I think people haven’t gotten to the point of arguing with you because they have no idea what you’re trying to say.

To be clear, I’m not arguing with you either.

I feel like “render unto caesar what is caesar’s” to mean “pay your taxes. The money you’re using is theirs. Your faith and beliefs aren’t really part of that.”

Which is really funny in the current political context.

Have empathy for the injustices others face. It helps you let go of hate

This is a big one, though I have a more nuanced view.

“That is a fucked up thing and shouldn’t happen to anyone. I couldn’t give two shits about that person in particular because they’re a piece of shit, but what is happening to them is unacceptable.”

That’s how I feel about bad shit happening to horrible people in prison. A serial rapist gets raped in prison? Unacceptable. It shouldn’t be allowed, and everyone responsible should be held to account. However, I lack the necessary empathy to feel for that serial rapist. I try, but there’s a lot of people out there suffering more who did nothing or less that I should care about, and I have a limited amount of care. Doesn’t mean I’m okay woth prison rape, though.

The moon base (and/or moon orbit base) isn’t just cool, it would facilitate building ships in space that don’t have to escape the gravity well. That and asteroid mining (to get materials for ship building) would be such a huge step to having a real presence off-planet.

Mine materials on asteroids, send them to the moon refinery and manufacturing facility, send parts up to lunar orbital ship building facility, send ships to Europa, Ganymede, etc.

Because the animals they are camouflaged from have dichromatic vision, so to those animals they look the same as black and green and blend in well.

Humans are weird in our trichromatic vision, and are not the target of that camouflage.

Bad Moon Rising by Creedence.

It’s about the apocalypse, but you wouldn’t know it from how upbeat it is.

Family, Occupation, Relentless existential crisis, Dreams.

Are you sure?

So both are wrong.

The one on the left is too low. It needs to be, at the minimum, at about the rim.

The one on the right is too high. You can’t put a flat lid on it, and if you put a tall lid and it melts even a little, you end up with a mess on your hands. Blizzards aren’t cones with drip rings (the holes in the top of the wafers, which is why they shouldn’t be covered up), they’re supposed to stay in the cup.

Source: was a DQ Store Manager 20 years ago, went to DQ School (yes that’s real… or at least it was).

When we had our first, there was a military spouse who would take old uniforms and turn them into really cool diaper bags (the side was the front of the shirt with name and service tapes). It wasn’t camo, because my service just wears blue, but they ended up being effective and unique.

“Well, I used to run cross-country and long-distance track. No need for that face, close your mouth, or you’ll start catching flies.”

Same reason I refer to my 14-year-old dachshund as a puppy.

Because he’s my puppy.

Seriously. This all sounds exhausting. It was probably a good move to loop in the manager. If it were me, I probably would have just stepped back from them and kept my distance, as I have little energy for drama, but taking a more proactive approach was probably smart.

But yeah, you OP did the smart thing, now the next smart thing is just step away from all of it. Keep some distance and let the manager/director sort it out.

Attack the Capitol and kill a cop in an act of sedition: they sleep.

Drive a teenager to a woman-friendly state to get an abortion: real shit.

Wishing someone was dead and believing that the government should have the authority to do that are two very different things, though.

So when slavery for non-criminals ended, they just started making more black criminals (and criminals in general).

I don’t think it’s pedantic to say that slavery is still legal when there is an entire industry built around that currently legal slave labor.

In college I had a guy friend (I’m a guy, both of us straight) who I’d regularly go to breakfast with, and he always paid because I was very poor, he made plenty, and he wanted company for breakfast. I regularly tried to pay and he waved me off. I think he knew that if we went back and forth, we’d go to breakfast a lot less because I wouldn’t be able to afford it.

Maybe that’s what’s going on here.

Pretty sure the ones at my work (only by the higher-ups and the people responsible for ordering stuff) don’t have presets. So since my desk was just outside my boss’ boss’ door, whenever he was out I would pop in and move his desk halfway up. That way, every single time he walked in to use his desk, he’d had to move it whether he wanted to stand or sit.

I didn’t dislike him or anything. I (and every person I told to do it when they went into his office) just thought it was funny.

This is an open ended attempt (with some frustration) to try to under why members of the community do certain things.

I am fine with not commenting in women-only spaces, but that is very much not what OP is trying to do. OP is venting and using a rhetorical question they don’t seem to particularly want an answer to. Is that “requesting support?” Does that extend to emotional/moral support?

I think if the OP is complaining about not following the rules and spirit of a community when posting, it seems appropriate to point out if they are violating the rules (and spirit) of the community they post it in.

I’m with you on words just being words. But there is one factor, especially in ongoing relationships (romantic, platonic, familial, whatever), that makes apologies important.

I don’t care about the feeling bad or the words or whatever, but I do care about acknowledging wrong-doing. Because if they haven’t apologized, they might not think what they did was wrong, and there is absolutely no reason to believe if the situation came up that they wouldn’t do it again.

Now, don’t get me wrong, plenty of people apologize and then do the thing again. But if they don’t even apologize, it’s practically guaranteed. The apology just sends the message that you and they are on the same page about whatever it is.