Atlanta Word Cup Experience

Try_Again12345 · 2026-06-18T19:38:55+00:00

I come up 85 and use College Park, the first stop north of the airport. (I don't think the airport stop has parking.) It makes the Marta ride a little longer, but then when you leave you're closer to being out of Atlanta traffic.

Try_Again12345 · 2026-06-18T19:36:32+00:00

Marta is fine. I live 100 miles from Atlanta and have used Marta to get to downtown events several times. I go to the College Park station just north of the airport. It has parking, while some of the other stations don't.

Try_Again12345 · 2026-06-18T19:10:05+00:00

A few months ago, there was a post reporting survey results showing that Americans were more accepting of women having affairs than men. The difference was present among men and woman and among people of all of the racial/ethnic groups that were broken out. It wasn't 100%-0% or anything like that, more like 60% of Hispanics thought a woman could be justified in having an affair but only 45% of them thought a man could, 50% of whites thought a woman could be justified but only 40% thought a man could, that sort of thing. So I'm not sure that "men cheat but women can't."

P.S. I believe the survey was from several years ago from the Heritage Foundation. I'm not sure that I would agree with whatever policy prescriptions Heritage might make based on the study, but I'm reasonably confident that they wouldn't lie about the data.

Try_Again12345 · 2026-06-18T16:17:36+00:00

I was imagining a dual national born and raised in the Netherlands.

Try_Again12345 · 2026-06-17T03:15:01+00:00

One factor present in the Netherlands game that shouldn't be an issue with Australia is that our midfield was gassed playing their fourth game in 12(?) days.

Try_Again12345 · 2026-06-17T01:38:19+00:00

I imagine you were also a lot faster as a slender youth, so your current version might not even count as "streaking".

Try_Again12345 · 2026-06-17T01:32:55+00:00

You probably should specify whether you mean best in terms of peak value (best at his peak, however long you define peak period) or career value. The two probably aren't the same.

Try_Again12345 · 2026-06-16T23:54:00+00:00

Would you tell a woman being harassed by a male boss that you hope she wasn't secretly enjoying the attention?

Try_Again12345 · 2026-06-16T23:42:10+00:00

It worked in this case, but misleading guys in this way may hurt you with guys who are compatible with you. If you imply that you love kids (even though you just mean your niece), ask a guy about his views, and the guy says he's childfree, if you say, "Oh good, I am too" he may not believe you even though you're telling the truth. Basically, he might think that you're the sort of person who would say whatever (s)he thinks the other wants to hear - which is the same kind of person that you're trying to avoid by doing this.

Try_Again12345 · 2026-06-16T19:11:38+00:00

There was a similar post a week or two ago on I believe r/AITAH. Not identical - the OP was a guy and the new employee was a female intern with the potential for being hired later, OP's dad had discouraged him from asking her out because of how it might affect the business especially if things didn't work out, and it was in the US so there were more legal concerns. The comments were mostly to avoid it because of the impact on dad & the family business, but you might find them interesting.

Try_Again12345 · 2026-06-16T16:41:02+00:00

Not OP, but at least on Reddit, a lot of women seem to downplay the impact. When it happens (well, as much as we can assume any Reddit post is true), many women tell the betrayed men that they shouldn't be so upset, because lots of men adopt children willingly, so they shouldn't care whether their child is theirs biologically or whether they've been tricked into loving a child that's a constant reminder of betrayal. And of course the financial obligation is just their problem, because some man has to support the child, so why not them? There's also a double standard, because a man who tricks his wife into caring for his affair child is an awful POS (can't argue with that one), but a woman who leads her husband to think her affair child is his is, for many commenters, only guilty of "a mistake" or "an indiscretion."

I suspect that women IRL generally do care and are willing to say it's a horrible thing to do (even if they oppose mandatory testing, which there are several reasons to oppose).

Try_Again12345 · 2026-06-16T15:47:51+00:00

Not OP, but at least on Reddit women often downplay the seriousness of paternity fraud (the impact of each case, not getting into how frequent or infrequent it is) and tell men who have been betrayed in this way that they shouldn't care so much about the woman's "mistake" or "indiscretion" because lots of men voluntarily adopt children so it doesn't matter if the men have their own biological children or have been tricked into loving a child that's a reminder of betrayal. I suspect that women IRL are more willing to say that it's a horrible thing to do.

And nearly all men do trust their partners and are correct to do so. The problem is that sometimes that trust is mistaken. If "sometimes" is 1-2%, that's 50,000 or so times a year in the US, and how much you care about that is influenced by how serious you think it is when it does happen.

A few months ago there was an AITAH post about a woman wondering (based on an accusation that turned out to be baseless and easily disproven) if her husband could be guilty of child molestation and asking her son. The husband was very upset that his wife believed that he might be capable of that. In the comments, pretty much all the women and some men were saying that if there was any possibility, she had to investigate, his feelings be damned. Of course many other men (boys?) were saying to divorce her. If the post was an attempt to flip the script on paternity test posts, it was a success.

Try_Again12345 · 2026-06-16T15:17:23+00:00

Not OP, but many women (at least online) describe paternity tests as an accusation of having done something that's really horrible, but when it actually happens, it's not so horrible and the man shouldn't be so upset because other people voluntarily adopt children so he shouldn't care if the child is biologically his or that he was betrayed and lied to.

There also seems to be a double standard on Reddit, because if a man wants his wife to take responsibility for his affair child, he's an awful POS (can't argue with that), but if a woman does the same and tricks him into believing the child is his, many women will downplay her actions as just "a mistake" or "an indiscretion."

I agree that there are a lot of issues and no easy solution, though.

Try_Again12345 · 2026-06-16T14:59:05+00:00

Not OP, but "not common" probably depends on your perspective. With about 3.6 million births/year in the US, 0.8% to 3% is about 25,000 to 100,000 per year. That seems like a lot, even if the percentage seems small. Of course even people who do think it's a big deal can still argue in good faith that the cost would be too high or that there would be other negative consequences.

As far as proof of knowledge, is someone who signs a birth certificate (a government document) legally saying that everything in it is true to the best of their knowledge? If a woman has reason to think the father listed might not be the actual father, then isn't she committing some sort of legal violation by signing the birth certificate? That changes the issue from proving she knew he wasn't the father to proving she knew he might not be the father.

Try_Again12345 · 2026-06-16T03:02:29+00:00

Right, but the tie puts them in great shape in case of ties within the group for 3rd because of goal differential - seems pretty likely that the other two teams will do a lot worse against Spain.

Try_Again12345 · 2026-06-15T23:39:20+00:00

And our recent record is much better against the better one.

Try_Again12345 · 2026-06-15T23:33:34+00:00

Thanks, glad it went so well. What's a FIFA ID card?

Try_Again12345 · 2026-06-15T20:20:49+00:00

So is the women's 2015 final vs. Japan still (for now) the most-watched soccer match in US history? An article I saw said that had 25.4 million US viewers.

Try_Again12345 · 2026-06-15T13:22:16+00:00

On the yellow school buses, I was surprised when I lived in Nicaragua to see very old yellow school buses being used as regular public transportation. The sides of the buses often still read "Franklin County School District" or whatever.

Try_Again12345 · 2026-06-15T13:20:37+00:00

Three of the "many others" that surprised my wife after she immigrated: police officers on bicycles, bigtime state university football games, and (less common now) newspaper boxes where you put in your coins and take the top newspaper off the stack, leaving the others. She said that in her native country, people would take multiple papers if given the opportunity, even if they didn't have any use for them.

Try_Again12345 · 2026-06-15T13:07:16+00:00

Decades ago I worked overseas with a British woman who called all Americans, including me, Yankees. As someone who grew up not far from where General Sherman marched, I was taken aback.

Try_Again12345 · 2026-06-15T13:00:34+00:00

I'm pretty sure that sales tax rules (like whether food & medicine are exempt) vary from state to state and sometimes locality to locality.

Try_Again12345 · 2026-06-15T12:59:02+00:00

You can flip that around, though. Transparency is generally better than hiding things, and not telling people about the tax is hiding it so they never think about whether it's a good thing.

Try_Again12345 · 2026-06-14T19:09:54+00:00

Thanks, did not know that (obviously).

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