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Cake day: March 3rd, 2024

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  • If you are walking at the edge of the roadway (not on a sidewalk separate from the road) you should be walking on the left, against traffic, so you can see oncoming traffic on your side as you go.

    If you are approaching another pedestrian who is walking towards you, each pedestrian should walk to the right of the other while passing.

    Reverse all sides for countries that drive on the left.







  • Learn to support yourself. It doesn’t sound like that’s something you’ve had to do yet, and it also sounds like your father is allowing you to avoid that lesson. This is important for a couple of reasons.

    • Your father will not always be able (or willing) to support you, and then what?
    • Without the ability to support yourself, you will find yourself less and less willing to step out of that comfortable spot, and you will miss opportunities. Your wording of “I’m of use to him” also suggests that your father could be using you. You depend on him for financial support, he depends on you for keeping house. I’m not saying that’s a bad thing all by itself, but it’s really textbook codependency. It’s one thing to choose that for your life; it’s another to not really have a choice about it.

    The both of you need to learn how to be adults, I think.










  • I’ve put a bit of thought to this over the years, and I have come to the conclusion that “might makes right” is always going to underpin any society. The people with the resources have the power, and by extension, get to make the decisions. The path to change, if people without resources want something different from those with resources, depends on a transfer of (at least some of) those resources from the haves to the have nots.

    That only happens via force, or the threat of force.