Then you need to come fix my county's stupid way of doing jury duty. They assign you a whole month that you may or may not be called. You have to call their number or (finally) check their website every single morning and then call the boss to let him know you won't be coming in. You may or may not get paid for it, I do because I'm Union, but most regular joes don't get but the measly ~$10/day the court hands out. Work all day to make $100 or waste all damned day for $10. Which would you choose?

This belief that jury duty is to be avoided is one of many reasons why this country is in the fucking toilet

Would you make the same statement if you replaced "jury duty" with "paying your taxes". I would, but most seem to think it is some kind of legal obligation-nay necessity- that you do whatever you can to avoid paying them. Why would me not dodging jury duty as much as possible not fall in the same category?

Oh yeah, great wisdom dumbass. HIV, herpes, and who knows what else is never transmitted some other way than sex!

Isn't the urban sprawl part of the problem? Why should we ignore that?

Arguments about the exact depth of the hole are a distraction from working towards a properly constructed hole

Spoken like a true engineer even if you aren't one! I salute you!

So you ask for a lesser of 3 evils? Or 4 or 5? How many does it take to make it not evil anymore? I ask all of this, not in disagreement, but I'd like to know how you'd actually fix it. I hear the tidbit rally cry one-liners all the time but when it's time to put nose to grindstone, most have no actual plan.

It looks like apathy but in actuality it is futility. Shit is fucked up. I agree. You agree. We also both agree things are corrupted beyond what many imagine. So using your data set and going with the mega-corruption angle, are you really surprised that all of the runners got elected regardless of what we want? And how many times do we as a nation have to keep trying the same thing to see if we get a different result? You complain we gave up? In any other conversation on here, you'd say it was lunacy but still you want us to keep on voting. Shit is broken. The only way it'll get fixed is to break it so badly the "haves" can't use it. Then they'll care just enough to throw us some scraps and we'll shut the hell up for 20 more years until we're back on here bitching about the same subjects again.

Also, people that don't vote shouldn't have any right to complain, IMO.

Old man, go fuck yourself. Really. I served this country's military to support your right to sit here and call me an asshole. I also served it to support your right to vote- or not to vote- whichever you prefer. I'll complain as much as I want cause freedom and shit. You did serve too, right? If you didn't? Oh well fuck I guess you don't have a right to complain or vote about anything either. But wait, that isn't how this country works is it? We defend the meek with the mighty but don't force them into our servitude because of it. They get the same rights to be miserable and downtrodden upon just the same as the rest of us. In this country, the lack of money is what earns you some servitude, just like it has for the past forever.

Indeed you're correct. My great grandfather also told us kids stories about how his model A could only do about 25mph no matter how hard he beat the hood with his whip. He said was pretty sure the salesmen were lying to him though cause he couldn't figure out how they fit 40 horses under there.

put on your shoes and cloak

Really? I figured a 3 digit like yourself would put on your robe and wizard hat!

I took the Amazon headquarters tour too!

Is that why the damned car keeps stopping at all the strip clubs? And it always has to do it when the wife and kids are with me!

And as a video gaming nerd, I can tell you that Mario will jump way further if you flip the controller in the direction you want him to jump. You can even get them to fly further if you hover the controller at the top of the swing before landing him.

...and then put it up for sale on craigslist a month after it fills up with laundry.

No. Please no. No matter what your opinion is of the song itself, it has become the most overplayed song of 2014. Pick something else please :)

How can a whole population have a shitty health level when comprised of individuals that are "considerably healthier" and conversely how can one have individual shitty health levels but the population as a whole is healthier? You're speaking in general terms and generally speaking the numbers don't make sense. You'll have to clarify.

While that is sound, technically true advice, in the real world it just doesn't work. Work is called work for a reason. It is hard, painful, and tiring. The saying is "no pain no gain" and it simply couldn't be more true. We want it easy. We want a magic pill that just makes the weight drop off but for now that just won't happen. You have to get off your ass and work until you can't go any more. And then you get up and go do it again tomorrow. I know. I've been a rock hard manly man when I was in the Army, then got out and turned into a blob of a fat ass. Now I'm somewhere in between. Working out isn't easy. It never will be and honestly I feel that your naysaying on the whole matter is a symptom of our lazy American mentality. I mean if you want to rip on NSAIDS, why do you advocate them at all? You do know that they cause liver damage in any quantity right? And really, do you even lift bro? If you did, you'd know you can down a handful hydros and you'd still get to a point where things hurt more than they'd be able to mask. NSAIDS have an even lower masking level. Your whole post just sounds to me like a typical excuse not to go to the gym, no offense.