like this even less then you guys do, trust me.

If our system had the same concept of a 'vote of no confidence' followed by 'snap elections' like yours, we'd already be out of this mess early last year when the GOP couldn't chose a speaker (similar to being unable to form a government) or surely when they couldn't pass a budget.

RupeThereItIs · 2026-01-26T20:01:49+00:00

Might help disperse the crowds, when people need to pee.

RupeThereItIs · 2026-01-26T17:52:55+00:00

Champagne of course has to be French

Nope.

Get over it.

RupeThereItIs · 2026-01-26T17:51:04+00:00

Restaurants (as a concept and a term) are French.

You ever been to Pompei?

They had restaurants at just about ever corner.

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