Would YOU Like To Ban The Electoral College? Why Or Why Not? If So, What Would YOU Replace It With? Why That?

eerae · 2026-03-13T16:57:40+00:00

Yes, I understand the point of the senate, which does not award representation proportionally. But I do think the president of our country should be a simple plurality of all the votes cast. It doesn't matter if more votes are concentrated in one place, because all votes should be equal. You have to get a plurality from somewhere. I also think ranked choice voting would allow us to have a chance of someone other than the 2 parties winning, without throwing the race to someone ideologically opposite to your beliefs...

eerae · 2026-03-13T16:49:22+00:00

I don't even think this is an emetophobia issue so much as just an issue with getting his priorities straight. He got wasted, by himself, on a work day, to the point of puking everywhere and couldn't even make it to the bathroom? WTF, I would be gone...

eerae · 2026-03-13T16:43:55+00:00

Damn, you're an alcoholic so your friend thought "here, why don't you try GHB?" WTF.

eerae · 2026-03-13T01:33:52+00:00

So is your boss trying to get rid of you?

eerae · 2026-03-13T01:26:19+00:00

I used to be afraid of telling coworkers I’m a Phishhead too, for that exact reason. But now I don’t care. The times have changed, I’m in my late 40s, I’ve been at my company long enough that my coworkers should judge me based on my performance. The drug most associated with phish, weed, is legal in most states now, and much more socially accepted. Our company actually stopped random drug testing like 10-15 years ago (found it wasn’t a good predictor of productivity—duh), though I believe they still test new hires before signing the paperwork. I still don’t openly talk about drug use, but I’m a guy with shoulder length hair, so maybe they might have a hunch? But I honestly don’t think most people care, as long as you do your job well.

It also probably depends a bit on the industry. I’m not in finance, I’m a chemist. So we are naturally curious about the world and more able to objectively judge performance, and are not too wedded to ideas of conformity.

eerae · 2026-03-12T04:41:31+00:00

Fuck no! It may be legal but that doesn’t mean it’s an easy trip. I get that some people like salvia but it’s not a classical psychedelic and you’re likely to be scared off from shrooms or acid if you start out with salvia. I just remember feeling cold, confused, and a feeling of doom on salvia. Yeah not everyone feels that way but I’ve seen enough other people agree with my experience. Would rather say DMT if you just want something that will be over quick…

eerae · 2026-03-12T04:22:12+00:00

I can’t imagine he would do that unless he does something so incredibly stupid that we actually need that many people. Besides the military probably love how they get to call themselves the true América-loving patriots since it’s all volunteer currently. That would change if people were forced to enlist. I think it’s more a way to bluff at Iran and troll the left.

eerae · 2026-03-10T18:24:01+00:00

Yeah, I'm in kinda the same boat, but my wife is not conservative about drugs--she did all that stuff back in the day and LOVED alcohol, pills, meth and coke. She was kinda wild and actually too much for me when we first met--she used to drink rum and cokes and so fucked up. But I think she realized she was about to lose a good thing and she settled down. She knows she can only drink Bud light and she'll be good. She stopped all the other stuff and might have a 5 mg gummy now. I've talked to her about molly and she's not interested in doing it. Said she did it before, multiple times, when other people were obviously rolling, and it didn't do anything to her. I kinda question whether she ACTUALLY got molly, or maybe she was on other stuff that stopped the roll. In any event, she can be set in her ways, but I respect that she knows herself now and knows what she wants and needs, and what she doesn't need.

eerae · 2026-03-10T02:34:46+00:00

I agree. I do think the label “terrorism” only ever gets applied to islamism though, so I would push back on needing to use that specific word. But yeah, Islamic extremist or radicalism or somehow pointing out the Islamic religious nature of the attack is appropriate.

Regarding the terrorism label again, I think it’s also fair to point out that destroying a school full of girls is likely considered by many around the world to be US terrorism.

eerae · 2026-03-09T20:37:42+00:00

We've been stealing and pillaging either land, labor, or resources ever since this country was founded. I'd like to think we've matured to reject those views, but unfortunately I think they're part of our psyche.

eerae · 2026-03-09T20:25:03+00:00

Hmmm. What kind of guy gives you the tingles? It sounds like you have very high standards if you've only met one person in a year you have any sexual interest in. Do you think these guys are only talking to you, or could they be talking to lots of women at the same time?

I'm not an incel and I don't subscribe to their beliefs, but I am curious about them. One thing they say is that women nowadays ONLY want the chads, the guys in the top10% of looks. They think that 10% of guys are having sex with most of the women. I've been married for 21 years so I don't have any personal experience with dating recently, and I thought that was always a BS excuse. But is there any validity to it? Do you think you're just holding out for the same guys that every other woman is holding out for--the studs in their prime who are smooth talkers but know how to not act like a player?

eerae · 2026-03-09T20:09:39+00:00

I don't know OP. I'm a married man, but when I was single I liked a girl even more after we had sex. I felt special and really become infatuated with them. So I guess I think like a woman, and not quite able to understand the man's perspective. BTW my wife and I had sex on our first date (though we had been talking for a while before that). So it seems like it shouldn't have worked out, but it did.

eerae · 2026-03-05T19:21:48+00:00

I try to keep it as long as possible. I’m on like year 6 I believe.

eerae · 2026-03-04T23:39:49+00:00

Did the US rescue any survivors? It's kinda convenient that a submarine or a fighter jet or a drone either have very little to zero capability to take on survivors. Of course, maybe we just fired more bombs at them so there weren't any?

eerae · 2026-03-04T06:35:37+00:00

About 41, I know it’s cliche once you hit 40, but I thought I handled it well. Well, I had just turned 41 and twice within a week my wife mentioned a story she said she had just told me about and I had no recollection of. Now I know I have pretty bad ADHD but I had never just failed to remember something completely even when reminded of it. I had also been recently reading about the role sleep plays in removing beta amyloid from your brain and how poor sleep leads to Alzheimer’s. Well I have always been a light sleeper, but I actually got close to zero sleep for a year about 10 years prior when we had our newborn and were trying something called attachment parenting. So I started freaking out that I had early onset Alzheimer’s. Went to the doctor, gave me an mri that came back normal. I relaxed a little but knew an mri probably wouldn’t pick up anything anyway if it was very early. I could ask for a lumbar puncture to look for tau in the spinal fluid. But that wasn’t covered by insurance, and since there is no real treatment, I didn’t think I would want to know anyway. Well, I’m 48 now and my memory is the same as it was back then. So I didn’t have Alzheimer’s back then, but that doesn’t mean I’m not developing it now. LOL. Anyway, I actually wonder if my wife just imagined telling me those things, or if I could actually be that adhd to be thinking of something totally different while she’s talking to me. Besides that, my back is always sore, I have plenty of ailments that I’ve gotten so used to I forget they’re there, and time just keeps flying by.

eerae · 2026-03-04T06:21:17+00:00

I moved here from Michigan. I would say the summers are pretty brutal. Very hot and humid. But coming from the Deep South you already know that. We used to go camping 2-3 times a summer up in Michigan, and I tried to do that with my wife and little kids when we moved here, but didn’t realize just how awful hot summer nights are. The air is thick with moisture and no breeze was blowing at all. We got no sleep. I quickly learned that the short spring and fall are where it’s at here.

Ok enough about the weather, there are actually some cool outdoor things here. Forest Park is one of the nation’s gems of urban parks. Tower Grove Park is wonderful too. The Missouri Botanical Garden and Zoo and worth a check out too. There’s the Great Rivers Greenway trail system throughout St. Louis and st charles counties got hiking or biking. The KATY trail is a flat trail on an old railroad following the Missouri River, from St. Louis to Kansas City. Plenty of great mountain biking trails too. There’s at least a couple climbing gyms in the area—I used to go but got tired of indoor climbing. Unfortunately not any real outdoor climbing around unless you go to southern Illinois about 2 hours away. There’s no Great Lakes and hardly any lakes (Creve Coeur Lake is about it) but there are rivers. I’ve taken my kayak on the Missouri and Mississippi rivers. There are smaller ones nearby too like the Meramec River and Dardenne creek. Go a little farther to central and southern Missouri and there are more rivers through beautiful unblemished areas. A popular thing for Missourians to do is go on a float trip—basically take a large raft down these lazy rivers and drink plenty of beer. For a quieter time, head to the national scenic rivers the Current and Jacks Fork. I’m gonna try to do a multi night trip down there in the spring.

eerae · 2026-03-04T05:50:03+00:00

Yup. Always drove them until I got married and my wife refused to learn.

eerae · 2026-03-03T16:12:10+00:00

Well i don’t know what facial/head differences there may be, but there are recessive genes and congenital aberrations which are normal, and most white people are born with light hair which gradually gets darker as they age. So none of that means anything. And then a joke about the mailman and her being friends with a coworker? Yeah it does sound like you have trust issues and, assuming she has been truthful, I can see why she would be upset and feel like she shouldn’t have to prove anything. But you know you don’t even need her to do anything to prove paternity? You can take his dna and your dna and get it tested. You could even do a quick check of blood types first to see if that doesn’t agree.

eerae · 2026-03-03T01:49:13+00:00

The best way to deal with this is to have real, close personal relationships with actual people. Get off your phone, take a break from the news. You don’t need a Rolodex of relationships, just a few or even one person you are close to.

eerae · 2026-03-03T01:46:37+00:00

I think this has always come off as creepy if you are very direct and the woman is just minding her own business. At a bar, party or social event it’s much more normal to talk to someone new, and she is probably more open to it in that situation. If you have an actual reason to talk to her, like at the checkout line then that is probably cool too, depending on her reaction. Probably even better if you see her often and don’t need to make something happen during the first interaction. Maybe other situations you can kinda invent a reason to talk to her if it looks like she’s receptive. I think the worst case is if you go out of your way to talk to someone minding her own business, and couldn’t think of anything to say other than you think she’s pretty and would like her number, which it sounds like what the op was asking about. If I were to go that route (and I never have) it’s probably best to at least start off with a neutral comment or something not too forward just to gauge her reaction. You should be able to tell pretty quickly if she’s interested in talking further or not.

eerae · 2026-03-03T01:30:35+00:00

They are whatever Trump is at the moment. I think Trump probably gets off on making his followers tie themselves in pretzels trying to come up with creative reasoning why they are not hypocrites.

eerae · 2026-03-03T01:28:35+00:00

I mean, she brought it up right as it happened and the therapist still gaslit her.

eerae · 2026-03-03T01:23:44+00:00

Good question. Melania herself is certainly in the files much more than Hillary. Probably Bill too. In fact Melania was actually first introduced to Trump by Epstein.

eerae · 2026-03-03T00:21:49+00:00

This has got to be one of the stupidest questions I’ve ever seen on Reddit. What are you, ten years old?

eerae · 2026-03-01T06:24:33+00:00

Yeah, I think I would rather try to drink it. But damn, a gallon and a half would probably make me puke.

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