In my defense, your honor, I did not consider that someone would intentionally do this until I read your response.

Those are good advices and I will take them into consideration. I know I’ll get over it eventually, But at the same time I also know that one, she’s higher in the corporate hierarchy than I am, and two, if you were a boss and you heard a man trying to complain about being unfairly judged over a passive allegation of sexist creepiness versus a highly ranked and respected woman who made the allegation. It’s in your best financial interests to believe the woman and dismiss the complaints of the man.

Don’t get me wrong, I know that 99 times out of 100, it’s actually the man being a creep. It sucks to be in that 1% category this one time.

This is fairly obvious, but I can offer an anecdote.

I am a man, for context. Recently I had to edit some personnel photos for my company.

Some group had been brought in to take headshots of all of the major players, a lot of whom are women, and they did a terrible job. Found out after the fact that the group that was brought in was brought in nepotistically and did not have any proven skill worthy the amount of money that the company paid them for their services.

Since it was my job to edit the photos, I was complaining about the quality of the photos, how the wrong lenses had been chosen that caused their faces to be distorted, how the makeup was done inexpertly, and how the photos were a significant downgrade of the photos that were currently there in most cases. I have a little bit of experience in this because my ex-girlfriend was a model and I attended and helped and actually photographed her on multiple occasions for clothing distributors and for makeup brands, like I know a little bit of what I’m talking about. Just a little bit.

A co-worker of mine got really upset that I was talking about the appearance of my female co-workers.

There was no opportunity for me to explain to her that I am not talking about my coworkers. I’m talking about the photographs of my coworkers. She directly ordered me to “not talk about the appearance of my female coworkers”.

And now it’s really hard for me to think positive thoughts about her because she immediately went to one of the worst possible explanations for what I was doing rather than asking or even talking to me about it.

I know well enough to know that if you’re talking about your co-workers and one of your co-workers comes in and says, don’t talk about your co-workers, to not talk about your co-workers. She’s clearly indicated that she is offended. Fine.

But I was talking to one of the co-workers who had their headshot, and we were discussing her headshot, and the quality of it, and what they had done right, and what they had done wrong, when that person came in and told me to shut up. She interjected herself into a conversation she was not a part of, and indicated that she was offended that this conversation was happening and implied that I was being sexist for having it.

Like, we were having a good and productive conversation because it had already been decided that another group was going to be brought in for additional headshots because the quality of these headshots was not up to snuff.

But now I’m all bent out of shape, and personally butthurt, and she feels like, you know, she struck a mighty blow for the feminist cause, and it’s all bullshit, and it just- I’m- I’m struggling to find a way to stop sitting in my feelings over it.

Before all of this, I really liked her as a person. Now I don’t want to be in the same room with her because she can judge me like that.

There is a North America, and there is a South America,

Those are two separate continents.

You can check on any map of continents and that will show you that this is true information.

One could even say America is two continents.

It’s because crypto isn’t actually money. It’s just something somebody might give you money for.

In theory, you can walk to your nearest forest and collect pine cones and then sell them to people.

That’s about the same as crypto, only pine cones are actually useful.

I mean, given how much money she has, she could actually have a mattress with a divot specifically for her ass.

I don’t think they mean clinical diagnosis, more of like an interpersonal diagnosis.

I believe they are just asking for how to identify red flags.

I’ve been wary of labels because it seems like shorthand for actually getting to know a person.

That skill can be handy if you’re frequently meeting a lot of people, sure, but a person who is quick to attach a label to somebody that they didn’t attach to themselves first has no interest in getting to know that person, and their label should not automatically be accepted as correct.

I’ve known quite a few people who were labeled as weird by the unofficial group leader who turned out to just have interests that the group leader wasn’t interested in and was otherwise a perfectly normal person.

A lot of people missed out on their friendship because of that label.

I think it was Jesus that said, “It’s better to ban an entire nation from existing than it is to work out your own sexuality with fear and trembling”.

If my dick is out, I’ve already won.

Crudely burned gasoline in the late spring, only because it reminds me of being on my grandmother’s old army jeep and going down to the creek to swim.

Get it in writing.

Verbal promises are not worth the paper they are written on.

Make sure to include A minimum amount of time and notice to cancel the contract, as well as a requirement for complaints on either side needing to also be written and signed by the other party.

Add a rule to extend the required tasks as new things come up in writing, And add in a disclaimer that if it’s not written down and signed by both parties, it’s not a requirement.

Include an out for failure to perform on both sides, on your roommates side for failing to pay the rent and on your side for failing to do the housework to a satisfactory standard.

Give yourself both easy outs that give you each enough time to adjust if something happens. And also write down on the paper that maintaining your friendship is the reason you’re writing the contract.

I know it sounds silly, but Contracts like this are meant to help establish the rules and make things easier.

In many parts of America, $1750 a month after taxes is like a part-time job. In other parts of America, $1750 a month is a full-time job.

Make sure that your roommate does not feel like they are overpaying for what they get, or that they have bitten off more than they can chew.

I would say that you should include something along the lines of If your roommate cannot or does not want to continue the contract, they have to give you enough time, (I would say like six weeks) to start paying rent again, And include that during that change over time, you will still continue to perform the work you have agreed to in the contract.

Either which way it goes, best of luck.

I would say that any… if the people live in a group or a society that is religion-based, and that religion requires it, then I am not against infant circumcision.

Basically, if you were born to Jewish parents living in Israel or Palestine or born to Muslim parents living in a Muslim-run country, then yes, participate in the culture that you were born in.

But, like in America, where every single person decides their own faith for themselves and only the most culty stay in this same religion that their parents were in, infant bodily autonomy outside of life-saving procedures should be the rule.

It seems to happen less often in Europe, but wouldn’t hurt to add that as a rule there, too.

At least wait until the kid is 13 years old as a minimum.

I can definitely get behind that. Like, if you read the Bible, especially some particular chapters, there’s a lot of old man yells at clouds vibes.

“I will cuteth off the member of him who pisseth against the wall”

Doesn’t really sound like a god thing. It would be very weird for the ruler and creator of the universe to get really, really fucking mad that any person who pees on a wall anywhere, regardless of the situation, should have their dick cut off.

It kind of sounds more like, you know, one of the leaders of a community is writing down laws and threatening to cut a bunch of boys’ dicks off because they keep peeing on walls and stinking the place up rather than using appropriate facilities.

I wish we had accurate historical records of the time, so I could see if this was ever actually enacted. Like, how much would it suck to be that guy?

Walking home late from the bar, you gotta take a whiz, you piss, the cops catch you, and like three hours later, your penis is lying in the trash.

And, I mean, talk about disproportionate response, like, did the concept of community service not exist? Like, what the fuck?

Then there was one phrase about, do not go and shave the sides of your beard, something something yada yada, and it reads like a protest against the kids and their fashion.

There’s lots of stuff where if you have the capacity to take the one mental step to say that every single word in the book may not have been written by God himself, but instead the texts chosen to be in the bible contain a historic medium of communicating laws, rules, and regulations that made sense at the time, inspired by God and definitely containing some legitimate things that were directly written by the Holy Spirit, but also invariably containing some information that was derived from that original mandate.

I mean, even the whole thing about the Sabbath, it was more a nicety to say, even God rested, you should rest too. You should have at least one day off a week where you’re not beholden to labor for somebody else, where you can enjoy life.

I highly doubt that God is throwing people into hell for working on the Sabbath. I get that it’s special to God because he rested for a day, which is something he had otherwise not done throughout existence. But at the same time, why torment someone forever for just working one extra day out of our comparatively very short lives?

I don’t know. I can rant forever. I’m sorry, I’ll stop here, but yeah.

My favorite one is do not boil a calf in its mother’s milk, which has been interpreted to mean no cheese or butter on beef.

Which means that cooking and eating a bacon cheeseburger yourself after sundown *on a friday while wearing cotton underwear and polyester pants is 4 sins, 3 of which are burger

Its not stupid to be optimistic. Every good thing starts with optimism as far as I know

The problem with most companies is that they are not led by people with clear visions.

Companies that succeed typically start with a clear vision. However, once that vision is fulfilled, then it starts to become run by people who are simply trying to make money.

Chasing after money becomes the vision, and that is how you get to the way things are in America today.

Having a vision often times means having goals that you’re willing to lose money if it gets you closer to achieving them.

That being said, ratuer than voting for your paycheck, something that is much more straightforward and less prone to being taken advantage of would be having set wages based on years of experience and time with the company.

include an opportunity to earn extra during the year by going above and beyond while making it clear that this is not expected of the people at their current job role.

Going above and beyond would be determined by your boss on recommendation, and they would have a limited number of recommendations every year.

Another thing you could do would be to publish what everybody earns on a website that is internal to the company, and make the going above and beyond rewards part of your annual meeting or something so nobody would know if they’re going to get an above and beyond reward until then.

Then to actually make it a good thing, you would need to make it a rule to fire the people that do not meet their performance metrics, at least after a set number of times or like failing to fulfill a pip or something.

You’re saying that nobody else in the family matters even though they’ve already decided to keep the child.

Relatively is carrying a lot of weight there.

Their 28-year-old son may not have much to do with the fact that they are having another kid, but that fully grown adult man is still a part of the family and should count for something.

There’s no need to just completely and totally toss him out of the equation.

Especially when you consider that there is a possibility, depending on the age of the girlfriend, that both of them could die before this child reaches the age of majority, in which case, he would likely need to step in to finish the job.