jobs out of high school with pensions is a pretty big effing deal. Im wishing I die by 55 before I lose my house.

I have not studied in some time but may have to coming up. I do believe the best way to study is to hand write notes and rewrite them in iterations with other sources. so write in classe, listen to recording in dorm and rewrite. Pausing and rewinding as need to get what you want down, read text book chapter and rewrite as you do that. Its incredibly time consuming but effective. Given that I have not done anything close since college and did not even do it to that level at college. One and maybe two rewrites at most. Now I will likely just use a laptop and I might make and rewrite notes in a way I did for test prep which is more like consolidation. Bringing it down more and more to the key parts.

Im athiest so I will only hang with religious folks that can respect that as much as their own religion.

im an Xer so never experienced it but saw it and wow. it would be nice.

Yeah. Moreso the institutions and structure but even youtubers I like it sorta disgusts me when they get into shilling for ground news or nord vpn. I think their pieces are honestly good and I try to treat it like old time tv with ad spots in the middle of shows but ugh. its sooo… man this is a phrase that im to old for but it just fits. cringe.

There are a few different ways fiction has dealt with that. Like one once you do it it updates time and you then remember it once you did it in the future, another you come back to there being two of you the non traveler who remembers and the traveler who does not. In some cases the world is changed but in others a new parralell world is made and sometimes the characters just don’t know. you could also have a thing where you return and everything is exactly the same but a parralell world was made that you just don’t go to when you return.

I can’t answer your question but can say why the heck should it matter. Why don’t we go after putin who we know has been bad for the globe for a very long time or what about netanyahoo and heck the kims. We may have done some shady things in the past but they at least followed international law (it might be debatable but not obviously ignoring it like this) or at least did it covertly because we still had some recognition it was wrong.

there is no hope for pax americana anymore.

I would not worry about it. If people get bent out of shape then so be it. Im super liberal but I did not grow up where gender and sex were different things. Im cool with folks being trans but if they want me to change to accomodate them well thats not going to happen. They can live their lives and the law can protect them from discrimination but people will be who they are. Its like if a furry wants me to use some fursona thing thats unlikely to happen. Its cool they have one but im not part of that world but its cool for them to be them. Now granted this might change a bit if Im good friends with someone. At that point they have a bit more points to get me to change my habits. To me its a bit like using a nickname. You do it with those you know.

you sound like my wife and she is still like that. Its hard to explain because she will do whats expected. So like around the house whe will not wear dresses or anything but at work or parties or such she will. We are both kinda by the book like that but im more likely to do what I want if there is no specific rule where she will more likely take into account norms.

oh im just such a typical and ordinary eathling that I don’t see the point of a profile pic.

many people just remember turn the other cheek but the whole thing but christ literally says do not resist evil and gives as an opposite example the eye for an eye. It could not be more plain.

I had similar arguments over pacifism and it amazed me how the christians would prove to me that jesus was not and did not preach pacifism.

I was going to answer something like this.

ooh. costa rica is tempting but osen!

See that is the thing. “If the company has no productive use of the capital”. Borrowing is essentially money creation. Utilizing it just to artificially increase stock value is just an economics game at that point precisely because its not doing something productive. Companies are supposed to be productive in the real world but now all companies spend more of their money playing economic games over making prducts or providing services. This is the classic complaint and the reason for the late stage capitalism thing. When money is the goal everything increasingly is setup to make money but not actually do the thing the money is supposed to incentivize.

piefed.

Its sorta funny because often times the top of the line processors with bad cores were recycled into lower end processors. Seems perfect for this situation with a ramp up in production for industry and then sell the lower level things to consumers.

war powers act needs to go.

That being said there have been progressive folks going way back. My folks were kinda amazing for silent generation and the ones fighting for civil rights go way back before boomers. I mean. Jane Adams.