Something like 70% of people have either HSV-1 or HSV-2, I believe. That alone would be unreasonable to manage, assuming you could even wrangle that many people into this imaginary leper colony.

What you're asking is both an ethical and a logistical question.

Yes, you COULD isolate people to eradicate these STDs. But is it ethically/morally correct to do so?

Could you even positively identify 100% of the infected and get them isolated? I don't know that you could. And if you did not, then you are just postponing the eventual outbreak of these diseases further. Possibly worse if people start throwing caution to the wind because they feel safe, and now those infected populations start exploding.

I'm guilty of buying most of my books from amazon or B&N.

I like building up my library of books. I can go back and dig through them again if I want. I can make annotations, rare as that may be. If I love a book I can loan it to a friend. And sometimes they just look great.

I have a strong preference for hardcover books, and sometimes I'll spend a long time picking out just the right version of the book that I think will make a great conversation piece.

That’s true but those virtual networks still rely on hardware that is managed by tried and true IT folks such as myself. That’s more of an issue centralization, really.

What I’d expect is that it will be harder to get into IT at some point. Right now it’s relatively easy to get your foot in the door. Only the really talented people thrive though. That will probably be moreso going forward.

I feel fairly comfortable in my IT career. No AI is going to rack and configure a switch, and no business in their right mind would leave configuration solely to AI. Security would want to be human verified.

I works anticipate rather than replacing me, AI will likely augment my job for me, making troubleshooting easier and configuration less of a pain, but there will always be a human element to it.

Reel Big Fish - Valerie

I bought some red bananas recently because I’d had them when I was younger and they were super sweet and delicious. Then when I peeled it and ate it it was very bitter and starchy. Was very disappointed.

Not really piano-driven, but Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons has a similar musical style (precedes him by about 10 or 15 years).

I grew up in Texas in a beach house on a canal. The house was built atop a bulkhead with a boathouse and all that junk. In the water, along the bulkhead we'd get oysters growing.

During the cooler months, my gramps and dad would put a tall ladder down into the canal, get in the water with a screwdriver, a hammer, and a bucket, and would knock the oysters off of the bulkhead into the bucket. Then we'd sit on our dock, and crack open the oysters with a knife and eat them with ritz crackers.

Now I live in Washington, and the crazy variety of oysters you can get is amazing. I'm a big fan of kumamotos now, and they're almost all I buy.

One of those rare end to end great albums. I can’t believe he didn’t become bigger.

Coheed and Cambria - On the Brink

As an IT professional, and former datacenter technician, there’s so much wrong with this story. Several people above you needed to lose their jobs over this. This little eff up wasn’t by you, it came from several steps above you(and your boss).

That's the thing, right? Rents have gone up just as much, if not more, than mortgages.

When we bought our house in 2017 we had rented two previous places over about 5 years. The first one started out at about $1300 a month for a luxury apartment in a nice neighborhood. After the first lease was up it jumped to $1900. We couldn't afford that at the time, so we moved way out in the boonies and rented an attached townhome for about $1400 a month. When we bought our house, it had just gone up to also $1900. Our mortgage is $2200 (including escrow), so at the time it was a slight bump up, but we could afford it.

It's been 5 years now, and I'm not sure what the townhouse is going for, but the other day I happened to be in the neighborhood of my old apartment and looked up how much it's going for just for laughs: $4400 a month for a 900 sq ft 2 bedroom apartment.

It was a loooooong time ago, and she’s a religious nut now. It was for the best. Lol

Could be worse. I worked up the courage to ask out my crush to homecoming, and then another dude asked her to go steady like three days before and we wound up “sharing” her for the dance.

I'm shocked looking at these numbers. I'm an IT Systems Administrator and my income is right about in the middle of this. I do nothing that interesting or important.

She does the craziest costumes every year. I truly believe Heidi Klum is secretly the coolest celebrity out there and would be great to grab a beer with.

Effectively, yes.

It's implicit. He has power over them, so they can't reasonably exercise their right to consent to that prayer. It's not unlike having a relationship with your boss.

I would love nothing more than an activist coach to start doing this and citing the previous ruling as precedent for his right to lead those prayers. Hell, part of me wants to apply for a high school coaching job and take up Islam just so I can do this.

Went to a small high school in Texas and they would hold prayer at the pep rallys and the coaches would make us pray before games. And you'd better believe they forced you to do it. If you raised enough of a fit about your rights you could get out of it, but you'd be paying for it at the next practice, and the coach may even bench you for the game. Not to mention that you'd get yourself ostracized from your peers.

You might check out the Kino DVD of it. It has two different soundtracks and one of them is a little more modern, as opposed to the other which is the traditional music. I don't recall it being specifically EDM like you're at a rave or something, but I do remember there being some synth beats and stuff.

I have a kid about your age, and reading this made me start tearing up at work.

NEVER feel like you've done something wrong or burdened somebody by telling them something like this. If you have a teacher or friend or counselor that you can report these kind of things to, that you can trust, never feel like you've done anything wrong.

If you were my son, or one of his friends, and felt like you could come to me and tell me this I would do the exact same thing as your teacher (legal requirements or no) and absolutely reinforce that you did the right thing by trusting me with this information.

It's not wrong. You've done nothing wrong. There was no mistake.

I hope you are coping well with everything, and I'm glad to hear that your teacher responded letting you know that you did the right thing and would love for you to keep visiting.

This exactly.

There is nothing wrong with asking your friend out. But being a sex pest is annoying, wrong, and abhorrent. You didn't ruin your chance of getting to be with her. You ruined your chance of getting to maintain a good friendship.

She does not want to be with you. Full stop. End of story.

If you want, you might be able to salvage a friendship out of this. If you can legitimately say that you are sorry. You realized that you were being a tool, and selfish, and putting her in an awkward position, and that you really value your friendship with her and would like to start over as friends and nothing more, she might engage with you in that fashion again. She's not obligated to. She may not want to after this. And if she does, that doesn't mean you get to pester her again in 6 months or a year.

She's given you her answer. You have to respect that. And if you can't handle that like an adult and move on, possibly with a friendship intact, then you haven't really learned your lesson.

And if you can accept it, but don't want to maintain the friendship, that's also your prerogative. Learn from this. Don't repeat the same mistake, and move on trying to find another partner.