They just need to keep gas prices low through the mid terms, in specific states that matter to them, then they can steal back what little came out of their pockets later. I presume.

Lol no one wants to assassinate a senile loser who fucks up everything he touches and won’t stop touching things.

A leader who’s a staunch supporter of his enemies and a dire threat to his allies.

We’re rounding up non-whites and sending them to concentration camps to die. We have an entire organ of state devoted to ethnic cleansing. USAID cuts alone put our regime among the top fascists by bodycount.

I don’t anyone looks better by being put in the same category as the US.

across all OECD member countries, a full 8 percent of college students are reading at the level of a ten-year-old, if not worse. While countries like Germany and France rang in at under 5 percent, countries like Poland, Israel, and the United States blew the curve at 21, 20, and 14 percent, respectively.

The numbers aren’t much better when it comes to math. Across OECD countries, 9 percent of college students do math at or below a ten-year-old level. In Italy, the US, and Slovakia, that figure jumps to over 15 percent — only outdone by Israel, where roughly 21 percent of college students were underachieving at the same low benchmark.

So just to be clear this happens everywhere in the world, just it’s higher in the US - for reading it’s 14% here vs 8% on average across the oecd and for math 15% here vs 9% average. So we’re bad, but not the worst.

The whole island has less than 10k people. They’re not cities, they’re villages with maybe 1-2 towns. I presumed people would realize the bar comment is comedic hyperbole, alas.

Ok, firstly, those aren’t cities. That’s an atoll so those place names are more likely bars. Just so we’ve got the scale right.

Specifically, that’s christmas island - kiritimati is pronunced “kirismas”. So that’s probably the name of the island in the middle, then the name of the nation (“kiribas”) underneath that.

For the two years i ran an after school care center i only got sick during school holidays.

One time i was so stressed that i lost my adhd symptoms. I think that might be related to your experience, and dopamine processing.

My partner had a mental health flare up, which rolled into a marathon fight and almost no sleep. I wanted to call out from work, but once i started it felt like i had a super power.

I could just do boring repititive work until it was done. Then complete the next task. For a full day! No leaving my office for no reason, no realizing i’d been thinking about the bronze age for the last 10 minutes, no 30 minute side quests solving someone else’s question. Someone asked me to do something that i didn’t have time to do and i realized i didn’t have time and actually said no.

Being absolutely shattered and maybe the most in-control i’ve ever felt was a weird combo.

My explanation has to do with dopamine processing. One contributor to executive functioning issues is overly-efficient dopamine processing in the frontal cortext. The motivation chemical comes in, you start to do the task, but then your brain’s already processed all the dopamine so tough luck, we’re off on our next adventure. The benefit of this is being resistant to the dopamine overload that cripples decision making in high stress situations.

I suspect that certain low-medium stress situations - being sick, tired, etc. - can produce enough extra dopamine to offset the issue, allowing neurotypical-like executive functioning.

A musician i know with a french name often publishes under QTN so anglos pronunce it properly rather than say que-teen.

The inability of elites to even say the word fascists is pretty hilarious.

Well we did nothing about the brutal rising tide of fa… right wing populists… but now that socialists are trying to stop them, we better try to do something about… ugh… both of them.

The two are not mutually exclusive. Just drink stovetop espresso made from decent beans.

Most obvious explanation is the US trying to test iran’s resolve to continue the blockade. A single drone makes sense if iran is just trying to show they still mean it.

Or the us regime is lying about what happened, or there’s an explanation that is true but makes no sense because that’s the world we live in.

An irish guy working legally in FL was kidnapped for no reason and he talks about seeing someone begging guards to give him access to his heart meds for weeks before he had a heart attack and died.

He also talks about being given nonconsentual surgery 1h after being given anathestic that lasts 45mins. The surgery was to remove his cosmetic subdermal implants after he was already cleared for release.

These are torture sites and death camps. The deaths are intentional.

It’s not true though, so it doesn’t need an explination

There was never actually any indication that more ships or planes went missing there, because they don’t. It was just nonsense.

His behaviour is televised daily and has been for over a decade. Most of the world has seen his mental decline. It’s obvious in his speech and actions.

My girlfriend slept with a guy at a university camp and then got angry at him and cut one of his dreds off. She told me about it as soon as she got back. I’d met the guy and thought him a douchy child, but i mostly felt sorry for him. I was a bit disappointed in her choice but i wasn’t hurt or anything. A few weeks later i drunkenly kinda went to bed with a housemate who i then realised i’d been crushing on, and my girlfriend and i admitted there wasn’t really anything there and broke up. When i first told her that me and elizabeth made out she was like, “Aww, go you!”

That was a real “no harm no foul” situation. Years later i went on a 3 month holiday and never came back. Everyone but me and my then girlfriend realised i was just moving overseas. She was way more into the relationship and I was too cowardly to break up. We carried on long distance until i found someone else. I broke up with her before anything happened, but she was hurt and it felt like cheating in a way that the more technical cheating above had not.

People will sit through 10 minutes of ads between 30 seconds of screaming. I didn’t think they would but 🤷

Hey, sometimes people need bad advice and can’t afford a therapist.

more carbon-efficient than a bus because it has eco

You can just hear the salesperson saying this.

Solo is not an independant mercenary. Solo is a beefy heavy gun type.

It comes the tabletop rpg. If you make a combat character who’s powerful enough to solo the enemy with minimal help from the rest of the party, that’s a solo. Rocket launchers, HMG, weapons with kinda broken rules, heaps of hit points, etc.