'I didn’t vote this." Yes. Yes you did. You didn’t want to hear others tell you what you were voting for. You wanted to believe your own fantasy version. Even now, most MEGA voters want to believe their own fantasy of what Trump will do for America over the truth of what he is actively doing.
As a Canadian I’m not holding out much hope for the US later this year. If Trump doesn’t stop elections, or rig their outcome, I’m not sure Democrats will muster the requisite votes because “both sides”.
Unfortunately you will probably believe that right up until you start losing your lives and then it will be much too late.
Wonder if Venezuelans have figured out yet that their opposition leader sold their country and its oil to Trump in exchange for the Peace prize ceremony?
Over the years, I’ve changed my take on this. So what if a woman regrets it. She’s the only one affected. Her decision. Her choice. A man can decide at any age to procreate so he is not as affected. Wife/partner doesn’t want kids, he can find a woman who does. Versus having child(ren) that aren’t wanted or supported who regret their own lives and have parents who regret they were born. Lots of regret all around. As to the grandchild loss and grandparent regret, there are plenty of kids out there who like having surrogate grandparents. Go for the least regret possible.
The (BC Pacific) ocean swim group usually has 2 or 3 people show up. Today had 12. I’ll bet Monday is back down to the usual number.
Code that has lasted, with some maintenance, for 50+ years vs code that doesn’t work from day 1? What advances we have made!
I’m glad I dated in the 80s. Murder rate was much higher but we didn’t live in fear because there wasn’t a social media algorithm telling us to be afraid of everything.
It’s a bit scary that anything children were once expected to learn has now become “the calculator”. When calculators first came out the cry was ‘why do we need to learn to do math any more when this device can do it for us?’ Computers continued that trend. Smart phones even more so. It is a part of history that is hard to understand, how did a former, reasonably advanced civilization lose its advanced skills? We might be watching in real time how it happens. Except this time it is us, not an ancient civ.
Known fact that Americans, Rep or Dem, are conservatives by other Western countries standards.
I like winter. It makes the hot dry summer tolerable.
For the rest of the country/world, when you read of someone’s education realize that if it is from Texas, it isn’t real. Move on to next candidate from somewhere that has an education system not a religious indoctrination system.
Unfortunately I don’t think this is a “conservative or republican” problem. Almost all Americans are too “me first individualists” until something affects them personally. In Canada it is Conservatives and Albertans who are more likely to be individualistic.
I don’t continuously wear a monitor, just when I’m experiencing some flux in my glucose measurements. In big print, all the Libre 2 monitors I have had say to double check odd or unexpected glucose readings or reading that don’t correspond with how you are feeling with a finger prick device. I have had the low glucose warning several times and I double check it. Only once has it been a real low glucose reading. Technology can be very helpful but you still have to use it correctly.
The reverse as well: who is that old guy (my dad) who seems to have aged a decade in the last year and looks far more like his father than he ever used to? Seriously I walked in the door and thought somehow that my Grandfather was back among the living.
What I really dislike is the parents who refuse to vaccinate their children, because big pharma/nature best/other insane arguments, but then take them to an ER when they inevitably get that preventable disease. For fuck’s sake, stay consistent. If you don’t vaccinate, do not go to the hospital later.
Bit choosy isn’t she. What about the subordinate to men part of Christianity? If she is a true believer, she needs to be a good little girl, quit her job and go home.
Some, not all. And who I stay in touch with changes over time. I have many aunts, uncles, cousins and the next 2 generations so it isn’t possible to keep meaningfully in touch with everyone. We have a pretty good grapevine so information eventually filters through.
I don’t think they are stupid. I think they are greedy and cruel. In the past that could lead to them getting ahead of their fellow Americans. The reality is that they are now in the pool of people who are hurt by greed and cruelty and they were willfully blind to it. Many GOP voters would still vote for exactly what is happening to them right now if only it would affect people they hate (everyone) more than it affects them. American “exceptionalism” and “individualism” contributed to this.
Going to be? They already are. 100%