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You start hitting a hard political issue of requiring every citizen needing a national ID from birth. It is surprisingly politically unpopular creating this form of ID.

So you have this hodgepodge of state requirements, and even then there isn't a requirements that all residents of a state who are citizens have an ID.

It can't be as crazy as Moxie.

Went to the hospital. It turns out 120 is supposed to be the lower blood pressure number.

But we nearly lost Worf!

Republicans knew a lot about Benghazi because Israel orchestrated the attack and hoped Republicans could use it as an attack against Obama.

Grifters got to grift.

Romans had a basic understanding of proportions and general vibes of design, but they couldn't really create calculations to verify their design as we do today. For instance, the designers of the Pantheon understood they needed to lighten the concrete as it went up and had novel techniques of doing so that we use today, but they didn't really know.

The state of the art for understanding basic stresses didn't become known until the 19th century. The design of the Eiffel Tower was impressive, in part, because that structure has a calc book defending it. A lot of early railroad bridges were still designed based on ratios and vibes.

That said, not all loads were understood by that time. The Tacoma-Narrows Bridge collapsed in part because of a gross misunderstanding of wind loads combined with the ability to design structures light enough that wind loads controlled.

A lot of parents don't know better. This is what they grew up with.

I've heard it is almost common practice now to test the parents for ADD if a kid has it.

"Why can't I have a better parent to teach me?"

It isn't.

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