I do not. AI prefer quiet for sleep.

The sound of rain is nice though to go to sleep.

Celebrities and the Uber wealthy have to worry about this. The average person does not.

They will, and I suspect some will succeed because the billionaires do not realize the danger of the truly desperate, and even if they do, they will cheap out on security.

The economy will shift to serve a smaller number of people.

The people who lose their income will fall into poverty, existing on charity, begging, or scrounging, or they will die. (They will nearly all die sooner than they would have if they had maintained their income)

The CEOS and shareholders might understand this, but none of them can solve it alone, and trying to do so puts them at a disadvantage vrs their competitors.

The productive capacity will go toward ever more elaborate and esoteric projects, like Bezos wedding, or sending Musk to Mars, or building the biggest superyact, again.

And the majority will suffer.

That’s not even what the headline said.

Politics was sanitized.

Iran and Iraq fought a brutal war in the 80’s. Absolutely awful, chemical weapons, child soldiers, human wave attacks.

The US was supporting Iraq with Intelligence and selling weapons. Except we were also selling weapons on the down low to Iran.

Congress had banned the executive from supporting anti communist militias in central America. They were psychotic zealots. They burned churches because the priest said the peasants should have rights. They used assassination, torture, and mass rape indiscriminately. The most evil people you can imagine, but they were against the left so the CIA couldn’t keep their hands to themselves.

They sold weapons to Iran that was fighting a hot war with our ally Iraq to use the money to fund the Contras in El Salvador and Nicaragua.

Oliver North went to prison. Reagan and his Vice president, Bush, denied knowing anything about it. (Bush was the former head of the CIA)

Bush pardoned North after he was elected in 88. North went on to become the head of the NRA and funnel millions of dollars into supporting Republican campaign funds.

The violence in Central America continued to simmer until it burst into flame again in 2014 and led to a refugee crisis under Obama.

The chickens always come home to roost.

Might be they just didn’t see it because they were a kid.

I grew up with casual racism from my dad and grandfather.

My family was always multi racial but you would also hear hard Rs at family get togethers.

Depends on the part of the country too I’m sure.

Go back to 80’s movies and look at the casual sexism.

Don’t tell Mom the babysitters dead. The oldest sister is 17, gets an office job. She has a late thirties-mid forties man creeping on her for half the movie. It’s played for laughs. This was a kids movie.

Early 2000s it was less overt, but still widespread. I watched girls get harassed on the school bus, nobody spoke up. I watched women get harassed and groped during my first fast food job. I didn’t have the courage to speak up.

I dodged it by virtue of not having transitioned or even knowing I was trans yet.

Yes, but if they signal that they don’t Identify as such I would stop for them.

“forcing us to kill their children”

That’s villain logic. I have read it before, and thought “maybe there is something I don’t understand here” but I am done with that.

If there was an explanation, it would have been made. The founding of Israel was a monstrous crime, born from the casual disregard for brown people. Everything after that is fruit if the poison tree.

Shipping great-grandma off to Odessa while the rest of the family stays behind seems a bit cruel.

Of course it’s cruel. If grandma is lucky some of her family will go with her. Remember there are also land reparations being done, so many or most Isreslis that choose to stay will be homeless, and dependant on renting shelter from a Palestinian.

The cruelty is a lesson to the world, don’t do settler colonialism.

The question is why do Hamas and Hezbollah knowingly endanger thousands of their own civilians just for the chance of killing a few Jews?

Because they are insurgents fighting an asymetric war. The same way insurgents fight in Myanmar, in Columbia, and countless examples throughout history.

But hiding among civilians and national borders only works as long as your opponent is willing to respect civilians and borders. The IDF clearly does not. The annexations in Syria and Lebanon should be opposed internationally the same way we oppose the Russian annexation of Ukraine.

I was on board with 2 states for most of my adult life, but I don’t think it’s possible anymore. I think the state of Israel should be dissolved, the Isrealis that weren’t born there should return to their country of origin, and those that were born there can stay as Palestinians.

There is no just solution to the crimes that have been committed, but that’s the least genocidal possibility I can envision.

I just can’t see why Isreali lives should be so much more valuable than Palestianian or Lebanese lives.

I mean, we agree with that, but I’m seeing holocaust inversion in Gaza, the West Bank, and now Lebanon.

Disturbing.

I would also appreciate being called this 👉👈

Most of us care. We might not react or cause drama, but even if your loved ones don’t care much, you could make someone’s day if they find out that you are a supportive parent that is trying to be sensitive.

I think it’s appropriate to use the phrasing people use for themselves.

Hispanic non binary people around me have referred to themselves as Latin (la-teen)

Is that also cringe?

That benefits bosses and deprives workers from knowing how much their labor is worth.

It means “have” would have. It’s pronounced of. “Would of”

The f can be dropped. Woulda. “I woulda got it done”

My pets have always used generic drugs.

Edit-they cost less than the same amount of human drugs too.

That depends on your accent.