Tbh, yeah. I'm a woman with an inoperable brain tumor, and I can completely understand why people would be reluctant to accept "nothing to be done" as a real answer.
If I thought I deserved to live, I'd probably talk to a LLM about it because this topic drags everybody down, and my therapist only sees me once a week. Though, I've heard its good for helping people not live, so maybe its worth a shot after all.
My state is one of the few that guarantees paid time off. At minimum we get 1 hour of PTO for every 40 hours worked, so that works out to about a week and a half of combined sick leave and vacation.
When I talk about how much I miss the 90s McDonalds, I'm mostly complaining about the loss of a third space. My parents would go to McDonalds so we had a safe, climate-controlled, indoor play space, and we could spend hours there for the price of something off the dollar menu.
I don't know of anywhere comparable these days. Anything indoors is going to be expensive, you have to get the city to unlock the local hoops, the cops start asking questions if you just want to hang out with friends, and if you have too many friends they make you get a permit to use the public park.
Part of the problem is that we've got a hodgepodge of roads, built at different times, to different standards. Rail crossings are also complicated, because the train companies own the rails and the land under them, so cities are largely unable to force them to make changes to their property.
In this particular instance, the tracks would need to be redone for a few miles on either side of the bridge to raise it, and the North Carolina Train Company just isn't willing to front the cost and eat the downtime. There's only so far you can dig down before you hit groundwater problems, so the city can't do much to lower the road under the bridge.
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As somebody that worked nights as a caregiver, it is not easier at all, what are you smoking? During the day, the clients were largely sane, but once the sun goes down, you better hold on to your hat.
Historically, rich people have been able to alter what people consider attractive too. There were multiple cultures across the globe that painted their teeth black because being able to eat a lot of imported sugar made your teeth rot.
Straight up health problems being romanticized just because it was a problem only affecting the rich.
Sorry for the double response, but I just remembered something else. Right before COVID, I was in a car accident, and crushed my pelvis. I was bedbound for a year, and had six months of PT to get my muscles back, which is where I learned a lot of this stuff.
Turns out I was also not sitting correctly. I always curled my tailbone under and was sitting on the bottom of my sacro-iliac joint, but your pelvis has something called 'sit bones' that you're supposed to sit on. I find that I can't sit 'correctly' in bucket seats at all, so if you're sitting at the desk like you sit in a car, maybe that has something to do with it?
My local grocery lets me skip the step of buying them and taking them home, because they're already moldy on the shelf.