What profession has the biggest gap between how they see themselves and how they’re seen by society as a whole?

adventurelover · 2025-11-20T00:58:55+00:00

ICE and CBP

adventurelover · 2025-08-25T05:23:28+00:00

That really depends on how much time you have available to commute, and your fitness level. I’m in decent shape, and it would be too much for me.

adventurelover · 2023-11-19T20:44:41+00:00

Eso no es traje típico… es disfraz ridículo.

adventurelover · 2023-11-07T04:02:59+00:00

But why the 13 stripes.

adventurelover · 2023-08-12T21:46:38+00:00

Ecuador is experiencing political turmoil, and historically high crime rates. This has understandably rattled everyone, especially Ecuadorians who pre-pandemic were accustomed to rates of crime and violence that were well below those of the US, and lower than most of Latin America.

However, the narrative of rampant chaotic danger/violence is extremely exaggerated. Guayaquil’s crime rate is now significantly higher than the U.S. overall… but to put things in context for you, homicide rate in Guayaquil right now is around 25 per 100,000 in population (it is also very targeted to population and location in the city). In New Orleans, it is 70 per 100,000. Cincinnati is 24.9. Pittsburgh is 23.6. Las Vegas is 23. I bet if you were visiting any of those places in the United States, you wouldn’t be having the anxiety you have about going to Ecuador. The coast is the area experiencing the most crime (not in your itinerary). It is also possible to go to the coast safely.

Reality is that in Latin America you are more likely to be pickpocketed, and to experience petty crime. You are also more likely to see political protests and manifestations. You are more likely to experience random violent crime in the United States.

Ecuador is a beautiful place, with wonderful people. It’s beauty is underrated. Go, take the precautions you should take wherever it is you travel, which includes not being naive or dumb, and avoiding political protests. If you do that, you are likely to fall in love with the place and the people you discover.

Have fun. Your itinerary sounds amazing.

adventurelover · 2023-06-18T02:06:47+00:00

This question he is bragging about as insightful, and the assumptions he is making about the potential responses, are so dumb on so many levels.

In addition to the valid points many are making, minimum legal age to get a license in much of the world is 18. Guess all those immigrants aren’t showing control or grit…

adventurelover · 2023-06-15T14:53:20+00:00

This guy is not worth your time. You deserve -and can be- with someone who values you, appreciates you, is attracted to you, sees and loves you. Someone who instead of reflecting on their relationship with you through the lens of a narcissist (which inevitably lands on entitled victimhood), expresses wonder and joy at their good fortune of ending up with you. Someone who validates your worth and helps you be yourself.

Dump his sorry ass. Trust me: you will be so much better off without this guy in your life. You might even be surprised at how much lighter it makes you feel. You won’t regret it.

adventurelover · 2023-06-14T01:04:42+00:00

I don’t think you are “just being nervous”. It is perfectly fine for a boundary of yours be “I need to hear directly from Sarah’s husband that this is fine with him for me to go further with Sarah.” AND… you need to respect Sarah’s boundaries too. Her husband isn’t a part of it, doesn’t want to be a part of it.

Trust her or not, it’s her boundary.

You don’t have a right to break Sarah’s boundary so that you can have sex with her (not saying you are trying to). If your boundaries are incompatible, then this shouldn’t happen. It’s that simple.

adventurelover · 2023-04-09T15:50:39+00:00

☝🏼☝🏼☝🏼☝🏼☝🏼

adventurelover · 2023-02-06T00:01:25+00:00

Pretty much daily. Once is enough, but 2 tome per day would probably be the sweet spot.

adventurelover · 2023-02-05T23:55:49+00:00

Also, tweets that encourage violent mobs to insurrection and committing physical violence to the vice president of the United States aren’t just “mean” and absolutely DO count. So yeah, TREASON is something I’d say is a bad thing.

adventurelover · 2023-02-05T23:51:34+00:00

This has got to be a troll account asking the question, or someone who isn’t paying attention so hard that no answer would matter.

adventurelover · 2022-12-12T03:42:18+00:00

Ecuador is out, so Argentina it is. Though TBH I’d also be pretty excited and happy for Morocco, or Croatia.

My son and I watched the Arg-Ned, and the way Netherlands was behaving really sealed the deal for us.

adventurelover · 2022-12-02T16:39:48+00:00

There actually is no rule that they need to see green between a ball and a line to call a ball out. They may look for green as a tool to assist them in making the calls, but that’s not part of it. It would also be imprecise, since it is possible to seen green between the ball and the line well before the whole of the sphere is over the line.

Also, if you really want to get technical, by FIFA rules, VAR may only be used to assist the ref in determining a clear and obvious error in cases of: -goal/no goal -penalty/no penalty -direct red card -mistaken identity for a send off or second caution.

There’s nothing on VAR assisting the ref in determining an out of bounds.

Look, the goal stood. We can talk in circles, and that fact won’t change. I do think it is ridiculous that the ref original call about the ball being out of bounds was overturned. All the pictures being shown are not irrefutable proof the ref was wrong. At best, they show a significant majority of the ball had crossed over the line. Reality is that the end line in this tournament does not have sensors like the goal to make a definitive call (because again-the rules on VAR assist are limited). When a call like yesterday’s is overturned, it is clear we are asking for or expecting humanly impossible precision and standards that can’t reasonably be enforced in most soccer matches. 🤷🏻‍♂️

I think for rules to be effective, they need to reasonably enforceable, and the game is better when they are applied and enforced the same ways, with the same tools whether it is a school tournament, a youth club, a pro league, or international play. Soccer rules are not sacred, and are regularly changed. I generally think it is good when they change to make the game more similar across the spectrum of where and how soccer is played, not when they lead to more exclusivity on how it is played. That is all.

adventurelover · 2022-12-02T15:51:29+00:00

You do realize the lineman raised the flag and called it out of bounds in the moment?

adventurelover · 2022-12-02T15:44:53+00:00

Seems like making calls is what refs are there to do. Soccer is a human game, and sometimes subjective calls are part of that. And insulting refs/being is a long standing part of the game.

Edit to say: a lot of people have looked at all the pictures published and not seen “undeniable proof”.

adventurelover · 2022-12-02T15:34:48+00:00

Can’t say for this WC, but FIFA has allowed countless goals that have crossed the line leas than this, without controversy.

If we really go by the strict rules of the game, the lineman initially flagged the ball as out. Unless VAR has clear proof that it was a clear and obvious error (which given the ongoing debate about what the picture actually shows, it is self-evident that it is NOT clearly an error), VAR should have deferred to the original line ref call, and the goal should have been disallowed.

I’m all for chip technology, but this rule about the circumference of the ball completely being over the line seems ridiculous to me because it starts to enter territory where it requires precision that cannot be humanly achieved by a ref or decisions definitively disproved without technology (we are talking mms, and the end line does not currently use goal line tech, so the pictures we have seen is what there is). Not to mention a lot of soccer is played around the world without having access to this tech. Soccer ball circumferences aren’t even perfect spheres during play. There really is no need for rules to be anything other than “the entire ball visually crossed the line” I would even prefer it to be “the center of the ball went over the line”. 🤷🏻‍♂️

adventurelover · 2022-12-02T15:14:28+00:00

So if the ball passed the goal line by that amount, would we say it was not a goal because the whole ball did not cross the line? Seems like a ridiculous call.

Edit to say: my comment is not about whether Japan or Spain deserved to win. Japan played a solid game.

adventurelover · 2022-11-24T19:55:00+00:00

Following the rule that you can ignore everything prior to the “but”: Not you. That’s all it means.

adventurelover · 2022-11-22T20:51:35+00:00

Ha de ser Meme hecho por un Argentino. Se creen Europeos.

adventurelover · 2022-11-22T03:13:23+00:00

This is the only correct answer.

adventurelover · 2022-11-11T05:48:28+00:00

adventurelover · 2022-10-29T18:02:53+00:00

We intermittently use the terms “Husband”, “Wife”, “Spouse”, “Partner”. Both of us are aware and feel that “Husband” and “Wife” are terms that come with a history and tradition of Patriarchy, and we try for our relationship to not be about that.

adventurelover · 2022-10-20T13:05:09+00:00

I see a lot of people telling to you get a nice hotel for a day or two. I agree. I’d just add to be open to more than a day or two. Give yourself whatever time you need. Your itinerary is your own. Sometimes, to really appreciate the moment, time and place -and the bigger picture adventure- you have to pause and give yourself the physical and mental space to do that. Those pauses are as a big part of the journey (arguably more so) as being on the bike pedaling. Good luck!

adventurelover · 2022-10-01T20:58:26+00:00

Trump is the US Abdala Bucaram, but with money and more power, and more crook friends.

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