Passerby6497

Bold of you to assume a fascist is capable of having internally consistent beliefs.

Why excuse the inaction that brought trump back to power?

They spent 1500x more on enforcement than they could have ever recovered from fare evaders. Just like every single other monitoring and enforcement program for public services.

Has there ever been a single program like that which is actually a net positive? Fare enforcement, food stamps means testing, public services with drug screens, "welfare queen" check ups, means testing, etc. I'm not aware of a single instance where it wouldn't have been cheaper just to let a few people get benefits that "didn't deserve them" than putting these restrictions in place

But God's forbid we let poor people have nice things, or just to do good things for our society. Goddamned toxic puritanicalism. ..

I only use audio books for pleasure reading, so I don't know if that counts as 'anything important'. As for focusing on the actual book, I've got decent dual focus, but I tend to aggressively pause my books when distracted to minimize that, and the app has an auto-rewind feature so it can roll back a bit (I have 30s) after a pause to cover anything you may have missed. Listening to a book or a podcast while driving/doing chores/anything that doesn't require much brain power is pretty normal for me.

"You're just starting drama over your family members voting for a politician who might try to legislate you out of existence, you just need to better understand them and not be self centered" is one hell of a hot take.

If I voted for a politician who said he wanted you dead just because of your orientation, I would expect you to hate me no matter the reason, because clearly I don't give a fuck about you and your life when I can improve my situation when voting for them.

Maybe look up what 'self centered' means, because it's not OP

Speaking as someone who cut their mother out of their life, I'd tell you to follow your heart.

Having once been in your situation, I have a feeling you already know what you want to do and you're just looking for validation of that choice. And I will say you and your feelings are valid, because sometimes family just sucks - because family are still people and people suck. if you feel, for your own physical or mental health, that you need to cut her out of your life, do it. It's your life, you get to choose who you associate with. You're not obligated to hang out with assholes just because that's where you spawned.

It will be hard. I'm not even going to lie to you there, but in the end you will be happier that you did. It was rough for me when I cut my mother out of my life, especially because I effectively made her homeless, but her toxicity and drama and danger she brought along was not worth subjecting my new family to.

Based on what you've shared, you e got plenty of reasons to cut her/them out of your life. Just make sure you have a good support network to fall back on if you do.

Echoing the audiobook suggestion. Much like you, I struggle to sit down and read, but if it's an audiobook I can do other stuff while I "read".

Is this advocating voting third party?

The exact opposite.

Because that isn't how first past the post works, third parties won't win.

That's why the ambivalent option is the 3rd one, because the only two options they could win are bad but that was the option that so many "anti-genocide" people chose, because moral high ground is more important than trying to engineer practical outcomes.

Holocaust Harris

Lol, the brainworms are very strong in this one.

This is why no one takes you seriously.

Seriously, has no one considered/been on the wrong side of the PAF (partner approval factor) curve?

Just outside of you FOV. If you spin fast enough, you're bound to see them.

Don't tie your mental health to that of your colleagues. I know from experience how tempting it is to hang out in a bad place because you don't want to dump your workload on your work friends, but a bad org is going to make shit decisions and make life hard for the employees whether you're punching the clock or not.

While you may not be ready now, put the feelers out, because you may hit a point where your patience suddenly runs out and you have to start from nothing and deal with no longer being in a good headspace at work.

Considering it resume/interview practice until you find a good gig or just need to get out.