yup. i received my surprise collections notice a couple of days ago. it's a bit disappointing because only a couple months ago i got it all back on track with the SAVE repayment, but apparently Trump has canceled that as well.
i watch Real Time with Bill Maher regularly and watched his monologue about his meeting with Trump (it disgusted me). this essay is beautiful because it hits many of the same points Maher made and i just know that Bill must be embarrassed and livid.
Bill Maher owes us all (his viewers) an apology. but of course we will never get it.
i watch Real Time with Bill Maher regularly and watched his monologue about his meeting with Trump (it disgusted me). this essay is beautiful because it hits many of the same points Maher made and i just know that Bill must be embarrassed and livid.
Bill Maher owes us all (his viewers) an apology. but of course we will never get it.
i watch Real Time with Bill Maher regularly and watched his monologue about his meeting with Trump (it disgusted me). this essay is beautiful because it hits many of the same points Maher made and i just know that Bill must be embarrassed and livid.
Bill Maher owes us all (his viewers) an apology. but of course we will never get it.
thanks. i took a moment to find it (boost). but it now leads me back to the OP question...
if a crosspost came up during my lemmy scroll, it will probably look exactly the same as if i had made the post to each community individually. so is crossposting a meaningful alternative?
i have been on lemmy since the reddit exodus and use it every day... even post from time to time and i have no confidence at all about what cross-post means, or how to carry it out, or what the results look like.
it seems like you didn't quite get the responses you were hoping for.
i appreciate your questioning and attempt to reframe the JFK speech in a modern context. it makes sense to me that he might have been speaking about some underground conspiracy which is still in operation today.
a decade or so ago, a group of 20-ish cousins and i were sitting round the campfire at the reunion. they all discussed among themselves and decided that i am the original black-sheep of the family and they thanked me for being a strong role model for their own journey out of the truly awful mormon religion.
i think it is incredibly unfair that the process of ending your own life is, in this culture, a necessarily lonely and grim affair.
according to the theory of complete bodily autonomy the option must be available, simple, painless, and ideally a joyful shared experience. but the moment you make such a desire known to others, they will try to "help" you. and i can assure you that their idea of "help" will not be pleasant for you.
so, sadly, you must tread this path alone.
philosophically, i think it offends people because it forces them to acknowledge that their own life is probably not worth preserving. we force each other to suffer through it all because no one wants to openly admit that this shit just plain-old-sucks.
he is sounding so frustrated and desperate.