Exact same thing just happened in Lebanon.

Almost certainly the proverbial straw that broke your literal back.

When the server came to take the drink order my date lean in close and whisper to my ear “only get a mixer” as she pressed two small bottles into my hand and then winked at me.

Marriage Material

Women in movies: “Going to do a full blown date prep montage, complete with song and dance number, where I transform from mousy librarian to runway model over the course of 15 minutes. Come out cool as a cucumber and charming as a prince.”

Women in real life: “Going to throw on a top and some jeans, half watch a Netflix special about serial killers while I curl my hair, then down a mug of hard liquor to build up the courage to look a guy I’ve got a crush on straight in the eyes. Try to make it through dinner without mumbling, burping, or mentioning that I’m on my period.”

That’s just being out of shape.

Like, to a degree, you’re not wrong. Desk jobs, car culture, a lack of free time, it all adds up to bonus aches and pains that a more active person can avoid. But there’s another angle to it, which is simply that you don’t heal from every injury in full. And you don’t heal as quickly or thoroughly once you’ve stopped growing. So your body keeps the score.

A lot of getting older is about avoiding strains as much as keeping in shape. You’re trying to avoid adding new injuries to the pile, because they confound what you exercises you can continue to do and hobble your ability to stay limber and maintain muscle over time.

You see this a lot with people in their 40s and 50s. They’re healthy, they’re strong, they’re going along just fine. And then they get into a car accident. Or they experience some emotional trauma. Or they get a nasty illness. Or anything that puts them in bed for too long. They gain weight. They lose muscle and flexibility. They slow down. And one bad year ages them more than a dozen good ones.

Then you see it again in the 80s and 90s, when a single bad fall will straight up kill you.

Exercise helps, sure. And eating rights. And being on the right medications early on. But everything you’re doing is about dodging that next bullet. Trying to over-exert yourself can be just as dangerous as sitting idle. My grandfather died in his mid-60s after what my grandmother claims he insisted was the best tennis game of his life. Heart gave out in his sleep. My grandmother lived another 30 years, half of them in a wheelchair, until she took a spill trying to get out of bed and cracked her hip.

You, a 30 year old: “I screwed up my back doing some insane yoga bullshit.”

Me, a 40 year old: “Hold my pepcid, I’m going to simply roll out of bed wrong.”

Some of them, maybe. A lot more would be farm hands

That’s a cruel backhanded swipe at Ferrari

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The analogy presumes you want cops to have free access to your home

40% of Cops

Well, except for the last bit, sure.

Hegseth was drooling over another $200B requisition from Congress in order to keep fighting. I’m sure there are psychos in the administration furious that Trump isn’t willing to double down and send in ground troops

I’m sure it will persist, as it primarily services Americans. And their money is still good.

If anything, we’ll see the Mexican health care system expand in order to absorb all the domestic residents who can now afford the same care

The whole point in the constitution is to give the public the rights to fight against tyranny.

You might want to revisit the history of the document, relative to what was occurring at the time

Making weed illegal created a causa belli for an uncountable number of police stops and searches.

The biggest barrier to Internet access is simply having a device with an Internet connection. Everything after that is a question of configuration.

What I’d consider the bigger fallout from this decision is the need to check the identity of people over 16. This is a backdoor method of imposing Internet ID on the entire population.

the same politicians pushing it are exempt

Because they’re all over 16?

“We told people with a debilitating speech condition to get off the government dole and work a fucking job”

But that’s not civil! It’s not Constitutional!!