People don’t click on articles with headlines like “Idiotic People Still Doing Nonsensical Things”

That makes sense. I can see why that could be frustrating for her but it still seems like a workable problem if you are both interested in doing so. Her choosing to frame it like an unfair circumstance you’re forcing her into instead of a way for her to care for you or even as an area to improve on together is a big part of the issue though. You’ll never be happy in a relationship if you can’t love people in spite of their flaws. Fairness is a pleasant ideal but it only works in theory.

What are you referring to when you say she takes care of everything? Are you unable to hold down a job, do you participate in household chores, do you engage with her and your friends, etc. Things like finding an apartment and arranging date nights are either one time tasks or not terribly consequential. I’m not saying there’s nothing for you to work on here but the things I’ve specifically seen you describe don’t sound like huge deals unless someone is looking to make them one.

As an example, my wife is usually pretty indecisive when it comes to planning unimportant things like date nights so I generally pick where we go and what we do. I could choose to interpret that as her forcing me to “take care of everything” but why would I choose to frame things in such a way that they make her seem useless? I noticed that she does not enjoy, or for whatever reason is not good at, planning those kinds of things so I step up and handle them for both of us. I view it as an act of service for someone that I love, not as an obstacle to my own happiness. As long as both people are looking to help in their own way then all that’s needed to maintain the system is a generous interpretation of your partners actions. I would hope that attitude would be even more prevalent in our relationship if she had a medical condition that prevented her from doing some of those things, rather than just a personal preference. That’s how relationships are supposed to work imo.

So much of relationships comes down to how we’ve conditioned ourselves to think about them. I get the impression that both of you are stuck in the idea that everything is your fault and my experience says that things are never that simple when both partners are decent people, which it sounds like is the case for you. It’s theoretically possible but incredibly unlikely. Again, that doesn’t mean that there’s no work for you to do to improve things. All I’m saying is that from the limited information I have about the situation it seems to me that her tendency to blame all of your relationship problems on you is just as much a factor in your perceived struggles as your ADHD. Maybe I’m way off base here but it’s something to consider at least.

We are anarchists with Leninist tendencies, not Marxists, you imperial dog.

Is joke, I barely know any of these words.

Same. I haven’t seen what I would call a new feature (or at least one worth a shit) in a decade. What the hell do I need 5 cameras for? Plus, the obsession with making devices thinner is so annoying. I’m still mad they took away my headphone jack.

An authoritarian pretending to be agrarian

It’s surprisingly difficult to find soup that isn’t chock full of nasty stuff. I just want some veggies and maybe a bit of meat in broth or some kind of chili. Why is that so difficult for companies to make?

I spent a couple of hours reading these through jmail the other day. Some of the conversations were pretty interesting. The best that I found outside of the ones widely reported on were:

1. A thread in which Michael Wolfe (sp?) and Epstein are discussing Epstein’s legal troubles and Trump’s involvement in it. Wolfe refers to Trump as “the real villain” in all of it.

2. Epstein is talking to a woman with a redacted name trying to set up a meeting. He invites the woman to wait for him in his home and she replies something to the effect of, “I would but I don’t want to show up and find Trump in your house again”.

3. Epstein is speaking with (I believe) a reporter for the NYT. Thomas Landon or something like that. They discuss Trump’s involvement with Epstein in broad terms and then the reporter asks Epstein, “why don’t you do the country a favor and release what you have on Trump” so that he presumably goes to prison.

Yeah it makes sense it’s just funny looking. Like the devs skinned each character and made a pelt rug out of them.

The fact that texture files of characters are flattened out never fails to get a laugh out of me. I get the function of it but they look so ridiculous it’s hard not to giggle when you see it

Cool, so all we need to do is keep lead exposure to a minimum and in a generation fascism won’t exist, right? If you’re agreeing with the statement “lead exposure explains Boomer and Gen X MAGA conservatives” then something along those lines must be what you’re trying to say.

And you said I’m oversimplifying things, sheesh.

Do you mean the politicians or the voters? The answers are oil and red scare tactics, respectively.

While it can be comforting to find something external to blame, assholes have always existed. You don’t have to look farther than human nature to explain their behavior. In fact, doing so can in some ways prevent us from fully understanding the problem. We can’t combat it effectively if we don’t understand it.

It’s OK for unimportant things to be make believe

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That might be useful information if the left could muster the courage to do something more than talk shit about them on Twitter

I do, but apparently you do not. It doesn’t make a damned bit of difference what you personally voted for and if you haven’t figured that out by now then there’s no point in continuing this conversation.

First of all, most people did NOT vote for the orange taco pedophile Nazi, despite whatever fudged numbers he’s pulled out of his arse.

No, you need to stop saying shit like this. Americans collectively voted for this in the only ways that matter. Anything else you want to say is just copium designed to delude yourself into thinking things aren’t as bad as they are. They are that bad and we literally asked for it. Stop trying to downplay that fact.

Bright side is that they’re out of the house by 45. Still though, I’d rather be relatively free of responsibilities at 25 than 45.

I’m not really sure how locality plays into that. If this all happened in DC then there is no state government to handle the situation. Perhaps the state governments of the state that either the congress member or the person threatening them is from could prosecute them but I’m honestly not sure.