Men of Reddit who have gotten in more than one physical fight, what are pros and cons about fighting?

A con is that it only takes one wrong punch or fall to kill you or someone else. It’s that easy. But I didn’t have much of a choice about fighting. I grew up in a violent place and was bullied constantly. As a result, I’ve been in 200+ fights serious enough where I was hurt or bleeding, or the other guy was. Of those I was an adult for maybe 10 of them. The rest happened in middle or high school.

The other con is that my nose is screwed up, I have scarring on the inside of my cheeks from getting hit so much, and all of it likely caused some cognitive damage too. A few other scars too but nothing major.

I suspect my infrequent migraines resulted from head hits, as they do not run in my family and I didn’t have them prior to getting struck in the head a lot, and hard.

So, yes, kids, avoid fights if you can. They result in nothing good, in the end. And if you can’t steer clear of them, get good at fighting. I was forced to the latter option by the bad luck of growing up in rural North Florida.

Drone shot of a Pacific Palisades neighborhood, where houses start at about $5 million:

Climate change didn’t cause this, in the sense that most people mean “cause¹,” but it made this outcome vastly more likely.

It only takes looking at insurance rates to understand that cimate change and its effects are real. Underwriters and actuaries do not fuck around — they need to deal with the world as it is, not as some dipshits imagine it to be.

1. And most people, even most scientists, have a poor understanding of causality.

Jeju Air Flight 2216.

Atrocious piloting leading to mass death here most likely. Bird strike, but the plane was not incapacitated. There was what appeared to be a single engine failure. The pilot seems to have panicked and made a series of terrible and fatal decisions. Flaps weren’t lowered. Speed brake was not deployed. Didn’t attempt a gravity drop of the landing gear. That airport has a short-ish runway (2,800 meters) and even with all that, he still would’ve been ok if the runway had been longer.

My personal guess is that the pilot turned off the wrong engine (the working one) while attempting to land, in addition to all those other probable fuck-ups. It’s also likely the pilot didn’t realize the landing gear was not extended in what was obviously a panic situation they were unable to deal with.

The investigation will reveal more, but that seems like 100% pilot error to me. A bird strike with a single engine failure simply cannot cause all those problems with the triply-redundant systems on that aircraft. It is just not possible.