Guess people who need their medicine can go fudge themselves?! /s

N.B. This is a serious topic. Please stop spreading propaganda about acetaminophen being addictive or causing autism. Please read the study. The point of the study is not about acetaminophen. It is about social pain can hurt as much as physiological pain. Only people with trait of high level of forgiveness responded to acetaminophen. Acetaminophen will not work for you if you not a kind. forgiving person. No need to worry about acetaminophen if you have a weak trait. Kindness can be learned by not trolling

Social pain (psychache), such as ostracisation/rejection/bullying, can hurt as much as physical pain. Forgiveness and acetaminophen have interactive effects on experiences of social pain. Telling victims to just "let it go" is just like withholding pain medicines from patients recovering from surgery.

We need to tell the victims that psychological wounds are like physical wounds. They will heal but the healing processes can be long and painful. Psychological pain may come back in waves, and the scars may remain just like physical scars. If the psychological pain is unbearable, don't hesitant to seek mental health. "It's okay not to be okay." Don't be persuaded to think "it is all in the head." Psychological wounds are as real as physical wounds. Good luck.

Chung Sun-sin, the appointed head of the National Office of South Korea of Office of Investigation used his power and connections to protect his son who bullied his classmate daily for years. The victim almost chose to end his own life. Chung Sun-sin reversed the penalty against his son so that his son could get into the top South Korea university.

Any graduate from the top South Korea universities are guaranteed to be one of the "elites".

Chung Sun-nin was able to reduce his son punishment to "reduce 1 point" from the university entrance exam test score. His son got almost full score.

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I hope update is allowed.

Today I talked to my boss. Surprisingly, she was very accepting. I told her what happened over the weekend the aggressor and I worked. How the aggressor was passively aggressively rude to me. She was laterally commanding me ("Go home!","Go eat!) when she was just my peer, my equal, not my boss.

She was constantly over my shoulder trying to catch my mistakes. When i did, she would sneer. She thrives on the power of superiority. That just made me unable to focus. When I didn't make mistake, she looked like a dear caught in headlights.

She was harassing me to the point I couldn't concentrate.

My boss asked if I noticed any interaction between the aggressor and my co-workers. Luckily, I did remember and I told her!

Yes, I have proofs. I am a popular person. I even told my boss to ask anyone at work and they would back me up. This how confident I was.

Needless to say. The bully is not so brave now.

Lesson learned. Speak up! I wasn't going to tell my boss until I learned that I wasn't the only victim. Silence is not the answer.

I was harassed at work and I am going to file a complaint on Friday. I am scared as hell

Over the weekend, I worked with a well known harasser and she kept giving me passive aggressive comments to the point I couldn't focus. She even texted me, "What is your compacity to work?" What's even supposed to mean? I am not a lazy person. I am very hardworking and i am very likable and popular.

Today I talked to my team leader and she told me to file a complaint to my manager on Friday. I am scared as hell. The bully has been there since day one and I am new. I don't mind getting fired but someone needs to speak up. This will be the first time I will be filling a complaint. I work in a state with no anti bullying protection. People can be fired at will. I am not of any "protection" group. The only thing I have is I am very popular

Abstract: Participants (N = 717) characterized their relationships with their dog and four human partners: closest kin, romantic partner, best friend, and child, using the Network of Relationships Inventory. The results showed that owners reported greater satisfaction with their dogs than with any human partner except their child. They received more Support from dogs than from any human partner except their child and experienced fewer Negative Interactions with their dogs compared to any human partner, except their best friend. Overall, the relationship with the dog provided high Companionship, opportunities for Nurturance, and minimal Negative Interactions. This may stem from the fact that the dog-human relationship features a more asymmetric power dynamic than human relationships – i.e., owners have full control over the dog’s life

Turcsán, B., Ujfalussy, D.J., Kerepesi, A. et al. Similarities and differences between dog–human and human–human relationships. Sci Rep 15, 11871 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-95515-8

Today I learned,

In 1931, an exceptionally talented young Berlin attorney named Hans Litten summoned Adolf Hitler to testify in a criminal case. Litten represented four victims of a brutal assault perpetrated by members of Hitler’s Sturmabteilung, or SA, on a dance hall frequented by leftist workers; by the time the assault ended, three people were dead. At trial, the defense sought to portray the SA as a disciplined political organization, under orders from Hitler to use force only as self-defense.

In his three-hour cross-examination of the head of the Nazi party, Litten managed what precious few dared to attempt. Hitler had expected the young lawyer to be intimidated; instead, Litten aggressively and skillfully dissected him under oath, reducing the supposedly gifted orator to a stammering rage. In trapping Hitler in contradictions and exposing him as an inveterate liar, Litten also made clear the Nazis’ goal of destroying the Weimar Republic. Hitler left the witness stand rattled and humiliated, henceforth forbidding Litten’s name to be uttered in his presence.

Hitler’s revenge came two years later, barely a month after he had been installed in power. In the wake of the Reichstag fire – an arson attack on the parliament building – and relying on a hastily drafted emergency decree for the “protection of people and state”, Hitler ordered the arrest and “protective custody” of numerous perceived political enemies, including Litten. Over the next five years, as he was shuttled from concentration camp to concentration camp, Litten was repeatedly beaten and tortured. In 1938, with no prospect of release, he took his own life. His crime: trying to protect the role of law and a constitutional democracy from a would-be authoritarian.

The United States in 2025 is not Germany in 1933. That said, Litten’s experience has a disturbingly familiar ring. Last week, the US attorney’s office for the eastern district of Virginia (EDVA) announced that the former FBI director James Comey had been indicted for allegedly lying under oath to a congressional committee. The case against Comey is so flimsy that Erik Siebert, Trump’s hand-picked chief federal prosecutor for the post, balked at filing charges. Siebert’s fair assessment predictably earned him the ire of the president. “I want him out,” Trump fumed, and so Siebert resigned before he could be fired, vacating the position he had occupied for barely eight months

Trump wrote that he has an "unprecedented opportunity" and will look at which "Democrat Agencies" to cut

I am a healthcare worker and I live in a red state. Today I tried to get my COVID vaccine and I was told I was not eligible.

I was shown a list of qualifying conditions and one of them is mental disorder.

I told the pharmacist that I am crazy; therefore, I am eligible for thhttps://www.cdc.gov/covid/index.htmle vaccine.

My best friend had suffered treatment resistant depression for the longest time. Three years ago, he chose to leave us. I wrote him a letter back then.

Today, I accidentally clicked on the letter I wrote. It says, "I know you want me to live.'

I had to hold my tears went to the bathroom to avoid people at work seeing a grown me cry.

https://voca.ro/19SZRwfMh0pq

"Moral Hypocrisy". When Greed and Morality collide, Greed usually wins.

I am more surprised about Yuta Okkotsu 乙骨憂太 and Maki Zenin 禪院真希. They had kids together? Is 祈本里香 Rika Orimoto okay with it?

Many international competitions, such as international swing dancing, in the US have been postponed. Many international competitors don't feel welcomed. Many organisers consider moving competitions to overseas.

We closed our own door. There is not a single one country can thrive without international trade. They are not coming back to the US

I just read the first chapter. The author graphically describes scenes happened during cultural revolution. Does it mean the current Chinese government admit it was wrong? I thought China insist what it did was right.

No need to pirate. The series is mostly free on Kindle. Most issues are either free or $0.99. Only a few are 6 dollars. Support the author.

Bad news everywhere. This is the best pick me up