This happens more than people want to admit, and it can be sudden after a period of support. Like someone gets cancer and their SO sticks by their side until it gets stage 4, things get really messy and hard, and suddenly they’re off starting a new life. My SO is a therapist and has seen it firsthand, it’s gruesome and cruel.
Especially if they’ve been opening all those videos I’ve sent
NES also introduced verification so you couldn’t just manufacture random games and take them to market without approval.
Walled gardens - sucky but sometimes genuinely useful to clean up messes and keep them from happening (aka Grandma on her iPhone)
Great, now arm it.
Recycling in America is a scam 🎶
Hooray they turned off the orphan crushing machine for half the day today!
My probation officer didn’t believe me either >:(
I’m sorry is that a giant gold Garfield Lego statue?
Like the prophecy predicted??
Much higher success rate if she’s a guy
There was that Barney coloring book that advocated for blood orgies but they caught it and recalled it fairly quick
Stop self-talking, that’s the basis of so much anxiety and all dread, which is always worse than just doing the thing, more suffering by trying to avoid the original suffering. Stupid brain.
Let your body get up and go do the thing without your mind fucking it up. It’s called “behavioral activation” and it even works.
You can’t expect guys to ruin their knees and give you random truckstop head. This is only polite.
What dose of GP1s are you on because they really do that
Also the standard “outdated message you have to listen to twice in entirety despite it not applying to you,” like “Please note, starting June 1, 2021 as a result of the Covid 19 Virus we will be starting social practicing guidelines in our offices” and they repeat a number twice for curbside that hasn’t existed in half a decade.
The point is though, Christianity has influenced and given credence to progressive viewpoints at several junctures throughout American history, so we can sit here and wish upon a star that Jefferson’s vision for a secular America truly emerged, or we can acknowledge that it’s never been quite that simple and that we too can use Christianity for our purposes now just as we have historically. Religion is a weapon and a tool the left has simply given up, and now we’re like “I can’t believe the other side is successfully using this to hurt us.” Find the progressive faith communities, empower them, let them go do spiritual battle for us, see if we make more progress in winning hearts and minds - I bet we do.
You know, Christianity was used for the left during the New Deal among other times, in fact the New Deal was put together on a coalition that included a broad base of Christians who believed it was essentially Jesus’s work to do so.
Today the left has so much spiritual trauma we dump on religion and want it gone, but really we need to embrace it and have a strong faith based arm that can speak this language to people. If America is a Christian nation than some immediate changes need to happen - universal healthcare being top priority. Also homelessness, poverty, food insecurity, war, etc. Amen.
About the #1 thing for me to loosen up socially was to avoid lists of things you have to “stop doing immediately” and shit like that because they get me in my head, then I’m triple-thinking everything and saying nothing.
Rather than “do not” tips I try to focus on “do” tips for people improving socialization.
“Showing interest and asking questions” is a #1 tip which precludes you doing a lot of rude things.
If you swear a little while doing that, no one is going to be upset.
My drug counselors sucked, not a single one gave me any drugs. 0/10
A lot of rich people act exactly like that, they know their lawyers will get them out of any trouble they really get into. A lot of times other folks just stop arguing with them and they get their way because they just kept the lie up in such a delusional way, it’s easier to walk away.