Does it bother him when you don’t respond? I don’t know this boys particular circumstances but Western culture has a mentorship crisis when it comes to young boys and men, generally speaking.

You shouldn’t have to do anything that makes you uncomfortable but, as an introvert myself, I have come to learn that kinship sometimes means doing your own thing in the presence of others. This is really important to children since they want to feel like they’re part of something bigger.

If he’s not expecting a response to everything and you’re OK with just being together I’d advocate for that. You may find it to be healthy for both of you. Depends on your specific circumstances though.

He can fly it from his library. At least the taxpayer won’t be on the hook for the maintenance costs at the point (I hope?).

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https://www.forbes.com/sites/jeremybogaisky/2025/05/14/qatar-747-trump/

The royals have failed to sell the plane, which was put on the market in 2020, according to an archived listing. Giving it away could save Qatar’s rulers a big chunk of change on maintenance and storage costs, aviation experts told Forbes. Making Trump happy would be an added bonus.

When the plane was bought in 2012, its list price was $367 million, not including the interior, which took three years to complete and likely cost tens of millions of dollars.

The 2020 sales brochure noted that the plane was due for a landing gear overhaul in 2024 and a 12-year check in 2027. A check in which the airplane and engines are taken apart, typically carried out every six to 12 years, can take months to complete and cost millions of dollars.

The plane would need to be stripped down and swept for bugs. Then, unless the administration is willing to accept the risks of lighter security, it would need to be built up to the Air Force’s requirements to serve as an airborne command center, with encrypted communications systems, shielding to protect the electronics from the effects of a nuclear blast and defenses against missiles.

It would take at least five years starting again from scratch, Aboulafia estimates, unless security requirements were relaxed.

Briefly, Qatar has been trying to offload this plane since 2020 but the market is extremely illiquid since its a massive gas guzzler and everyone is moving towards smaller, leaner air travel. Boeing has a couple planes intended to be for Air Force One in the pipeline but Trump is frustrated that they will be delayed to 2028. Cue Qatar seeing the opportunity curry favor with Trump by giving away their outdated junk (which they can’t find a buyer for) which costs millions in storage and maintenance fees.

Reddit was always like this.

Now they’ve made ads indistinguishable from posts.

The discourse is generally low quality, divisive and likely bot driven.

Mild fascism was always “okay” in colonial-settler history. It was only when the Nazis went full fascist and started attacking other Europeans for either not buying into their world view or for having impure Slavic or Mediterranean blood did shit hit the fan.

For many of these regressionists, going back hinges on the ascension of neo Nazism.

Women could not build individual credit until the 1974 Equal Credit Opportunity Act (ECOA). They needed a male cosigner to have a credit card prior to this.

The Fair Credit Reporting Act of 1970 expanded credit card access for minorities. Systemic credit reporting inaccuracies disproportionately impacted them prior to this with Black/Hispanic neighborhoods having 2-3x more credit disputes than white areas.

There’s a reason some of the anti-inclusive members of our society want to go back to a time of lower competitiveness. Unfair advantages allowed the few to have an easier life at the expense of the many.

What are we defining as quality here? Global reach?

The only countries that produce shows with consistent global reach in the Anglosphere are the US and UK.

Nearly every other country produces shows in the local language for the local population.

If you’re talking about production value then yes, more money would be the difference. But there are many high production value projects that ultimately end up being trash. The US generally has more capital flow to risk burning on such misadventures.

This is what happens when you don’t understand the ‘why’ behind being more inclusive and instead apply it opportunistically to concentrate power.

The Democratic party has a hollow husk of virtue signallers at its core. Let’s hope a new generation, one that truly means what they say, can rise above their failures.

What is the difference functionally?

Every woman I know has felt pressured to look a certain way by our dominant capitalistic world view. With the emergence of social media and influencer culture, men are starting to feel this pressure affect them too.

Its very hard to make someone stop believing that something objectively apparent doesn’t matter. Its less about whether it matters to you and more about how she feels others perceive what she perceives to be a flaw.

Telling her that it doesn’t matter to you is totally fair. Telling her it doesn’t matter to anyone would not be entirely true - yes, our culture can be that superficial.

There are, after all, entire industries that count on us to impart such insecurity onto our daughters so that they spend on beauty products their whole lives and keep that revenue engine churning.

My suggestion would be to reassure her that it doesn’t matter to you but to also see if you can have a broader conversation on the social pressures she has experienced related to her appearance and how it has impacted her life. You may have had similar experiences to share. This will brinf you closer, remembering that true confidence comes from strong relationships built on a foundation of mutual trust.

If these are the folk we are promoting as geniuses it’s no wonder the world is in the state it’s in.

Two other points

1. Genghis conquered more of the world than Alexander (9 million sq ft vs 2 million sq ft).

It is said that Alexander “conquered the world” because Greeks at the time were not aware of the world beyond Europe and the Middle East (or did not consider the others ‘civilized’)

Alexanders army mutinied on him once they made it to India.

2. Genghis at least took present day China, Eastern Europe and the Middle East. That’s as close as one ancient conquerer has come to “taking over the world”.

AOC and Sanders are legit. I agree with you on establishment democrats though.

Seeing more and more of this domestically.

People are recognizing that their relationship with their employer is exploitative and are trying to return that energy.

I’ve worked with a few people recently that clearly were holding multiple jobs or were much more focussed on their side hustle.

Symptom of a bigger issue in my opinion.

Could it have been Jesus that said “Those who live by the free market shall die by the free market?”

I like how his expression of inspiration / passion is destructive (running through a wall). It’s very on brand.

Restoring the Kinship Worldview: Indigineous Voices Introduce 28 Precepts for Rebalancing Life on Planet Earth

Particularly the chapter on high respect for the sacred feminine.

Its written by a prominent Indigineous scholar (Four Arrows) and a professor of moral development psychology (Darcia Narvaez) and attempts to reconcile Indigenous teachings with our dominant (Western) worldview.

The Western conceptualization of masculinity is obsessed with violence, war and domination with being a protector of others (including animals and nature) being an afterthought so this is really not all that surprising if you have any exposure outside of the confines of that world view.

This is mainly a consequence of individualism which Western thought has sent into overdrive.

The funny thing is what he’s offering here is also just words.

You’re going to need more than just gradually escalating calls to action to fix this problem.

I know that I also am just offering words but I’m not worth half a billion dollars with a broad domestic and global audience nor am I American.

I hope he puts his money where his mouth is and goes even a step further.

We’re should be past the point of people telling each other to do something about it.

Fearful and stressed people yearn for order and hierarchy. Neoliberalism has fucked the working class around the world opening the door for conservatism and far right politics.

The free market is not the answer to everything.

Generally, Conservatives believe that there is one correct worldview (which they may refer to as ‘common sense’) which is what unifies their ingroup and justifies ostracization of ourgroups. Liberals are generally more open to the idea of there being multiple correct worldviews.

Absolute trash tier journalism that does not even try to explain why use of agencies for staffing in both the US and Canadian hospitals has increased.

Hospitals offer an absolutely terrible compensation package to nurses and even doctors in some cases (for hours worked) and have generally become profoundly dysfunctional.

For many nurses, pay was capped or went down during COVID (until a recent pay increase due to backlash in Ontario) and the reality of working as hospital staff was ‘hey sorry ____ called sick can you take care of double the patients with no increase in compensation while bringing immense potential harm to your patients and causing you incredible moral and physical burn out?’

So people went to agencies that pay better but most importantly are flexible. You can certainly get a crap assignment while being an agency worker but your agreement may just be a few weeks and you can leave and choose to never return if an institution is mismanaged.

As a healthcare worker, hitching your wagon to one horse (or hospital) is a risky proposition these days since so many are mismanaged and underfunded. I’d rather have the flexibility to jump ship than stay somewhere only to become miserable and suicidal (which many healthcare workers struggle with)

In short, agencies are a symptom of a bigger problem. You can ban them (lol) but good luck finding people to take care of patients if you do.