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katakowsj  ·  521 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: You’re hurting me a lot by hurting her

Unfortunately,,this is how things like this change

As an educator of nearly25years. I've found getting angry at ignorance of this type is aboutas productive as pissing into the wind. rarely effective, often messy. :)

. a n ynfortunate situation.

Rural areaswithout health care will have people rhat will suffer greatly. Akin to Inner citty communities. aathe Drug War stole the male role models by inprisoning th. Now we are ensuringt. more willsuffer thogh subpar, or nonexistent health care. Sorrrywwe. don't care enough

Because it appears we just don't

katakowsj  ·  542 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: I have important things to say about addiction

Ca you provide a common example most folks call enabling and why/ why not?

katakowsj  ·  542 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: I have important things to say about addiction

I'm getting cooseto aplacce where Iaalmost cannot fear the truth lesss

Cane only?WTF is going on with U??

Last Tuesday I learned that the chemo treatment my team if docs had me taebiweekly via infusion has done basically jacshirt. my tumocells are fill in every available gapbrain tumor being on my right sideI have lost allmovement in my left arm an also my left llef is abag of meatI am condemned to drag around. Fucking sucks being me right now

Inow walkwith wwith acane onannd a gstabiliy atrap only. FUCK. i'e lostindeppendence. This shouldn't happen to a guy that ran 6578 mileslast summer.

katakowsj  ·  543 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: I have important things to say about addiction

Enabling isn't a thing? Will you expand on that and common misconceptions please?Iam not too familiar of them ouside the post-tehab & post relapse ramblings of my alcoholic Uncle. For years and ears his siblings accused my grandparents of enabling his reckless behaviors byenablung him to erase consequences of his irresponsible actions. I. beleivehelpingvhim take on these responsibilities at thee

him up for financial consequences. He's now, good for him,got his shit together, and at age 57, working to set himself up for a likely doable retirement planI'm trying to understand how my uncle was not enabled to make terrible life choices.

Agreed. My family got into cooking Hello Fresh meals at the start of he pandemic. It took us quite a while to adjust ourselves tfantasy cooking timelines. We became accustomed to understanding That making pork chop with fig sauce was pretty much the entire evening's project. WTF?

True Thousands of Americans die in automobile related deaths each yearNHSTA Says 42,915 Americans bit the dust I. auto related deaths last yearI’d expect there’d be some ore alarm if drivers were randomly infiltrating school hallways and mowing down children and teachers several times monthly. No one is shouting from the rooftops tropes such as , to solve this, we just need more GOOD GUYS with cars!

Cars are dangerous. 6000lb boxes of metal traveling 80mphc produce boatloads of death inducing momentum. It is a fact of life a death we all accept as we move about in automobiles

For reasons we could speculate all day, it seems that the accepted death toll for automobiles seems to also be normalizing forfirearms all so. We’re now telling ourselves guns are as indispensable as cars and handheld bringers of death are an American necessity. I just don’t see I it add up. A government should fear its ciitizenry. That is why we have a free press. ITo be productive! We wanna settle our beefs with words before pointing guns at one another. Go figure.

katakowsj  ·  574 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Florida Man asks you to stop laughing at Florida

I hink I can empathize some, being a teacher in Michigan. We provided the world with Betsy DeVos and her continually lament her working to obliterate good public education. for all as she seems tto also desire some Jim Crow version of education making us into ultra- coservative right wing 1It's sad. It's scary. Sometimes we gotta laugh at how f-ed ip it is.Sorry Florida. Thereare people that need to answer for their egoist folly thnat makes is laugh at you so much. You make us uncomfortable with the ignorant things you say and do.

katakowsj  ·  576 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Automakers are starting to admit that drivers hate touchscreens. Buttons are back!

'Bout friggin, time why add unecessary distractioncs distractions? My life is full of them

Touchscreens are analagous to Ford20 Years ago agotelling us," Check out our "advanced changing dash board funtion labels! " what is currently your A/Cbutton may be your seat heater in ten minutes! Consumers would nave called it bullshit nonsense on the spot.A waste of time an energy to drive my vehicle. Piss off with your horrible displays. We need a dashboard oriented Steve Jobs to simplify this B. S.

katakowsj  ·  578 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Florida Man asks you to stop laughing at Florida

Ha. I totally thought this would link to an Onion article.

katakowsj  ·  581 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Starship flight test

Oops. Another unplanned spontaneous disassembly

An opportunity to make it safe for humans:).

katakowsj  ·  586 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Russia’s Economy Is Starting to Come Undone

Blind ambition adds some predictability...of failure

I'd predict as their economy accelerates southward Putin finds himself violently deposed. He exists in a tenuous space. allhis own doing.

katakowsj  ·  589 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Hammer - 2 Legit 2 Quit

Poor Hammer. Had. to quit due to horrific money management. According to VH1. That's the legit story. :(.

katakowsj  ·  589 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Hammer - 2 Legit 2 Quit

Good for you. Forrest Gump and his box of chocolates seem appropriate to mention.!

Adreed. Our gov't power balances like a two-legged stool. This not new, just getting worse.

katakowsj  ·  596 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: The Case for Banning Children from Social Media

Since watching The Social Network and seeing Meta content creators swearing their own children off of apps created to be as addicting as humanly possible, my wife and I work to limit

our kiids use of most all social media apps. The kids need adult help and reasoning to set up clear personal boundaries on these algorithms that are designed to elicit the strongest emotional respons from s user. Parents that do not take the time to tteach boundaries and self-limitsare setting their kids up for a huge disappointment.

katakowsj  ·  604 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Lawyer: Trump indicted; 1st ex-president charged with crime

Maybe he’ll be feeling ballsy enough an actually order up some of his numb-nuts followers to commit a felony on Truth Social. He can only go so long before believing he’s a modern day Pablo Escobar. That’ll get him sent away.

katakowsj  ·  614 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: U.S. takes unprecedented steps to replenish Colorado River's Lake Powell

Soooo, The LakePowell system works fine, as long as conditions are absolutely ideal.

Oops.

Gotta expect Solar to become very popular in cities dependent on Lake Powell’s power production.

katakowsj  ·  615 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Per Trump: Trump to be Arrested Tuesday, Calls for violent protests

Good question. If there isn't an exact term for his bloviating stlye, we all need one common term for describing his particular brand of BS.

katakowsj  ·  615 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Per Trump: Trump to be Arrested Tuesday, Calls for violent protests

An arrest at least generates some interest in him. cmy guess is chance of nil, nothing, zippo.

katakowsj  ·  627 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: USA Powerlifting to allow trans athletes to compete with women after losing suit

Transgender issues in sports is a bible- belt conversation analogous to"'them immigrants is taking my jobs from me conversation. It only exists in the heads.of those people imagining it to be a real concern. I've got better things to spend my time on folks. Piss off and go away shit birds.

oops. I do want to amend this thought t add that thhe genuine issue is that we have waaay too many shitbirds amongst us that want to crap onthe lives of transgender individuals.

katakowsj  ·  631 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: What superstitions do you have?

Agreed. I’m generally of the mind that baseball needs some serious updating. Unless a person is a huge fan of The Sandlot”, “Field of Dreams, or”TheNatural, baseball is increasingly difficult to engage with.

katakowsj  ·  631 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: What superstitions do you have?

Baseball could do without the Superstitions. They can e so odd and nonsensical. It alienates the younger generation that look for ways to engage in the game. what’s your view on pitch clocks? My son had waaaay too many super-late little league games that had to be ended arbitrarily due to darkness, and player safety, that I expect pitch clocks will eventually become accepted and possibly save a game that cannot meet the needs of folks that keep a schedule.

katakowsj  ·  631 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: What superstitions do you have?

Knocking on wood seems useful to me. I often see it as a way of reflecting withgratitude on something positive in my life. I might mention to my wife,” Knock on wood, but tomorrow’s weather is predicted to be nice so I can get out and run a few miles. Knocking o wood is recognizing things are pretty good and there are no guarantees they’ll stay that way. I’ve no good reason to change it and don’t expect to do so.

katakowsj  ·  634 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Scott Adams is a crank looking for a problem.

Sure.Be willing to admit your white privilege is that you've never been stopped for driving while black, or that having never had your ancestors.owned, or redlined while. buying housing, or being subjected to Jim Crow Laws has left you with a privileged head start in life over those whose ancestry were purposely penalized in their efforts in working to achieve financial success.

Being white seems cool. Being white and ignoring the challenges of those that are not , is a dick move.

katakowsj  ·  635 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Scott Adams is a crank looking for a problem.

Speak as a douchebag. Get canceled as one.

katakowsj  ·  641 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Hubski movie recommendations

I've been thinking of watching Parasite again. I haven't seen it with my kids yet. Just watched Pulp Fiction with my 15 year old son. He said he "thoroughly enjoyed it".

Also wanna watch Carl Sagan's Contact with my son anddaughter They're both primed to discuss how& when if science and religion are able to able to coexist.