There are a lot of physical things I miss from being young, eyesight, faster recovery from injury and illness, etc. I didn’t have money, I had unmanaged depression, I lacked a lot of self esteem. However, I had more friends(or at least acquaintances), more hope in people, much better physical fitness, and in hindsight a lot of my worries weren’t that serious.

Aging and youth are both mixed bags. But I’ll take being older without a doubt. -A younger millennial

Mamdami is WFP (working families party) endorsed and they’ve been going to bat for him too in their newsletters. While 3rd party is more viable in NY its primarily in an endorsement type thing as candidates can run under multiple parties (thus listed multiple times on the same ballot) and you choose the party you vote for them under. Theoretically, this gives the 3rd party more sway in pushing policies but it is rarely straight 3rd party candidates. Unsure if the city has more 3rd parties I’m unaware of (there’s Republican, Democrat, Conservative, and WFP).

I mean it’s already happened/is happening. Plenty have refused to endorse and some have outright opposed him because of Israel and his skin color (see NY gov Hochul, Senator Schumer, and Senator Gillibrand). However, both AOC and Bernie have endorsed him. Unless Obama comes out against I’m not sure that what democrats outside of NY much less NYC say will really sway anyone more.

Mostly the credit taking I’d gather.

Yes, that’s basically what we did in Iraq. It led to a 20y occupation, thousands of troops killed, hundreds of thousands to millions of civilian deaths, and several new terrorist organizations. It will cost the US alone about 8,000,000,000,000. Basically the entirety of cultural progress and then some was lost in a few months.

https://www.brown.edu/news/2021-09-01/costsofwar

Regardless of exact phrasing it shows how disconnected those people feel they are from politics. Biden dropping and Kamala coming in was months before election day there was plenty of reporting across networks about it.

On election day there were people googling whether Biden was running. The average reading level is 4-6th grade. Most people get their “news” from social media…

Perfectly? In a language system different than your own. English to French/Spanish doesn’t require these sounds. English to like Thai or Chinese has a lot.

People learn new languages because you can get the ability back with training (hooray neurplasticity) but it is more difficult and takes longer.

Speaking Japanese honestly isn’t too hard. Reading/writing Japanese is more difficult but is easier as you realize the complex Kanji are just combinations of simpler kanji and how those relate to meaning. Most of the sounds are also in English.

The superboy in YJ was a government created half human half kryptonian. He was grown to teenager in a vat essentially.

This decade has lasted centuries.

The Webster definition is morally bad or wrong.

What morals a person has can vary and can be contextual as well so there isn’t an easy definition. Asking for that really detracts from the point. Which is more what are your morals and which of those are strongly held and which are weaker.

It can take a while to get over a layoff when it’s unexpected, it isn’t so different than a relationship ending. We spend a lot of time at work and often put a lot of ourselves into our jobs.

This could be depression or just delayed grief as needing to find a job on short notice tends to block out a lot of emotion and it can take a bit after getting a job for that block to loosen.

What helps you get out of the funk and what helps someone else get out probably varies. For me a decent walk around the neighborhood/park and decreased phone time are/were very helpful. Even mild alcohol use was a very temporary thing that created a long-term detriment. Society sucks at teaching healthy coping mechanisms.

It isn’t but if it can’t work at that scale how do you convince anyone it will work when it’s larger scale? Showing feasibility is important.

WOOOHOOO

This isn’t necessarily about the burial itself but usually there is an opportunity for a relative or relatives to confirm that the body is who is expected. Especially during war, dog tags and other record matching may help but not always. Logistics are complex during war and wounds can make proper identification difficult.

The UK did it mostly in the 20th century till the practice started falling out of favor. Personally never experienced or heard of it irl in the US but its in movies and TV pretty often.

Had an aunt point it out to me but while Kamala is half Indian half black she always says she’s black. Which makes sense when you question whether the Indian community supported her or her mom.

Idgaf about him, but the rural farm people that have been getting propaganda 24/7 from their news, radio, neighbors, and pastors…well if they can break out of the echo chamber it’d be real nice if we could have more rural progressive support.

I knew it I’m surrounded by assholes!

Yet it was a Trump judge vying for a promotion that allowed him to retain control of CAs national guard.

It was a Trump judge that allowed him free from consequence for how he stored confidential documents in a bathroom near a copier while allowing visitors. There are enough of them and 6 on the Supreme court.