Never trust someone who tells you they are moral/ethical without asking.

People could be genuinely interested in going out with or doing stuff with me. I guess I just had real bad self esteem but it wasn’t until I was 19 when I thought people could be into me.

I was liberal until 2017 and I didn’t realize that year after year, decade after decade my worldview had been warped by the propaganda of endless episodes of tv cop series and tv legal series that I consumed without thinking. I had no idea…

• For the poor - bail is a jail sentence.

• The right to a speedy trial is a lie.

• Even when I was a boy and a teen - jury trials were already uncommon. NYT: “In 1980, 81% of federal convictions were the product of guilty pleas. Now [in 2016] the percentage is about 95%.”

• Plea bargaining in the US is a disgrace. There was a transfer of power from prosecutors to judges.

• Etc.

Ponies aren’t just baby horses.

There are a lot of things about menstrual/reproductive health that I didn’t know until embarrassingly recently.

For example, birth control pills. I knew from sitcoms that they came in a 28-day cycle, but I assumed that was because the content of the pill was different depending on which part of the cycle it was. I didn’t know that, in a 28-day pack, the first 21 pills are the same and the last 7 are placebos.

I also didn’t realize that menstrual pads are meant to stick to the underwear, not directly to the skin.

I take some consolation in knowing that I still know more about reproductive health than the average US senator.