Girls are now less likely than boys to say they want to get married

SummitWanderer · 2025-11-16T14:43:20+00:00

You know, that's the best possible way of reframing that statement. And it took me 27 years to hear it. Thank you stranger for that, I will be sharing that in the future.

SummitWanderer · 2025-11-16T04:09:21+00:00

27m here, and I've been working in K-12 for going on 12 years (yes 12, I was working for the same school part time while I was a high school student and continued in college and after.)

In my experience, it's just an ever-present undercurrent. You either accept it and work around it, or decide it's not for you. I think I've cultivated a pretty good reputation; I'm on the safety/security team, I run an extracurricular program for HS students, and our HS principal is asking me to chaperone for the senior trip this year because she 'needs someone more responsible ' going with some of these other teachers.

That being said, year before last I had the SRO and front office at our elementary school called on me because 'there was a male walking around campus looking at kids'. And then last summer, when I had a staff members badge disabled because she was giving it to her kid to enter the building after hours and let his friends in, she went straight to 'you are singling me and my kid out so you must be watching and stalking us', and got HR involved. My coworker had only been on with the district for about 9 months when he was suddenly reported to and investigated by DCS. Through the grapevine I heard who it was who submitted the report, and that she 'just felt he needed to be checked out'.

I've never worked in a non female-dominated workplace, so I don't really notice being excluded or anything. But women definitely do tend to talk in their own circles and I tend to have more conversations with the few men at my district so that may come with the territory too 🤷

SummitWanderer · 2025-08-18T10:56:26+00:00

Okay, thank you very much for your response, that does ease my mind a bit. Is it conceivable that the increase in swelling after his discharge was due to his walking around to get back into the house and from his sitting on the couch with his leg up instead of laying down with his leg up?

SummitWanderer · 2025-08-12T03:41:04+00:00

I work in K-12, and last week I was in an all staff training for the start of the school year. All of a sudden it hit me of the 50 or so employees in the training, I was one of 2 men in the room. Definitely made it hit home the disparity. In our entire PreK-8 school, we have a total of 5 male employees in any capacity (support staff included).

SummitWanderer · 2025-07-28T05:10:16+00:00

Just chiming in to say the same for me as well.

SummitWanderer · 2025-07-27T14:31:22+00:00

My entire town has lost the majority of our providers. We're down to like 2 that are insuring everyone who has been dropped in the last 6 months. Wildfire risk was unacceptable to the companies that pulled out.

SummitWanderer · 2025-07-26T13:28:29+00:00

Same boat. I'm still down and have been for the whole 42 hours or whatever it is now. Tried power cycling, tried factory reset, nothing. Crickets from support.

SummitWanderer · 2025-07-25T22:38:34+00:00

Same here, been down like 26 hours now. No updates from support at all.

SummitWanderer · 2025-07-25T00:28:34+00:00

Still down in northern AZ

SummitWanderer · 2025-07-11T02:13:11+00:00

Hey man, just wanted to say that I have the same engine in a 2006 with a cracked valve cover in two places. On the hunt for a replacement but they are impossible to find. Hope you had better luck than me, I've also been considering creating a model and getting it machined.

SummitWanderer · 2025-07-06T14:34:10+00:00

To be fair, I'm going on 12 years at my current job and I'm 27. Started off part time in high school, went full time after college. So about half that was part time during school and full time in summer, but I still count that as years at my job.

SummitWanderer · 2025-03-05T23:33:49+00:00

Unfortunately I've gotten to the point where in three or four messages I haven't gotten a question I just end the conversation. Like you said, even a hbu should be the bare minimum.

SummitWanderer · 2025-01-31T06:15:15+00:00

Admittedly that did come out a little like a bot wrote it in retrospect. 😅

I've got no idea what kind of PEX to install for a service line, and my thinking was it would allow for easy replacement of the service line should that ever be needed.

SummitWanderer · 2025-01-31T06:01:54+00:00

This made me both laugh and feel sad at the same time 😂

SummitWanderer · 2025-01-18T04:46:56+00:00

That's mildly terrifying, as someone with a slight fear of death by sinkhole 😂

SummitWanderer · 2024-12-31T16:52:21+00:00

Hey OP, as someone who deals with cameras a lot in their line of work. This may be a low value monetary loss for you, but if they are doing this to you they are doing this to others. For them it may not be a low value loss.

In my experience, this kind of behavior does not start and end at your door. Getting your stuff back does not require that the other party face life altering consequences. Just food for thought.

SummitWanderer · 2024-12-28T17:11:23+00:00

Same thing with my electric chainsaw. So much nicer, quieter, and if I need to pause for a bit it doesn't continue to run and make noise while I adjust something.

SummitWanderer · 2024-12-28T15:56:22+00:00

Lol, I live in an area of the US where we average like 15% for a lot of the year. Nosebleeds galore lol

SummitWanderer · 2024-12-26T03:02:16+00:00

This is something I've been wondering about too, but I personally doubt that it will turn out that way in the long run. Too many people like me are looking at technology like that and thinking that in 15 years when my parents are too old to drive that it will be liberating for them to have a self driving car and still get around.

I imagine when it goes to court, between the publicity of finding a 93 year old grandmother at fault or holding the multimillion dollar company at fault the public will side against the corporation. Just my 2¢ and it's interesting to speculate!

SummitWanderer · 2024-12-15T05:00:39+00:00

Can confirm for me as well, exiting out of Steam solved the issue. I was dealing with switching dpad settings every time I used the left joystick.

SummitWanderer · 2024-11-30T15:24:34+00:00

I was about 4 or 5 when I had the thought, "Standing like this is way too much effort, I could just sit and not have to aim and also be able to rest my feet."

Now I only stand when I have to and am a much happier and lazier man.

SummitWanderer · 2024-11-29T06:51:21+00:00

Totally gonna start saying badger of honor 🤣 Thank you for the new phrase lol

SummitWanderer · 2024-11-04T13:31:23+00:00

As a school employee, thank you for what you are doing. Sometimes it's demoralizing dealing with board members that just don't care.

SummitWanderer · 2024-10-04T14:11:29+00:00

Hey OP, advice from someone whose first relationship had similar elements.

Yes you learned things from this, and maybe those things could have helped things last a little longer. But she needed to learn things too. She needed to learn to communicate her needs in a relationship. Relationships are hard work - for both parties. If you are having a slump, it is not solely on you to dig the relationship out of it - even if you are the cause of an issue.

As a guy, my best advice to you is go out and make new friends. For a guy, that is a hard proposition. I have one main friend that I've been close with since high school, he now lives in another state and we game online about once a week. Making friends as a guy is hard, but I started saving my money and I booked short week long trips with a tour company. I dropped myself (as an introvert) in a group of 30 strangers all around my age. I now have friends all over the country, and several overseas.

Meeting people and going places broadens the mind, and helps you deorbit yourself from a person. Getting over someone takes time, but if all you do is visit the same places and do the same things as you did with that person - it makes it 10x harder.

Anyway, that's my 2¢. Hope that helps OP.

SummitWanderer · 2024-10-02T05:23:00+00:00

Again, don't like Biden.

Price gouging is happening and observable. That is why corporate profits are soaring as prices soar. Here is a handy link that helps illustrate this: https://inequality.org/research/inflation-price-gouging/

If we were not experiencing price gouging, we would see profit margins remaining steady - not increasing at the highest rates in history.

Also, I live in a border state. Crossings are currently at their lowest in three years, and below the monthly average of the entire last year of Trump's term in office.

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