u/Emotional-Fly-9583

So in the United States the supposed age of adulthood is 18. However there are many contexts where a person can‘t legally have certain legal rights and abilities until later or even are granted before turning 18 (You can drop out of school in most states as well as get a drivers’ license in most states at age 16 as well as be tried in adult court well before 18 in most states but can’t legally drink alcohol or gamble in a casino until turning 21). But honestly the U.S should really just have one legal age of adulthood and not multiple depending on the specific context.

So the 7 day week has existed for thousands of years at this point after being invented by the Babylonians who named the days of the week after a total number of 5 planets in the solar system (Mars, Venus, Mercury, Jupiter and Saturn) and the sun and moon because those were the 7 things other than the stars that they could see in the sky. However ideally in my opinion a week could be increased to have 10 days which would still fit into the current 12 month calendar pretty nicely (unlike 8 or 9 day weeks) and would include a day of the week for the remaining 3 planets not given a day of the week (Earth, Uranus and Neptune) in addition to fitting nicely exactly into 30 day months. This 10 day week would ideally have 6 workdays and 4 weekends with the workdays being from Monday to Saturday and the weekend being made up of Sunday, the day of the week named after Earth, Uranus and Neptune.

So in the Hostile Hospital (the books only), Count Olaf does not make a physical appearance in it at all unlike in the other 12 books. But why did Lemony Snicket decide to have that be the case in that book? Also why did he choose to have Olaf disguise himself yet again (as Mattathias) when the Daily Punctilio's headlines literally had said that he had been murdered and was dead?

If I could change the number of days in a week, I would probably increase the number of days in a week to 8 with 5 days of it making up the workweek and the remaining 3 days making up the weekend! The 8th day of the week could also be named after another planet that no day of the week is named after in addition or something like that.

So obviously if your child is 18, that means that under the law they are an adult and thus you cannot prevent them from dating anyone that is older than 18 even if they are significantly older. But which of these scenarios would you hypothetically feel more disturbed/concerned by overall if you heard from your child that they were dating someone that was that age and why?

So I am a male college freshman that graduated from HS just a few months ago. But there is this highly charismatic, friendly, accepting and outgoing guy that was two grades below me and thus is still a student at my HS and that I got to meet and know somewhat during my senior year and at the end of my senior year, I realized that he meant a lot to my HS experience, that I really enjoyed his presence and type of person that he is and that I found the idea of hanging out with him outside of school to be something that I thought I'd enjoy trying out. However when I messaged him to ask about it, he said that he was going to be too busy this past summer to hang out and thus we never got to hang out outside of school. So at this point, do you think it's worth it for me to try to hang out with him sometime when I am off from college if he's open to it and available to hang out? In addition, me and him both recently got our drivers' licenses so if we were to hang out it would be significantly easier to coordinate to meet somewhere or for one of us to drive the other there (though I'd prefer to drive him than him driving me in that hypothetical situation).

So 15 and 20 minute rotations are probably the most commonly used lengths for rotation patterns across pools that have lifeguards rotating with each other. But in your opinion which of those two rotation pattern/lengths is better?

So Colombia is the only country in South America that has two coastlines (one is with the Caribbean and the other is with the Pacific Ocean). But how does Colombia's Caribbean and Pacific coastline compare to each other?

So in the United States, the drinking age is set at 21. However the vast majority of the states set their age of majority at 18, meaning that an 18, 19 or 20 year old is tried as an adult if they are caught drinking or with alcohol and the police decide to pursue charges against them and even worse I think the consequences are worse for them due to them being legally considered adults under the law.

So according to Pixar sources, Dash from The Incredibles is a 10 year old boy. However his height is only listed to be 4 feet. Considering that 4 feet is well below the average height of a 10 year old boy pretty much anywhere in the world and most certainly in the United States, why did the designers of the Incredibles decide to make him so short?

So in The Ersatz Elevator, Olaf disguises himself as Gunther a foreign auctioneer that has a fake foreign accent and uses the word please (incorrectly) at the end of all of his sentences. But why later in the series does Madame Lulu also share the characteristic of having a fake foreign accent and using the word please incorrectly in her sentences?

So in the Goblet of Fire, the Defense Against the Dark Arts Teacher is Professor Moody (who turns out to not actually be Moody). But in the book, it is mentioned and shown that he teaches his students so many useful and important things throughout his year as a teacher. Considering he was an direct ally to Lord Voldemort, why do you think he still chose to teach his students so many useful and important things anyway?

So I have recently gotten my drivers' license and there is a road that I have heard being mentioned before a little that I drive passed when I am driving to one of the most frequent places I've driven to ever since getting my license. I am curious to learn what driving on the road would be like since I've never been on that road before in my life or seen it. So overall what do you think-Would it be weird for me to take a drive on that road or not?

Just wondering whether Gen Zers in this subreddit that are old enough to legally drink in their country had their first legal drink as soon as they could or not considering that Gen Z is drinking less than previous generations. I myself am an ‘08 born and was born in South Korea but live in the United States and will thus not become legal to drink here until 2029 (though would become legal starting at the start of next year in South Korea) so I don’t really know if I will have my first legal drink here on my 21st birthday or not.

So I have been playing Angry Birds 2 for years at this point and have officially completed over 2000 levels in the game (currently at nearly #2400 actually). But I do not remember and do not believe that I have encountered any 7 room levels yet (though I have faced and completed many 6 room levels at this point). So overall I am wondering if anyone here has encountered and maybe even beat a 7 room level in this game!

So a minority of something is strictly speaking less than half or 50%. And in my opinion, I would split up the different possible minority percentage amounts like this-

Small minority: Anything below 20%
Moderate minority: Between 20 and 35%
Large/big minority- Over 35% to 49.99%

So the number/proportion of teenage drivers in the United States has shown a significant decrease compared to the 80s and 90s with only about a quarter of 16 year olds having gotten their drivers’ license and even for 18 and 19 year olds as well (only about 60% of 18 yos have gotten a license and just under 70% of 19 yos have gotten their license). But what exactly is the reasoning behind this Gen Z trend of being less interested in getting a drivers’ license as a teenager compared to previous generations?

I have wondered for a long time why zero tolerance policies, rules and laws even exist especially considering that no one or nothing can be factually perfect and personally think of them as being overly strict/draconian in general (you break the rule, policy or law just one time and you get smacked with severe consequences even if you weren’t aware of it or if it was a genuine accident).

So I am a 2008 born meaning that I was born in the late 2000s. But I have for a while now wondered what being born in the early 2000s (or simply in 2000) would’ve been like and how it would’ve changed my overall life. So I am curious to learn what different people born here in 2000 think about being born in that year (and honestly early 2000s are fine as well).