the corrosion of two personalty that reshape each other until they're incompatible, I guess. but also a lot of dysfunction. I got so good at being a grey rock in the face of their exciting need to be excited by constantly fighting that they got bored of trying to get a reaction out of me and I got tired of the panic attacks and suicidal thoughts. Anyway, separation has been nice, but having kids means you're locked into a kind of relationship that necessitates mutual good faith cooperation so it's a nightmare. REALLY don't have kids with people you haven't lived with first for several years. 6mo whirlwind relationships are a bad place to invest the next 20+ years of your life, also, you can't out run, out think, or recognize your truama, you are you, and you can't not you. therapy early and often.

politicians really like to get these kind of hard concessions to move forward, like 'I'm not going to let you nominate a eugenicist nazi unless you make it clear that you don't think science EXPLICITLY may or may not agree with your narrative you've been pushing and profiting from for decades'

He showed them who's boss!

they did, often repeatedly, we only have decent art in Egypt and Greece for so long because they kept taking each other over and reteaching each other to do art, there's big stretches in both sides where they clearly lost the ability, and the Romans just kept copying the Greek art forever they didn't make huge leaps you don't see that until much later when someone in Europe decided statutes could look good from every angle and not just one, which is a very hard line in the temporal understanding of art history. but it's REALLY hard to get your society to have the labor distribution to allow people to make scientific progress and digest other civilizations works while also being stable for a long time which requires wealth disparity, which clearly requires culture and religion that justifies that, and you need military stability for centuries, and you need to also have the internal will to make progress and not simply declare yourself the master race of men and devolve into eating each other over which pig is MORE equal to which other pig in terms of power, or simply not get taken out by an earthquake, volcano, or, storm, it's VERY difficult.

he seems very pleased with himself.

married 17 years, can confirm.

good thing "providing" housing costs nothing. it only makes money. you get the equity of owning the building and the rent. the cost of upkeep is always FAR behind rent. the idea that providing housing costs a huge amount of money is absurd. It's parasitic. If the people paying the rent, which is the upkeep and additional profit, owned the equity, they would also eventually break even and make money. Talking to people like they aren't smart enough to understand how badly they are getting robbed, isn't an argument. it's assholery.

Anyone who grew up Mormon should have already known the largely evangelical Christian nationalists would like to destroy Mormons in the top ten wish list of people to harm if they ever get power. this isn't confusing at all. it's willfully ignoring reality.

how do you agree to the payment scheme and accept the work and then gauff at the bill. this is some serious idiotocracy type of shit.

nothing beat maintaining the systems that keep those in power wealthy and powerful.

it's not eating up attention, it's being focused on to avoid topics people actually care about. unless people march in the streets, nothing is happening.

I don't think there needs to be a conflict in public with child and not child places, honestly. also I grew up in NV and CA, pretty much everywhere used to be less child friendly in public when I was a kid. you can walk kids through a casino now, they used to really physically stop you in the 80s-90s