Okay, well.
You interpreted wrong.
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The Long Dig
Yeah. I took it as explanation of why objection, and if that is what he meant, I can understand exactly why he was confused.
ETA: I had to struggle to get to my correct boiling down.
(wahoo is a lady btw)
Saying the quiet parts out loud since 1996.
Oops! Didn't know, sorry!
ETA: Fixed! Sorry! Only char I ever played with her that I knew was a guy, I totally didn't mean to be rude.
@wahoo Then maybe explain yourself better, as it's a perfectly reasonable interpretation.
Oops! Didn't know, sorry!
ETA: Fixed! Sorry! Only char I ever played with her that I knew was a guy, I totally didn't mean to be rude.
I don't think she was upset by it (since she didn't say anything!), I'm just aware and I know usernames can be super confusing sometimes so I thought I'd mention. 
Saying the quiet parts out loud since 1996.
Thank you!!
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@wahoo Grow up.
Oh fucking well.
“It is better to live doing the things that you like. It is foolish to live within this dream of a world seeing unpleasantness and doing only things that you do not like.” -- Yamamoto Tsunetomo.
@Ganymede Still, a person can dream.
I can think of a few reasonable scenarios where someone who wants money for food really needs money for food, and not to be fed. I'll land what I believe is the most likely and reasonable, because I can identify with it:
If I have a family to feed, I'm not going to let someone feed just me and walk around with my guilty, full belly all day. I'll eat when my kids can.
I think it boils down to, there is no right answer and answers that are coming are hard ones to make. I'm not going into my life specifics because, frankly, it doesn't matter. This is all opinion for the most part. I think people are basically good and their hearts go out to anyone that is suffering. I think people that help by giving food/giving money/working towards social reform/etc are helping how they choose to. It might not be how all choose to do it, but they are doing something.
I don't think this is a one-up-game. There are times I give money and there are times that I can't put enough in my budget to make ends meet. There are times I've needed money. I lived in a state that people made six figures a year panhandling (I'm not saying homeless just the act of panhandling). Sure there are studies about it, but people in this vein aren't robbing people. This is money handed over to them.
Sure, maybe it's under false pretenses, but there is a lot in life that is like that. We buy a laptop for X amount of money and then find out that the next year the operating system doesn't work. We made that choice. We take a salary position and then we work out how much we actually make an hour after we see how many hours we put in. We made that choice. Or you think benefits are included and aren't. I know these are not on the same par as homeless or panhandling, but they are decisions we make with our money. If you give money to a panhandler. That's up to you. If you give it to the state to try to win the lottery that's up to you.
If they are using it for drugs. They are using it for drugs. If they are using it just to pay their bills or because they found a way to make six figures a year. More on them.
I'm likely to give my time and my money to organizations helping the homeless or my real heart of hearts is women (and men) fleeing domestic violence. This doesn't make me a saint or sinner. It just makes a choice I make in life. These are hard topics and the right thing is a hard thing to know or to judge because people have things that have happened in their lives to form their personal choices. You can't know them. I don't think you should judge them. I just think you should know that most people are helping how they can and how they feel comfortable.
This is however, just my opinion, so you can take that as you will.
My baby sister is on FB talking about how she's only been getting a few hundred calories a day for a month and she's sick and blah blah but apparently this is not, in braindead land, enough for her to go to the damned doctor. I don't know what to do. I'm considering being objectively terrible to get her to do something. She will hate me for a few years, but.
My baby sister is on FB talking about how she's only been getting a few hundred calories a day for a month and she's sick and blah blah but apparently this is not, in braindead land, enough for her to go to the damned doctor.
I know you're venting but is there an explanation as to why she's only getting so many calories in? Is she dieting? Is she wasting away due to depression?
“It is better to live doing the things that you like. It is foolish to live within this dream of a world seeing unpleasantness and doing only things that you do not like.” -- Yamamoto Tsunetomo.
Stomach problems, apparently. I said things to her and she's going in today.
Annnd I have now received an email from my weirdo stalker now that the order of anti harassment has expired. Luckily it's to a defunct business site that I forgot to shut down completely after i closed my business so hey now that's remedied.
@mietze ...
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...that the motherfucker timed it just to send a response is probably fair grounds to request a renewal, holy cripes.
Oh fucking well.
@surreality said in RL Anger:
@mietze ...
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...that the motherfucker timed it just to send a response is probably fair grounds to request a renewal, holy cripes.
That.
I'm so sorry.
WHY?!
Why does it have to be so expensive to order a birth certificate?
Sorry, carry on.
My baby sister is on FB talking about how she's only been getting a few hundred calories a day for a month and she's sick and blah blah but apparently this is not, in braindead land, enough for her to go to the damned doctor.
I know you're venting but is there an explanation as to why she's only getting so many calories in? Is she dieting? Is she wasting away due to depression?
