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Male loneliness talk aside, why wouldn’t you start a Facebook group to get a gauge for actual interest? I know you mentioned deliberately not using Facebook and Meetup, but spinning up a whole new site just to connect with people seems like a lot of work for something that is largely a solved problem on those platforms. Facebook groups are very popular because so many people are already connected into it. Getting people onto and engaged with your club, regardless of topic, is one of the hardest parts of something like this, not the actual website part. A Facebook group would allow you to get people connected ASAP.

Oof. Been dealing with this for over 3 months now. Thank you for your post. I'm very sorry this has affected you. FWIW, it's somewhat comforting to me to know someone else understands what I am going through.

Similar situation. I'm in my early 30s. I had symptoms for 3-4 weeks (coughing, mild fever, covid toes) starting in early April, but I didn't qualify for testing because I hadn't had any contact with anyone that was known to be infected. Since then I've had many random bouts of fatigue and I've had random severe digestive issues as well that have yet to be explained. I have had several tests done and have monitored my eating and resting habits, but nothing has been able to explain either of them.

I was able to get a nasal swab test done in June when community wide testing finally opened up in my area, but it came out negative. The whole thing has been so frustrating to deal with because I don't know and may not ever know if this was for sure Covid related.

I have 3 kids, all 4 and under. Exact same situation and I feel that exact same feeling. It's rare my spouse and I to find free time for hobbies. I find myself with a drive to work on things or learn that I never had before I had kids, but hardly anytime to do any of it.

I'm in a fortunate situation of having both my parents and my in-laws so close and that my kids love to have sleep overs with them. Those seem to be the only times where I have a decent amount of time to dive into something, but even then, there are still up-keep responsibilities and a desire to just rest during those times that causes that window of time to disappear faster than I'd like.

I don't have any advice to offer but just an answer to the question on if anyone else is in the situation you described. Just know you're not alone :)

The federal reserve was created using laws passed through legislation. Legislation can modify any rules that have been set for it.

Most people would take Full Internet. That is why almost all other countries have the full internet.

Women want to be treated equally and fairly. Up until recent history, women were treated as second class citizens under many laws. Even today, women overwhelmingly face discrimination and harassment in all walks of life, moreso than men.

Nobody wants to work 80 hour weeks. Women's rights is about not having your gender be a basis of disqualification for anything. If a woman wants to work the same miserable demanding job a man works, she should have every right to. Her gender should not be a disqualifier for a job.

Your argument for why wouldn't a mother want to stay at home and be with her kids could just as easily be applied to any father.

This is a better article IMO. Thanks for posting.

Ughhh.. yes they do. In fact in more places than just airports: https://nyti.ms/2NAbGaP

They are completely different scenarios. There wasn't ample evidence of who was doing it (not publicly available at least) and there wasn't one candidate who particularly benefited from the attack (that we know of). People start becoming concerned when a visible impact from the hacking starts to occur. If nothing was released from the DNC hack in 2016, then I'm guessing there would have been less outrage about Russian interference.

"When the federal power began to chip away at state power"

This has been a thing since the Constitution was ratified.

I grew up in poverty. My dad is fortunately able to get tuition assistance through the Native American tribe he is a member of. With that assistance, he was able to graduate law school and become a lawyer. As soon as he did that and got his first job as an attorney, our lives changed dramatically. My fondest memory of that time was buying brand new clothes. That never happened before, at least not that I can remember. I was so amazing to wear clothes that weren't hand me downs that were initially purchased used from a thrift store.

The thing is, even with the tuition assistance, both of my parents had to work double shifts almost constantly to keep food on the table. I have many memories of my siblings and I coming home to an empty house in elementary school because my parents would be out working their ass off for us. Most weeks I wouldn't see them until the weekend. Now, as adults, my siblings and I are now living well enough in middle class.

Government programs and assistance for the poor can fail and can be taken advantage of by people who would rather squander that assistance, no doubt, but that doesn't mean all people are like that. It can and does work, but even with assistance, it is not enough. My dad was very fortunate to have a tuition free ride through law school, and we as a family were fortunate enough not to run into anything that derailed his desire or ability to finish law school. Without that tuition assistance, I doubt he could have secured the loans that were needed. Simply cutting assistance programs will not make poor people to 'get back to work' and dig themselves out of poverty. It was next to impossible to do so when I was growing up and it is even worse now.

Can those programs be better? Yes. Should we cut them because they aren't the best? Absolutely not. Please.

Ironic that this is the president of rooting out corruption.

*Right leaning tech workers who have never experienced working outside of their bubble.

News flash: not every place aligns with your political ideology. Try being a liberal in the Midwest or the South.

Who ever said that cities are supposed represent all values equally? Move to a different area of the country if you don't like a particular city's political leanings. There are plenty of Republican leaning areas of the country.

Yeah that would never happen /s.

This is one of the most frequented social media sites for tech people. This place is a perfect target for foreign bots.

What an odd comment thread. In what twisted world are people holding the Chinese government as a bastion of liberty compared to the US?

You cited an article that basically says 'Trickle down doesn't exist, plebs. But hey, trickle down totally works! Here's why!'. What he describes is the policies that people refer to when they say Trickle Down.

Since people are sharing their own anecdotes, I'll share mine. Rather my dad's and my sister's anecdote. They were driving home one summer evening near sunset in Wisconsin when they saw in the perfectly clear sky ahead of them what appeared to be something floating in the sky. They way they described it was it looked like how a school bus might look at night from a distance with it's lights on in the inside except just the upper half of the bus, like a row of closely placed lights on a horizontal object. They say it moved around a bit in the sky, clearly some distance away from them and then slowly shrank and disappeared. These two people are not the type of people to lie about something like this. My dad hates science fiction and has zero imagination. My sister is a goody two shoes who would be hard pressed to adamantly lie about this. They told my mom and I this as soon as they arrived home. They looked like they saw a ghost or something when they told us.

Adding to this, is that like a month or two later, we were talking to a friend of ours in the area and our friend also confirmed seeing the same object except they live about 10 miles east of us. The thing is, our friend just told us this without us bringing the subject up, so it wasn't like she was 'me too'ing our story. The friend was relieved a bit that someone else had seen what she had seen.

Keep in mind, this is the middle of nowhere Wisconsin. Moderately poor area. Just farms, very small towns, and forests for miles. No planes fly this low in the area. No airfields for at least 30 miles, and the nearest airfield is for very small planes only. The only planes you see in in our area are ones way up in the sky.

Googling the description of what they describe comes up with something that people refer to as a 'cigar' shaped ufo (the recent astroid sighting has muddied the google results of this a bit). So it seems at least some other people have seen something similar to this.

Why did you pick the the middle ages? Couldn't you go back to any period in recorded human history and find that your idea true? When has there not been the idea of 'my idea better, you all believe now or die now'. Why tie it to some modern construct of progress?

That sounds awful.

The notion that you can have all the benefits of a centrally governed society with all the liberties of total freedom is an unrealistic expectation. In order to ensure basic societal services are readily available for an entire nation, certain personal liberties must be given up in exchange. You can't have it both ways. For some people, this is news to them. Myself, and apparently most of the western world, we'd rather give up those liberties for the massive benefits that we get in exchange. The idea of absolute freedom is chaos.

More like we need to limit the influence that money and lobbyists can have on elected officials. Changing seats in Congress will just put new people in place who will more than likely do the same thing.

Or reduce the amount of influence money can have on an election. Reducing the government's power will just enable them to continue skirting around the law. If the government has no teeth, then why would any business (or anyone for that matter) follow any rule to it's fullest.

You put it in quotes like it hasn't already been proven that Russian led a massive effort to influence the election via social media.

The questions a justice asks can often be an indication of where they stand on an issue. It's a way for them to tell the other justices their beliefs. If Alito is spouting off misleading or incorrect facts, then this person should feel compelled to defend their work.

Down votes may be because your post is a bit tangential.

That said, I think you were right to call them out on that. It's an idea that shouldn't even be entertained as an option.

This seems odd to say, but if they included a price for just a simple name+birth date query, there is probably a decent price point people would actually pay just to know if they are on there. Like if they have even just half of the names querying for their own identities for like $30 a pop, that'd be more than what they are asking for for the whole bulk.

By advancing the hypothesis that it might be a factor, without a need to do so, it's always going to be seen as advocating for it, even if he says he's not.

For example, a host on certain news channel might say, "Is Obama secretly a Muslim? I'm not saying that he is, but why can't we ask the question?"

It's easy to see why people would get upset by that comment (for multiple reasons). The fact that he says he isn't saying that doesn't matter, because he effectively just did.

If he had just limited the paper to inclusiveness as a conservative in a left leaning culture, without dragging the whole women inequality thing into the matter, it probably wouldn't have been meet with such a backlash.

Damore can claim he was protecting the company, but if the effect of what he said in his memo is causing the opposite of that, then it can be a fire-able offense, regardless of what he said he was trying to do.