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Cake day: July 4th, 2023

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  • Sure it sounds bad when you point out that it happens almost every day. But, that is just an average over the span of a year.

    When you really look at it and realize that most schools in the US are closed for at least a month’s worth of holidays, 3 months for summer vacation, and of course 2 days out of every week. Well, then you will see that it’s really much much worse than you originally thought.






  • I don’t want to come off as agreeing with the other poster, but this argument is so awful that I can’t just ignore it.
    What if the assaulter was tall? Am I supposed to slouch all day everyday? Am I literally not allowed to exist because there are horrible people in the world of varying height?











  • Often I am disappointed when I go make the obvious dad joke, but someone has already made some half assed version that is not nearly as painful and ridiculous as it could be.

    But then I occasionally come across a gem like this that is absolute perfection and so much better than what I had in mind. It’s like a little gut punch that drives just a little bit of air from your body in surprise.

    Thank you for this little comment that physically pained me to read, and now will pain me twice as much throughout the day as I suddenly remember it and want to tell it to someone else, but can’t, because it is totally situational and could never be the same second hand.


  • I’m not good at complicated math like addition and subtraction, so when it comes to something like statistics I might as well be throwing pickle slices at a dartboard, so you will probably have to correct me here… But if you have a 3% chance of being attacked by a man, doesn’t that also mean that since you have a 1.5% chance of being attacked by any human? In fact, since there is a non-zero chance of being attacked by a woman, wouldn’t it be accurate to say that you have a greater than 1.5% chance of being attacked by any human?
    I’m not really sure that greater than 1.5% feels much safer than 3%.
    So I guess what I am saying is that while you and the OP I originally responded to are both correct, that once we start throwing monsters in the pool then people’s desire to go for a swim doesn’t change significantly just because we double the size of the pool.

    Actually, what I am really saying is that I just really don’t like any grouping that lumps me in with the pedophilic psychopathic rapists currently running the US.