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Their entire ecosystem is set up to encourage wink-wink-nudge-nudge plausible deniability.

The veneer of conformity is what they want. It gives Xerxes in 300, "The [left] demands that you stand but all I ask is that you kneel."

It can stay scheduled. But it should be schedule 4 - low potential for abuse, low risk of dependence.

We can't even trust employers to not steal wages, sexually harass, or be decent humans to adult workers. There's no way a literal child should be expected to hold their own in an employee/employer relationship.

While you're right, I think the issue here is the hypocrisy of Musk claiming to be pro free speech (specifically on his platform) only to then repeatedly limit speech he doesn't personally like.

Overpaying and then destroying the value means that eventually, he will be able to claim losses on his taxes. This will allow him to reduce his tax liability for his profitable businesses.

Seems like what he was told by a person talking him out of pushing the button.

The crazy thing to me is that they said their goal is to stop progress. Sure, they tacked on "for its own sake" to give the base something to latch on to, but if you ask any person impacted by LACK of progress it's for very real sakes and stakes for very real people. Fuck these assholes.

Its either happening frequently and just happens to have been caught on camera twice, or it could instead be related to hearing well enough to understand.

My grandparents were like this. Even if they could hear you, a lot of times it seemed out of context to them because they missed some other important piece.

You missed a T

I'm finding out that I'm codependent. I avoided this term for a long time because of connotations I had of it with "co-addiction" but really, it is a situation like what you describe - I provide help all the time, and I never ask for or feel like I can accept it. I have so many instances in my past of help coming with strings, or being massively let down, or just being slammed with other people's incompetence that it makes me physically uncomfortable. All of this stems from and reinforces the idea that I have to be responsible because everyone else around me is being messy and useless.

Long story short - ask for help anyway. Even when it feels like shit, you have to get used to it. Like others have said, be specific and direct, and accept the idea that they may say no, and it probably isn't personal. "I need help with..." doesn't work unless it includes, "Can you help me with this?"

I mainly want internet for streaming a and games. I'm fine with cutting off the majority of news and social media.

Renewable instead of nuclear, but nuclear instead of coal.

We need a mix. Centralization isn't the biggest problem. Literally anything we can do to reduce emissions is worth doing, and we won't be going 100% on anything, so best to get started on the long term projects now so that we can stop turning on new plants based on combustion.

Agreed. I want internet, but beyond that I don't want to be near anything. My mom was telling me to prioritize a place with good medical services, but it seems like by the time I am old and in constant need, the unsustainability will have come home to roost.

If you want to have a meaningful conversation that might result in this changing, you will have to do that in each of the groups you subscribe to. Posting in mildlyinfuriating isn't going to stop memes elsewhere.

The regressive playbook is to make everything the responsibility of "the family" because they don't want government telling them they can't abuse their kids.

When that is accomplished, suddenly it will be acceptable for government to force families to do (or not) certain things. We are seeing the beginning ramp up here.

Either you have human rights or you don't. Your parents having the right to curtail your rights means that they aren't universal, and the government can and will be involved again once you gut enough oversight.

They're telling you that it isn't written to require criminal guilt determined by a court.

The entire south seceded. Those people were not tried, and in fact were given blanket pardons. But they still couldn't hold office again.

This is a political process. It will be political, same as an impeachment.

And his remedy is a two thirds vote qualifying him.

Damocles by SG Redling.

Basically, humans make first contact by going elsewhere.

I'm not sure that hypocrisy has ever stopped world leaders who have money on the line.