Whenever I see something like this I feel I must defend my friend who’s a cop.

Before being a cop he was a lifeguard at a beach and my bassist.

Baywatch may tell you differently, but being a lifeguard is a seasonal job, and not a career. The next level of being a lifeguard is becoming a cop, so he did, and he has only beaten one black man so far.

Suck for you, but I would expect no less from someone who’s username is SatansMaggotyCumFart.

Dude you hit the nail on the head right there. I’ve been thinking of installing Reddit back because some of the content I enjoyed there is just not here.

Ive tried to recreate the subs I had on Reddit to here, but it’s empty. So I just browse All and block anything that has to do with politics, but it’s impossible because everything is just lefty politics in some way. Like I’m a liberal person, but I feel like I’m considered right leaning from some of the shit people say on here.

And if I don’t have NSFW off it’s just trans everywhere.

Like do what you wanna do, be who you wanna be, but I don’t wanna see THAT lol

I’m 38 and I just achieved that goal.

Don’t stress about this shit (too much).

Go to concerts, take trips, eat your avocado toast. Indulge.

You’re only young once, and everyone is poor in their 20’s. Unless you’re lucky or it’s given to you.

It sounds trite, but success will come. However you measure it.

Oof the thought of this made me physically squirm

You can do that?

Who? Na I’m speaking about the Madison girl, and the workplace environment. You can go to the Linus Tech Tips instance and find out more about what’s up. It’s all over there.

https://lemmy.ml/c/linustechtips

I’ll help ya out since I felt the same way and spent too much time on something I don’t really care about, though I do care for the person who was impacted.

They are a tech YouTube channel that tests components for computers and the like.

Basically, a former female employee (can’t remember her name) who was the social media manager, made a post of her tenure there, and it was horrible. Sexual harassment, belittled, ridiculous standards for work. At one point she felt she needed to gash herself and go to the ER, just so she can take a day off because she was ridiculed for taking a sick day previously. There is whole shit ton more. I’d link the post but sorry I’m a little lazy rn.

The guy who is “de-friending” this Linus guy, is another YouTuber who does the same thing.

This was a hyper TL;DR, and I’m missing other things, but that’s pretty much the jist of it.

I know this is an unpopular opinion, but that’s because a good amount of the time it’s true…

Relationships are a lot of work, but shouldn’t be hard. If your relationship is getting so difficult that you feel the need to post your issues on the Internet to get advice from strangers, your relationship is more or less done and haven’t really noticed it yet.

If it’s a one off issue that you need some outside help to see another perspective, than breaking up is probably not the solution; however, if it’s habitual then yeah breaking up is probably for the best.

We tend to have loss aversion and get trapped in the sunken cost fallacy with relationships and can’t see that it needs to end.

That said, giving advice for a bad relationship is like seeing a person who has an addiction problem. That person needs to realize what it is, and no amount of advice can help.

You know it! There’s some gems that they give out. Games I wouldn’t know of otherwise.

Twisted Metal and Merchant of The Skies.

Which isn’t actually all that far off from what the Twisted Metal show is? So, not really much of a change? I guess just with planes instead of cars I guess…

And it was never designed to be. It was always meant to be a republic.

We first were a confederation. Were your idea of a true democracy was more or less in place. The revolutionary war was won in 1783. The constitution wasn’t ratified till 1789, and the bill of rights written until 1793. Before that the US had almost no central government, and each state was independent from one another. Had their own currency, banking system, laws, and military.

States still have a lot of that same autonomy today, but there was no central government tying them together. If the US went to war and a state didn’t want to go, they wouldn’t. A little more complex than that, but generally that’s what it amounted to.

Having this type of system created a bunch of problems and came to a head when Shay’s Rebellion happened. I won’t go into depth about it, but mainly confederated Massachusetts couldn’t fight off the rebels attempting to take over the state. Since the US was a confederation there was no central government the state couldnt call on for help, and all the other states more or less said ‘meh sucks for you’.

This incident lead to the Constitutional Convention that wrote the document we still uphold today, and bringing in more of a centralized Federal Republic, and not a decentralized confederated one.

My ranty point is, we tried the whole true democracy thing and it failed. So we went to a Federal Republic, still very much democratic, but moved away from a true democracy.