typical day in north korea

This shit is hilarious and was a plot point in The Boys.

he watched The Boys.

staying in a relationship that disappoints you is far less healthy than just ending it entirely.

that's true of any friendship or romantic relationship.

OP sexually harasses friend and wonders why friend is angry and no longer wants to talk.

Clearly, anytime a friend of mine is sad about their life I should send them a picture of my dick.

The problem is the miserable people want to be in charge, and the good people don't. So the miserable people always end up in charge and drive all the good folks away, because nobody wants to work under a miserable person.

No. I'm much happier not having to deal with other people's misery and pettiness. I used to be more social but I gave up because I was sick of having to listen to other people's relentless negativity about their lives, or towards other people's lives. I don't want to hear people complain about their partners, their kids, their family/friends or their job, and how if only they were rich and single life would be perfect.

Further, where I live people basically just want to talk about how Trump Is Evil and They Are So Poor. Despite the objective reality they personally not impacted by Trump in any way and are among the richest people in the country. I'm not interested in indulging their bizarre delusions. And if you disagree on either of these ideas, you are Evil to them. I specifically quit a lot of things I used to do because this is all anyone wanted to talk anymore. And yeah they do light up when you let them run their mouths about their victimhood. Just like the majority of people on lemmy threats endlessly commenting about how oppressed they are despite their real situation being one of liberty and free choice in which they actively choose to cos-play as victims because it means nothing is their fault and lets dwell in their misery rather than take any personal accountability for themselves and their lives.

Not pinned. Sleeved. Pinned rims are like $50, an entirely different price class. DT sleeved rims are $125, the welded rims are $175. They don't make very many pinned rims, and the ones they do are like $45.

As far as I can tell the only difference with welded rims is like 30% lower cost, but 10% higher weight.

i already destroy welded rims after 1-2 years.

he was a folk hero among the insane incels, sort of like the unibomber was, or Luigi is now

There are always insane people who think violence is the answer to their grievances, who idealizing the 'heroes' who enacted that violence on their behalf.

I'd rather just be alone on both fronts. Life is too short to be miserable. When I'm alone nobody lecture me about my gender and I have yet to ever meet a person who doesn't do that. Honestly the conservative trad people I have met lecture me less about it than all the progressive liberals, who are utterly obsessed with policing everyone's gender identity now. Even to the point now where I will no longer hang out in public spaces anymore because I'm sick of some random insane person approaching me looking to start a fight about how I look and their perception of me as a Trump supporter based on my face/body shape or whatever nonsense they believe and their insane entitled sense of 'protecting' themselves from 'people like you'. Apparently my physical existence in public space, quieting minding my own business reading a book, is now 'harassment', or so I have been repeatedly told the past few years.

You know who doesn't care about my gender? My dog and my cat. Weird how that works.

Right, it's not that you theory is faulty, it's that I'm stupid.

How do we treat the most privledge groups? hmmm well we worship them and aspire to be like them... so we are all supposed to worship and aspire to be like each other? How exactly... does that make any sense in the real world?

You yourself are loaded with your own biases, and yet your standard is 'nobody should have any biases and we should all treat each other as if were were white male billionaires'?

So if I'm a white male billionaire, and you are too, which of us should be giving giving massive tax subsidies to each other? I would wager a guess, that you don't think that's how we should treat each other, and it's more like you are the white male billionaire and i should be giving you my money...

Your theory immediately breaks down when you apply it to real world scenarios. All pie in the sky idealism does, because we don't live in a the Kingdom of God where resources are infinite. Everyone is finite and everyone is biased and everyone is a white male billionaire in their own head.

My nephew is 16. He thinks he can't date a 15 year or its pedophilia. He thinks this because it's what all the other kids his age think and he is terrified of being called a pedo.

So when a girl who was a grade younger than him asked him out he said no, even though he really liked her, because he didn't want to get socially ostracized for breaking the rules. Awhile later a girl who is 16 flirted with him and he asked her out, but that's cool because they are the same age and there is no 'power imbalance'.

There is a lot of 'age paranoia' going on in online spaces that has filtered out into the real world, such that an 18 year old dating a 16 year old (which I did when I was in HS) is considered horrible and awful, not normal and acceptable.

And some folk extend this to various other ages and perceived 'age gaps'. Like 28 year old dating a 24 year old being considered 'predatory' now. It's stupid... but people believe lots of crazy/stupid things and you aren't going to convince them otherwise because they like using age gaps as some sort of measure of moral acceptability for other people's relationships.

in my experience they are mostly there to run payroll and benefits and write office memos when company policies are changed.

I feel like a lot of people want HR to be the villain I guess because it's an easy target and they are the face of hiring/firing, though they don't really make the hire/fire decisions at all in most orgs.

That's all dependent on where you live. Maybe where you live that's socially acceptable?

Where I live that's not socially acceptable. It's considered rude and offensive to approach strangers in public spaces unless you have a prior social connection. Even the dog park is like that here.

The only place where it would be acceptable is at these socialization events, and those are often highly structured, like those events where you have to ask people questions on index cards in a weird attempt to force intimacy. 'skip the small talk' type of shit.

It's the cultural narrative of where adulthood begins these days.

Childhood has been extended through your 20s.

it used to be 18 in the 1950s.

The Finnish government, which has presided over deep spending cuts, has encouraged the investment. Last month, when the Google plans were announced, the country’s prime minister, Petteri Orpo, said attracting investment was a “top priority” and “the value of the data economy extends far beyond direct investment”. He said the Google deal would “deliver lasting benefits for both parties”.

Sounds like the government was 100% on board with this.

you realize that the inverse is also true.

a lot of people are radicalized because they say hi to people and get told off for their basic politeness/decency?

I'm repeatedly shocked at how hostile people are to me the past few years, in a way they never were previously in my entire life. And well, it's because they have been convinced that even when I pick up the wallet they dropped on the ground to give it back to them, I must be 'attacking' them. because they are indoctrinated that all men are evil nonsense.

and i imagine if I was younger I'd find these experiences a lot more damaging to my psyche, because I might not have ever known a time when being kind to a stranger was considered a threat, like I did when I was young.

No, he was mentally ill. He just blamed women, and men, not liking him for the root of his illness, rather than realizing it was his illness that was the problem.

the problem with mental illness is people who are mentally ill often have a misconception of causality of their problems. they blame other folks for what is mostly going on inside themselves.

The other volunteers bite you too.

And it's easy to understand, a lot of them are bored miserable people looking for an outlet and decided volunteering was the best way for them to power trip and pat themselves on the back while doing so. Or to get away form their wife/husband/kids that they hate. Def met quite a few people like that in my volunteering.

It's not necessarily true at all.

Volunteer work can be full of really shitty and awful people who justify their shittiness based of their 'good intentions'.

I have volunteered my entire life and seen many orgs fail/fall apart due to shitty people getting involved and cannibalizing the org for their own selfish ends, or wanting to turn it into a social club first and a volunteer org second/third.

It can be rewarding, but a lot of orgs are full of very catty insular people who don't want you to be part of their group unless you look/talk/walk like they do, and you tow whatever 'party' line they believe in, even if it's shitty.

Someone volunteering doesn't make them automatically a good or a nice person. That's the smokescreen shitty/selfish people use though to justify their crappy behaviour in these orgs.