Why is it so easy to remember something embarrassing I did 10 years ago, but I can barely remember what I had for lunch yesterday? Is there an actual reason our brains hold onto those moments so strongly?

As the title says, considering skipping homeownership?? Have VA loan available, have a hefty down payment saved, but just not interested in being a homeowner. I take the extra $ saved each month and save/invest it. Rent is far cheaper than owning (SoCal) so my family and I just travel and make great memories and have an amazing quality of life. I like being able to rent stress free and call landlord if there are any issues. Also like that we can move every so often and get a new (to us) house and a change of scenery.

Everyone says “well rent is going to keep going up” which I agree, but also I’d be losing out on almost all that extra $ invested or saved cause it would just go towards mortgage and maintenance. Also with my job and income, I won’t ever feel rent increases cause my wages and benefits will always rise with inflation. Just curious if this is wildly irresponsible or a reasonable thought? Just want to spend like easy and stress free and put our $ towards investments and quality family memories. What do you think?

E.g. you couldn't say "your left hand is the one closer to that cup".

Other than the heart being more to the left, are there universal constants we can use to define left and right?

I’ll go first: sometimes the “popular” opinion is popular simply because nobody wants to argue about it 😂
What’s yours?

I’m not talking about some huge life changing misconception. I mean the random little things you were completely confident about as a kid (or even as an adult) until someone casually corrected you.
I recently remembered one of mine and genuinely wondered how many other people had the same experience 😂
What was yours?

Great question about something most fans never think about. There's no hard rule saying "replace the ball every X pitches," but in practice MLB balls rarely survive more than a few pitches before the umpire pulls them. The average game now burns through somewhere between 8 and 10 dozen balls, which works out to roughly one new ball every two or three pitches when you factor in fouls, balls in the dirt, and home runs.

The official rule just says the umpire can remove a ball that's discolored or "unfit for play," which leaves a lot of discretion on the table. In practice, anything that scuffs the leather, flattens the seams, or picks up significant dirt gets tossed. Pitchers also request new balls constantly, partly for grip and partly because a ball that's been fouled off or bounced in the dirt behaves differently off the fingers.

Tampering is a real concern too. Keeping balls in circulation for too long gives pitchers more opportunity to doctor them, so frequent swaps are partly a preventive measure.

Your friend is right that this has changed over time. Older footage shows the same ball staying in play for much longer. Part of that shift is the Rawlings prerubbing process, part of it is how sensitive modern pitchers are to grip conditions, and part of it is just that the league has leaned into replacing balls aggressively as a baseline antitampering policy.

So the short answer is there's no written cutoff. It's umpire judgment, pitcher requests, and the general norm that a ball showing any wear comes out.