The worst part is that he didn't actually learn his lesson. He voted for Trump because of bullshit promises and now he's just going to go back to voting for right wing libertarians who won't win and thus he'll be throwing his votes away instead of preventing future Trumps.

"I got my nose bitten off by a leopard, so next time I'll coat my face in ketchup and hope no one eats my face."

Kidnapper, human trafficker, genocidal foot soldier

You tout science, but you've cited an NPR interview where the conclusion you call "most likely" is described by issuing agencies as "low confidence." That doesn't make it seem "most likely" at all. What is most likely is that we don't have enough information to draw a definitive conclusion, so being judgemental about it might be hasty and hypocritical. The NPR interview also states that we don't know where the intelligence is coming from, so criticizing China for not being transparent but ignoring the secrecy of the intelligence agencies is a double standard.

The other source is a video from Ken LaCorte, who is a former Fox News executive who killed a legitimate Trump and Stormy Daniels story that turned out to be true, so his credibility is questionable on top of the fact he ran competing US political partisan websites and hired Macedonian teenagers to write the content to stir up contention.

You claim to never trust the media, but you're trusting a known manipulative media executive.

A better question is why the origin story matters so much to you. Does it change the need for masking or quarantines or vaccines in your opinion? If China came out and said it was a lab leak, how would it affect your life in a fundamental way?

People get banned on social media for legitimate and illegitimate reasons every day. This is a weird hill to die on.

If I am cast aside by MAGA Inc and replaced by Neocons, Big Pharma, Big Tech, Military Industrial War Complex, foreign leaders, and the elite donor class that can't even relate to real Americans,

Wait til she realizes MAGA was always a grift by elites to get votes and support and they never cared for the "Real Americans™."

But the term predated the actual vote. It was coined in 2015 before the primary.

Apparently even actual war crimes aren't war crimes if you just call it a military operation. We've always never been at war with the genetic cilantro soapers.

Same people who made Obama phone jokes are eager to sign up to be ripped off by Trump mobile.

So a bad parent tells the story of how his child was innocently engaging his creativity with a tool his father provided and then the father taught the child in a potentially traumatizing way that there's wrongthink possible when some wealthy people have decided they need to collect rent from everyone for engaging with culture. And dad blames the tool rather than the IP laws he supports that actually created the problem he now punished his child for unwittingly encountering with natural human behaviors such as curiosity and imagination.

And dad writes about it like he wants a cookie from the other IP profiteers since he was willing to throw his son under the bus to make a bad and misdirected point.

Good bedtime story. And the dragon slept happily on his hoard of IP forever knowing that the guards would stop even their own children from trying to "steal" it. The end.

The headline is misleading. She voted against the bill.

You should definitely remove this when you get a chance because you don't want him to allege that you're releasing his information since the screenshot does contain identifying information.

But that said, I would confirm that he's previously provided everything listed under ORS 652.610 because that's what he's legally required to provide for each paystub. If he hasn't, then he's been in violation of the law and you may be able to pursue the private right of action listed in the statute. But you'll want to consult with the Oregon Bureau of Labor & Industries and possibly a lawyer.

One thing that is especially odd, beyond the dubious claim of having spoken to a lawyer, is that he claims to have already compiled the documentation. Why would he spend 8.8 hours doing the work of compiling documentation if he isn't already certain you're going to pay him the $1232? That's not logical. He likely hasn't done the work and if it actually did take that long, it would be due to his choice of poor document management. If he had digital records, it definitely wouldn't take that long and it's his choice on how he managements his documents.

It's fair to say that not all theocratic systems are fascist, but they're also not mutually exclusive. A particular theocratic system can also be fascist in nature.

Some common points:

• Appeal to tradition
• Rejection of modernism
• Anti-intellectualism
• Absolute factual authority of leaders
• Obsession with outgroups as enemies, such as sinners and atheists and believers of other faiths
• Special jargon to control the masses
• Subordination of people to a greater cause
• Jingoist militarism (ironic for a lot of "peaceful" religions)

people are largely responsible for their own respective lots in life

This is called the Just-world fallacy.

Taking the Adderall is necessary before sorting the Adderall.

If nothing else, not capitalizing first letters and proper nouns will just look weird to many readers. If there's no capitalization in a sentence, I'm inclined to assume the writer accidentally mistyped an incomplete sentence or phrase. Not capitalizing proper nouns will create significant confusion since some proper nouns are also general terms.

"after friday, land is out."

Is that a reference to land as in earth or is it a reference to someone whose last name is Land?

Making communication more difficult by requiring your reader to spend more effort to parse your intended message might not be a good idea.

Avoiding difficult conversations just leads to more conflict and difficulties later. Unless you're planning on moving far away, he likely knows enough about you to find you eventually, so you're just delaying the conversation and making it worse by hurting him. His disinclination to accept you breaking up with him is frankly his issue to deal with, but the break up is your issue to deal with. Taking "the easy way out" won't actually make it easier.

The idea of knowing what you want to do with your life is overrated. A lot of people do a lot of different things and often don't know what they're going to do until the inspiration hits them. In the meantime, do things you like. Don't make any big decisions without thinking about the implications. Try out new hobbies and activities and see if any of them feel like something you want to do more. Oftentimes one interest will drive you to a similar one.

Get a job if you need the basic stuff people need to survive. Preferably not a job that demands too much social masking if that sort of thing causes you anxiety. That may be hard to come by depending on your skill set though. You can look at people whose jobs you find interesting and ask them what they did to get there. But it may also just be a matter of finding a job you can tolerate so you're able to do the things you enjoy when you're not working.

Maybe use image editing software instead?

If it works for you, there's nothing childish or bad about it. We pretend like people in their late teens are supposed to magically emerge as fully functional adults with all the necessary skills to function alone in society. The truth is there are plenty of people who are decades older who have never been fully functional, so finding something that works for you earlier in adulthood is great. Your brain doesn't stop developing until your mid 20s so don't assume you're going to have everything figured out or expect that you can do everything that seems expected of you easily anytime soon.

Find what works for you. Seek advice from people with compassion. Experiment with new things here and there when you feel comfortable doing so to develop new skills and experiences. Find a friend you can roleplay new experiences with, such as awkward social encounters or having to deal with imposing bureaucratic systems.

Regulating new, marginal uses instead of pushing for broader reforms seems very backwards to me.

This is a false dilemma. There's no reason to suggest that both cannot be pursued or that pursuing one is mutually exclusive with pursuing the other.

"Bank robbers steal thousands of dollars from banks, so arresting me for just picking your pocket for $20 instead of going after bank robbers seems very backwards to me."

It's a lot easier to ignore because so many news sites have pay walls now, so if you really want to know about the topic you put the effort into finding another source or using an archive service. If you're not interested enough, you just let it go.