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Plenty of people say this, but the odds are they likely lacked the maturity to take the advice even if it was given. It doesn't help that we have a culture that encourages people to think of themselves as temporarily embarrassed millionaires. I've had friends who make $200k/year say they don't bother saving, because "they can always make more money." It'll work for one or two of them, and the rest just won't know what happened.

The above may have come off harsher than I intended. But my position remains a HS class would do little good because the people who need it won't be paying any attention, and the people who do pay attention aren't the ones who need it. 3 of my 4 boomer siblings have zero retirement savings, and truth be told, zero net worth. One is in a nursing home so it's moot. The other two will be working until they drop, despite both having college degrees.

You could teach all this to fifth graders but they'd forget it within a year. Same thing if you teach it in high school. By the time it's time to use it, people will have forgotten it. The people who "don't want to think about money" simply won't do it and will find themselves in trouble anyway. I know far too many people who are more than capable intellectually of handling money who are ALWAYS in a shortfall because they "spend the next raise," spend to fill the void in their hearts, etc. and no academic class is going to teach them that what they actually need is discipline. These are the people who should just pick up a book by Suze Orman or Dave Ramsey(but skip the religious nuttery) and do it themselves. There are ample CHEAP resources out there.

You say you're not goodlooking, but how are you dressing? It might help to step up the wardrobe to something that signifies you have money. And honestly, the right clothes do make you look better. (I say this as someone who dresses terribly...). Also, I hate to say it, but a fair number of the working boys at the NYC bars have racial hangups. If you're not white that could be part of it for some of these guys.

It's not the only palindrome. if you are doing mmddyyy then Dec 2, 2021 is also a palindrome. If you do ddmmyyyy then then you have 12022021, 13022031, etc.

A lot of today's watches are fitness trackers as well, wouldn't want to have the calories burned not get logged...

I suspect it's less about him being comfortable being naked so much as wanting to see if he can get more money...

I suspect it's less about him being comfortable being naked so much as wanting to see if he can get more money...

Isn't this Vic from Club 20?

I just don't think the market for this particular strain of service is big enough to justify more than a handful of websites for listings. At least not if those websites are going to be profitable for the owners.

I don't deny it's safer for the participants. I maintain it cuts back on what actually happens because it requires TWO people to leave their room instead of one. People are surprisingly lazy about hooking up....

There's also a barefoot training craze because it's thought we lose some of the connection to our feet by wearing shoes, which makes some intuitive sense because imagine if we wore oven mitts all our waking hours, our hand dexterity would be crappy.

The way cryotherapy is all the rage these days and the whole Wim Hof phenomenon, it doesn't surprise me somebody's doing it. Or it could be a fraternity initiation thing...

But it's also not a position you typically get to at an early age in the first place. Most professionals by their 50s have both something to lose and limited time to make it up if they do. That's why you shouldn't, for example, be 100% invested in options in your 50s but you can give it a go in your 20s...

I was speaking in more general terms not about actually illegal activity, which should always be a no-no. But if a college president is found having an affair with a 17 year old even if that's above the age of consent, odds are his career is over. If a 21 year old has an affair with someone at the restaurant where he works and gets it on in the kitchen after hours, he might lose that job, but it's not going to have much impact one way or the other on his furture.

I took it as the time of life for "reckless" sex is when you're younger and a nobody and don't really have anything to lose as a result. But the fact remains that THE major motivator for many(not most, but a significant fraction) men, whether conscious or not, is sex. If they didn't think doing certain things would lead to increased opportunity to get laid, they simply wouldn't do it. Let's be real, in most fields, climbing the ladder SUCKS. I'm pretty sure I would be just as happy flipping burgers once my basic needs were met as office donkeying and churning out TPS reports.

Is English the second language and was your face buried in the cradle when you said it? Sometimes you gotta repeat yourself or say it a different way. I had one guy who didn't seem to understand what "lighter" meant but knew the word "softer"...

Did you ask him to go lighter? That's what I do when the pressure is too much.

US law is extraterritorial whenever they feel like it. See the US tax code.

Yes it's not the in person activity that is the crime, it's the online discussion. The meet is, I think, just the "proof of intent" because if all someone did was talk online without ever acting on it, they'd have a harder time convicting in the court of public opinion that this was A Bad Person who the state needs to expend resources on putting away.

I think they are failing to realize that the people who get that kind of money aren't advertising online, they're getting passed around by word of mouth through GOP fundraisers.

I think it's a provision of federal law, the Communications Decency Act or some such.

I'm pretty sure when communication is online 18 is the cutoff regardless of age of consent in the state

Some of these I read about though it sounds like the agent both initiates contact and steers the conversation over a fairly long period of time. Id agree with you on cases where the meeting happens within days of initial contact. On the ones that involve months of buildup? I'm not so sure.

I do wonder how many of the people caught in these "stings" where no child was ever involved were likely to ever meet a real child. I suspect most of them wouldn't have.