I acknowledge that capitalism is an inherently evil system designed to extract all value from an object, I do not recognize that’s what makes the world go round.

And I’m not saying to close the borders and prevent all foreign trade. But I’m staunchly against any land purchases by foreign entities. China has already shown it’s hand in how it handles international disputes about its purchased land, we’ve seen how they behave in Africa, along the Indian border, their investment and meddling in the housing markets of Australia. You want Lithuania or Poland or Uzbekistan to have some business deals, sure, with regulation have at it. But keep China’s land grabs and the US’s military bases within their borders.

This is still seemingly a case of a Chinese business developing on land they don’t own. Even if they do own it, economic expansion into other territories SHOULD worry some people when it comes to the major powers (US included) as it’s been shown they don’t play nice when they have access to your Major resources.

Germany couldn’t give up Russia for Oil, don’t make the Baltic states rely on China for electricity. Subsidize builds in your own country the best you can, but competing with government-backed foreign entities is a good way to lose a bidding war.

The reverse in this situation would be a closeted queer person outing someone for being…NOT shitty and detrimental to other people?

Nah, don’t out people who aren’t shitty. But if you’re an active republican, ESPECIALLY if you’re a political configure, and you trash the gay community you belong to? Fuck em. They aren’t under the umbrella of protection the moment they try to push people out from under it.

Really wanted an internal nod where he goes to jail for terrorism and his wife takes over and blames Bob, keeping the feud alive

Seconded. Just beat dredge the other day and MAN, what a different kind of gameplay, but I found it really interesting.

Only Denuvo has reported that it’s better for sales, the rest of us don’t have data on that and I’m not trusting the wolf with Hen House design

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https://youtu.be/dQw4w9WgXcQ?si=8R0GyAAypv_ZfJ7A

What now, smart guy?

G-g-g-g-g-yeah!

Please and thank you don’t violate barriers. It does not allow someone into your space, you don’t have to give anything of yourself to say them, and if you’re a good person you probably mean them. A better example for what you’re looking for would be handshakes. It’s common in most western cultures at several social functions, and it can be considered rather rude to refuse one, it got a lot of folks angry during covid apparently. That’s where two parties acknowledge the social bindings that call for a physical touch establishing a mutual respect. I never miss saying a please and thank you, but best believe I’m still doing the ‘covid shrug’ when I turn down handshakes.

So, you’d tell your child that “yes, you have autonomy in this, but your feelings regarding your need for personal space matter less than your grandmother’s want for a hug” is what I’m gathering? Do you educate your mother on the child’s wants/needs? There’s a reason why people are educated that, as far as physical touch is concerned, nobody else’s feelings should be taken into account. If someone can’t love a child without hugs, then I don’t think they really understand the concept or application of love.

I’m not saying this is your case, the next bit is an extreme but important to the overall argument, I think. People have identified that exact thinking pattern in why they didn’t report sexual assault from a family member. Because they weren’t taught how to properly say no and why the right to refuse touch is important, it was that much easier to abuse them.

I dont like my picture on the internet. So I refuse all photos where possible. I have family, they take pictures, they’re aware of this and so I’m never the direct focus of the shot (you might see me in the background).

OP said they don’t want to take pictures with people, they shouldn’t have to take pictures with someone. Instead, you should be teaching your son to stand up for their boundaries, even in the face of ‘tradition’. If your kid says “I don’t like hugging grandma”, are you making them give hugs or are you encouraging them to tell people in their life, who they trust, how they feel?

That’s why they said ‘house poor’. They’re not poor, read the article they even talk about it. Being unwilling to pay “what the market demand” is a fun way of saying “were priced out of all reasonable choices”.

Cost of living is different everywhere. If they made 250k in Indiana or Ohio, they’d have money to spare and a McMansion to boot. But Indiana and Ohio don’t pay 250,000 for a lot of things, the salaries don’t reach that here for a VAST majority of upper level earners in the state. Take into account cost of living and average wages in a location before you get shitty

He’s not complaining about his income. He’s saying “I’ve reached a level of income that SHOULD entitle me to the American dream, but even at this amount I too am barred”

When we say ‘eat the rich’ we don’t mean ‘shit on what is effectively what’s left of the middle class’.

Your link states Israel says they’re a Hamas operative. Al Jazeera says that isn’t true.

I’m gonna err on the side of the journalists that Israel is actively targeting instead.

Yeah the loopholes were written by people who went into business, learned the tricks of the trade, got advised on how to skirt the system, ‘retired’ to an advisement position lobbying or joining the government entities responsible for making policy so they can put new loopholes into the system and advise companies on how to use them.

Firm agree

Job: IT Support

New Outlook exists

Customer: “I hate change, can’t you just put it back to how it was”

No, I can’t. You can use Classic Outlook, but that won’t have the features you want, and it’s going out the door so you have to change. No, I can’t program the Ribbon to look like it used to, that’s just what Billy Microsoft decided.

In the show, defense attorneys were called out for being knee deep in the system and their careers holding more value than ‘justice’, or that’s how I read into the Jake-dating-a-lawyer episodes. Her boss was dirty, she was mad he exposed that and jeopardized her career.

I think his math is bad because he just went with a cool round number.

But, more realistically, she was probably going somewhere between 55-70 mph (don’t know road or highway or whatever) and that’s still a difference of 70-90 miles an hour. So I’d say yeah, the seat check MIGHT prevent harm if you’re super duper lucky but I don’t think that baby’s walking away from that with anything less than life threatening injuries

Where I live, that would be a ludicrous income, definitely comfortable money.

In California, that would be a lower-middle-class-maybe-i-own-my-home-if-i-bought-early mind of an income. Our regions are so different in cost of living that these kinds of numbers can get funny/confusing