And there it is.

The chaos in one’s life that brings a person to McDonald’s continues while still at McDonald’s.

I know exactly what you mean. I got the musical talent version. I remember being in 10th grade in music class and the teacher passed out band instruments to everyone in the class so we could play with them and laugh at how bad we all sounded. I was late that day and got the only thing left over. A trombone. A week later barely a handful of the students could get a solid note or two out of their random trumpets or clarinets, etc. I was playing “When the Saints go Marching in” with flourishes like a New Orleans brass band.

I got an entry level job sanding military helmets a couple years ago. The kind of job that hires anyone to do the shit work. Two and a half years later I am in charge of the most complicated product the company makes. I’m now the only person in the world who makes the JHMCS helmet. (Google it)

We let the NTs use that term because the real answer would terrify them. It’s all pattern recognition. I’m not “good” at any particular skill but the world is transparent to me. If I understand how something works I can recreate its function.

To them it looks like this is happening in real time. To me, the constantly spinning wheels in my mind grab traction for a fraction of a second giving the illusion of progress.

Life is waiting in line at the bank. You can’t fight it. You can’t change anything. You can’t get out of line. You just have to wait until it’s over.

The United States is still an ally to Ukraine. Our mistake of a President is a criminal and an ally to no one but himself. Even that is a stretch.

You are all thinking way too hard about this. Trump’s understanding of geopolitics is not any more complicated than his understanding of American politics. Argentina is Texas. Canada is California. Reward red. Punish blue. That’s it.

Talcum was the name of the first baby they powdered

In my home state of Pennsylvania (think Southern Germany) we have a lot of hiking trails in the mountains where some people like to camp. All through my 20’s I would solo hike forest trails with all of my supplies. Sometimes I would stay out for 4 or 5 nights and I would average 15-20 miles per day. Honestly the best times of my life were spent deep in the woods by myself.

While we do have access to places where we can camp in the wild, in reality 99% of camping here is done in the same kind of campgrounds you describe.

The rest of us call this camping.

A diagnosis doesn’t help this problem

But that was fifteen… Sigh.

Ah… ancient memes. I wish it was 15 years ago when this was fresh.

Don’t give trump any ideas.

To be fair, Hamas CAN release the remaining 50 hostages at any fucking time as well. I think it’s gets forgotten that they are still holding on to Israeli citizens after nearly 2 years. I spent my highschool years living in Israel and then (90’s) Hamas were blowing up busses and vest bombing malls.

I’m not saying that I agree with what is absolutely turning into a genocide, but the situation is more complicated that you think. Hamas has been operating freely as a terrorist organization for over 30 years. They have killed thousands of Israeli citizens. The gazans, and Hamas specifically, are being used by Iran as a cheap proxy war. The intention here was to provoke an overreaction from Israel to turn public opinion against them. Netanyahu took the bait.

Israel is absolutely going too far in its response, but imagine if people from New Jersey spent 30 years crossing state lines just to kill and terrorize people from another state. Imagine new Jersey openly calling for the death of American citizens and forming militias with child soldiers to brainwash them into su*cide attacks. Then the governor coordinated with China to take hundreds of hostages from new York that they refuse to release. Would you want our military to just stop putting pressure on the new Jersey government to release the hostages because their people are dying?

Ender warned us.

I was ready to quit Reddit before I got banned. Honestly it was a welcomed divorce.

My gut tells me that the Fentanyl problem was created by the US government. I don’t think anyone asked to have their cocaine laced with opiates. I feel like making drugs as lethal as the conservatives have always been lying about is part of project 2025.

Also there’s the issue of h2o2 introducing oxygen to the wound. So while yes, some bacteria may be killed, you are encouraging others to grow. “Bacteria” isn’t a single thing. It’s a whole ecosystem. It’s like, ok great you killed all the wolves. Now we have bears.