$20 and some pocket lint. I’d at least want to reward them for the favor

I always took it as “if you do your best you’ll never be without what you need” but that could still have a lot of broad interpretations

For me at least I feel like it was when the American dream turned from “anyone can do it with hard work and dedication” to “anyone can do it if they exploit others, get lucky, or come from money”.

The dream used to be “work hard and this will be yours” and it seems to have been turned to “work hard and dream about it someday, and maybe you can get close”. And it definitely changed over time. People often forget when the “American dream” came about it wasn’t “get a degree, and be a white collar worker for a chance” like it was with people my age. It was “go to work, wherever, with whatever skill set/background, contribute and you get a piece of the American apple pie”. Over decades though those goal posts have been shifted further and further.

Earning the American dream used to be a given for everyone if you worked hard and contributed, but over time it has devolved with a bunch of extra conditionals of “well that doesn’t count either” until we are left with “the dream exists, but only for a few who can actually get it.”

People these days are turning to betting, day trading, side hustles, and extreme budgeting to even be comfortable in some cases. That’s not how it used to be. You could work any job, minimum wage or not, and the benefits were supposed to be for everyone. That’s not the case anymore, and the American dream has faded along with it

Sure, let’s whataboutism the discussion, love that.

The problem is, there’s no way this would stay quiet if he was actually dead. There were 7 people directly involved and about 60 ultimately charged for Watergate, and that leaked like a sieve. Granted they were caught, but if he was an actual corpse there’s no way someone wouldn’t leak something. Now incapacitated, sure.

But if the dead man was on ice for a while here you can bet people are absolutely going to look into exactly how long he has been dead for. This has been way too high profile for them to try to just hand wave it through.

I really think he is just mentally useless. You saw the guy freezing and falling for months. I think whatever happened, he’s not dead, they’re just pretending “oh yeah he will be right back, just a minute.” Until the timeline passes, then it’ll be “oops actually ya know what he’s just gonna go ahead and resign” because he isn’t publicly functional anymore. He hasn’t been for years, but this last illness/injury just pushed him over the line. They were probably just trying to get him to the next election cycle, and this injury pushed up the timeline so they had to bluff to the “finish line”.

Still absolute horseshit either way. I don’t think he’s been “valid” for years.

It’s always been a shithole. The good part was the freedom, you used to be able to be exhasperated and complain to your friends. But we decided instead of improving society that some of us would rather give a bunch of facists cameras and microphones and turns out, those facists are the evil kind of facists, not this mythical “only here to protect us” kind.

Which, when faced with an absolute mountain of evidence, is still tantamount to “I don’t believe it”. You can say “I don’t think that’s accurate” but when the entire community of people responsible for checking accuracy tells you that it is accurate, that’s not disbelief, that’s denial in clown shoes.

“you’re not a scientist with all your “research” and “peer reviewed studies” and stupid “evidence”! You’re not even wearing a lab coat! I’ve got a lab coat! You’ve got to respect me because my lab coat and my name tag says I’m a scientist! This guy doesn’t even have a name tag c’mon.”

/s hopefully obviously

And that’s absolutely a view you are allowed to take. Nobody should force you to “move on” or “go get laid” or look down on you for not doing so. I would however strongly refute that everyone who does find another after losing someone is doing so to “fuck someone new”, for a lot of people that move is not one made lightly, and not something so minimally calculated.

But for the people that do make those choices, they are also not lesser or “liars”. Life can be very challenging, and connection, especially intimate ones (or lack thereof) can drastically change our feelings and wellness going through life. Some people find that connection on other people and choose to embrace it, others reject it to protect the sanctity of what came before.

I’m not trying to change your mind in either direction but to explain why other people may do what they do. There are several factors that could influence their decisions as well.

Some people don’t believe in an afterlife. They believe that when the person is gone, they’re gone. They hold memories dear, but they also know that suffering (if they feel that they are) for someone who is no longer here may not be worth the cost to their own wellness.

Some have had more than one experience like that. If I were to refuse to date anyone ever again because my 5 year relationship in highschool and college where we promised we would be together forever ended (for whatever reason). Am I a monster for finding love with another person because at the time I said and believed and truly swore we would be together? What if the separation was out of either of our control?

There’s also the aspect you have talked about, which is akin to honor. You have made a vow and promised it until death. You have every right to stand by it and dedicate yourself to it, but not to choose others decisions for them as well.

Holding your oath may be what carries you, but others may need or want further comfort in life. It doesn’t have to be sexual, but connection with other people in a way that truly shows them your heart is not something people can often find, and also not something many can just give up on in life.

Take the path that makes you happy, but if someone else’s decision means there are two less unhappy people in the world then it’s a decision worth making in my opinion.

I really think it’s a personal thing for your happiness right? You seem happy to carry her memory and knowing that’s exactly what matters to you. If others need someone around, or that you can share the future moments with, then you aren’t lying about it being “forever” if you continue living life, life changes lots of things. Sharing that love with someone is huge, but they also wanted to be with you for it. They can’t be, so if someone finds someone else and they want to walk through life together I’d like to think someone can find that.

Some are happy with the memory, and their values hold that they would never involve another. But others know that they needed each other to get through the good and the bad, and that person isn’t here anymore. They’ll never be the same as the person who is gone, but it doesn’t mean having them in your life is a “failure” or “betrayal”

With this though I think there is legal stance because prohibitively high prices can be used as grounds to say that a product “can’t be repaired”. The legal precedent is there, you can’t just say “technically we give you the option, it’s just $2m”.

I do want to clarify as a Kentuckian, we do not want a dead man representing us. The republican party officials don’t want someone else. Most of Kentucky Dems and reps are getting pissed that he’s basically been pulling a “Weekend at Bernie’s” for 40+ days. It’s likely even with a special election that another Republican would still get elected. But people are still pissed this farce is happening

The problem is they’ve proven the phones don’t always matter. They definitely help, record every second of these assholes. But they have shown they have little issue gunning down someone in broad daylight, cameras or not.

But we need to get mad, protest, shut down the government and the city until they solve this problem. Citizens, Americans, are dying on our own soil with the slightest made up excuse. Fuck ICE.

I didn’t know they sized hoop earrings based on entitlement

It’s just how our brains are wired. If we cried like we lost a loved one every time we saw a death on the news we’d go insane.

We can still care and have empathy, but our brains are wired to at least have a small amount of stop gap distance between near and further social groups out of necessity. It doesn’t make you a bad person, but it should be something people account for when they think of anything around “we and they”

I mean yeah but most recepies don’t have proper instructions on how to sift flour or measure wet vs dry ingredients in them either. I know how to do it and I appreciate the conciseness of this view.

I’ve never seen much about f-droid. Is some sort of framework/launcher?

The problem a lot of times is that the social impact doesn’t get time to be addressed before it gets stopped in peoples minds. Many people get to “healthcare is expensive, I can’t/don’t want to pay someone else’s healthcare. Forget the economy or social benefit, I can’t afford to pay it.” So the benefits are there, but when people are struggling it’s hard to ask them to see beyond their nose.

Exactly. They know what they’re doing. Nobody thinks he’s some “spring chicken”. He’s old as dirt and he freezes in public all the time. If he didn’t look nearly dead then they’d do a 30 second video of him saying “hello everyone I’m getting better” but they aren’t. If he was really sitting in that chair with the paper and coherent then they’d let him be coherent.

I’m not sure what I got “duped” by. AI in the wrong hands is dangerous. They’re playing with tools that can breach other companies systems with relative ease and they keep getting caught going “oops it got out”. You can argue that it’s manufactured actions meant to make people afraid but the fact of the matter is AI is here and it has dangerous capabilities when used against systems that aren’t prepared for it. Make whatever judgements you want from there, but that is a factual statement.