Tablet. And the cage was created by me to keep them safe. They’ll get more access and bigger toys as they age.

I’m only a little torn about this. On the one hand, I’m all for ending the exploitative labor practices that abuse migrant workers.

On the other, deporting or detaining them is the worst way to do it. It punishes the wrong folks.

Sure did. Still relevant. Unless your point is to vote red.

This is a definition problem I think. I don’t use the word “responsible” to mean sole ownership. For example. We are all responsible for the cleanliness of our roads. It is a shared responsibility that we all participate in.

And, I think, we are all responsible for modeling good behaviors for people to emulate.

It’s how I’ve explained it to myself over the years. Otherwise people are insufferable :-p.

Of course it does. You’re only ever responsible for yourself.

And that mentality does not lead to good things.

Oh yes. Pushing personal responsibility to the end user has always been a very effective security strategy.

Nothing you said negates the fact that a first past the post voting system always devolves into two parties. Add an electrical college, and you’re even more locked in.

Given that one of the two parties WILL be in charge, you get to vote against which one you hate more.

Don’t lie to yourself and think that a vote is supporting a side. That’s not how it works in America. Your vote is against whoever you hate most.

Now if you hate both sides equally, you don’t care about your neighbors at all. Even though it’s all orchestrated, and pretend, and both sides are owned by corporations, and neither side will fight capitalism, there’s a clear better and a clear worse when it comes to quality of life for our neighbors.

If you don’t like the fact that there’s only two options, you either need to push for ranked choice voting, which means working with one of the existing parties to implement it. Or you need to get out. There is no other way to escape this system.

That’s still part of the job. Building and maintaining relationships allows you to call on those relationships to be productive. Even people that seem useless could be connected to other people who are useful.

It’s also part of the job to maintain a baseline of morale.

If a person is truly a time waster, set a boundary and tell your boss.

I’ll bite.

The risk is training people in bad behaviors, and then having those people do stupid things like type in a password.

Your next president is red or blue. The system is rigged to make this so, and no amount of wishing changes that.

Behave accordingly.

We should be voting in primaries, protesting in blue cities, writing to our reps, and running in elections.

Saying they’re the same is just silly though. That’s tapping out.

Our fight is not Left/Right anymore, it is Us vs.Them.

And yet your next leader will be blue or red. And if you do nothing to improve either one of those, it will be the shittiest blue or red they have.

Why are the most passionate people on the left so fucking ineffectual… It’s the one thing the right does correctly. Their wacko zealots know how to work the system.

Grandpa’s off his meds again.

You can’t just opt out of the two party system. Ignore it to your peril, or use it to further your cause.

instead of wasting 30 minutes?

Did the paycheck clear? Did you get paid? Then it wasn’t a waste. It’s part of the job. Do your job. Even the parts you don’t like.

feel like I won’t get anywhere in running

Running is the one sport where you’re guaranteed to get somewhere. Sure, it’s only 500 meters away. But it sounds like you’d benefit from distance from the crazy.

The sync is weird though. I can’t say “upload this image” I have to say “keep this whole folder in sync”.

And that’s why the incel culture is so popular. Anytime you have a hard problem, and pitch that it’s someone else’s responsibility to fix, people will love that.

Poor people " just need to work harder", immigrants " just need to come in the right way", women " just need to be less picky", and I don’t have to change or help.

It’s easier to not care about a guy’s mental health when he’s married, even if it’s a shitty marriage. How can he be lonely if he has a wife, after all?

I’m happy for divorces. I’m happy for the increase in male loneliness BEING NOTICED. It used to just be the guy would work all day, or drink himself to death silently, to avoid the issue.

But the next step has to be for guys to be open to make emotional friendships.

It’s not an issue only now. But we’re more isolated than before because we lost our third spaces and communities. Bunch of lonely wolves.