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But they also didn’t consider themselves smart enough to have thought of everything which was the whole point of the amendment system. Which was promptly discarded as soon as it became more convenient to reinterpret the letter of the constitution to suit your needs while calling yourself an originalist.

I think the point is that the income level that could afford a stay at home parent used to be way lower than it is today. My parents bought a house in the hood in the 90s for around $100k in their 20s, got by with 3 kids on a single blue collar salary of less than $40k in the 2000s (like ~$70k today), and are doing great financially today. The oldest of us with no kids struggled to buy any home on a double income in specialized skills with degrees. We grew up qualifying for state benefits and pell grants and somehow us kids who are technically “middle class” are doing so much more for less.

Try audiobooks or comic books/graphic novels. I do like reading but sometimes it takes me some push to get back into it. You need to read the book equivalent of a fun comedy movie not the book equivalent of Citizen Kane (I hated that movie btw).

What I do is I’ll read a short fun book first to build the reading habit, then I’ll transition to the boring/dense book I actually want to get through.

Ehhh it’s not bullshit but it’s more of a fun fact than a disability. I think we all have the same brain muscles to imagine things visually or have an inner voice narrating everything, etc. but some people just don’t know how to flex it. Similar to how some people can wiggle their ears and eyebrows and others can’t.

Well they do hate immigrants , so I wouldn’t be so quick to assume.

It’s concerning that you refuse to take a moment to entertain what kind of propaganda would actively target you. We already know about the well documented disinformation campaign efforts by the Russians to interfere in foreign elections and destabilize the US:

Russian disinformation operations in 2016 targeted the political right and left, including Republican Senators Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio, Black Lives Matters activists, and secessionist movements in Texas and California. Bottom line: Russia’s goal was to exacerbate the divisions that already exist in the country to destabilize its democracy.

Propaganda campaigns often work by simply targeting and amplifying existing beliefs, so if you think all white people are transphobic, for example, they feed you more examples of transphobic white people to further entrench you in that belief, eroding your empathy and trust for fellow Americans.

To me, reading about PR campaigns against celebrities was a good way of realizing I have also fallen for propaganda many times in the past, particularly when the “internet” suddenly decides a celebrity is universally loved or hated. Now, you can simply call me stupid for falling for it and move on in your moral superiority, or you could take a second to wonder about all the little, seemingly meaningless, things you’ve read on the internet that confirmed your beliefs, or fed you negative emotions like outrage and dejection, and you didn’t bother to dig into them more deeply to understand why is this being shown to me now? Who benefits from my gut reaction to this and who suffers from it?

Propaganda. They don’t really live in reality.

I looked up a link for further reading: https://archive.org/details/gilens_and_page_2014_-testing_theories_of_american_politics.doc

Fascinating. They call us a “civil oligarchy.”

Here’s an honest answer from someone with a chronic illness. In the US, we don’t have real health insurance, so it’s more like you’re paying into a racket for some discounts and peace of mind in case you have a sudden acute condition. If you’re lucky enough to be able to work, you will (hopefully) have an option between the cartels insurance providers. If you’re a betting man, you should pick the lowest premium plan with an HSA, which is essentially what you’re describing, plus you don’t get taxed on the money.

But people will say, what if you get cancer the first year? You’re screwed anyway, because it’s not like the insurance just goes “oh I’m so sorry you got cancer, don’t you worry, we’ll cover all the costs.” No, of course not. They’ll fight you every step of the way, so at that point you are just better off going to another country and paying for treatment out of pocket.

But wait, other countries don’t have the same new or experimental treatment options as we do. Well, insurance often doesn’t cover those anyway, so if you are pretty desperate and you truly need those, you either fight for coverage, and I hope you haven’t lost too much of your support system from the isolation of poor health because the stress of doing it alone may kill you regardless, or you pay out of pocket until you go broke.

There is also sometimes the option of medicaid or going on disability. You may go on medicaid anyway because good luck keeping a job and managing doctors appointments (oh my specialist can’t see me for another 6 months? Yeah put me on the wait list for cancellations), medications, and fighting the aforementioned insurance denials. Medicaid at least is actual state sponsored insurance, but remember Cs get degrees and As get high pay. As don’t typically accept medicaid pay rates unless you live near a big research hospital and can get their attention. Regarding disability, you shouldn’t really consider it unless you’re hitting rock bottom because it takes years to get on it only to have your savings capped to an insulting level that keeps you perpetually impoverished.

So you’re not really missing anything because it is one big racket.

We are already being shut out of the economy, and the few people who actually have a middle class job and lifestyle are in complete denial about what is going on in this country. The most we can do right now is support the growing calls for unions as a prerequisite for union leaders to organize a real general strike. Individuals are not just going to wake up one day and sacrifice their current comfort for our collective future.

Fun fact, Japan has the lowest percentage of passport holders among the first world countries, hovering around 17%.

I see doomers as people who say they want to fight but then burn up all of that fighting energy doom-scrolling and arguing online instead of channeling it into positive action.

You haven’t even read up on the low FODMAP diet which is like the gold standard of elimination diets. You don’t have the first clue about what you’re supposedly trying to promote.

When you have chronic fatigue, oftentimes pushing against your chair and extending your legs to get up is the most difficult step. I think in general you should stop breaking things down into steps as soon as the first one seems doable.

I’m surprised they haven’t yet. I only go on reddit for specific TV show subreddits, but even that is mostly filled with people clearly hate watching the show.

It could be so many things, so hard to give advice. For me, a big part of it was sleep related, and I could only fix it with medication; if you have adhd it may be similar. The medical issues gave me the feeling of I’m painfully bored but my body refuses to do/enjoy anything, and I just want the sweet release of death deep sleep.

On the other hand, I was also so used to delaying gratification for school/work that I literally didn’t know how to enjoy myself. I think finding the little things that bring you joy and incorporating it into your daily/ weekly/ monthly routine helps a lot. Something like: on Sundays I get to eat pizza or if I reach my short-term goal/milestone, I’ll take myself to the cool place I never get to go to. I started doing this after getting a dog. So literally train yourself to love life like a dog.

“These users are already familiar with Reddit and we’ve seen that the experience is much better for them in the app. The app offers a more personalized experience and users can more easily find communities that match their interests.”

Lmao. The personalization is exactly what I don’t want, so fuck off. Also, it’s pretty easy to circumvent. I’m sure there’s multiple ways, but I just go to old reddit.

Yes. That’s where the white supremacist eugenics comes in. They literally think they’re genetically superior and those they deem inferior should die. That’s why too many billionaires have like 10 kids nowadays. It’s weird christo-fascist “replacement theory” shit.

Genuine question, what are the alternatives not called Azure/GCP?

I will add that I grew up with rich kids, like kids of CEOs of corporations you would know well, and we also learned about carbon footprints from an early age. Most of the class did not score well, obviously. But every time a neglectful powerful person births a baby leftist educated by the greater community, we win.