Just remember it’s diet coke for him

There are many times you can’t afford a lawyer, sometimes without your finances changing it suddenly switches to you not being able to afford not to get one. This is one of those times.

Lol I was allowed to be anything I wanted when I grew up, and if I picked a type of engineering my family would even consider still speaking to me

Any time a government official tells you to ignore legal advice run to your lawyer

Holy shit that’s hilariously bad

Wow he really did spend millions to design a robot that sucks his and only his dick

That’s fair, but I think it’s vital to frame it internally as you suspecting that there are deeper emotions at play here. At the end of the day the person in question is the ultimate authority on their emotions. A lot of so called empaths see all the deeper emotions that they want to see and more or less ignore what they don’t want or expect to see. Furthermore you’re likely rife with false positives.

Like I’m not discounting that people can observe deeper emotions, a good therapist is able to notice them and lead you to them. But people with hypervigilance often are the ones claiming that they’re “empaths” (ie see and instinctively feel other people’s emotions) and these traits can correlate with the behavior described above.

Must not could

I’m saddened and grateful I’m not the only one here who associates the term with abusers.

There’s reading emotions and then there’s claiming you entirely feel other people’s emotions and are so confident in it that you insist the other person is lying about their feelings.

I associate it deeply with BPD style emotional abuse. Everyone who’s done that form of abuse to me has called themselves an empath. But inevitably, nope, it’s just hypervigilance and projection and don’t I dare correct them on how I’m feeling.

Incidentally I have a cptsd response where I often mask discomfort and fear so it’s especially things like me saying “no” and “I don’t want that” that get disbelieved by these “empaths”

I don’t have independence, I have a wife instead. Could I be independent of her? Sure, but we really would rather that not be needed.

What would be wood?

Also ya know, he maybe should stop considering nixon a role model. Sure he knew his way around a spirit, but you gotta show up to work sober and quit with the war crimes and the whole using the military against civilians thing. It’s not just fireable and hanging offenses, it’s also loser shit.

When the government subsidizes the shit out of the alternatives, yes. But also investing in research for better things means you get better things faster.

Norman Rockwell. He did paintings of Americana. This one is about the civic duty to speak up or something

As an ex catholic, this sort of thing is part of why it’s so hard to fully separate myself from them. They’ve done so much evil, but right now they’re doing exactly the good I was scared they may not.

Just waiting for Vance to be excommunicated.

Yeah her book on him was insightful

Oh shit that first link is exactly something I’ve wanted for years. I’ve been linuxing from gui for a while and would like to know more, especially as I fuck around with my home server

She always reminded us of a vulcan