Kalshi is an online betting platform. I feel this is deeply harmful advertising and I am not okay with it. Google, do better.
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I have swapped to using App Only mode under Accounts and Profile settings.
My background: I came from a gifted class through primary and middle school. Several of my friends, with very permissive and happy parents, got on a bad track in high school. Some didn't graduate, others went for degrees that lead to no jobs. All of us were, "high potential" and tested for higher IQs.
Many of us (I'd say half) ended up doing pretty mediocre or down right terribly. Maybe 3 of our class did exceedingly well. Compared to non-gifted classes, I think our outcomes are weighted towards being either much worse or much better than average.
My friends who did particularly poorly were often smoking weed and consuming alcohol in high school. I realize now, they were probably more predisposed to addiction issues. They continued this pattern through college and into their 20s. For some of them, when their parents passed, they managed their remaining finances so poorly that they lost their inherited assets.
One thing remained true for all of these people: they blamed their parents, they blamed society. They never blamed themselves. I'd often take them out on dinners and hang out and listen to them. I remember feeling like these people had so potential, so much going for them. But whenever opportunity presented itself, they always warded it away, thinking they were destined for something greater. Unless they were offered the perfect job at the perfect position, they would not take it. Instead, they would scrounge for minimum wage jobs, "to get by" until the perfect opportunity came. Obviously, the opportunity never came.
I was always trying to pull them into better opportunities, better jobs. I recommended one of them to consider a union-backed job at the government postal service, for which I could get a referral. They scoffed at me and told me they're capable of so much more (they had been fired from 3 other minimum wage jobs in the past 2 years). Now they're trying to get through school for a degree which is not going to land them a job.
Does anyone resonate with this? It feels sad. It also seems wild that our upbringing was like this. A time where things were freer, lower pressure, and the opportunities were still quite strong. Arguably the generation before us had even bigger opportunities. I'm not sure if gen-z/gen alpha really has the same comparable opportunities. They have more resources, but I'm not convinced they've been empowered to use them.
Have had Stoptech ST40s (went back to OEM), have bled my system a bunch of times. Since I got this car many years ago, I've noticed that I have to press the brake almost to the very floor to lock up my front wheels (200tw).
In many ways, this is good since I'm getting almost 100% utilization of my brake travel to modulate my brakes.
But also it means that I really don't have any extra bite than I need, and this seems incorrect. In *every single other car I've driven* I never have to get to the floor to get enough bite to lock up wheels.
Based on the # of bleeds I've done of my master, I think that this could be my master cylinder. Or maybe it's just the standard thing across all s2000s.
FWIW, on all normal street driving and situations where I'm looking for 80% brake force, this is not a problem. It feels like a normal brake, and that is what a few mechanics have told me. This issue is *only* noticeable when I'm looking for 100% brake force at autox or track, and I find my pedal tapping the floor *as* my wheels start to lock up.
pls help friends