You absolutely can go have lunch elsewhere. I’ve been in similar situation. If asked, you can simply tell them, I enjoy having lunch by myself, it helps me recharge. Also, most of the time, boundaries are set through action not only words. Just do what you prefer without the concern of what others will think or feel, while being polite with your words. Most people will pick up on you actions and eventually leave up be. I’ve had serious boundary issues in my family and I’ve had to learn quite a bit about forming proper sustainable boundaries.

Or generated with AI like midjourney, therefore, made with AI.

There a huge difference between the two, yet, no clear distinction when all lumped into the label of “made with AI”

I totally agree with a streamlined identification of images generated by an AI prompt. But, to label an image with “made with AI” metadata when the image is original, taken by a human, and simply used AI tools to edit is absolutely misleading and the language can create confusion. It is not fair to the individual who has created the original work without the use if generative AI. I simply propose revising the language to create distinction.

Dying light

Yael Naim - New Soul

A pattern that camouflages me from the threats of corporate greed and Capitalism as a whole.

Embrace by creative side even further rather than creating for food and roof and thus limiting my ability to supply and demand.

Buy my dog a delicious chew treat of her choice and watch her devour it.

This, unfortunately, is a very individualistic view. We as a society must strive to be a collective and bring prosperity and success to the mass and not the few at the cost of the masses.

This can only happen if we all work together to change the governance and economic systems in our individual countries. It has nothing to do with being a martyr for your country or national pride. It has everything to do with working to bring a better world for us and the future generation.

We can do this, by organizing, educating, and agitating. Joining local organization around this cause is a great start.

Israel means nothing, nor does the US, UK, Russia, etc. These are simply labels created through territorial disputes, nationalism, imperial and colonialism. No one owes anything to these silly labels and their entitlements and propaganda. But, it is only rational that we work to make our own communities a better place by ensuring everyone has an equal opportunity and the wealth generated belongs to us not the few who want nothing more than to keep the status quo. Leaving the community behind for your own better future is self-serving and individualistic view. The notion of only look out for yourself, individualism, is a recent phenomenon in human history, a symptom of the first industrial revolution and capitalism.

Yes, do what makes you happy and live your life the way you want, but not at the cost of the struggle of your community and society at large.

Getting married and having chikdren, aka, a “family”

Sure, I can see that but I cannot imagine living in such a small town. I’ve only lived in cities in 2 countries, and top 5 largest ones at that. To live in a small town for me just sounds miserable. At the same time, living in cities there is convince so long as you can afford it. Home ownership is almost impossible for millennials like myself and now cars are getting up there.

Thanks for the details. I appreciate it. I wish you continued luck and success :)

How did you buy a house at the age of 25? I can’t get past this.

A Raccoon would ask are humans evil for treating the world and nature as their privately owned land to do whatever they want without regards to other habitants.

The fact that the permit requires approval, whether it is always approved or not, it is still a permission to practice your free speech. Instead, it should be a notice by the people. This will allow the government to prepare for it. On the other hand, this notice should merely be a formality and not necessary.

In a real democracy, people should always have the right to practice their free speech that serves to protect the masses from exploitation or being oppressed. Furthermore, all public spaces are open to protest, whether they are in the middle of the street, in public squares, parks, inside and outside of government buildings, etc. The obstruction to traffic or anything else is merely a tool for the ruling class to act out violence against the peaceful protestors.

All universities, schools, and other places of knowledge whether public or private should be exempt from trespassing laws for the protestors.

People like to get technical about acting on your free speech versus right to free speech. This is a BS arguments that supports no one but the ruling classes.

In a real democracy, people have the power and government serves to obey the people, sadly, this is not the case in the US, and anyone that thinks otherwise are simply opportunist in the capitalist system or given in to the capitalist democracy propaganda.

Like any other protest by the working class, it needs to be sustainable. It can only be sustainable if there is organization. This is what occupy movement lacked. It had the right ingredients, passion, working class rights, youth led movement, grass roots. The only other vital ingredient missing was organizing.

What do I mean by organization? For sustainability of movements by the oppressed, there needs to be democratic centrailism (DC). DC allows for space for list of demands set forth by the protesters so movements is well documented. It give a space for natural movement leaders to raise their voices for said demends and speak through the protesters. Organization through fundraising, donations, creates concise message with effective dissemination, such as social media posts, posyers, and other means where the means of press and information sharing is not controlled by the ruling class (corporate interests and the government). This is the reason US government is hell bent of banning ticktok. Even with all its flaws, it is still a powerful organic information sharing medium that the US government has no control over (i.e. Israel and Palestine). Last but not least, organization allows a space people to organize and volunteer in the backend in order for the front line protesters to be effective.

BLM quickly realized this and formed and organized. MLK led civil rights movements and Malcolm X and the black panthers were also organized. The American revolution occurred because if was organized under a single set of messages and organization to sustain itself. Same for the Communist movement led by the working class against autocracy in the late 1800s. All of these movements and protests were/are sustainable because they were/are organized.

An organization led by the oppressed is as powerful its support from the protester. A true organic organization is not influenced by donating entities. Corporate donations almost always demand influence. A true Democratic Centralism organization is financially supported by the protesters first, then by small donations from supporters, including small, local businesses.

If there are enough people with similar believes for change (i.e. livable wage, workplace rights, social equality, gender equality, anti school shooting, defunding corrupted entities, etc.) there most likely an existing organization what you can join, support, volunteer you time. If there isn’t and your believes include addressing the needs of the working class and/or the oppressed, chances arecmany others share this believe. They are all waiting for someone to at initiative. Take initiative and be the organizer, find others to help organize. If you are not comfortable in a visible leadership role, find someone who is and work together to create an organization that others like you have a place to go and spread the words in an effective way and make changes in you own communities.

When the working class protests take place organically, the organizations with similar believes will be in place, ready and armed to sustain the protest and be effective in its goals and document everything through various means.

Alien. Saw it when I was under 10 years old. I wouldn’t say it haunts me but close enough.

No, what is an insult is the American electoral system where at the end of the day, your individual vote means nothing. Your so called representatives do not work for you. They only represent you only paper. They are there to enrich themselves through corporate dollar and stocks, because capitalism and individualism.

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Gmail and Google Photos for shared stuff.