Advice

[beefytee]

My mil bought me a year long subscription to Soul Socks. I've never worn any of the 12 pairs I received.

[Brian]

we’ve drifted off into hot fashion talk.
What other good ideas for saving time with the laundry?
My mom got on a kick of safety pinning socks together for a while.
Solid plan when there are two parents and some kids with feet of varying sizes.
I feel my plan is the logical extension when there are only two parents left in the home.

My wife likes folding socks I guess because she keeps on keeping on. But me, I sort my colors and and ready for something more fun than laundry folding.

[chrisrenrut]

What other good ideas for saving time with the laundry?

My wife likes folding socks I guess because she keeps on keeping on. But me, I sort my colors and and ready for something more fun than laundry folding.

I think you answered your own question.

[Green Monstah]

That is a beautiful but ultimately weird pic. Who rolls up their socks and organizes their drawers like that?!?

Anyone whose wife has read Marie Kondo's book.

I give DH props, though. I couldn't manage that many pairs of non-uniform socks.

[Donuthole]

Anyone whose wife has read Marie Kondo's book.

I give DH props, though. I couldn't manage that many pairs of non-uniform socks.

It really isn't difficult. As falafel mentioned above, each pair leaves an empty space in the drawer. As long as you do your laundry once a week, at most you're going to have 5-6 pairs to match and place. It truly is much easier than life with solid navy and solid black socks. I used to have to sew a stitch of blue or red thread in the top of each sock just for accurate identification of black and navy in dim light.

[Brian]

I think you answered your own question.

If I ever go full caveman...

[PaloAltoCougar]

A group of us want to start a monthly study group to discuss political issues (and not personalities) in the current campaign. Topics will include health care, immigration and border security, entitlements and social benefits (e.g., student loan forgiveness), climate change, gun policy, and education. They hope to invite people with a variety of views and have asked for our input.

Two questions: What other topics would you want to discuss?

Do you have any recommended, preferably brief, readings on any of the subjects that would provide a good overview of a given issue?

P.S. You're all invited. First meeting is March 21.

[SeattleUte]

A group of us want to start a monthly study group to discuss political issues (and not personalities) in the current campaign. Topics will include health care, immigration and border security, entitlements and social benefits (e.g., student loan forgiveness), climate change, gun policy, and education. They hope to invite people with a variety of views and have asked for our input.

Two questions: What other topics would you want to discuss?

Do you have any recommended, preferably brief, readings on any of the subjects that would provide a good overview of a given issue?

P.S. You're all invited. First meeting is March 21.

critical race theory, intersectionality, gender, sexism, etc.

[swampfrog]

critical race theory, intersectionality, gender, sexism, etc.

Seconded.

[beefytee]

critical race theory, intersectionality, gender, sexism, etc.

over-democratization, i.e. who should be elected, who should be an appointed professional.

[Sullyute]

Voter ID laws

[falafel]

Is a hotdog considered a sandwich.

[wuapinmon]

Is a hotdog considered a sandwich.

When you work in the fastfood industry, anything that is meat and bread is called a sandwich. Most people wouldn't call a Big Mac a sandwich, but in the parlance of the employees, everything's a sandwich. I'd call a hot dog a sandwich in fast food. In common speech, I'd call it a special kind of sandwich, but it's more like a street food than a classic idea of a sandwich with two slices of square bread.

[Scott R Nelson]

Two questions: What other topics would you want to discuss?

Do you have any recommended, preferably brief, readings on any of the subjects that would provide a good overview of a given issue?

P.S. You're all invited. First meeting is March 21.

National Debt
Cost of the various programs
How much to tax the rich

Is this a virtual meeting, or is it being held in Pleasanton?

[wuapinmon]

A group of us want to start a monthly study group to discuss political issues (and not personalities) in the current campaign. Topics will include health care, immigration and border security, entitlements and social benefits (e.g., student loan forgiveness), climate change, gun policy, and education. They hope to invite people with a variety of views and have asked for our input.

Two questions: What other topics would you want to discuss?

Do you have any recommended, preferably brief, readings on any of the subjects that would provide a good overview of a given issue?

P.S. You're all invited. First meeting is March 21.

My students typically want to discuss things that school never bothers to explain. Already this week I've discussed, sometimes in class, usually between classes or after class:

1. Why we have corporate/agricultural subsidies and what it means to end them.
2. Why China thinks Taiwan is theirs and how we seem to support China and Taiwan both.
3. Why is gambling not legal everywhere if it's legal in some instances (lotteries) or some places (Nevada).
4. What does hegemony really mean.
5. Questions about federal vs states rights (and American-Indian reservation rights), and then I explained the concept of suzerainty between "sovereign" states. Most of them think states rights should go away, except with regard to guns and drugs.
6. The punitive approach to drugs and the consequences of those decisions.
7. The Fermi Paradox.
8. Protecting undeveloped property vs the American dream of owning a home with a yard and so on.