Considering we have thousands of people who don’t work at all, live off letting financiers manipulate their ancestors’ assets, and go on Fox News to tell everyone that commoners’ value is related to making their assets more valuable, I don’t think that the work that most English speakers do helps anyone but the plutocrats or actually matters at all. No one is asking if they provide any value to society because our society is based on the propaganda they commissioned for their own profit. Your worth isn’t in serving these actual parasites and neither is anyone else’s. They’re the only people we need to be talking about doing something with because they are the cause of all your problems, not disabled people whose circumstances aren’t affecting you at all.

Haha, yeah. The courier probably has the biggest turnaround of any bethesda game protagonist. They go from a completely anonymous average person delivering packages to being essentially a demigod capable of pretty much anything. No fate, no destiny, no special heritage, just you and your choices.

In New Vegas, it will make sense for your character to look any way they want. In the game’s story, nice clean things are available but restricted to the rich and powerful. The player, however, is the most powerful and the most influential as to who ends up getting what by the end of the game.

To be honest, this is what kept me from playing it at first as well. It’s a pretty old game, but mods can help a lot toward making it easier on the eyes. With Vortex through Nexus modding is super easy nowadays.

Since New Vegas isn’t on your list it has to be my top recommendation. Of all games I’ve ever played, New Vegas is the most reactive to and acknowledging of the insane and unbelievable things the player does. The actions the player takes have permanent effects in the game, and everyone affected will know that the player is responsible for whatever happened and say so. You personally control the fate of every community in the Mojave. In other games, you are powerful on behalf of the story, but in New Vegas you personally are all the power in the entire game.

Tinder is an app where you look at pictures of people and on that basis alone decide whether to go out. It’s even easier to lie about height than to take a misleading picture. I’m really not sure if this would make any difference at all. Everyone frustrated on tinder will continue to be exactly as frustrated on tinder while tinder squeezes them all.

Sometimes the “love” a parent feels for their child is because they view their child as an extension of themselves. This is why they get really upset if their child ever says or does something they wouldn’t. Also, not taking accountability for their own behavior and pushing the burden of the consequences onto their children is a form of exploitation, emotional neglect, and abusive. These behaviors are characteristic of emotionally immature parents. I can relate to your experiences, unfortunately for the both of us. I highly recommend “Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents” by Lindsay C. Gibson to make sense of a lot of nonsense that some parents do like what you described.

One thing that I’ve learned recently is that there’s always going to be a degree of misunderstanding but if someone is chronically misunderstanding you and demeaning you, their problem isn’t that they don’t understand. They simply don’t like you. Do not waste your time engaging with such people and take every measure to distance yourself from them.

I’m British.

And I’m American. Funny how neither of us knows how bad our home countries are. As you mentioned though, our cultures share a lot of problems. In terms of housing, nutrition, street safety, class issues, social stratification, and wealth inequality I don’t think it’s a one to one comparison. We have issues of a different nature on these things which is why I think it’s arguable which is better. I personally would not be able to live in the UK and I know that from experience. While I was living there it was not apparent to me in any way that it was better (other than healthcare, which is obviously better), but it was different.

I don’t think you understand how bad the UK is. I’m only saying that it’s arguable which is better on most issues. On the issue of healthcare however, it is strictly better in the UK though their system is deteriorating in its own way as their political situation also devolves.

True, and it’s rapidly getting worse. It’s still strictly better than our predatory system.

They could be having that effect. Scams that look obvious are to attract people who fall for obvious scams, such as people with dementia. They are designed to be transparent to most people because they don’t need anybody clicking that has the faculties to know better than to fall for the rest of the scam.

I wouldn’t say “definitely” on anything other than healthcare.

You can only get so excited about making someone else rich.

And hawks. There have been posters all over my neighborhood for a missing cat and they keep putting them up. I’ve seen those hawks in action and nothing they can catch stands a chance.

I think a lot of people are neglecting to think of Biden’s lifetime record in public office. The United States is the nation on Earth with the greatest proportion of its own citizens imprisoned and we have Biden’s 1994 crime bill in large part to thank for that. Unfortunately it wasn’t terribly shocking when he went on to be more supportive of the Palestinian genocide than any other president in US history other than Trump.

$80? How much is that, like 4 bananas?

Republicans are getting rid of all pretenses average people use to justify the function of our society. Non-profits shouldn’t exist and the real government should be addressing all the problems they have historically been leaving to burnt out newly grads begging for money from corporate funders, mitigating the problem slightly, and showing up for corporate media campaigns about how happy the few people they helped are about it. We used to pretend this was a solution and now the pretend solution is being taken away.

After having chronic insomnia from my literal earliest memories, I can assure you that you already know all the “tricks” if you’ve done any research at all. There are no real tricks for chronic insomnia, only lifestyle changes which help over the long term. I so desperately wish it wasn’t the case, but you need good physical and mental health to have good sleep. Sleep apnea can be fixed pretty quickly if that’s the problem, otherwise therapy, exercise, and sunshine for a year or two is your best bet.

Honestly, it’s a great source of truly stupid ideas. It’s convenient to have a total idiot on hand at all times to make dumb suggestions when asked, inspiring me to think of something better since the standard was set so low.