Family first, always. Peace and strength to you and yours.

Has that, "Oh, noes! Yummy Taco Trucks!" energy..

I would then lead an exercise that equally uniformly demonstrated that they would actually put themselves in mortal danger to avoid seeming wimpy or indecisive.

Another very hard wired impulse that doubles down on this; saving face/avoiding embarrassment. I used to teach hazardous chemical safety to fire fighters, and I would ask them, "Would you rather be hurt or embarrassed?" They would uniformly answer, "Embarrased, of course!"

I use checks for one primary purpose: it's generally the only way to pay for a subscription that thwarts automatic renewal.

Randall Monroe of XKCD summarizes it well in the alt text to one of his comics regarding Ayn Rand/Atlas Shrugged: "I had a hard time with Ayn Rand because I found myself enthusiastically agreeing with the first 90% of every sentence, but getting lost at 'therefore, be a huge asshole to everyone."

Not a constituent, but thank you, Senator Warren for raising the alarm. This is a breathtaking privacy incident, and it should be treated as such, with full, targeted disclosure to all impacted parties (which is every last one of us!), and include penalizing ANY unlawful data sharing.

Not a constituent, but thank you, Senator Wyden for raising the alarm. This is a breathtaking privacy incident, and it should be treated as such, with full, targeted disclosure to all impacted parties (which is every last one of us!), and include penalizing ANY unlawful data sharing.

I have found myself to be well-served by remembering, "Never mud wrestle with a pig. You get filthy and the pig has fun."

I've wandered in the woods for sixty years, most of them REALLY casual about ticks, but the rise of alpha gal-become reactive to red meat? DIP. ME. IN. DEET NOW.

This. It's a loosing proposition, attempting to mud wrestle pigs; you will always get filthy, while the pigs will have grand fun.

It delights me that Uline spends a great deal of money regularly sending me catalogs that I use only as a visual dictionary so I can find the proper name for some whachamacallit to buy from someone else.