ZzyzxRoad @ ZzyzxRoad @sh.itjust.works

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I'm pretty sure they don't get paid anywhere near what they're worth. Same old story in the US: anything that's important to society, has to do with people's health, safety, education, and so on.

As someone of a similar age, I can definitely say this is not true for everybody.

Raging at the idiot who pulled in front of you solves nothing.

It's not like we don't know that. Otherwise OP wouldn't have the self awareness to ask the question. It's just an emotional reaction to people, situations, and actions that defy logic. I get angry at drivers when they do things that are not only blatantly selfish and inconsiderate, but dangerous and usually illegal (in SoCal that's every few minutes). I don't know about OP, but I'm not doing any "raging." No one looking over at me would know I'm angry af, but I'm sitting there wondering how the US is filled with so many sociopathic freaks and why we're all ok with the way we treat each other. And picturing what would happen had I done the same thing in traffic. A cop would materialize out of nowhere, or the other person would jump out of their car with a bat. But the people who cut me off? They never see any consequences, and if any one of them learns their lesson, there's ten more willfully ignorant, dangerously stupid people to put everyone else at risk. I'm not attributing anything to malice. Cluelessness is so much worse, and people should be held accountable for not learning from their mistakes. Besides, being considerate, responsible, generally respectful, and empathetic does not require any extra education or intelligence (though it would certainly help). Somehow, the universe is totally fine with all of this, and so is everyone else. I was in a bad accident years ago because someone pulled right out in front of me, so I've lived through the consequences of some selfish prick valuing their two seconds of time over other people's actual lives. If a teenager acted the way we act collectively, as a population, their parents would be told they have behavioral problems. You can not react all you want, but that doesn't help anything going on under the surface. Mindfulness and stoicism is just living with the anger and stress instead of solving it. That's why cognitive behavioral therapy is the only thing that will actually help it.

What alternative would you propose for providing loans?

Making things affordable (or just priced within reason) if they are considered a necessity to live in society.

Yes, there are survival necessities ie. food, water, shelter. But in modern society, we can add Internet, phone, car (depending on where you live) or bus pass etc, and probably tuition for at least a bachelor's degree.

If you want to buy a boat or some shit, then sure, you should have to take out a loan.

Did I mention trump anywhere in my comment?

No one said you did.

interpret all criticism of Biden as support for Trump

When you don't vote, therefore allowing Trump to win the election...then yeah.

Equating the above with "all criticism" is what's dishonest. Plenty of people criticize Biden who voted for him once, and they are still voting for him again. But you know that. We might not like him but believe it or not, we dislike fascism even more. Crazy, I know.

They didn't say "any young people."

They pointed out that 18-29 year olds have historically had the lowest voter turnout of any group. It was higher in 2020 than in the previous election year, but overall, not many young people vote. Hyperbole sucks.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/984745/youth-voter-turnout-presidential-elections-us/

https://apnews.com/article/ohio-miscarriage-prosecution-brittany-watts-b8090abfb5994b8a23457b80cf3f27ce

The last article I read about this said that doctors were taking days to figure out how to handle this legally because of abortion restrictions, even though they knew it was nonviable. I have personally AmA'd out of a hospital and gone to a different one for a different health situation because I didn't trust the doctors, and it turned out to have been the exact right decision.

Women are not taken seriously by doctors, and black women are really not taken seriously, nor respected as human beings, by doctors in the US. There's a million variables to this situation that none of us know, and we shouldn't act like we know. But sure , let's just judge this woman for how she reacted to a fucking horror movie situation that should have never occurred in the first place, especially in a "free" country with all the necessary healthcare technology readily available.

So why did this happen to her when she was at home, by herself? Because doctors were afraid of the legal repercussions of performing a medically necessary procedure. That's all it comes down to. Not that hard.

At this point, anyone blaming this woman or any other woman in a similar situation as if they brought something like this on themselves, is just a misogynist looking for an outlet for their hatred of women. We all know it, but someone's got to say it.

"We believe in democracy in Texas...except when our feelings get hurt."

I truly don't understand the college students who are paying insane tuition to be there to get a degree and they couldn't care less. I don't know if their parents are forcing them to go to college or what.

Are you dense

I just don't get it. I must be missing something really important about what makes her stand out as different from any other guitar-playing radio pop woman singer-songwriter since the early 2000's. Why didn't Michelle Branch get as popular? I don't dislike her, just not my taste I guess.

The whole article could have just been this:

it remains unclear how encouraging people to vote can be construed as election interference.

But one of the weirdest things is how conservatives are totally obsessed with how many people she's dated. One of the tweets in the article says she "runs through men like water." Ok? Even if it were somehow unacceptable to date multiple people throughout the whole of your twenties, god forbid, exactly what in the fuck does it have to do with "election interference."

I love how every male conservative leader can be married 5 times while paying for abortions for their girlfriends, but regular dating is where they draw the line.

I feel like I'm in the twilight zone when people talk about this issue, like people watching all of this and still defending Israel are all living on another fucking planet. Some literally 1984 "war is peace/we've always been at war with East Asia" shit.

the United States strongly supports a durable peace,

we do not support calls for an immediate cease-fire.”

Come the fuck on.

Hamas has no desire to see a durable peace, to see a two-state solution

Because Israel does? What a fucking joke. I'm so fucking embarrassed of this country and so fucking sick of being stuck in it.

that results in an accident, or bodily harm - to themselves, or someone else.

Oh, so like alcohol.

Never heard of him

Fuck, we're getting old.

This is exactly what I thought when I read that. What kind of "recalibrating" do they think they're going to get to do with a christian fascist lording over the country?

I can't help but have conspiracy theory thoughts, like this is some kind of conservative campaign. It's hard to rule anything out anymore, and the idea of muslims voting for trump is just that fucking stupid.

Don't really want to support a place that makes their minimum wage employees stand outside to take people's orders either. That includes In N Out. And Dutch Brothers. Also none of them are as good as all the crowds imply, I don't really get it.

They're also still young with less life experience.