The Off Topic Topic

[Ideologue]

No surprise that Baltimore, Louisville and Austin make the all-American hipster list. 

Yes, we do have a whole hipster neighborhood.  Unfortunately there are a lot of interesting restaurants there so I have to go there sometimes.  It sickens me.  SICKENS ME.

Seriously, though, hipster chicks = so hot.  Well, if they're hot already; they do tend to have cool haircuts and at least attempt to stay skinny.

[garbon]

Yeah, they are going to have to do a little better then that.

What's better than having babies?

[Ideologue]

[garbon]

Angelina and Madonna have shown me that the correct answer is buying them.

[Ideologue]

Fair enough.  Homosexuality is probably a form of kin selection anyway.  And we're all brothers and sisters and such.

[Syt]

Texas has would have the highest teen birth rate if Ed moved there.

[Ideologue]

Oh, yeah, and Stanford does equal privileged.  The accusation's a bit tired, but even so.

That said, no, I was not disadvantaged in any conventional or universally accepted way, insofar as being socially retarded and raised by social retards is not one of the accepted categories.  (If ever feasible, I'll probably adopt too. )

Kind of wish I'd been gay or a woman, though.  Not because I covet the status, in a George-Will-is-an-idiot-monster kind of way, but because I think I'd have had a much easier time of it with my personality (especially as a female, I think the different hormonal balance would have really taken the rough edges off post-puberty, that led to a nearly endless series of typically masculine folly ).

Could be sour grapes, but I see my sister (gay woman); she's not as smart or as well-educated as I am, radically more successful--and has been since high school--though we're actually very similar in many ways.  Could also be because she was the second kid and my parents didn't fuck up as badly with her.  Or it could be genetic differences; you can never tell with siblings, it's only an average of 50% shared DNA.

Would not be black in America.  Seems difficult.

[Ideologue]

The garbon vanishes.

[garbon]

I decided that we didn't need to continue this.

[Ideologue]

That's fine.  I think you're a smart dude who deserved to go to Stanford, fwiw.

[Razgovory]

Yeah, they are going to have to do a little better then that.

What's better than having babies?

I'm referring to the useless statistics.  I never studied statistics, but I wasn't born yesterday.  All the numbers are relative to unstated numbers and thus tell us very little.  All the numbers could be true, and Colorado could still have a higher rate of teenage pregnancy and abortion then Texas.  I don't know if that's true, it's probably not, but you can't draw any real conclusions from that except that Texas has a higher rate of repeat births then Colorado, and that number could be so low as to be inconsequential.

[Josquius]

I have always had an issue with playing games that I find it hard to finish them due to wanting to do everything.  Ive never finished Baldurs Gate 2 or Oblivion or New Vegas due to getting too caught up in sidequests and then eventually having life intrude and drag me away from playing for a while, when I get back to my computer a new game has caught my eye.
I think this same issue also afflicts my actual life. I want to experience everything. But of course can't.
I wonder if shrinks have a name for this branch of my insanity
Some sort of cleptomania but for experiences? (of the broad kind. Not trying lots of weird sex stuff and extreme sports and all that)

[DGuller]

Yeah, they are going to have to do a little better then that.

What's better than having babies?

I'm referring to the useless statistics.  I never studied statistics, but I wasn't born yesterday.  All the numbers are relative to unstated numbers and thus tell us very little.  All the numbers could be true, and Colorado could still have a higher rate of teenage pregnancy and abortion then Texas.  I don't know if that's true, it's probably not, but you can't draw any real conclusions from that except that Texas has a higher rate of repeat births then Colorado, and that number could be so low as to be inconsequential.

[garbon]

Yeah, they are going to have to do a little better then that.

What's better than having babies?

I'm referring to the useless statistics.  I never studied statistics, but I wasn't born yesterday.  All the numbers are relative to unstated numbers and thus tell us very little.  All the numbers could be true, and Colorado could still have a higher rate of teenage pregnancy and abortion then Texas.  I don't know if that's true, it's probably not, but you can't draw any real conclusions from that except that Texas has a higher rate of repeat births then Colorado, and that number could be so low as to be inconsequential.

Sure but then presumably we shouldn't draw any conclusions from any "infographics" formulated in meme-style.

[Ed Anger]

Texas has would have the highest teen birth rate if Ed moved there.

I'd have a ranch.