Not going to engage with your points since there's no evidence to support them, only a belief system, there's nothing to debate there.
I will point out that the meme is about gender and you're talking about sexuality.
These are separate concepts. My belief system is that people should understand these basic ideas before engaging in discussions or debate on these topics.
There's no substitute for knowing what you're talking about. Learn about as much as you can both in your role and in the broader setting.
This can make you invaluable, even indispensable.
The purpose is to increase your utility to your work environment for you benefit! To leverage it to get into the role, position, pay & responsibilities you want next.
The employer may decide your utility should benefit them and give you Jobs no one else wants, or give you too much work. This is to be resisted.
They're going to try to use you. Only way to win is use them back harder.
Loads of people have habitual attraction to unhealthy relationship patterns.
Being drawn to the same kind of asshole over and over can feel like a chemical green flag, wisdom and experience show it's a red flag and things always end the same unhappy way
Disclaimer, not an American. I'm answering with my perspective for what it's worth and because no one else has.
From what I'm able to see here, there's a lot of Americans who are doing absolutely fine. Many of them. Seems there's enough who are that the ones who complain about their unreasonable treatment don't have enough voice to change things.
It's true that every human society has rich and poor, the ones with abundance and those who struggle. The weird part from where I'm standing is that not every Human society declares itself the Greatest country in the world.
I wonder how much that kind of propaganda impacts on people's ability to see the flaws and make the changes. Seems many Americans don't even see the systemic problems there as problems. They see the people struggling as the problem.
When I hear stories of things like children who refuse to swear an oath of loyalty every morning being shamed and ostracised I really do fear for their ability to be honest with each other.
Coz I get to carry on doing what I'm doing while the food turns up. It a suitable temperature, takes no time at all for me to walk to the door to thank the driver and it's totally worth the extra 20% it costs me compared to picking it up.
Especially if I've been drinking
I'd like to believe I'd still have that reaction to this "joke" even if my hearing was fine, still I do agree with you that it's really extra infuriating when explaining a genuine hearing issue
Yeah, totally. I lived rural with a poor connection at the time.
Company had a remote server in a data centre for our CRM, website and such as we had people in three locations. total overkill really for what we needed in my opinion and it was 99% idle in the evenings.
So I used it to host half life deathmatch and team fortress back in the day when these were cutting edge. Four to six players each night having fun we couldn't have had otherwise.
The reason is because of the bias in the studies themselves.
For example, there's more studies showing that internet addiction is bad for teenagers because more studies have been run on teenagers.
Addiction of any kind of harmful to all age groups. The ways in which it impacts people depends on their life circumstances. For example, older people are more likely to lose a job or a marriage due to addiction than a teenager is, that's not because of the nature of their addiction.
The simplest explanation is that some teenagers are depressed or otherwise struggling and turn to social media and internet because that's what they have to help them cope. It's a natural correlation, this study is saying that we don't have the evidence to imply causation.
It's easy for some people, especially those unfamiliar with online activities and particularly those who don't value online activity, to see the correlation and blame. This is really helpful as it means they can avoid addressing the cause of the initial depression.
I've seen that movie. America did all the fighting by itself