As a counterpoint, I don't replace water with anything sugary/flavored. I just... don't get thirsty, like ever, unless I'm working outside in hot weather. Most people's bodies remind them to drink. Mine doesn't. I try to remember to drink water throughout the day rather than just at mealtimes, but if I don't have a glass next to me, I will almost certainly forget. I feel like I can't be the only person like this.
Why would you think that state is permanent? What do you do when you get to the end of a book or an article? Do you not ever stop reading to eat, sleep, or take a walk?
Several democratic governors sued over the tariffs. So far the court has declared the tariffs to be illegal, but is for some reason allowing them to be collected while the case is appealed.
The gov of Maine sued him for withholding federal funds over having trans athletes and won.
A handful of senators and state legislators have attempted to visit some of the prisons/ICE detention facilities, starting with Chris Van Hollen, who flew to El Salvador to see Kilmar Abrego Garcia.
David Hogg is attempting to primary the old do-nothing dinosaurs in the party.
I think right now we're all looking to California to see what they do in a literal military standoff with Trump. I don't know if it will be enough, but I don't think it will be nothing.
Your personal judgements about others are not "an elephant in the room" that needs to be talked about. They are not objective facts. Ask yourself, when you think someone is unattractive, why is it so important to you that they know you think they are unattractive? What do you think you are accomplishing by bringing it up?
And in order for the organs to be usable, a person basically has to die already in the hospital, otherwise there is too much time between death and organ removal. And the cause of death needs to have not affected the organs, etc. Really a lot of limiting factors. I don't remember the stat, but it's a very low percent of organ donors who are actually able to have their organs used for transplants when they die.
But you specifically call out European-Americans, who are much more likely to have left America because they didn't like trump. I don't think this is very well thought out. Almost sounds like you're calling American immigrants violent criminals, in which case you might want to submit some evidence or examples or something.
Ohhh. As someone who also went through an editing program recently, yeah, I think AI has taken a lot of those jobs. Are you a member of any editing guilds like the EFA (if in the US)? They seem to have more one-off jobs for freelancers, but there was a regional guild I was part of that posted more corporate editing jobs, which maybe sounds more like what you're looking for. But right after AI got big it quickly became apparent that even the experienced freelancers were having a hard time getting steady work. I wish you luck. At least you have a good chunk of experience. I gave up because I didn't have any.
There just isn't that kind of leftist discourse in America. If there are communists here, I've never met one in real life, and I live in a very progressive region. Lemmy has been my first real exposure to anything further left of democratic socialism. I'm not sure why non-Americans are so continually surprised that we use "liberal" framework to discuss politics (that word means something completely different to us than it does to you). It would be great if the far right didn't keep moving us to the right, but that's the situation we live in. As capitalism fails, more people are waking up to the class struggle, but you can't just change a whole country's political paradigm overnight.
Maybe that's the point. Citizens aren't going to deport themselves, so it's just a really random extortion racket. Or maybe it's not random, but so far it's unclear whether all the people receiving those letters have anything in common.
The whole "open to work" thing started during the pandemic, when everyone was supposed to be staying at home. It was how chuds signaled to each other that they didnt care about the lives of others, that the economy was more important than people dying. The fact that anyone is still using these banners is just... weird.
Why would insurance even think of covering something like that? As if rape is just another cost of doing business... and not just any business, specifically God's business.
It's the way people keep bringing it up. Like my mom, who I'm pretty sure doesn't even know anyone who is autistic. But she continually wonders why there are "so many of them now," as if it's a problem. She doesn't consistently bring up any other societal issues such as, why are there so many traffic accidents or increases in cancer diagnoses (although she does bring up increased crime even though it hasn't actually increased). I just can't fathom why she worries so much about autism when her life isn't affected by it whatsoever.
I guess you missed the post where everyone was complaining the protests are only filled with centrist libs? How many actual tankies exist in the US, do you think? Maybe all of them live in your city.
Undiagnosed, but yeah it's very probable that I am at least one of those.