No they pearl clutch and love America and the democracy it has. But they have been taught that Democrats/Liberals are horrible, disgusting people. It’s a knee jerk reaction at this point. My brother, who is hardcore maga, said “no I don’t think they are talking about you. You aren’t a ‘liberal’”. Like he was saving me from a terrible slur. And I had to nicely tell him that I am, in fact, liberal.

It kind of feels like the hatred against “the gays” in the 90s. They need someone to hate and right now it’s the Democrats and liberals, and I guess everyone else the media has told them to hate (lgbtq, trans, etc).

They took out cursive from the curriculum for a while, but they are supposedly putting it back now. I think they are suggesting the brain learns a little differently with cursive so it’s still useful in that manner.

Also I think you’d enjoy the podcast I listen to, American History Tellers. I hated history for the same reasons you describe but this podcast really made me enjoy it. Usually they open a topic with something like “Imagine it’s in the late 1800s, and you are opening up shop. Times have been hard since [backstory], but you are getting by okay. You do worry about [current topic], and feel worse when you read today’s paper.” Even that small little setup kind of ropes you in to feel like it’s relatable.

Not to defend chiropractors or anything, but they legitimately have a doctorate degree and are given the title Chiropractic Physician.

Whether their studies they do in school are nonsense, they do get a degree for it. So they are technically doctors in some shape or form.

Honestly there is likely some small value in what they do, but that small value has almost definitely been absorbed into the Doctor of Osteopathy (actually medical doctor-like role), so I don’t see the need for them. Definitely think physical therapists are much more beneficial.

Which Democrat city hurt you?

We had a guy and the pizza shop I worked show up and ask for a job. He had just driven from New Jersey to South Florida to set up a new life. He wanted full time, a privilege that was rarely awarded. But he gave full availability and showed clear dedication to the job. He got the job. He was our best and most energetic employee for over a year.

Then one day he said “alright guys it’s been real, but I want to move to California now.” And he did, the next week. I feel like that guy will do well no matter where he goes.

Agree that it weakens certain things, but I don’t see how we can overcome that. It’s great to have a knowledgeable GP as your doctor, but their breadth of knowledge causes them to fail at a deep knowledge of specific disease states. So he might be able to determine you have cancer, which then causes him to send you to an oncologist who specializes in that area.

Basically, there is a limit to the volume of information a human can hold. This was partially what AI advertised it could help overcome, but it’s so much worse than expected. If we could somehow increase the volume of information a human could hold and process, you’d be in much better shape for those doctor visits that end in “well, I guess this symptom is just you getting older” when really it’s SOMETHING but the doctor completely lacks the knowledge of that area.

“Trump kills children to hide trafficking and raping children.”

I think of it this way. The immune system is like an army, ready to fight off foreign invaders. If you were a king, would you want a huge standing army at all times, or the ability to draft soldiers as needed? Having a huge standing army is not only a waste of resources if there isn’t anything to fight, but your soldiers might get bored and invent things to fight or just stir up trouble.

So my guess is you’d be prone to inflammation and develop food sensitivities, but it’s a total guess. If they were the case though, chronic inflammation is really bad long term.

To add to this, I gave my card in one of those black books and paid as normal. We don’t go out to eat much, or use this card much. But a couple days later someone had that credit card number and was making purchases. Of course it COULD have been some other usage weeks earlier, but the timing makes it suspicious. I believe there was either a skimmer placed on the restaurant’s machine, or someone in the back was just stealing credit card info.

It’s now much preferred by me if they either let me go pay at the front, or bring one of those scanners to the table like in Europe.

We need some sort of cleverly worded campaign to say “without Ranked Choice Voting (or similar), there can be no true democracy.”

I’m sure some grassroots stuff could get off the ground for that in many states. Just need people to understand WHY it’s so important to leave First Past the Post behind.

I’m really surprised no one photoshopped in a Mario with the fire flower

Sorry, you are thinking of a tuba and a piano. Easy mistake.

Look into ESOPs. Publix has one of the larger ones. Basically, at the end of the year they add around 8% of your gross wages to your retirement account in the form of company stock. Once you have a fair amount in there, you feel a bit more connected to the success of the company. It’s a good idea for both employee retention and employee performance. For some reason, it’s not a popular thing to do, and even Publix has limited it from what it once was.

Meanwhile, I got written up for using more than 4 days in a year

I grew up with the calendar as shown here. Like bookends on a shelf. The week “ends”.

My wife’s work insists weeks start on Mondays. This allows them to schedule her differently and not get overtime according to their scheduling.

Mine does the same, but insists the week starts on Saturdays.

I don’t know why the world cannot decide a proper schema for this.

Than vs then is important here

Not that I disagree but, have you seen how low effort all of this has been for them? It wasn’t some sort of complicated pizza code like maga thought Democrats were doing, it was literally just emails like “when is the wildest party on your island?”

Naw I like this move. Obama ended “thanks Obama” with his own use of it, since no one would ever top that. Maybe Kamala can end 6-7 in her own way.

And they miss obvious things too. How did Sears, a company that became famous and hide by offering magazines to show the cost of their goods to everyone before that was a thing, lose to an online bookstore? How did a video rental place (Blockbuster) not see the obvious benefit of mailing DVDs and then later internet streaming and get beat by a no name company like netflix?

Probably exactly as you say. It would have cost a year or two of missed quarterly earnings as they entered new markets, so they missed the opportunities entirely.

I did buy a super expensive dimmable tunable led strip from Yuji LEDs. It was expensive even before the tariff situation, so really bad now probably. But the LED was top notch. I followed a guide someone had posted to reddit to make a SAD lamp, and used ESP Home to make it so it made a sunrise effect starting all the way as far yellow as it went and ending at the brightest point. It is just a strip with 2 different temperature LEDs on it and it combines them with directions from ESPHome (oh I had to get a controller for the ESPHome connection. It’s just a “dumb” strip that you have to control the voltage to change).

Since programming it was rough for me, I had some fun experiences where it would just randomly go from super dim to full bright while I was sleeping and hoping for a gentle wake up from a nap. My half asleep brain really thought someone had opened the curtain to the sunny outside. I started thinking of my project as “sunlight in a can”.

Anyways I happily shipped that expensive project off to my brother who suffers from SAD and he never used it even once.