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@ZorayaBlack_ Yes, partially with bad jobs/toxic bosses.

Your brain will get used to whatever you subject it to for long periods of time. So if you notice an environment isn’t good for you, leave earlier so you don’t get to a point your brain normalises it and you struggle to cope in positive places.

@wifeoftoast @thisisnefertiti This reviewer can vote

got my first 1 star review of my novel because someone was mad it wasn’t waterproof?

Do British people still do the accent when nobody's around

@JeremyVineOn5 Yes. She didn’t deserve the negative media attention. She’s not a criminal. If people don’t care for her, that’s their right, but it’s unconscionable to treat her so terribly, relentlessly, for no valid reasons.

Do you feel sorry for Meghan? The Duchess of Sussex has said she was "bullied" and "trolled" every day for a decade. Speaking in Australia alongside her husband, Prince Harry, she also criticised social media companies for profiting from cruelty. Do you sympathise with her?

@rshereme @morgfair It’s great they can finally see AND admit they were wrong, but now they need to dedicate time, money, and effort into undoing the evils they voted for

The ice is finally breaking, and I am truly hopeful. In the past two days, two of my friends who were diehard supporters of Trump called me and said they were wrong. One of them told me his trucking business is falling apart because of Trump's immigration policy, tariffs, and high fuel costs. He was disappointed that Trump did not deliver on his promises. He said he would not vote for Trump if he had known then what he knows now. My second friend asked me for forgiveness. He said he had been deceived by the promises Trump made to Christians. He even compared Trump to Putin and added that he now understands how the antichrist could deceive believers. I had a really good conversation with both of them. I was not angry. Honestly, I never thought this day would come, when eyes would open and the ice would begin to break. So yes, I am hopeful.

@WhimsicalE66017 @GrahamAllen LOVE this photo!

@GrahamAllen it was nothing like this. Trump is not even the original creator of the meme.

I don’t believe the president intended to depict himself as Jesus when he posted it. He is a believer after all. I do appreciate that he deleted it—something President Trump has rarely done. Discernment is learned, not always automatic.

43.5 and still alive

@rdeeezyy @BrianaRoseLee @subpargarbage Ah, kids have different sleep rhythms. I remember struggling with it as a teen and in my 20s. I wasn’t out partying and certainly wasn’t playing video games, but I could not get to sleep before midnight no matter when I went to bed. I was exhausted all the time.

@drollpatrol @BrianaRoseLee @subpargarbage Well I mean obviously if you’re working at night I am not talking about you, I’m talking about the teens and young kids playing video games or partying till 2 am then sleeping till 12 or 1

@subpargarbage Exhaustion

@KaiseratCB If the RF were doing good works, charity events, and generally making the United Kingdom a better place, the media could focus on that.

@KaiseratCB It’s hard to be interested in a family that treats H&M so terribly, forced them to leave, and then complains when H&M get on with their separate lives. I understand this is a media narrative, but the RF can focus their own press elsewhere, permanently, if they wanted to.

Moir: No one predicted that the royals would flop so hard after QEII’s death celebitchy.com/971516/

@FluffyRuffs @JoyceCarolOates Naming the poison, white men, it’s the problem.

@JoyceCarolOates "Only a white male...". It's poisonous identity politics like this that drove voters to Trump in the first place.

only a man would say "both parties." for women, the difference between GOP anti-woman legislation & liberal pro-woman legislation is 100%. in red states, girls & women will be, or already are, trapped by biology as in pre-1950's US; in blue states, essential rights are still honored. not to mention the profound difference between GOP & Dems in terms of ICE policies. only a white male assured of never being arrested, beaten on the street, detained in a facility in Texas can equate GOP & Dems.

@drseanmullen @morgfair Utter and total exhaustion

Serious question: What’s the biggest change you’ve noticed in people’s health since 2020 that nobody is openly talking about?

Very well written essay on the MAGA voter. This is what we are up against. Sam is 61 years old and lives in a town where the Applebee’s closed in 2014 and people still mention it like it was a natural disaster. The old factory shut down years ago, but Sam keeps his faded employee badge in a kitchen drawer because he considers it proof that America peaked sometime around 1987, right between the release of Top Gun and the invention of low-flow toilets. He firmly believes the country began collapsing the moment they stopped letting people smoke in restaurants and started putting kale in things. He wakes up every morning at 5:12 a.m., not because he has anywhere to be, but because decades of shift work, untreated sleep apnea, and permanent low-grade outrage have hardwired his body into a permanent state of agitation. He shuffles into the kitchen wearing camouflage pajama pants and a T-shirt that says “I Stand for the Flag” even though he has not stood up quickly without groaning since 2009. He pours himself coffee strong enough to power farm equipment and settles into his recliner to begin his daily ritual of becoming personally offended by things happening hundreds or thousands of miles away. Within half an hour, he is enraged about crime in Chicago, drag queens in Seattle, wind turbines in California, and a college professor in Vermont he has never heard of and never will again. Sam spends most of his time marinating in an ecosystem of Facebook memes, talk radio, Fox News, chain emails, YouTube clips, and badly designed websites with names like Patriot Eagle Freedom Truth News. By noon, he has shared seven posts warning that America is under attack by socialists, immigrants, vegans, pronouns, electric stoves, and people who use the phrase “lived experience.” He believes every story because every story confirms what he already feels: that the country has been stolen from people like him and handed over to people he does not understand. Sam is absolutely convinced he is one of the last remaining “real Americans,” despite living in a county entirely populated by people who also think they are the last remaining real Americans. He misses the America of his youth, which in his memory was a magical place where every man had a factory job, every woman made tuna casserole, every child respected authority, and nobody had tattoos, gluten allergies, or opinions about gender. He is nostalgic for a version of the country that mostly exists as a combination of old pickup truck commercials, Toby Keith songs, and stories his grandfather exaggerated after three beers. His truck is the size of a military vehicle and has never once carried anything heavier than mulch and emotional baggage. His pickup truck is so large that small birds alter their migration patterns to avoid it. The truck has never hauled lumber, gravel, or equipment, but it does haul an enormous amount of political anxiety. The back is covered in bumper stickers warning that he is armed, angry, and deeply suspicious of the federal government, except for when it comes to Medicare, Social Security, highways, farm subsidies, police funding, veterans’ benefits, and keeping its hands off his lawn. He likes to tell people he is “not political,” which is impressive considering his entire personality has become an endless loop of cable news grievances. He cannot attend a barbecue, church picnic, football game, or grandchild’s birthday party without eventually bringing up inflation, Hunter Biden, gas stoves, “the border,” or how nobody can say Merry Christmas anymore even though literally everyone still says Merry Christmas. Then Trump arrived, descending from his golden escalator like a casino-themed prophet sent by God to sell steaks and grievance. Sam had finally found his perfect candidate: a billionaire from Manhattan with multiple mansions, gold-plated bathrooms, and a private jet, who somehow convinced Sam that he understood the pain of a man screaming at the self-checkout machine in Walmart. Trump was loud, angry, theatrical, and constantly under investigation, which only made Sam admire him more. Every lawsuit, scandal, or indictment was not evidence of wrongdoing. It was proof that Trump was fighting the deep state, the media, the elites, the globalists, the FBI, the Democrats, the RINOs, and possibly the ghost of George Soros. Every scandal, every lawsuit, every indictment, every accusation became proof that Trump was fighting the corrupt establishment on behalf of “real Americans” like Sam. At this point, Sam does not support Trump because of policy details. He supports Trump because Trump has become the human embodiment of his anger, nostalgia, confusion, and Facebook feed. Trump says the world Sam remembers can come back, that the people Sam dislikes can be punished, and that all of Sam's frustrations are someone else’s fault. To Sam, Trump is no longer just a politician. He is a lifestyle brand. He is a martyr, a warrior, a stand-up comedian, a victim, a patriot, and the lead singer of a traveling grievance festival. Sam owns at least three Trump hats, two Trump flags, a Trump coffee mug, a “Never Surrender” T-shirt, and a giant “Let’s Go Brandon” sign in the garage that he insists is “not political, just funny.” For Sam, that is not politics. That is therapy. Trump is not just a candidate anymore; he is an emotional support billionaire. He is a spray-tanned security blanket with a private jet. He is the gold-plated, fast-food-fueled mascot Sam clings to whenever the modern world feels confusing, threatening, or insufficiently patriotic. Trump gives him a ready-made explanation for every disappointment in his life: it is not aging, bad luck, economic change, or his own choices; it is the immigrants, the liberals, the media, the globalists, the vegans, the people with pronouns, and whoever is ruining Christmas this week. Supporting Trump lets Sam believe there is still someone out there fighting for him.

One year since my hip replacement surgery. Truly life changing. Despite advanced arthritis, Kaiser refused me this surgery. I was only able to get it once I left Kaiser for Blue Cross, where I was allowed to see a specialist who was astounded I could walk at all.

No I will not cut my sandwich in half what if I split an atom

@rednecknerd123 @UmmmSureBud @monaharaty @ProfBZZZ Wow. That’s like relying on someone to describe art to you rather than experience the art for yourself. Like someone telling you about a song, but not letting you hear it. No thanks, I want full access to literature.

@UmmmSureBud @monaharaty @ProfBZZZ Same with 1984 or animal farm. Great books from a philosophical standpoint, even if I didn’t particularly find them entertaining In fact, the discussion about the implications of the concepts is more interesting than the books themselves

A student today at my elite university admitted to me today that she took a class so she could work on reading for more than 20 minutes at a time. She can't read. She mainly skims and summarizes, she says and still gets A's. This student is, by professional standards, illiterate. Gonna have high GPA when she graduates. This conversation was had after 6 of 22 students dropped my course because the maximum reading per week in one week was over 100 pages. What people aren't grasping is that this is literally *dangerous*. These people are going to be come doctors, engineers, etc. They are - by any metric - vastly less capable than prior generations. These effects are cumulative over a lifetime. This grade inflation is part of the problem, but not even close to the entirety. And the problem obviously starts in K-12. Students don't know history because, you can't actually become historically literate on the advice of 'never assign more than 30 pages a week'. You can't develop any of the skills that came with literacy. This is, quite honestly, a civilizational catastrophe.

@strppngyngthng @monaharaty @ProfBZZZ Yes, fellow English major! I read 500+ pages a week, at least, for all four years of my BA while also writing many pages of my own per week.

@monaharaty @ProfBZZZ I was an english major at a state school in the '10s tbf but 500 pages of thoughtful study a week is very doable with a consistent study strategy, that said I usually had to do more like 1000 so there was some skimming

@monaharaty @ProfBZZZ *Laughs in English Major*

Is reading ~100 pages/week for a course a common expectation? Five courses would mean reading 500 pages/week. I wonder if that would leave any room for thinking critically, making connections, and solving problems, all of which require a slower and more reflective form of reading.