“Any time you establish goals you risk the possibility of failing to achieve them, the wise general abandons such foolishness and instead focuses on simply killing the opponents”

Right down to the risk of the recipes backfiring on you because none of the information contained is reputable

I’ve done some cbt and found that it’s worth asking what the worst realistic outcome and most likely outcome are. If the worst is bearable I accept i can get through it. Regardless I then focus on what I can do that can help my situation and accept if I can’t. If I’m possibly fucked snd helpless it sucks, but it’s easier knowing that that’s the case, but usually neither is true. Most of the time I can bear it and improve things.

Like everyone else is saying, find a way to participate. I’m absolutely awful at posting, but I can comment regularly so I do that a lot. If you notice anything you want missing it’s gonna be up to you to inspire others by posting about it and being actively involved in other posts about it.

Oh also a lot of folks on here suck to varying degrees. Not all are necessarily ban worthy, but some will be. There are instances you may choose to block as well. In general you make of this place what you put in. And for all the users you dislike and see around you’ll get plenty that you see around and like, and it’s cool when you notice you keep interacting with the same people in positive ways

Absolutely fucking tragic. I feel so bad for Helen

Well he already had some bad experiences with a one balled man

Yeah, seeing more info, I’ve got my doubts about her story, especially considering another trans member of the party is calling bs

“I don’t think it’s because she’s trans. I’ve faced the discrimination she’s claiming, but in the years since we’ve taken the party back and it’s generally very pro trans, including other trans people sitting in gendered seats aligning with their genders. Instead it’s likely about her hostile behaviors and some statements she’s made”

That is a level of government interference I use as a classic example of why the west isn’t fucking good enough. Alongside plenty of other abuses of power against my people by capitalist imperial states.

The USSR I have issues with a lot they did predominantly in the Stalinist era, but I consider their dissolution to be a great tragedy for the global working class.

If you’re saying I’m being too harsh in criticizing late 20th century Iraq’s government however I think we’re going to be unable to come to a meaningful place of agreement here. You see, I’ve been consistently anti torture, both for my country and others. Do love their commitment to literacy though.

I’m not defending any modern nation, but most have policies I wish more would adopt.

My point isn’t that class isn’t a major force, but that it’s just one of them. And that within equivalent or similar class characters there is wildly different ways in which state power is used, and that the ways it intrudes upon lives and the severity of its punishments for many are among the most important issues.

States absolutely arbitrarily enact violence. Sure they tend to have some argument as to why they do it, often religion or ideology, but sometimes the king is just mad.

Denmark is an imperial state, absolutely, but compare them to other imperial states in how they treat their population. Compare them to Georgist England where they would hang people for petty crimes and had a philosophy of no mercy. Both countries are imperialist, Christian, constitutional monarchies with a capitalist economic system. Hell, a lot of European “enlightenment” beliefs on rights and such were ideas they were given by the Iriqouian peoples.

Compare the interregium puritan rule of the UK and later putitan governments in the Americas to the monarchical rule following it. Circumstances decide who can come to power and what they can do while being tolerated, circumstances which includes the population’s philosophy on what rulers can and should do and tolerate, as well as rulers’ ability to use propaganda and violence to stop revolts from succeeding. Castro all but says this when talking about how machismo led to state repression of homosexuality.

It’s difficult for an impoverished nation that’s subject to colonial powers to have a libertine approach to civil liberty and a penal system focused on rehabilitation. Noble when attempted, but outside forces love to step in and stop that shit. But, they can always go above and beyond on it, form alliances with religious regressives (who may or may not constitute a clerical class), etc. Or they can do only what they’re pressured to do. Those in open resistance have choices too. Chiapas or ISIS, both resisted US global capitalist hegemony. There’s no reason beyond ideology why Iran can’t embrace feminist equality like Cuba did. And within the imperial cores the population and leadership alone have these conversations.

Philosophy of governance amongst the population and government have very real impact. Because sometimes the working class demands you deal with the witch problem and stop people from sinning and other times they demand you stop capital punishment and minimize state interference in the private lives of citizens.

Removed by mod

How much storage could it possibly have?

Unless it gets to the point where it’s impacting where you can live or work

All of this needs to be illegal, but piggybacking especially does. Circumventing the will of the end user (aka the person who should be considered the owner) as for what the product in their possession, home, and use does shouldn’t be tolerated

Yeah, caveat emptor worked in an era where there were a lot of sellers and not that many ways to screw over customers, especially as most people weren’t buying a wide range of products. I should be able to assume that my appliances aren’t working against me, especially when it’s becoming more difficult to purchase ones that don’t

He should’ve accepted that he was fake and gay

Holy crap that’s a firm endorsement, I hope lawmakers follow its recommendations

How ADHD feels

Well that’s just not true. It’s merely the author’s interpretation. Media analysis should extend beyond authoral intent.

Is it great? No, but I’m above water and not having to cut back. Couldn’t afford kids though