“What are you talking about? You’re not different. Everyone feels that way, we just all learned how to deal with it ourselves.”

— Undiagnosed parents

Hank Green mentioned doing this in his standup special, and it really made me feel at ease. He was going through his cancer diagnosis/treatment and the intake questionnaire asked him if he thought about suicide recently. His response was, “Yeah, but only in the fun ways”, so he checked no. His wife got concerned that he joked about that and asked him what that meant. “Don’t worry about it - it’s not a problem.”

Not to mention the confusion upon first reading it as “He spreads in the bastards”.

Not sarcasm, unfortunately. I remember it as clearly as the marker and eraser… I mean “marker-juana” and “eraser-beer” we used to practice saying no to.

It’s because it’s a chemical that physically alters your body.

The entire class said it wasn’t a drug and got into an argument with the cop. We all knew that even if you label it “a drug”, it’s not like the actual drugs we’re talking about. No one is out there abusing shampoo.

It’s really no wonder that taking a D.A.R.E. class increases your likelihood of using drugs in adulthood.

D.A.R.E. taught me that shampoo was a drug.

I stopped caring about being labeled as a ‘drug addict’ after learning that if that applies to everyone who regularly showers.

Ah, yes. That’s why when you upload a photo to facebook, only one friend gets to download it before you have to re-upload it for the next person.

I’m not saying they output directly to people’s car. I’m saying they have a queue of 15 or so drinks that they make where the employee only has to put the lid on the drink. You can’t fill any other orders if that machine is busy waiting for you to put the lid on a water so it can produce another 17,984 waters.

Unless the drinks are made automatically by a machine - I know McDonalds had those at least 10 years ago, so it would make sense that at least one Taco Bell has it. The customer could have gotten through the ‘payment’ of $0.00, and the employees might not have a quick way of cancelling an order that ‘was paid for’ and currently being made, but the article doesn’t go into detail.

Unless you’re not the best at getting it to stick to the brush before you put it under the water, and the majority of it gets knocked into the sink when you try. If that constantly happens to you, you can wet the brush first and THEN add the toothpaste. It’ll take a few seconds to mix when brushing, but you’ll get the same results with less wasted toothpaste.

You’re right about the last bit, but slightly off on what it means.

He thinks he’s got everyone fooled. He’s a toddler with no emotional stability and so he has to surround himself with people who will play along. Because even when other people call him out… what happens next?

They just shrug and move on. Eventually that makes these billionaires think that they’re master manipulators, when really, everyone is just tired of dealing with their emotional outbursts and are only going along for the paycheck.

E Pluribus Anus.

So close to the Greendale flag from Community.

To be clear - “Collective Shout” both is and isn’t responsible. It’s the payment processors who actually enacted policies and are using them as the scapegoat for negative feedback.

How many times have people reported Twitter after Elon Musk took over for showing Nazi propaganda alongside their ads - with no response. An ‘open letter’ in July about a game already banned in April? DELIST EVERYTHING IMMEDIATELY.

I remember that the vice principal of our Christian high school was annoyed with us saying ‘gosh darn’, and made the mistake of telling us, “If you’re going to say ‘gosh darn’, you might as well say ‘god damn’, because that’s what you really mean, and the Lort knows your heart.”

… We all just started flat-out saying ‘god damn’ like we were told.

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.