Eta: and they have historically added some social cohesion, in forms of law, but we’re grown now. Governance needs to serve everyone or no one. So I find myself wondering if perhaps I might give anarchocommunism a more serious look.

Now that I’m more settled, and having re-read your post, it doesn’t seem off base, and indeed seems to be a well-recognized issue, for over a century, at least. I think what triggered my little outburst is recognizing this, while also recognizing I need to find more ways to engage, meeting people where they are. It’s extremely frustrating to bring up, “Jesus said the Kingdom isn’t here or there, but within,” only to have them shirk responsibility to each other to “go to meeting,” or fly to Africa to impose this wildness on others while deposing the Orishas, no less. And my problem with religion or philosophy isn’t the story telling. It’s that the intent of the stories are dismissed on some merit-making ideology. They may have begun as literalism, but the older I get, the more I doubt it, although the purpose has seemingly evolved and devolved by degrees, as human societies evolve and devolve again. The immediate issue seems to me to be first liberating the stories from the money and power hungry, then liberating the stories from morality (primitive religions seem to do it somewhat effectively), then liberating the people from literalism, while also asking how we may evolve our philosophies (stories) to serve the masses. In short, I’m not sure the most direct and efficient route has been the historically most effective and lasting route. And like the destruction of the giant Buddha statues, the temple in Jerusalem, the Dome of the Rock, or the Hanging Gardens, it erases history and any residual knowledge we glean while also sowing deep-seated and centuries-long resentments that flare again and again. This religion or that or none, this clan or that tribe blah blah. And that’s incidentally why I don’t see multiculturalism as a bad idea.

Thank you for understanding my mini crashout. I’ll be alright, I just have to find alternatives to my daily outside time, hence the recent more applied interest in video editing. 😜

No, your ideas are yours, and I’ll have to read and reread a few times, and mull it over. I’m just grappling with our little community aging out, the young being stressed out/disengaged and clinginess to the same ideas and how to engage everyone with clear divisions digging in, while at the same time being closer in ideals (D/R liberalism, evangelism, even if they’re Southern/Baptist, some variation of Pentecostal, Catholic, etc, PoC, white) than to mine, and being really, really itchy to re-engage in 3D.

Communal/and larger social anomie are one thing, personal anomie another, and it just seems we’re moving fast while braking hard, simultaneously. Like I said, I might have made a freechat post instead. My b.

Like multiple people, in out our spaces, I’m grappling with ideals meeting reality, and have been for some time. I probably could have made another thread rather than commenting here.

Hard paywall

Also extremely painful.

He was rumored to drink a lot but idk. That would certainly speed up the process.

They’re close to Qatar and UAE as well, aren’t they? Playing all sides?

Once you accept Medicaid, unless all assets have been sold out transferred longer than five years prior, the state takes the property and sells it, probably to the same holding companies that own rentals and nursing facilities, to pay back Medicaid expenditure.

He had heart disease and high blood pressure for a long time. His state coroner’s office said it was an aortal rupture. While South Carolina State Coroner’s office is certainly problematic and has certainly lied before, I have no reason to disbelieve this particular assessment, although other contributory factors may have been present.

Do you mean that and think it’s fair?

https://youtu.be/4Y7VJ7PH7Pc

That’s incredible, especially considering population of each. Smh.

Good luck organizing when you shun maga, Christians, and anyone else we don’t like or agree with.

Looking at USA…

Seconded. My personal life is on stop-go.

Someone knew, but it I’m not sure most engineers did.

I’m not sure this is a water discharge problem alone. It seems an operational issue, and it seems unlikely a bright engineer with an eye on global warming didn’t ever bring it up. That is, we’re told that concern didn’t fit their pay grade.

I think there are people assumed to be so when they aren’t, but choose not to make “disabled” their identity.