If any of those “freely provided resources” can identify you, they’re gonna tell hr about it, who will then find a way to fire you before your problems become their problems. That’s the “early intervention” corporations are paying those services to provide.

A church that believes in drinking blood as a part of their sacrament calling civilian deaths a ‘harvest’ is sure an interesting look.
I mean the IDF is fucked and the situation they’ve caused in Gaza is a humanitarian catastrophe. But, this feels like he’s whining that someone else’s blood god is stealing all the blood.

I exclusively pray to the god of the sentient beings running our simulation for truly we are but a part of their intelligent design. 👀

Capitalism must feed. And, if we don’t give them huge electronics landfills to search for scrap, what are our children and grandchildren going to do for work?

Regular handled pan of water on the stove. Add coffee grounds to water 30-60 seconds after removing from boil, to allow water to dip a few degrees under 100 C. Let sit for a while. Pour through fine mesh sieve into cup.

Aren’t babies cartilaginous at birth? Guess it’s still a skeleton as it is a structural frame, even if it’s not made out of bones yet.

How’d you get in my house?
Would you please leave?
Who the fuck was that?

Have been too depressed for too many decades. Lost the ability to enjoy music. Miss it, but anytime I try it feels contrived and I hear people from my past deriding my selections for various reasons.

Stop letting him. You don’t owe him even an explanation. The nicest thing you could do for him would be to let him figure it out with as much time as he needs to do so. He hasn’t listened thus far or had any appreciable or effective consequences that gave pause to or caused change in his behaviors. I think you probably know this and are just looking for confirmation.

Take yourself and your family back. Why let someone like that be a further influence?

I don’t see an issue here.

1. try to explain your downvotes, or, better yet, voice your disagreement and have a discussion without relying on downvotes to express yourself. Use your words.

2. when you feel it necessary and that using your words isn’t working, upvote/boost everyone but the person in question. Realize downvotes don’t really do what you’d hoped and are a poor crutch and means of expression. Elevate what you do agree with. Worry less about what you don’t.

3. just don’t care about internet points. As others have said and covered extensively.

Hopefully, what remains is that conversations are important. Having an outlet for undescribed/unformed/ambiguous disagreement/dissent really doesn’t add anything to anything for anyone. Making a point or saying something correct is more valuable than shooting down those you find to be incorrect. And, ultimately, it’s not just what you think that matters. The consensus of the group and the conversation that gets them there, the experience and the interchange and the community itself are all much more valuable than the destination of a single conversation.

Edit: (And, for the record, while I disagree with your assessment, I’ve boosted and upvoted your thread, because I think the conversations being had here are valuable and worth seeing by more people.)

Needs more dark souls.

Ya know what was a foundational part of the American dream? Pensions. Ya know which employers still offer them? Counties, states and the federal government.

Private companies exist solely to make the people at the top very rich based on the stolen value of employee labor while dumping catastrophic losses in the public sphere. That’s capitalism in a nutshell.

You’d have to be unbelievably gullible, naive, traumatized AND brainwashed to be a diehard for a system like that. But, somehow they’ve managed it. A deluded nation of Amway top performers just one move away from making their own imaginary millions. All simping for the system.

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Looking Glass Studios.

Better run. Bout to be [REDACTED].

“Skyrim universe”
Haven’t even played an elder scrolls game in over 15 years, and I know it’s called Tamriel.

Little bit of both. I use whole herbs and loose tea. Half a cinnamon stick boiled well, first in the pot with pepper, makes about a pot the size that I use. Probably about a pint and a half, maybe two, with a strainer lid. Pour spout on the side. Fairly standard cooking pot.

Then, it’s there when I want it.

I make a concentrated pot of assam black tea, chamomile, cinnamon, black pepper and cardamom on the stove every couple days. Keep it refrigerated, dilute it as needed and drink it from about 7am-2pm. The mix keeps me awake enough, but the chamomile takes the edge off and keeps me from getting anxious. The cinnamon, black pepper and cardamom help my stomach from getting mad about everything I eat and tastes good. Assam black tea has a maltier flavor I really like, much less tannic. Sometimes, I’ll add fresh turmeric, ginger, citrus peel or other things.

Used to drink coffee, but it’s just too harsh for me anymore. I really like tea.

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Humans are the only species that would ask a question like this with ecologically damning effects. So, yeah.