Or something poops on your face.
pingveno
joined 6 years ago
The divorce rate among millennials is decreasing in the US compared to earlier generations. That said, reducing it to how long people are waiting to marry ignores a lot of other factors. For instance, low income couples are more likely to never marry, their relationships are less stable, and if they do get married they are more likely to get divorced.
At the same time, it picks and chooses its dates. Gold has been volatile, with the price oscillating between $2,100 USD in 1980, $470 USD in 2001, and back up to $2,200 USD in 2011.
I was recently trying to talk a person online out of marrying someone once the two of them are both 18. It's partly because they're head-over-heels in love with their partner and partly to move out of the US to Canada to escape their trans hostile state. They are trans and their partner helped them through some rough patches. The couple is only now meeting in person for the first time after three years. It was a little frustrating talking to them because I'm a naturally cautious person. My husband and I took about five years from first date to cohabiting to wedding. They honestly sounded like your stereotypical love sick teenager.
I would agree with the general judgement of this cartoon. There's going to be some survivor bias for marriages that worked young. I know a woman who married a man who was in his 50's when she was 18, right out of high school. When he died, she never remarried. But you never hear much about the marriages where an 18-year-old deemed themselves "more mature than those other girls/boys" and it turned into a disaster. They typically don't last that long and no one wants to talk about them much.
Not just that, but the economic powerhouses are almost exclusively cities run by Democrats. Even deep red states have Democrats as mayors of their big cities. Texas would have a hard time funding a war if they were trying to do it on the backs of porcupines.
Child sized, one could even say.
Now you're reminding me of my uncle and his multiple hernias. He waited for years to get them taken care of because he didn't want to have to deal with the recovery time.
To me, it sounds like a man who does not understand social interactions trying to emulate how he should act, as he's been taught in therapy for the past however many years in prison. He will never come off as normal because he is attempting to do something that his brain isn't capable of. It seems very in line with my impression of his past interactions online.
preceding
Are you sure you didn't mean succeeding?
The boys are little rascals, but they're 8 and 10 so they might mature by 15. I'm certainly not giving them the whistles before then.
Yeah, I was probably going to wait until 18 for the whistle. It's not as loud as a pea whistle, but it's still annoying. The only reason I would ever give it to them earlier would be because we're in an area that is under threat of a Cascadia Subduction Zone Earthquake. But if they're just going to get it taken away because they can't control themselves, it's not going to be much use. For this particular whistle it is hard to produce a nice satisfying screech, though I suppose they might just take that as a challenge.
For the flashlight, I was thinking more like 15 or 16. The only risk there is losing it, but it's cheap so that's kind of their call on whether they value it enough to replace it.
My parents had a bed built for their minivan with ample storage and a thick layer of latex foam. They did some trips around the US using that, though ultimately it turns out they're just not great sleepers.