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Any time you start a new treatment it’s a good idea to keep a log of how you feel.
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2·19 days ago“The Eiger Sanction” has entered the chat…
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“High Crimes” is a novel about a disgraced Olympian who gets a job as a corpse retriever on Mt. Everest. The families of dead climbers pay her to find and bring back the frozen bodies of their relatives.
https://www.darkhorse.com/Blog/1930/dark-horse-collects-sebela-moustafas-high-crimes
20·30 days agoThis has been going on for a long time.
Back in the Reagan Era the US was miles ahead of the Soviet Union’s military by any metric. So the Right came up with a new metric, “throw weight.” The Soviets had inferior missile technology, so they had to build bigger weapons to carry the same size warhead. The War Party would go to Congress and the public and show how much bigger the Soviet missiles were and claim that it proved how weak the West was and why we had to spend more.
It was like saying a musket from 1776 was better than a M-16 because it fired a larger bullet.
“You, know, I hear people talk about that a lot, but honestly, I have no idea what it actually is. Can you give me some pointers?”
Now they are your mentor.
“Comfortable silence” is a thing.
And walking away is always an option. “I’m gonna see who else is here,” or “I’m going to get a drink/some fresh air” or “good talk.” are acceptable ways of ending a chat
Ask questions, then just listen to the answers. Nod and add the occasional ‘go on.’
People will usually let you know what excites/interest them. If someone is wearing a football jersey ask them what the best game they ever saw was.
People don’t expect you to entertain them, they just want to know that you are interested in them
Read the rules.
If you want to argue the minutia of building codes of the past, I’m sure there’s a sub for that.
I don’t think that the 1960’s life style was ‘lesser’ than today’s by any means.
Check “Hell’s Angels” by Hunter Thompson. There’s a chapter where he runs down the economics of being a hippie/biker/drop out.
A biker could work six months as a Union stevedore and then go on the road for two years. A part time waitress could support herself and her musician boy freind.
There was a popular travel series. The first book was “Europe on $5.00 A Day.” Eventually, they had “Paris…” “London…” and other great vacations all for $5.00/day.
Sporting events, movies, and concerts were much cheaper.
If you wanted distraction, there were book stalls and news stands everywhere.
When I make a random observation I like to put “[off topic]” at the start.
I make the $1.00 minimum wage/$11,000.00 house argument a lot because it so clearly shows how far down we’ve gone.
A lot of people try to refute it by pointing out how much “richer” people are today.
I was confused because I thought you were trying to address the main point, not adding an aside
See?
Yes.
That’s exactly what I was saying
Unless you’re trying to say that all the advances made since 1960 are a direct result of inflation, nothing you posit makes any sense.
Talk to the people who were around at the time, or look at books or essays.
Archie Bunker was often cited as a ‘middle class’ figure.
1·1 month agoIf a child is disabled, it isn’t really a choice, is it?
https://www.logical-fallacy.com/articles/reduction-to-absurdity/
Reduction to absurdity fallacy.
Basically, you can’t actually refute the point, so you carry it to a ridiculous extreme without giving it serious consideration.
And since people here use it all the time, I can’t even give you points for originality.
For fun, watch the movie “The French Connection.”
Besides still being a great film with plenty of action and suspense, you get to marvel at the fact that, at one time, the police seizing 60 pounds of heroin was headline news around the world.