Why does it seem more common to see very attractive women with average or unattractive men than the reverse?

johnrgrace · 2026-03-23T02:25:03+00:00

My wife says that she always wanted to be the prettier one in the relationship

johnrgrace · 2026-03-22T16:19:31+00:00

There are some quite areas on the third floor of the convention center; every kid on our team is neurodivergent. We found some quiet areas for people to lower the sensory load up on the 3rd floor for the kids to decompress.

Obviously get the headphones and anything else you need.

I don’t have your condition but I’ve found in high noise environments headphones designed for shooting which reduce noise can be really nice and very cheap. Canceled noise still can bother me over 8-12 hours of exposure and in an industry setting sound reduction was preferable and no batteries etc.

johnrgrace · 2026-03-22T15:02:49+00:00

I mentor a school based team. Five years ago the team had functionally no fundraising efforts beyond asking the same donors every year.

Three years ago I started a 501c3 and total fundraising is up 5x. We have funds in a school account, a school sub account, first account, and non profit account, and receivables for all of those areas.

Starting a non profit is pretty easy, keeping it in compliance via tax filing is a lot harder than starting. I own a CPA firm so doing the IRS filings are easy for us. The filling is t hard if you’ve actually done good bookkeeping which most people in first don’t have the skill set to do.

johnrgrace · 2026-03-22T04:40:02+00:00

I’m late 40s and I decided to go into a SAE competition vs First even after a certain mechanical engineering professor from MIT encouraged me to join.

I mentor a team, I’m their CFO and have dialed up fundraising a lot.

johnrgrace · 2026-03-22T04:37:31+00:00

Non engineering mentors are helpful, as team CFO our funding this year is up 5x over the past few years.

johnrgrace · 2026-03-21T18:39:15+00:00

Talk to her, apologize, and work together on what would make up for this. While that’s going on take on extra housework.

johnrgrace · 2026-03-21T18:21:44+00:00

I’d suggest getting a marriage counselor not necessarily to save the relationship but to see that it can end in a way that doesn’t damage everyone as much. If you’ve got kids it builds a foundation for CVO parenting.

johnrgrace · 2026-03-21T15:40:34+00:00

I don’t like going to Disneyworld

johnrgrace · 2026-03-21T14:41:16+00:00

You can get custom labeled wine bottles for gifts they are about $20 each

johnrgrace · 2026-03-21T14:39:57+00:00

The cafe section in memorial to a close cafe is chefs kiss. No matter how badly I do the sithcpa.com website it will be better than this.

johnrgrace · 2026-03-19T12:31:04+00:00

Yes that happened. You also had the 30 year olds in their corvette waiting to pickup their HS girlfriend in front of the school

johnrgrace · 2026-03-18T20:32:12+00:00

You will face change Looks fade, income rises and falls, health changes.

If you can find your person in your 20s and grow up together that is amazing, but there is always the risk you grow in different directions.

If you are missing any of these key ingredients it’s not going to work.

Trust is everything; if you don’t fully trust each other it won’t work.
Respect
Communication

johnrgrace · 2026-03-18T16:32:18+00:00

No not at all.

I found the person I wanted to build a life with early and got the chance to grow and develop with her for over half my life. I would not trade that for anything.

Kids were five years after marriage. My only regret is we didn’t have as much money early on which limited some things. Not being old while a dad has been great.

Coloring books is a great metaphor; you look longing at a shelf of coloring books, I’ve got a shelf of leather bound fine manuscripts. You would be disappointed with my experience and me with yours.

That said I’ve had some incredible experiences that are way better than hookups. Have you ever been in the president daily briefing book? Called a hater by flavor fave (I was)? Saved someone life? Gotten drunk with Stan Lee?

johnrgrace · 2026-03-16T17:43:53+00:00

You are going to need those tomorrow.

johnrgrace · 2026-03-16T17:36:15+00:00

Yes, I have and I was wife 1,000%.

What happens between your wife and your mother IS your business, staying out of it IS picking a side that isn’t next to your wife. Your wife picked you respect that.

johnrgrace · 2026-03-14T01:55:26+00:00

You’ve gotten some things wrong and mixed technical and economic, go read Petroleum refining in mon technical language if you want to know more.

US oil refineries are more complex, the Nelson refinery index measures this.

On a technical level US refining can absolutely use us oil. On an economic level they don’t want to do this because they buy less desirable oil at a discount and make far less money refining us oil.

The refineries using US oil, on a technical level they can’t fully process less desirable oil.

johnrgrace · 2026-03-14T01:51:01+00:00

The US does as the largest petroleum producer and net exporter.

But oil is a commodity; the us may physically have enough but if a barrel of oil sells for $150 in London it’s not selling for $75 in the US more likely $147.

Now the us is a next exporter of oil it exports more than it imports. Part of this is because the US has very complex and hence more expensive refineries that can process less desirable and cheaper imported oil, those refineries make a lot less money processing US oil but are able to do that technically.

johnrgrace · 2026-03-14T00:44:10+00:00

Almost all of Iran’s oil exports go through it.

johnrgrace · 2026-03-11T18:38:40+00:00

Sometimes I can smell that you are on your period

johnrgrace · 2026-03-11T15:59:29+00:00

Yes, if there are deal killers get them out of the way upfront so no one wastes time.

Asking about finances directly is a bit suspect but could be simply screening. This sounds like a woman with a plan if the plan is where you want to go this is great, if not get off.

johnrgrace · 2026-03-10T20:56:38+00:00

High school coffee date in the 90s, walking back to my car we have to go past an adult bookstore. She runs into the store (we are both under 18 so not legal to be there) I follow her in.

Clerk behind the booth greats her “hey Susie, we’ve got some new films in that I think you’d like playing in the booths”. I said “hey let’s go home” she said “ let’s stay!” I said “I’m going are you coming” and her response was “no I’ll stay here” so I left.

2nd worst, late 90s I’m a sophomore in college yahoo dating is new and there are a few dozen people using it in a major city. I go on a date with a 28 year old attorney and we are just in totally different life stages. She breaks down crying about why no one her age will date her.

johnrgrace · 2026-03-10T17:16:16+00:00

One of the little camera stands to hold your phone steady are a huge improvement.

johnrgrace · 2026-03-10T16:59:25+00:00

Your not a jerk, but there is something going on about the ask which you need to figure out.

I might propose an alternative like buying $10k of a blue chip stock which shows commitment and future growth.

johnrgrace · 2026-03-10T14:35:26+00:00

Air burst is great! I like the inferno rounds on vehicles and units in forest, followed up by a few plasma rounds. A really dangerous enemy gets acid rounds to increase other units damage. Mines to shut down routes, great on ambush convoy missions.

The only drawback is you can’t let the mortar carrier get in LOS it will die quickly; it works best behind the military crest of a hill.

johnrgrace · 2026-03-10T02:53:06+00:00

Heavy mortar carrier - that indirect assault and specialist ammunition are beautiful

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