Well, did you kill your parents when you came of age? You can be free from someone without killing them.

Also relevant - you can’t smell porn. Everyone has a scent, especially when doing a physical activity.

I should not be involved with people who turn a blind eye to fascism.

Full stop.

I’m sorry to say that you already know what you have to do. There’s no easy way to do it other than to just do it. If it makes the process easier, you don’t have to pose it as “it’s me or them” because you already know what his answer will be. If he was going to change, he’s had plenty of opportunities already.

Don’t wait for him anymore. Live YOUR life.

OP already did reach out to someone for help. Thats what the disability claim is.

Do you see how requiring an extra step of “asking for help” to complete the paperwork to “ask for help” starts to be overly burdensome when it’s someone specifically asking for help with their executive disfunction?

It’s like requiring someone who doesn’t speak English to fill out a form in English to enroll in an ‘English as a second language’ class.

Capitalism requires indefinite growth.

We have a word for something that grows indefinitely. It’s called “cancer”, and it eventually kills whichever organism it’s a part of by stealing nutrients designed for other parts of the system. The only way for an organism with cancer to survive is if the cancer is killed off before the organism dies.

That’s where we’re at. Capitalism might have gotten us this far, but the same can be said about any person with cancer. What worked for us in the past isn’t guaranteed to work for us in the future, and could actively be what’s killing us.

We have to adapt.

Psst. You’re not being down voted for not being blatantly anti-capitalist. You’re being downvoted (by me) for not adding anything substantive to the conversation.

“100%” as a comment is equivalent to an upvote, so maybe just do that instead next time.

First, think about how smart the “average” person is.

Next, think about how half of the people in the world are dumber than that and you start to get an idea.

Yeah, yours is hypothetical. Good luck solving entropy.

“People have died long before Jack the Ripper. If we want to prevent death, you need for the root cause, which isn’t Jack”

We’re not trying to solve every case of data disappearing, but the large influx that has appeared as a direct result of Trump’s orders.

In case it’s not obvious, the root cause of that is Trump.

Kinda spoils the idea of seasons 1+2, doesn’t it?

Oh well, content creation machine goes BRRRR.

Both achievements and in-game rewards linked to playtime should be banned. The “Tales” game series is especially bad at requiring ridiculous amounts of playtime for character abilities.

50 hours in menus, 25 hours in “combat”, and a whooping 250 hours in the game in general for the highest-level bonuses for the main character in Tales of Berseria.

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Convicted felon. Known rapist. Told us to inject bleach for COVID.

Absolutely I still blame people who think he has their interests in mind.

Literally earlier today:

Ok, don’t miss your exit. It’s XYZ, in just a few miles.

Ok, it’s the next exit. Get into the right lane and turn when you can - what’s that?

Why did this guy merge into traffic doing 20 under the speed limit? I have to pass him. Did the limit change? Is anyone else passing him? Why didn’t he have his flashers on? Is he speeding up now or is he still just causing a hazard by going so slow? Am I the crazy one or is it him?

Ok, it looks like I’m far enough away, but I need to keep an eye on him just a bit longer to make sure I’m not still in danger-- and there goes my exit.

Not being able to choose what you focus on SUCKS.

With that data collection, their algorithm for targeted marketing is on a completely different level. I completely believe they’re profitable.

Not only do you have knowledge into people who are likely buyers, you can put them into a buying mood right before showing them the ad so they’re primed for it. Then on top of THAT, you don’t have to design, film or edit the ad - you just pay an influencer to do it for you. It makes it faster, easier and cheaper to AstroTurf brand awareness than ever before.

Relatedly, the only people I know ordering things from Shien or Temu are on TikTok.

Hey, could you cancel it for me? I’d really appreciate it.

I’ve got a phone call I’ve been putting off, but I’ll make the call if you cancel that service.

Look, it’s propaganda. There’s always going to be inaccuracies because a poster that uses the ‘corrrct’ words would be so dense and hard to parse that the average reader wouldn’t give it a second thought.

This has an incredibly clear message that is 90% accurate. I can forgive the 10% as a trade-off for visibility.

I understand this sentiment because I had a similar story growing up, but I’ve had to come to terms that the internet of that era does not exist anymore.

Now we have these corporations who made it their goal to algorithmically trick you into spending more and more time engaged with their website for ad revenue, not caring how angry or misinformed people get in the meantime. It used to be a place we could escape to, but has turned into just another echo chamber/prison and worst of all - we’re addicted to it.

I think places like Mastodon and the Fediverse can help bridge this gap, but on the whole, the internet is just not a safe place for developing brains anymore.

The difference is being labeled “abnormal” by a person you know vs. by society. As a society, we used to beat children who used their left hand to write until they started acting “normal”.

The thought itself that left-handedness and right-handedness are different is not harmful. However, when you start labeling one as ‘normal’ and the other as a ‘generic abnormality’, you start shifting people’s perspectives and suddenly we get a situation where we call left-handed people “Sinister”. (The word literally means left-handed. We added the evil connotations afterwards because of the prejudice against left-handed people. We also did the same in reverse for “dexterity”.)

You might not see the harm immediately in the small scale, but it’s absolutely intended to be a step towards dehumanizing queer people. As others have said as well, homosexuality is incredibly common in nature. Most giraffe sex is gay sex. It’s just not taught in school because… say it with me… “It’s abnormal.”

It’s really not though. It’s just different, and different doesn’t mean bad.

Your argument has been used countless times in history for a number of “abnormalities” that turn out to just be differences without distinction.

“Listen, I’m a supporter of red-heads, but don’t we basically understand that it’s a genetic abnormality? Maybe ‘illness’ is a bit harsh, but they’re just not common enough in society to be considered normal.”