Can you live anywhere that isn't home?

Some mild looting.

Husband leaves for work, handyman comes over to fix pipes.

I'd probably be cast as "Husband."

In college through a mutual friend that had a crush on me.

That mutual friend doesn't talk to either of us anymore.

As a dad at the catchin' end of things, nobody bothered to mention 'afterbirth' to me until I saw it happen, and wondered why the hell my wife's guts were chasing my son out the door.

I don't know if the signals we're talking about from stimulus to response are skipping the brain, so much as the brain recognizes and processes things faster. Your eyes reading sheet music or seeing a punch aren't able to directly control your muscles or fingers. That order still comes from the brain.

I'm not a doctor or scientist, but I don't think that's how it works. The brain has to process all stimuli before it can send signals to the body to react. The point of training is to speed up the connection between the eyes and brain through repetition and recognition as well as condition muscles to react appropriately.

You can train your body to become reflexive to stimuli. It may not be purely involuntary, but it's quick enough that the line is pretty thin.

Think of any athlete who is trained to perform at the sound of a bell or whistle. Their response to that stimuli, with enough training- becomes automatic enough to be almost involuntarily

I'm a police firearms instructor. Most recruits come to us with some degree of deficiency on day one, but after a week of instruction, we had one kid who just did not get it. He never improved. He was so bad, that at the beginning of the second week of instruction, the head instructor called this guy's chief and told him he needed to see this kid in action. The chief watched for a while and said "If he fails one more course of fire, he's done."

Well, he failed the very next one. One of the instructors had to call this kid aside, collect his sidearm, tell him he was fired, and drive him off the range.

It was probably the most uncomfortable thing I'd seen in a long time, although we weren't too worried about the kid snapping on us, because even though he was armed.....we knew he couldn't shoot.

You're 100% correct. All of this, the tactics on both sides- are designed to make you, the voter- afraid in an effort to maintain every shred of power they can and the fortunes that power brings.

Yeah. Same. I'm not sure how paying through the nose to hang out with a ton of strangers is supposed to be relaxing.

I don't like the idea of defending Trump, and this election will mark the third time that I don't vote for him - but I understand why people WILL. Yeah. Cascading side-effects are a real thing, but I also know it's been the policy of every sitting president to hang responsibility for problems on their predecessor since the very beginning, so I'm not so much of a sucker that I can look at every problem I have right now and say that this administration has no responsibility for it at all.

Thinking that the current President had no direct control over your quality of life is equally moronic.

While I don't like Donald Trump *at all* I fully understand why people are going to be voting with their wallets in a few months. $1000 a month for groceries to feed a family of four and inflation in virtually every other area that matters to the common voter is getting exhausting. To call Biden's strategies "Long Term" is nice I suppose- but I'd like to at least have some semblance of an idea as to exactly how long before we start seeing positive results.

At this point, Biden supporters are asking voters to trade financial stability for social equity. The cause is noble, but the strategy is starting to hurt, so a lot of the "Have Nots" in this nation are going to be perfectly okay with the "Haves" calling them racist if it means they can feed their kids.

Like, sports team? None.

The amount of money and corruption that goes into professional sports turns me off to the whole thing.

However, I actively root AGAINST a couple of teams just because their fans are the most obnoxious people on earth.

Lookin' at you, yankees and patriots fans.

I've ridden a few charity tours, a few hundred miles over the course of a couple of days. Even though it was a fund-raiser for a good cause, most of the other riders were competitive assholes who openly mocked casual riders. I quit riding.

Cruises.

You spend how much money to be cooped on a boat with 3,000 strangers, for how long?

Correct. It's an overblown, overindulgent place that reeks of arrogance and sewage.

It offers nothing I want to see, for free or not.

NYC. It's a shithole that people talk up to try to convince themselves they don't live in a shithole.

I've got a little bit of an inside track on this- in NY, I have several friends who are working in public safety on college campuses. They've told me that there have been a high volume of non-students on campus instigating protests and demonstrations.
It looks to them like someone is paying people to show up to campuses, rattle cages, and vanish, leaving students to get arrested and hold the bag.

The whole thing is being orchestrated- especially since it only seems to be happening on large campuses, while across the state, the smaller ones are completely devoid of demonstrations.

She faked a medical condition and was hospitalized on the day of her husband's retirement party, just to make sure everybody's attention was on her instead of him- after 30 years at his company.

I did some wiring and computer network setup for a guy who owned a company that made surgical equipment. He was a world-class bow hunter.

His trophy room had more square footage than my entire house.

North/South Lake state campground in Tannersville NY, you're almost guaranteed to see a bear at some point. I reported one I saw to the staff, and they said "Oh, yeah, that's just forgotten name - He's always around here.

We wait.

"explain the benefits of porn and theft." - benefit doesn't necessarily equate to morality, but I'll play along anyway.

What about the classic story of Robin Hood? Stealing from the rich, giving to the poor? Would that tactic not justify theft as a moral behavior? It would seem to me that helping people in need is about as moral as it comes.

As for pornography- As long as we're talking about activities that are consensually performed ane legally disseminated....what exactly is amoral about it? Just because I don't like or understand something doesn't mean that it should be universally considered amoral. To say otherwise is extremely dangerous.

Morality is defined as "A person's standard of behavior or beliefs concerning what is and is not acceptable for them to do." - It literally boils down to the individual's interpretation of the world around them.

Just because certain things seem to be universally accepted as moral, which indicates an objective component, cultural differences across the globe accept and reject so many different concepts that applying the same rules to everyone is literally how the world has gotten to be so much of a friggin' mess.

For example your demanding that something like pornography is amoral and nobody should think otherwise is a bigger problem than my literal interpretation of the concept, since you're trying to force your idea of what is and isn't moral on everybody.