I’m a native English speaker and I struggle to understand my English/Scottish friends if they’re talking too fast. I’ve watched British TV with subtitles.

Native English speaker here, but spoke French with my father’s family about 1/2 the time: I can read and pronounce Dutch well enough that my Dutch friends understand what I’m saying (we’ve laughed about it a few times when I was unaware of a few of the weird dipthongs they have). I can’t understand nearly anything I’m saying or reading.

French teachers can be a cock sometimes, it’s 100% true. In the end of it, French grammar is far more specific than other languages, so there’s a bit of a need to be persistent and persnickety; native speaking French classes during school are noteworthy for being hard for that reason. They don’t really take the Japanese/Mandarin approach and drill you to death, instead they’ll just kinda mock you for things they think you should know. It’s super important to find a French teacher that will be detail oriented, but not a cock about it.

NH has been a tossup state pretty much since the early 1800s. It’s a state where many preconceptions are wrong.

-grew up there

It’s kinda sick that they label everything in French to make it easy to learn the language. I visit France and Nederland as often as I can, and to be fair, even the Dutch don’t label everything in English; the people just speak it super well.

Worked in a lvl 2 mental health facility for 2 years as the animal manager, so I only tangentially worked with patients; I just managed the staff interactions with the animals. The people that worked in patient facing roles were some of the sketchiest people I’ve ever met. Some were former patients of the very worksite. The general theme was that I was shocked that none of the employees were qualified to be there, and in some cases, employed in general.

I strongly believe that if you’re looking into my window and see consensual sex acts, it’s your fault not mine.

Wow, France being lower than everyone else but Turkey is wild.

Oklahoma is as red as Massachusetts is blue. It’s just that kind of state.

Warming up while using my phone. My parents kept the house at 19°growing up, and I took an hour in the shower not even masturbating, just warming myself to the bone before I had to shiver for the rest of the day.

People shouldn’t be able to be told what color to paint their house. More people should experiment with wild colors inside and out.

This data to me didn’t show much in the way of by-field statistics. If we’re comparing software development pay at the naîssance of the field to today, it should be complicated to do so. I’d expect to look at top 5% at the very least because of how new and niche computing and coding in general was in the 90s.

You have to expect that OP, who is well established in his field, to compare accordingly, not with average pay of 1990.