Angry_Maple

I hope that works better for other schools than it did for mine.

Most of the students that went to the school that I went to opted for a "spare" class instead of taking photography, business, arts, programming, or any of the other creative courses. The tools were there in my case, but most people just ignored them in favour of being able to leave school early, or in favour of taking an extra long lunch. They ignored the after school stuff too, because they wanted to spend time with their friends somewhere else.

We had a pretty good photography course too, they covered almost everything and there was even an option to take it for multiple years/grades if you wanted to learn even more about it. The kids at my school who usually did things like Tik Tok and Vine in the bathroom didn't seem to really care for those courses. Social media was just fun for them, they never intended on making anything of it.

There has to be some solution that we aren't seeing yet. There has to be some common ground between "let the kids do whatever they want, regardless of their education" and "dystopian hell".

It would also help if kid's parents were more involved overall, although you could also argue that a huge part of the cause is the insane hours that many of the parents have to spend working to let the family survive.

This all sucks. I hope someone is able to make your idea work, truly. We need a solution, asap.

It didn't have a removable battery, but I used to use an older Asus Zenfone 3 ZE552KL that really kicked arse.

It had cards slots, a headphone jack, a built in radio that used wired headphones for signal, and the damned thing was as reasonably waterproof as I could imagine a smartphone to be. It's camera was pretty great for the price, too.

Well, one day it fell very hard on a sharp rock, and the screen shattered. The crack made a hole a few milimeteres deep, and it was about a centimetre wide. It might not sound like much, but the crack in the screen was very much there. My happy arse managed to then have it fall out of my pocket and right into the flush of a high-powered toilet.

I left it to dry for one day, and it worked almost like new again. It still powers up today, but the since security updates stopped years ago, i don't use it anymore. IIRC, it wasn't too expensive, but I forget if there was a sale going on at the time.

I hope I can find another phone like that around that general price point one day. I can dream haha.

If a kid sees their mom and dad smoking all the time, they'll probably start to believe that it's not as dangerous as other people say. "They seem to be fine, so I should be fine too." I legitimately heard this often while growing up, sadly. If you grow up around a bad smell, you might not think of it as "bad" smell, since you're already used to it.

If someone is already depressed and hates life, they might not care about the harm that they're causing themselves 20 years later. I've known way too many people who didn't believe that they would stay alive until adulhood. Some of these people started these bad habits expecting to not have to stick around long enough to deal with the consequences.

Throw in the chaos of the last handful of years, along with the constantly depleting mental health resources, and I can't say that I'm really all that suprised.

Even today, many countries have certain types of people trying to obliterate what's left of mental health resources. Then they wonder why their kids are struggling with mental health.

I can only imagine what it's going to be like for Gen Alpha when they get older, poor kids.

I'm not sure I could forget that post if I tried. The same goes for the post about the "swamps of dagobah".

Some of it's also probably situation based.

If you hit on every single person of the gender that you like at one gym, they'll probably start to feel like you really just want just anyone who will say yes. They'll probably feel like you don't like them for them, and that you're just trying to keep your bed warm. Most people who want relationships want to be with someone who likes them individually as a person. Try not to write "scripts" for the situation in your head too much, either. If you do, it might crash and burn the second that someone goes off of that "script".

It's kind of tragic how all of this has become. A relationship likely won't fix any problems you might have with yourself, nor would it fix most of the other aspects of your life. A partner will also have their own needs and wants, and you should try to have room to provide some of that before you start dating.

Don't listen to guys like Tate. If he really had good advice, more people from his fan base would be in a happy relationship now, no? He makes money by making you continue to watch his videos. That's all he cares about. He's giving you bad advice so he can keep making money off of your sadness. That's not a bro thing to do.

Don't follow the plot of any rom-coms. That behaviour is usually a fantastic way to get a restraining order and absolutely ruin any chances you might have had with that person.

Find the little things that make you happy. Gardening? MTG? Video games? Hockey? Drawing? MMA? Take the time to properly enjoy those things that you love with the people who are already around you. It will help build some of that confidence. Let youself be passionate about your hobbies sometimes. It's ok, I promise.

Try not to worry too much if you mess up or if you ruin your chances with one person. There are over 8 billion people on earth, so there's almost always someone else you can try with. NO ONE succeeds 100% of the time, and that is more than OK. That is human.

Don't beat yourself up over not succeeding right away. Unless you are literally currently on your death bed, you still have time.

Outside of the dating stuff, be kind to youself, and try to make sure you're taking care of yourself. Self care isn't just fitness and healthy eating. Sometimes could be having pizza in the bath, sometimes it might be playing DnD over multiple continents, sometimes it might be watching cartoons, and sometimes it could even be something like skincare. Your happiness is important, and you should treat it as such.

As long as it doesn't harm anyone else in the process, please do what you need to do to feel happy. Life is too short to pause your happiness for someone who hasn't shown up yet. Life is too short to wait to improve things until you meet someone who hasn't shown up yet.

You deserve happiness, and the sooner you acknowledge that, the better. Find happiness despite what life might throw at you. Try to find joy even in chaos, and always remember that bad feelings usually don't last forever. You can get through these hard times.

Oh, fair enough lol. I wasn't sure if I might have missed something myself, so I figured I would ask just in case.

I agree though. It would be nice to not have to worry about being falsely sued, but other people have other ideas. These people give a terrible name to other people like the poor lady from the McDonald's case. I can't imagine coffee so hot that it fuses skin together. It's horrible that she also had to deal with the media after being put through pain that would be incomprehensible for most of us.

If suing is intentionally only done for a happy quick buck, I think it's just as bad as a scam, if not worse. Instead of just taking money, it also takes the person's time. Time that people need for work, family, necessities, etc.

Not to detract from your point, but the waiver arguably wasn't because of an American accent.

A lot of Canadians know about the dangers of ground beef, isn't it the same in the US? Most of the people commenting on this mention nothing about the food safety aspect. You can catch a lot of nasty things from undercooked meat.

It's not like you can sterilize the entire cow, and most restaurants don't have their own slaughterhouse in the back. The whole reason that system works is that we cook the beef thoroughly. If we don't cook it thoroughly, lots of those nasty things might still be there. You can't see, smell or taste most of them.

If I absolutely HAD to serve a customer that, I would likely add a waiver too. I would probably prefer to just send them away instead, though. One person's whims would be a shite reason to lose your restaurant license, regardless of where that person is from.

Do you have any sources backing up the claim that it was because the customer was American, and that it was not because it went against common food safety protocol?

I'm happy to hear that that wasn't the case :)

Where I'm from, they're also open to expecting mothers.

They are also people who shouldn't have to walk super far, especially later on in their pregnancy. It would really suck know for people to get upset at them just because they don't have kids with them, even though they might literally physically struggle walking. I hope that's not the case here lol

A lot of the rapid tests had problems with false negatives, no?

https://www.canada.ca/en/public-health/services/publications/diseases-conditions/understanding-covid-19-testing.html

https://www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/covid-19/navigating-false-negatives-covid-rapid-tests

In Canada, certain yackadoodles are trying to fight tooth and nail to privatize healthcare. I hope Europe's doing at least a bit better on that front.

It's stupidly short-sighted. Many of the people who are voting for privatizing healthcare will almost definitely need public healthcare within the next decade or so. Pension plans only pay so much. Retirement savings only last so long, and people are living longer. It's not like the people who can't afford a house or even post secondary schooling will be able to cover those extra costs for their parents/grandparents. It's all fun and games until you see a bill with more than four zeros, and realize that you only have the three zeros in your account to last you for the rest of your life.

Of course, they'll probably just blame the younger people for it. I don't get it, I really don't. We could be making progress, but that would make sense, and it doest seem like you're allowed to do that anymore.

Best of luck, man. I hope everything works out for you sooner than later.