OpenStars

Bold of you to assume that thing on his head is "hair":-).

When you get them on pizza they are kinda dried out, so I imagine so?

Even the olive, while not liquid, is kinda mushy.

Don't forget the rest of your phrase there: justify... "to who"?

If to you, he would have to do a LOT more than he has, for you to still buy in despite seeing that.

To them, merely having the title of "CEO" seems to be enough, to those who refuse to dig deeper. pOsItIoN oF aUtHoRiTaH.

They will be shocked, Shocked I tell you, SHOCKED when their money goes poof.

Put another way, your question presupposes several things, e.g. "In a fair world, how could that be allowed to happen!?".

BTW, Donald Trump lowered the funding for the SEC, the agency responsible for investigation of financial fraud matters. Also he + the Republican Congress lowered the funding for the IRS too. After ACTUALLY "defunding the police" with his right hand - while simultaneously claiming that the leftists wanted to "defund the police" with his left - we will see a lot more of this than we did in the past.

In the past, criminals feared the police and did not want to get caught. Now that there are fewer investigations into financial frauds... we have FA, and we are about to FO.

(1) ngl that is amazing, a heart-warming story

(2) still fuck Elon Musk

"So next, I want to try money: I am passing around a plate..."

NO! We have to talk about "work". Except we cannot talk about "work". Therefore we must keep our focus on "work".

Yeah, one of these days I will figure it out... :-P

I think my main problem was caring about the work that I had done. If only I could convert myself into a robot that would do everything as asked perfectly, then ~~nothing would ever get done right~~ everything would be perfect!

Context: I get yelled at for... get this, bringing up work inside work meetings!:-P Btw if anyone wants to turn this reply into an impromptu ~~therapy~~ session offering me tips on how to survive meetings, I could use some!? :-D

That's not "fair"! Such an unbalanced relationship.

I dunno - don't underestimate just how jaw-dropping shockingly unintelligent many of them are.

I remember those videos by mothers who killed their children by refusing to allow them to receive vaccinations. They were heart-rending stories told by those who KNEW, whereas before they only THOUGHT that they knew. Before it happened, they were obstinate and ignored all medical advice and did the exact opposite. After it happened... then they REALLY knew that they had screwed up. And they begged, pleading with other mothers not to do the same. They were ofc ignored, by those who similarly KNOW better, despite literally all of the evidence to the contrary.

Or you can go to old graveyards, and see grave after grave of infants who died young, from what are today easily-preventable diseases. Something like 4 out of 5 children died prior to 5 years of age iirc (or even if that is wrong, still more than half?), so much so that religious ceremonies still practiced today make that age a cutoff - like before that the child doesn't even have a name, but after that it suddenly is considered a likely candidate to grow up into a full person, thus is finally worthy of being officially given a name.

I do have empathy for people with mental illnesses who cannot handle processing in the real world, but I also have empathy for all the people who have DIED b/c of those dumb-shit behaviors. Especially when they push further and refuse to allow OTHERS to have the kind of care that they want. Like, choose for yourself sure, but you do not have the right to choose for someone else. That is not only merely unintelligent, but childish on their parts. At least, that is true in the best-case scenario, while the worst is that it is linked to authoritarianism, which sadly is the most likely one in many cases - e.g. these people would turn you in to the government, if that was asking, just exactly like if we were real, actual Nazis. Like, "hey, lookie here, this person took the vaccine!!" (or had an abortion, or even a miscarriage) Even they do not want to have to live in that kind of world - e.g. having to call someone by their preferred pronouns - but they will absolutely heap that burden upon you if they think that they themselves will be exempt, leopards-ate-my-face style.