Holy crap, I thought stretch armstrong came out in the 90’s.

Not only that but if two working people tried to touch him, he’d freak the fuck out like Andy samberg on “good day”.

As much as I don’t want to give them credit, LEOs are first responders.

If you’re the last one out, please shut off the lights.

For sure, but for how long?

You’re also forgetting dumping a shit ton of money into an unprofitable pit that never meets expectations.

I highly doubt that he really knows that much, either.

Unfortunately that’s true. People here act like everything revolves around the US and are blissfully unaware of anything outside of their bubble.

That region is kind of a big deal at the moment. So even if I wasn’t taught it in HS or learned from the history channel, I’d recognize it now just due to watching and reading about tensions. But yeah, it wouldn’t surprise me at all if a majority of Americans couldn’t tell you what country that is.

They also recently deployed a bunch of K2 tanks right there on the border of kaliningrad.

What do you plan to do with that iced copper?

I believe I am. I was dumb enough to make mistakes in my life like joining the US army. That’s just one example but I’ve spent my later years encouraging people to make better choices than I have. I try to help people in their thought process over their “instincts”. Even if I didn’t do straight up evil in my life, I certainly observed it. I have spent my later life trying to keep people from making mistakes that will haunt them forever.

I’m certainly not zen by any means, I’m not perfect. But my hope is that people don’t have the weight on their shoulders that I do. And its not just about saying no to joining the military. It’s about having compassion for others. Actively finding compassion through understanding. I have turmoil over the regrets I have in life and I hope to lead people to avoid that by teaching them using the lessons I’ve learned in life. So yeah, I’ve done bad things, making me not a great person, but I use that experience to help others find a better path. I don’t know if I can cleanse my “soul” or whatever. But my hope is that I can keep others from tarnishing theirs.

I still consider myself a good person because I’ve never done anything with evil intentions, and even when I was put into situations where I’ve been confronted with options to do so, I haven’t done them. And when I’ve been put into situations where I had no option, I did what I could to avoid them. And now I encourage others to avoid them at all costs so they don’t have that weighing on them. I feel I’ve done more good than harm by advocating thought and introspection over going with the flow than by ignoring the voice.

The people that look up to me for serving, I tell them it’s not a good thing. I tell them there’s no heroism in it. You don’t go to war and come out as iron man or thor. You come out dysfunctional at best. And I think I’ve made people understand the true cost of doing harm to others, even in self defense, that it isn’t free of charge on your consciousness.

Where you find boredom, you find peace. Take it in, observe the calm. Learn to enjoy it and relax, because it won’t always be there. Calm and boredom are a sign that life is good because the opposite is stress and anxiety. Just try to live in the moment and relax. You may not be able to find such peace forever. All of your needs are met, enjoy it while it lasts.

I regret clicking into this thread

So did mine when I was younger.

My dog doesn’t do any of those things?

Lol the most downvoted person I’ve seen on Lemmy has this to say? Get fucked lol

Ehhh it did used to happen. And it didn’t have to be someone with debilitating issues as strong as down syndrome or autism. Back in the 90’s everyone from dyslexics to down syndrome, to people with social anxiety were called retarded. Even a simple idea got called retarded if it wasn’t the norm.

That being said, people who throw people in concentration camps shouldn’t be called retarded. They should be curb-stomped.

You can distill a diabetics piss into a solid whiskey, I know that much.

Neurological issues can’t be helped. Like ADHD I could do some things that sucked all day every day, but checking the mail? Nah. Mowing the lawn, why? Like I have to do laundry for societal reasons. But I needed help to do the boring day to day shit that keeps you a “functioning member of society”.

A lot of people have self control in one way but not another. For me, I became diabetic because my ADHD is like “meh, you’re not hungry, no need to eat.” Then I’d get lightheaded and “oh shit, I need to eat or I’ll die, put quick calories in me NOW” causing my blood sugar to spike, then it’d normalize, then drop too far before I spiked it again. I never got fat, so in your mind I had self control when I really didn’t. After research, meds and some talk with the doctor my diabetes is under control, and I’m eating healthier because berries are just as easy a snack as say a pretzel snack pack, or easier than ramen.

I’m betting there’s some part of your life where you’re not in control, so don’t be so quick to judge on someone else’s struggle.

I generally agree. And I never use the word anymore, but I get where they’re coming from. Personally I wouldn’t say it cause it gives them permission to say it as well, and they’ll abuse it til it’s lexicon again. So personally I’d rather use loser, stupid or any of the other words that also describe them.

However I’m sure in person, arguing with a MAGAt would piss me off to the point of saying it. That’s why I just openly disregard these people off the cuff. Roll my eyes and move on. Like what they’re saying isn’t even worth reacting to because it’s so beneath me.