Neat. This latest season has been a bit of a wash for me. I think gun reworks is pretty important for keeping me engaged and this was pretty much the first season to do offer nothing.
A balance update could really help me get back in.
Never mind blaming Biden, who doesn’t control the federal budget. Why is Biden’s name even out there. Critics should be pointing to the Republican house and demanding action.
I remember getting ABEC-5 bearings for my blades back in the day. Felt like you were rolling on ice. ABEC-7 was an option, but they were so expensive and the gains were supposedly marginal. Still, I sometimes wonder about what they would've been like.
According to my perspective, having autonomy is core to being human and most religious structures actively work to squash autonomy and force conformity. I think that is harmful for everyone.
For me, it's taken time to even recognize how hurt I was and I'm still going through a healing process.
I very much doubt you'll find anyone here who discourages you from stepping away from organized religion.
I'm a former Christian pastor on a hiatus from church life, but in no way done with being a Christian in my private life.
I believe the Bible boils religion down to three basic life roles for every individual person to follow: priest, steward, and keeper.
As a priest, every person is meant to determine how they ought best to live.
As steward they are to take care of the world around them in accordance with their beliefs.
As their "brother's keeper" they should work to ensure everyone else is free from coercion to believe and live how they think is best.
When people function in all three roles they are revealing the "image of God".
Live your best life and help others do the same to the best of your ability. Or, as James the brother of Jesus, said, true religion is this: "to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world."
Up until recently, most Americans benefited from a few government-supplied safety nets, most notably the large injection of stimulus money, which left many households sitting on a stockpile of cash that enabled some cardholders to keep their credit card balances in check.
But that cash reserve is largely gone after consumers gradually spent down their excess savings from the Covid-19 pandemic years.
It is absolutely insane to me that anyone thinks the stimulus money left households sitting on a stockpile of cash.
As though millions of people on the edge of poverty sat like dragons upon a mountain of wealth.
I remember loving this way back in the day. What an amazing labor of love. I hope the original devs can learn how loved their original creation remains.
I think this is it. I live in the PNW, some of the shelters I've seen are absolutely homes. They will sometimes have multiple tents assembled into multi-room dwellings with a variety of amenities.
Without an address, safety codes or legal protection, they clearly don't qualify as a house or apartment or whatever.
I've never heard it said, but a home seems to be a fundamental part of being human. Even the most nomadic of societies had some sort of portable home they traveled with.
Calling someone homeless is dehumanizing. Unhoused recognizes that they don't fit into the standard mold off society, but are no less human for it.
To be clear, this isn't to say we should just accept one another's differences and just move on with our lives. The unhoused represent a wide variety of complex social problems that should be addressed with humility and compassion.
We can begin that process by trying to guard their humanity in our own minds.
That's how I feel about it. For me, the terms matter. I live somewhere I'm confronted with this every day. I try to be on guard against dehumanizing thinking. I think if you live somewhere it's less an issue then this whole debate probably feels like pointless political correctness.
I'm so sorry for your situation and wish I had some helpful advice or insight. My only thought is the must be some therapist or clinician out there you could build a relationship with who could walk alongside you to help you get appropriate medication.
I'd not heard of Strattera, but looked it up and realized it wouldn't be suitable for my wife. I appreciate the suggestion.
Yeah, I used Adderall like Kleenex, which was imprecise of me. She is technically taking dextroamphetamine mediation, which has been the most effective of the various medications she's tried.
I don't disagree and I don't know how conservative the courts are in Canada, but generally the most important consideration is that laws can survive legal challenge.
If you go all in and the courts overturn it, you get nothing.
There's a balancing act that's an unfortunate reality for progressive legislators
I don’t think it’s a pride flag. I’m pretty sure it’s a Pokémon.