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Has this ever happened to you?

I get it, I absolutely respect someone wanting to be safe, but i think it would also absolutely ruin the date for me. I just can't really interact the same way in a group as I do one on one. Either that, or I'd end upv mirroring both of them simultaneously and it would end up in a throuple.

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The Usual Suspect

I generally assume news of a synagogue attack to be Europe, not US.

Most other instances of racial attacks sure, America all day, but that one specifically seems to usually be European.

Maybe if had said 'shooting at a synagogue'

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Samsung smart fridges have started displaying ads

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There was a reddit legal advice post recently with that premise. Poster's sister was a schizophrenic named Carol, who checked herself into an inpatient mental facility, after seeing this ad on a smart fridge, and thinking her treatment was failing and she was slipping into another episode.

Brother was wondering if they had grounds to sue over treatment costs.

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My cousin got her colege interviewer pretty good.

My grandma was a college professor. My cousin's father was Persian, so she has very different facial features and skin tone.

She applied to grandma's school, and got an interview. She showed the letter to our grandma who recognized the interviewer as one of her grad students, who had a part time job in admissions. The interviewer's first question was do you have any family in the states?

my cousin said she did, and that the grad student should come to dinner at professor <last name's> house and meet the the family. After that sunk in, she asked if grandma had ever invited her for dinner. When she said she hadn't had the pleasure, my cousin made a sour face and said 'oh no, she must not like you very much- she invites all her grad students over for dinner, at least the one she likes!

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Iirc, the hebrew word that gets translated to 'lay' is also a pretty suspect translation. Its only other usage in the OT (and our only other known context for it) is to describe a man pursuing his wife's servant, and contextually, is more likely to mean 'molest' or 'rape' than to describe consensual sex.

The 2 words translated to 'man' are also different- the first being 'ish' the second being 'zachar'

While both can generally refer to anyone male, ish can be used in the context of 'anyone', or 'husband/ man of the house', whereas Zachar is often used biblically to refer to young males, and /or subordinates.

So put together, this passage is likely 'nobody should be molesting boys,' or 'a master shouldn't rape his servants or children'

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Stop ze Coke Sigmund it is making you Insane!

Sigmund freuds whole oedipus complex thing makes a lot of sense- not as a general psychological framework, but as a framework for freud himself.

Freud was the product of a second marriage, with a dad ~60, to mom being g in her 30s. His dad had 2 sons from that first marriage who were also in their 30s. With father was also a trader, meaning he was likely on the road a lot.

So, when a young freud looked to his brothers to model behavior from, he saw their interactions with his mother, an age peer of the opposite sex, as opposed the normal generational gap others see between their siblings/peers and their mothers, one that was likely a lot more sexually charged than the normal.

These interactions, instead of the normal age reverant ones, are the ones freud seems to have internalized, and then assumed everyone had, and based his oedipal complex on.

Now, tbf, both brothers were married, and iirc, neither lived at home during freud's childhood, so the behavior could have been a bit less direct; at social gatherings, his mom would have likely been grouped in with the brothers' wives, being a married woman the same age, as opposed to the married women his father's age.

The brothers' wives then, to Freud, could have been seen as sort of proxy mothers, and the effect is still the same; Freud could have seen his brothers pairing up with others in his mom's group, and modeled his behavior off of that.

But occams razor still has freud walking in on his mom schtupping one of his brother during his formative years.

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Call the fire dept and say youre concerned it might be blocking those exiting the building, (especially the handicapped) from clearing the area of a potential fire in a safe and orderly fashion.

I did this once when my neighbors landscapers parked blocking in my front door, despite me catching them at stand asking them not to park on the yellow line, when I needed to get my mom to a post-op checkup (making that the only viable door as I had to carry hwr down the stairs, and the back is 2 flights compared to a half)

Not only was the fire dept there in like 5 mins, they had a bunch of guys flip the truck over to roll it out from between cars on either side, they broke the windows to throw a tow strap through the cab, dragged it upside down out into a place the wrecker could get it, and pulled it upside down onto the flatbed.

Then they helped me get my mom down the stairs as a bonus. Extra bonus was they landscapers tried to sue the homeowner for the loss of the truck over their refusal to provide offscreen parking (my street fills up despite the town's requirement for adequate onstreet parking intended for workers like landscapers)

They ended up dropping the neighbors house, which due to the publicity got them on every landscaper in town's blacklist. The inability to get landscapers ended up making the house no longer atractive enougb for short term rentals, first replaced by a long term rental, and eventually they sold, and now there's a real, working class family there!

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A couple key typos i think

I think hes saying ice notices a civilain tailing them, pulls their info, then drives to the tail's adress, with the civilian observer still following, letting them know that the agents know who they are and can get to them any time, as a threat.

Paragraph 2 is pointing out this is a bad strategy for ice, as it allows opposition to lead ice into an ambush/ further identify cars:

Drive around and start tailing suspect cars- when they start going towards your home, mark them as confirmed undercover ICE vehicles,

OR have people waiting at the vehicles' registered address to ambush them- could be pretty effective once people start shifting to violent resistance mode- either steal a car from someone out of town and use their car and property to set the trap, or your own old home if youre already marked and had to go underground.