It’s still a great source of information. I don’t mind visiting the site if it pops up in one my Google searches.

Comic-Con. Had a blast.

Also, you try not to have an “emotional over-reaction” when your country is threatened to be annexed or invaded.

I understand the response, but it’s still biased and wrong. Don’t think angry Canadians don’t have my empathy—I’d be pissed for a few days too, probably. But it’s important to not let your emotions cloud your thinking and your judgment. To the extent that angry Canadians blame the entire U.S. population for Trump, while understandable in a certain light, they’re still wrong.

Around $60k and I live in a very expensive city. I live paycheck-to-paycheck, but I’m also a trust funder, so I chose this career knowing I didn’t have to worry about retirement. Very different situation from most. I don’t feel rich, but I certainly don’t feel poor. I feel comfortable knowing I can afford whatever I need and I don’t want much more than that. I have to mind my spending a little bit but if I ever want to splurge, I can.

Well, if that’s the case, that’s a shame, as it simply means Canadians are having an emotional over-reaction to the situation and it’s biasing them into blaming an entire group for only part of that group’s actions.

I suspect some Canadians see it the way you describe and others see it the way my Mom described. I’d be interested to know if there’s any correlation with political alignment.

Just want to chime in and say that my mom and her friends were just in Canada and they said the people there totally understand that half of America is against Trump and everything he stands for and don’t blame all Americans at all, but they feel they have to punish the country for electing him nonetheless.

Totally reasonable IMO.

“My daughters ordered a Trump watch and after 5 months of waiting have not received anything. It’s a shame this company is not holding to President Trump’s high standards. This was a present for my 80th birthday!” wrote one MAGA supporter on July 14.

These people are un-teachable. This kind of immunity to learning from experience should be considered a mental illness.

This is your opportunity to discontinue a barbaric practice that was done to you for stupid reasons.

The only thing that is making this a difficult ethical choice for you is the culture you were brought up in. If you were born in most other places, this issue wouldn’t even provoke serious thought in your brain, just astonishment, laughter, and ridicule for anyone who practiced it.

This isn’t a hard choice. Do the right thing.

Vidya games!

Specifically, any games requiring “twitch” reflexes. I love ‘em, but I do not have the genetic material to master them.

Oh, yeah, I’ve heard that line plenty of times. I agree, it’s just a convoluted argument to mask anti-White racism. Funnily enough, I’ve seen plenty of White people say it. Sad.

I’ve seen liberal POCs say racist shit about White people more times than I can count.

Let them die. Let’s put together a fund that helps pro-vaccine people move out of the Florida wasteland.

You’ve indicated you’re pro-Hamas, so it seems you’re the one who’s daft.

There are reasonable ways to support peace in Gaza and then there’s being pro-Hamas. Pick a side.

No, it doesn’t. Look above.

Found the Hamas troll.

Found the Hamas mole.

Empathy. Some people just have a brain for math and understand numbers in ways other people just never will. Others, like myself, have brains that are really good at understanding others, and we perceive and understand others with a facility some other people just can’t. It sounds pompous to say, because all human beings are at least somewhat skilled in this area, due to our species being highly social, but it’s still a cognitive speciality and some of us are innately better at it than others.

It can be frustrating too, because when other people don’t understand what you see in someone else, they question your decisions about them, and it can be hard to see why other people don’t see what you find obvious sometimes. It’s a bit of an extreme example, but I know people who can’t see that Donald Trump is a highly transparent narcissist. Even ones who didn’t vote for him and hate him for all the obvious reasons can’t see the personality disorder in him, and I find it so glaringly obvious that I sometimes just can’t fathom how anyone could miss it. But, if I really think about it, and I imagine what it might be like for a person who doesn’t have a natural talent for empathy, I can see how they just might not connect the dots and just see a bombastic, arrogant asshole, rather than the much more complex pattern of malignant narcissism that underlies that comparatively superficial persona.

Obviously, everything is relative and trauma comes in many varieties. Nothing should be taken for granted and everyone’s experience is valuable.

That said, this seems pretty fucked up: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fritzl_case

🤷‍♂️ I just Googled it. Glad I could help though.

I think it’s a bad idea. It sets the standard that your house is her house, which it isn’t. Furthermore, I believe there are legal issues if she stays there long enough (e.g. not being able to evict her very quickly if you want to). Furthermore, it disincentivizes your son from finding his own place when he’s old enough.

Also, your son’s girlfriend should not be spending the majority of nights over at your house at her age. I would encourage them to find income and their own housing if they’re that serious about living together.