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“They both also spend two nights of the week practicing self-defense martial arts after the harassment destroyed their sense of safety in their own home. ”

well, that’s probably a positive development. i just bought this book to read ona trip today, FACING VIOLENCE…basically about mental preparedness to deal with bad situations.

not saying these people didn’t suffer or making light of their injury. i’m sure it sucked. just that the selfdefense classes are a positive step.

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if anyone wants a ree month’s pass, i can hook you up, PM me. on the 79 near best buy. also in murrieta somewhere

just one month and i feel like a new man.

blood pressuredropped 10 points to 99/61.

i walk around feeling like a jungle cat.

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What about unvaccinated people bear full cost of any health problem out of pocket?

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Capital one strikes me as a cheesy company. Like loansharks. Maybe that was the old days? I recall getting offers for some bizarrely high interest rates.

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[quote=poorgradstudent][quote=scaredyclassic]Here’s some legal advice.

If you have to go to trial and choose between 2 lawyers. One who’s real good with the law, data or scientific evidence….and another one who seems a little dumber but who is a riveting storyteller…

Take the latter.[/quote]

Or hire a firm that has both, with the storyteller doing the talking in court and the brain doing research and feeding the talker notes in the courtroom.

I actually know a lawyer who is more the former, but he rarely sets foot in an actual court room.[/quote]

What I mean is if you need to persuade people, storytellers work better than technicians.

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not sure if this is an example but my kid is aspiring to be an engineer in a major city and live in a “microapartment” of about 200 sq ft. I thoughtt his was awesome.

does seem to indicate some scaled down expectations…back in the 70s i think he could have easily gotten a 400 sq footer

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Thus far you have completely failed to answer the question:

What are examples of things that ordinary folk were buying in 1973 that they cannot afford today?[/quote]

Remember that the purpose of internet forums is never to debate or convince anyone of their way of thinking. No one here is going to change what they believe in so it’s really all a waste of time.

That said, I had to answer and say college costs in the 70s were more affordable than now. Back then, you could make a decent living even without a college degree. Good luck with that now for most folks. Ordinary folks could go to college if they wanted to and it was cheap.

Another item is healthcare. Back in the 70s, most people had much cheaper healthcare. I recently paid well over 12k for healthcare for me and my family of 4 and we are all insanely healthy (no smoke/drink/overweight) before Obamacare…

There are plenty of things I feel, but at the end of the day, people tend to look at things only from their view of the world/life/experience. This is why if you read any forum or talk to people, no one seems to “get it” since they only see the world from 1 angle.

I have no good solutions, but in the end, after I’m long gone, if things are bad enough, I think we’ll just end up with some revolution (more likely to happen in various parts of Europe with massively high youth unemployment first than here)…but a few super wealthy people see it and are concerned, but at the end of the day, if people are worst off and pissed off enough, it’ll just lead to more crime and people simply taking what they don’t have. It does no one any good in that type of world.

In America, it’s also easy to get guns so probably in 50 years, it maybe a bad/worst world here, but I’d be long dead so not my problem I guess.[/quote]

not entirely true. Pigging ton changed my mind about buying a house.

I honestly am open to changing my mind about virtually anything in the universe.

Except bicycles. I like them.

also the need to be strong. Not willing to debate.

other than that I have no idea what the right way is.

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Comicswere cheaper even adjusted for inflation.

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[quote=zk]And perhaps your misunderstanding of how this works is also partly responsible for your suspicion of a cover up. If you think that each new case needs to be investigated in order to understand what’s happening, then you’d expect the government to be very interested in each new case. The reason they’re not as interested as you’d like isn’t because of a cover up. It’s because the science has already been done. Many times. At some point, you’re just wasting your time and money investigating something that’s already been proven incorrect. The government doesn’t want to hear about it if you suspect that you were cured by bloodletting, either. That’s not because of a cover up. It’s because the science has been done already.[/quote]

actually the new research on bloodletting is that it may have intense health benefits.

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Wine and beer are much better quality and cheaper I think. It was hard to get good cheap wine in the 70s. Of course it was hard for me to get alcohol generally as I was underage for a good chunk of those yrs. And had to drink whatever was avaliable.

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Most critical decisions are made emotionally.

my oldest kid did get into tau beta phi honor society this semester. His rational thinking processes are startlingly clear especially considering he comes in part from me. My mind is like some filthy hoarders house …filled with disorganized useless crap. His is like some beautiful fast new laptop.

I envy his wonderful clear rational brain. I would love to live in it for a day.

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[quote=flyer][quote=scaredyclassic]Here’s some legal advice.

If you have to go to trial and choose between 2 lawyers. One who’s real good with the law, data or scientific evidence….and another one who seems a little dumber but who is a riveting storyteller…

Take the latter.[/quote]

Agree.

Regardless of IQ, (including most of us who have joined Mensa) the most successful people I know–those who are really living the lives they want to live–(my definition of success)–have extraordinary emotional capacities–in balance with their analytical.

I realize scientific evidence trumps emotion concerning most, if not all medical issues, but, I’d have to say the most successful decisions and deals I’ve ever made in life came more from an emotional than analytical basis.[/quote]

Emotional strength, control and wellbeing. It matters. You need to hold it together to really be successful in this crazy life. It’s not easy. I have always valued my kids general psychological awareness and well being over dogged academic success. Not a tiger dad more a pussy cat dad.

emotions rule everything.

That’s why we need a good story to justify vaccines. Not just facts.
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That is interesting.

I feel like I read the book by reading the Wikipedia sumnary.

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That is by far the sexiest thing I have ever seen on the intertubes.

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If I do x and y happens shortly thereafter it’s gonna be very hard 4 me to believe in my bones there’s no causation even if the science is overwhelming otherwise.

This local pattern spotting is how each of us had surviving ancestors…there was no time to wait for science

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