Does it bother him when you don't respond? I don't know this boys particular circumstances but Western culture has a mentorship crisis when it comes to young boys and men, generally speaking.
You shouldn't have to do anything that makes you uncomfortable but, as an introvert myself, I have come to learn that kinship sometimes means doing your own thing in the presence of others. This is really important to children since they want to feel like they're part of something bigger.
If he's not expecting a response to everything and you're OK with just being together I'd advocate for that. You may find it to be healthy for both of you. Depends on your specific circumstances though.
Mild fascism was always "okay" in colonial-settler history. It was only when the Nazis went full fascist and started attacking other Europeans for either not buying into their world view or for having impure Slavic or Mediterranean blood did shit hit the fan.
For many of these regressionists, going back hinges on the ascension of neo Nazism.
Women could not build individual credit until the 1974 Equal Credit Opportunity Act (ECOA). They needed a male cosigner to have a credit card prior to this.
The Fair Credit Reporting Act of 1970 expanded credit card access for minorities. Systemic credit reporting inaccuracies disproportionately impacted them prior to this with Black/Hispanic neighborhoods having 2-3x more credit disputes than white areas.
There's a reason some of the anti-inclusive members of our society want to go back to a time of lower competitiveness. Unfair advantages allowed the few to have an easier life at the expense of the many.
Every woman I know has felt pressured to look a certain way by our dominant capitalistic world view. With the emergence of social media and influencer culture, men are starting to feel this pressure affect them too.
Its very hard to make someone stop believing that something objectively apparent doesn't matter. Its less about whether it matters to you and more about how she feels others perceive what she perceives to be a flaw.
Telling her that it doesn't matter to you is totally fair. Telling her it doesn't matter to anyone would not be entirely true - yes, our culture can be that superficial.
There are, after all, entire industries that count on us to impart such insecurity onto our daughters so that they spend on beauty products their whole lives and keep that revenue engine churning.
My suggestion would be to reassure her that it doesn't matter to you but to also see if you can have a broader conversation on the social pressures she has experienced related to her appearance and how it has impacted her life. You may have had similar experiences to share. This will brinf you closer, remembering that true confidence comes from strong relationships built on a foundation of mutual trust.
Absolute trash tier journalism that does not even try to explain why use of agencies for staffing in both the US and Canadian hospitals has increased.
Hospitals offer an absolutely terrible compensation package to nurses and even doctors in some cases (for hours worked) and have generally become profoundly dysfunctional.
For many nurses, pay was capped or went down during COVID (until a recent pay increase due to backlash in Ontario) and the reality of working as hospital staff was 'hey sorry ____ called sick can you take care of double the patients with no increase in compensation while bringing immense potential harm to your patients and causing you incredible moral and physical burn out?'
So people went to agencies that pay better but most importantly are flexible. You can certainly get a crap assignment while being an agency worker but your agreement may just be a few weeks and you can leave and choose to never return if an institution is mismanaged.
As a healthcare worker, hitching your wagon to one horse (or hospital) is a risky proposition these days since so many are mismanaged and underfunded. I'd rather have the flexibility to jump ship than stay somewhere only to become miserable and suicidal (which many healthcare workers struggle with)
In short, agencies are a symptom of a bigger problem. You can ban them (lol) but good luck finding people to take care of patients if you do.
I would take it a step further with indigineous teachings that those with great power use it for the greater good, do not dismiss the central role of women in communities and respects the sanctity of all that is living, human and non-human.
To me, that is a good person and I believe that every person has the potential to be good.
Both Alberta and Saskatchewan hold key natural resources (oil and potash).
Both are essentially land locked and are unsustainable as soverign nations being surrounded by the US and Canada.
If either seceded from Canada, the most likely outcome is annexation by or willingly joining the US, which would be problematic for Canadian sovereignty as a whole.
I'm all for Alberta's self determination but Canada cannot and will not allow allow this to happen.
If Albertans don't like that, I fully support them seeking asylum / refugee status in the US.
Recent polling by Angus Reid shows that major opposition from First Nations (as secession violates their treaty rights) either would not effect Albertans/Saskatchewanians opinion on leaving or would make them more likely to want to leave
America has been on that path for sometime. It's voting public has been unstable (in terms of lacking the efficacy to choose a stable and reliable government) for nearly a decade now.
In hindsight. There was some degree of hysteria at the time, which prompted ended at the turn of the millenia when planes did not fall out of the sky and computer systems did not all fail in unison.
Exclusionary and traditionalist politics are gaining steam in Australia as they are in the rest of the Western world. This election was no doubt a good outcome but, just like in Canada and the US, support for conservatism and far right politics is growing among young Australian men. This will become problematic in the next 10 to 15 years as historically this demographic inherits control of the institutions.
I'm not sure one can say that the Pakistani government has been responsible as it has allowed the militant group that was previously funded by Osama Bin Laden and committed the 2008 terrorist attack on Mumbai to continue to exist on its soil.
That said, I am by no means absolving India's Hindu nationaliat government for the injustice of revoking article 370.
Another example would be Trump saying that US farmers now have unprecedented access to the UK market for sales but the US uses growth hormone which is banned in the UK and Europe. It's very unlikely they're going to designate a non growth hormone section of their farm just to ship beef overseas.
Which would only be financially sound if for some reason there is significant demand for American beef in the UK which.. Why would there be?
His memecoin alone will make him billions off of the presidency.
Regardless of whether anyone thinks he's intelligent or competent, I think most would agree that he is a conman. I've honestly never seen 70+ million people fall for a con so easily. It speaks volumes to America's education and media landscape.
Does it bother him when you don't respond? I don't know this boys particular circumstances but Western culture has a mentorship crisis when it comes to young boys and men, generally speaking.
You shouldn't have to do anything that makes you uncomfortable but, as an introvert myself, I have come to learn that kinship sometimes means doing your own thing in the presence of others. This is really important to children since they want to feel like they're part of something bigger.
If he's not expecting a response to everything and you're OK with just being together I'd advocate for that. You may find it to be healthy for both of you. Depends on your specific circumstances though.