DigitalTraveler42

I think the best way to do that is to remember that if the relationship is important to you then it’s your responsibility to be the one who tries, but you have to understand, some people just are hard to get along with, and others are just boring, but if you love or care for them you just accept that and find a way to bridge the gap between you and them. Understand that you may just have to give up, it is what it is, but making the effort absolves yourself of the guilt, you tried, it’s all any of us can do.

I find taking interest on what they’re interested in really helps, sometimes it will surprise you that their interests can become a shared interest. My kids and I can talk for hours about their stuff, and I’m just happy to participate.

Also, be a good listener, anyone can talk and be the life of the party and show off the charisma, but listening takes patience, understanding, empathy and compassion.

Best of luck to you.

“Do you like that on your face?”

“Boy am I hungry” Stares at MAGA wolfishly

It’s so weak that they’re saying that in terms of “the less minorities we see the more wonderful it would be”, meanwhile they’re the same types of people who brought the slaves here against their will, the same types that employ undocumented workers to be able to treat them worse and pay them less, and the same types to go other places in the world and complain about how it’s not their white “Christian” utopia back home, it just shows how deeply insecure and weak they are.

This isn’t “liberal” shit, this is right leaning centrist shit, I know you’ll argue “you just described liberal” but that’s just your biases speaking, these are the same centrists that were okay with Hitler coming to power in the 1930’s, same exact attitudes, same exact apathy.

Also to add to the “don’t be so smug” message, we see the same exact kind of apathy from those who claim themselves to be Far-Left, Progressive, Socialist, and Communist, just a bunch of shit heads who can’t get past their own self interests in order to unify against a fascist threat, or multiple fascist threats. They would rather sniff their own egotistical farts then raise one finger to help society change incrementally because it doesn’t yield results fast enough for their entitled asses.

Weakshit, “Twitter of the Left” more like “Xitter of the Center-Right”

Only an idiot can call the death of a 1 yr old justified, laws withstanding.

We’re a deeply broken country.

My wife and I have been trying to move back for years now, NYC Metro is way too expensive for us, my family comes from Queens and mostly lives on LI, it’s been difficult because of costs, but also because every time we think we’ve got a house we want another buyer swoops in with cash or way more than we can match.

My wife’s family is from the Buffalo Metro area and I’m trying to sell her on moving to Michigan or Canada and just cutting across to see her fam when we need to, I spent a couple of years living in the Detroit Metro area and loved it, and it’s much more affordable.

Overall I’m sure you could find a job, part time or otherwise there’s always work in the city, but you probably wouldn’t be able to afford to live in the city without public assistance or living in public housing, or having a shit load of roommates. The best thing to do is finish school and find a job there that pays well, then move, but even then probably should consider moving to an area that is an easy commute into the city instead.

“Put me back in the wrong cutlery block slot, now!!”

It’s dehumanization language, make the enemy an “other”.

Some are true believers, but most seem to treat it like a football game or something mentally where as long as their team or the one issue they vote (usually abortion, bigotry or guns) is satisfied they don’t care about all the other performative crap.

It’s going to be like that Star Trek episode where they find Voyager and it’s evolved and achieved sentience.

I remember being the first person anyone knew who had a deck to deck burner, it was a Teac, TDK, or a Kenwood, don’t remember that well. I didn’t have a computer of my own at the time and was bootlegging discs for all of the people in my friends group. Everyone would bring their own spindle of blank discs and we would drink and swap discs until we either went out to go party or until everyone had copies of what they wanted. Eventually I got a few more burner decks to make things quicker, and then I sold off the extra decks to friends before moving away. Not too long after the devices were completely useless as everyone started having a burner built into their PC and just about everyone soon had a PC, still sold my last burner deck for more than I bought it for.

Can you elaborate what your country would do differently?

Uh oh, social credit system coming from…the same people who bitched the loudest about the social credit system?