The neat thing about distractions - you can simply ignore them and keep on asking about the files. As long as there are journalists that keep on doing that the orange man will continue to spiral out of control

The tragedy is that most of the time, the vast majority of people who vote for that shit doesn’t suffer the consequences immediately or at all.

Also moderate movement (jumping Jacks, side steps, mini sprints) and stretching can speed up the freshening up while decreasing the risk of cramping

It depends how obsessed you are with it. For my wife and me it’s similar: both paychecks go into the same account, but we split off our pocket money into our own accounts accordingly - although I take a bigger sum in this proportion, if I don’t spend it it’ll just be transfered to an account that is play money for vacation, hobbies etc. And that happens idk every quarter or so

In my perspective IQ only has so many consequences, due to the limitations of the method. Nowadays we know to separate different forms of intelligence and also that transferring skills between those forms can have an impact on overall ‘performance’ . That being said, it can be a good indicator for stuff but as you point out, it’s often misused as divider instead of an accelerator.

Actually, marriage is one of the founding circumstances why we actually have laws. Although it is reasonable to assume that every marriage ritual in early societies had some kind of ‘blessed be this couple’ aspect, it originated out of civil necessity (structuring inheritance) before the Jesus Club took over and changed the meaning