Mexico, Canada, and Greenland are more likely. NK has Chinese protection, Cuba is of no strategic nor resource value, and Iran… I highly doubt they’d be able to really influence and take over before the end of the presidency. It would fuel US hate in the region and probably the Arab world would be extremely pissed.

But hey, who knows what yankee doodle’s got on his mind.

Be the change you want to see in the world. Sometimes it has to be introduced slowly and with compassion, sometimes it has to be radical as it can be urgent. Even in African villages where men are committing suicide, they create safe spaces to talk about their feelings. (I think this is one of the videos on the topic - can’t watch it due to age gate).

It’s not easy and everybody’s path is different. If you can’t find somebody locally (friend(s) or therapist), you can start online. It helped me too. But always try and stay critical. Many self-help groups for me are taken over by right-wingers who say “you can be yourself here”, make men feel safe and then give them a scapegoat (immigrants, women, whatever) and spread hate towards other groups.

I was very lucky to grow up in the environment and places I did, and recognise that not everybody can be so lucky.

Best of luck and hope that you will be able to make those connections that allow you express your feelings ❤️ Emotions are human.

I tell my family I love them, I tell my best friends I love them, I hug people I care about, I tell them I miss them, they’ve seen me cry. It doesn’t make me feel any less of a man. If somebody says it does, they aren’t somebody I want to close with. Fuck em.

The true solution is to have a device you hook up to that extracts the pee and poop from your body, wipes you down, and sends you on your way. There will be no lid, no seat, just one hole in the wall you hook up to.

Lid is up because dogs piss in the toilet?

Just don’t go to the US.

Solutions to combating loneliness:

• 4 workweek
• more third places
• maybe better and cheap (or free) public transport to get to and from places

I’m sure there’s more, but honestly and hour a month of “friend time” ain’t getting you anywhere.

I don’t hate work itself. I hate companies and the system that forces me to work a job I don’t give a fuck about.

I don’t have the resources nor opportunities to just work on something I love until it can maybe make some money. Unfortunately, that’s reserved to the wealthy or the lucky. I’ve been working in private on many things that don’t earn money. Maybe what I’m working on is shit. Maybe what I’m working on doesn’t matter. Maybe it never can be profitable. But I can’t throw everything away and just dedicate hundreds or thousands of hours to it like some lucky few can.

This is why UBI will always have my support. It’s my firm belief that anti-UBI people are actually afraid of the competition is would cause. Imagine if instead of 100 people having the time and resources to compete with you, there’d be thousands, maybe even millions. Imagine suddenly thousands of people actually digging into politics and deciding they want to give it a shot. Imagine thousands deciding they wanted to do their hobby fulltime and give it a shot at becoming something. Woodworking, climbing, athletics, journalism, gaming, content creation, mechanics…
There’d be a flurry of activity.

Twitter?

Is that what happened after COVID with chip shortage?

Why do you believe so? Do you believe software developers earn too much to care about RAM prices and will continue to write software that requires more RAM than the rest of the world can afford?

USA, 24th most happiest country in the world

Goofle. Takes the evil out of the name, but still makes fun of it, so I’m for it.

Could be name of a dang good pizza place actually.

Those are relative explanations as in relative to the region. Compare it to Africa where the crime rate and murder rate is quite different despite there being active wars on the continent. Violence is of course present but not at the same level as in South America.

And even if they didn’t, their wealth still has to be taxed.

That’s great. I’ll try and remember that.

Some of these are legit funny and I barely speak the language. Thanks for sharing!

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