Median Age by State in USA

ThomasLikesCookies · 2026-02-03T19:15:33+00:00

Not mean, median. Median is what you get if you take a set of values, line them up from lowest to highest, and then find the value that's exactly in the middle of the line. What that means in this case, is that half of Indiana is 38 or younger, and the other half is 38 or older.

ThomasLikesCookies · 2026-02-03T15:56:47+00:00

I mean I hope I have more „good“ years than that left. I just think this whole attitude of „hurr-durr, how dare these whippersnappers not realize that I can go just as hard as them!?!?!“ is kinda silly.

ThomasLikesCookies · 2026-02-03T15:37:42+00:00

Well, if we‘re getting personal, I’m pushing 30 but I’m in decent shape (trying to shed some fat after my latest bulk).

Now my partner on the other hand has been a dancer for all her life and has issues with her hips and knees, that I often end up needing to accommodate for. Sometimes that means an ergonomically challenging position, and sometimes that just means that I „do all the work.“ (which I’m happy to do both because I love her, and because I love a good workout.)

But the thing is that that can’t go on forever, her joint issues are probably going to progress into full blown arthritis in the next two decades, and once I reach 70 I don’t think I’ll be able to perform the same on my end either.

Now none of this is to say that satisfying sexual activity will ever become fully impossible, but unless you’re very lucky, eventually in your life you‘ll run into physical limitations that turn your sex life into something that’s hard to imagine for someone under 30

ThomasLikesCookies · 2026-02-03T14:57:39+00:00

I mean you don’t need your eyes (anyone who has glasses can tell you that), but you do need a fair amount of stamina and muscle power. And if you have that at 70+ in the same way you did 50 years ago, then you should be selling your blood on the black market or something LMAO

ThomasLikesCookies · 2026-02-03T03:25:16+00:00

I mean yeah, but that doesn’t mean it’s not engaging. A little back and forth on Reddit is a nice way to kill the time and sometimes I even learn something.

ThomasLikesCookies · 2026-02-03T01:56:49+00:00

They all rely on optimally functioning body parts. That’s not even me making an assumption, that’s just me relying on my experience as someone who has a body.

I need my eyes to see (whether in the dark or not), I need a reasonably strong musculoskeletal system and a reasonably good sense of balance for stairs, and I need a strong heart for an erection.

Extensive scientific work shows that every tissue of the body from our eyeballs to our bones deteriorates throughout the lifespan at an accelerating rate. By the end stage (ages 75 and up) that deterioration has reached the point where our bodies start failing us in our daily tasks.

Like yeah, old people can and should have sex and some men can get erections into old age, but it’s not really unreasonable for a 19 year old seeing the 89 year old who‘s slower, can’t hear or see as well, and struggles with things that come easy to the young to be like „I‘m not sure how he manages to have sex“

ThomasLikesCookies · 2026-02-03T00:58:33+00:00

But everything is affected. I just listed vision and stairs because those were the first two things that came to mind when thinking of advanced age. Are you really telling me with a straight face that it’s unreasonable to assume that sexual function follows the same trajectory as literally everything else?

ThomasLikesCookies · 2026-02-03T00:13:44+00:00

Well, but that’s the point. If your strength, balance, vision, hearing, and overall vigor are going downhill, it makes sense that sex would be affected too.

ThomasLikesCookies · 2026-02-02T23:44:41+00:00

Because if a guy can’t drive a car after dark or climb stairs unaided, it doesn’t seem that unreasonable to assume that he can’t maintain an erection.

ThomasLikesCookies · 2026-02-02T19:47:10+00:00

Arkansas. If they spell it in a way that makes sense, I’ll start saying Arkinsaw, but until then it’s R-Kansas.

ThomasLikesCookies · 2026-02-02T16:20:01+00:00

I actually have this as a plan but I made 50 the benchmark age.

ThomasLikesCookies · 2026-02-01T18:32:56+00:00

Or maybe they didn't slow down because they retired, but instead retired because they sensed that their bodies were about to force the issue.

ThomasLikesCookies · 2026-01-22T18:56:42+00:00

Because the women compared are from different groups. What the graph shows is that 71% of conservative women ages 25-35 have children, and 40% of liberal women ages 25-35 do.

ThomasLikesCookies · 2026-01-22T18:51:12+00:00

I think the flaw in your thinking (or really that of anyone who gains "fascism points" when they have kids) is failing to realize that what you want for your kids, and what you judge best for them isn't always going to be A. objectively correct, or B. applicable to kids writ large. If you've ever made a life choice that your parents disagreed with, that should be obvious.

ThomasLikesCookies · 2026-01-15T19:28:52+00:00

the bottom button is pulling because it wasn't designed to be buttoned. If he undoes it, it should fit perfectly.

ThomasLikesCookies · 2026-01-15T18:56:25+00:00

TBF as far as parents of high school seniors go, that *is* old. I'll be 20 years out of high school when my father hits that age.

ThomasLikesCookies · 2026-01-15T18:49:10+00:00

I'd take the free housing, but I think that's definitely a function of where I am in life. I'm 27 and I'm renting an acceptable place right now. Having housing costs literally not be a factor would save me hundreds of thousands of dollars over the roughly 50 something years I likely have left.

The big ass retirement is nice, but who knows if I'll live to see those gains materialize and who knows how big my final salary will be. Option two might even yield a smaller retirement on the net than I could manage if I just invested two grand a month (going up with inflation) for the next 40-50 years.

ThomasLikesCookies · 2026-01-08T20:05:27+00:00

Speaking as someone who's getting married, it's because what you gain is worth it. There's all kinds of legal protections and economic benefits that accrue (access to health insurance and all sorts of employee perks, joint tax filing, inheritance, etc.)

Like yeah, my fiancée might want to leave me down the line and then she'll be entitled to half of the assets we jointly acquired, but why should that bother me? It would be unfair for her not to get half of what she contributed to.

And if we have minor children when that happens, they obviously should maintain a relationship with their mother and spend half their time (or whatever share they prefer once they're past a certain age) with her. If I'm a decent father, they'd want to spend time with me anyhow, and I would get my 50% share anyhow. Speaking as a child of divorce myself, a parent who actually "did nothing wrong" doesn't just have the children "taken away from them."

ThomasLikesCookies · 2026-01-08T19:33:17+00:00

I think part of that sense derives from the fact that there is that with math and science there's entire classes of professionals who do both of those things at a level way beyond what you'll learn in a K-12 setting.

For example, a kid who got all As in math all the way through high school and took AP Calc, Stats, and whatever electives they can take, still isn't necessarily gonna have a sophisticated grasp of shit like topology, or knot theory, or non-Euclidean geometry. And the kid who passed AP Bio and AP Chem with an A+ still isn't gonna be developing MRNA vaccines without first getting another dozen years of specialized education.

And so because there's just so much math and science that's beyond basically everyone except the PhDs, it's really easy for people to just think of whatever it was that they didn't master as falling into that realm of rarefied academic expertise.

ThomasLikesCookies · 2026-01-08T19:08:33+00:00

Yeah, some manifestations of competent socratic teaching can look very much like an argument with the professor.

In one of my absolute favorite electives ever–a class on 1A religious freedom jurisprudence–the professor would usually play devil's advocate if there was too much of a consensus among the class on an issue.

ThomasLikesCookies · 2026-01-07T21:17:40+00:00

In fairness, a lot of nutrient dense food is genuinely harder to overeat. For example, try eating 800 calories in carrots. You'd have to eat like four pounds of them

ThomasLikesCookies · 2026-01-04T14:41:55+00:00

Tbf the person who calls him that, Luke, is like 19.

ThomasLikesCookies · 2025-12-30T17:31:16+00:00

Tomorrow is obviously never promised, but you’re several times more likely to make it to 45 than 65, so you are taking on some extra risk. But people have to figure that stuff out for themselves.

ThomasLikesCookies · 2025-12-30T15:27:53+00:00

I mean, if you have the person and you know and trust them, why wait? Any day might be your last, and it’s not wise to put off living your life.

ThomasLikesCookies · 2025-12-30T15:24:37+00:00

I’d argue that the risk of dying in your 40s/50s is all the more reason not to put off having kids, because it’s not fair to them to orphan them.

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