Hey man, it sounds like you’re depressed right now, i dont know if you are, nor exactly what you mean by faking it, but i know during my bouts with it sometimes things dont feel authentic or genuine.

You may be trying to convince yourself to isolate, which will likely deepen your depression.

If your family and friends are abusive, and you can recall specific instances of that abuse that is a fair reason to isolate yourself from them - but if your feelings are more opaque and you cant recall why you feel like your relationships are fake, nor abuse or aggressions, then it might be better to resist the isolation and let your closest ones know that you’re struggling in a private direct conversation - they may understand and have some meaningful dialogue for you

Ive said a lot of "if"s and "maybe"s, it’s hard to read between the lines and i hope im not misinterpreting you - but - people do care about you, at minimum im wishing you wellness from afar

secrecy orders have been imposed not only on inventions affecting military defense but also on those alleged to threaten economic stability, with critics noting that many such restrictions rest on speculative or unproven harms.

But also

The law applies broadly to all inventions in the United States for which a patent is filed or granted (35 U.S.C. § 181).

So if you really do have a society changing invention - one that could upset this capitalist or neoliberal world order - it is your duty to publically release it and not patent it

https://youtu.be/O47iOyUxouE

Congratulations! To have a home secured with no debt is a lifetime goal few attain in this current cruel world!

The toilet’s right next to a low window…

But with different levels of quality control and potentially ingredients - not trying to dimmenish white labels, they serve a role, but its always been absurd to me that just because something is made in the same factory that those products are identical - a few items might be - but you can taste white label and brand name side by side and they taste different even if they have the same manufacturing marks and have different failure rates (and sometimes the white label even tastes better!)

Hard assets make a lot of sense when paper assets do not.

Real estate and precious metals are the traditional hard assets. The stock market can implode, but a home will remain a home, an acre will remain an acre, an ounce will remain an ounce.

There are difficulties and risks and efforts required with hard assets, theres a reason why soft assets developed, but when things go wrong people trust what they can hold and walk on - and thus seek real estate and precious metals as they are certain and tangible.

With a little more trust in the system, there are softer assets available such as bonds, specifically treasury bonds, and there are etfs that attempt to exclude the ai bubble such as XMAG, or the sp500 but equally distributed instead of by market cap which increases diversity like RSP to reduce the fallout of the ai bubble pop

Theres a million ways to navigate a bubble, do the research and find confidence in your plan, and think about how you’ll react in various scenarios, especially when the numbers go down or arent going as high as expected

https://youtu.be/yA5lujNlkn8

No, but it is racist to assume that a person is an illegal immigrant based solely on their race.

Likewise, i think there is a deeper connection being made, that theres an assumption that an illegal immigrant is a bad person, and i also do not think that is a valid assumption.

To know if a person is a bad person, you have to know the person.

NASA or NSA?

Plus G gives you some of the best of USAmerican food like all the bbqs, cheesesteaks, American chinese, and all the random fusions that occur in the la, atlanta, and dc metros!

Related context: https://youtu.be/awXgU_4VDjY

Sit and learn, find each nuance, miss the entire point

At first i thought this was saying that the USGov/FBI stole them, but no, they have just recovered and returned them

RIP to the Prince of Darkness

One of my favorites: https://youtu.be/G3LvhdFEOqs

People should know and have evidence on hand that policy and budget decisions directly effect lives.

This is another lesson available, we are individuals that are part of communities which can learn from this lesson vicariously.

This community had a conversation that ended with a vote, where people chose not to pay more taxes and to not figure out the minutia of how to run the system effectively - nor did they receive a grant from above levels of government - nor did they determine a local low cost solution - and because of that people were swept away in a flash flood they had no clue was coming like countless times in history and prehistory.

There will always be a balance between safety and budget, just as with all other qualities, and its a constant difficulty always filled with consequences wherever the decisions made land.

But some consequences are easier to bare than others.

The next time this community thinks about floods and what to do about them they’re perspective will likely shift with the weight of the dead bodies left in the debris field, and it should be hoped that other communities who know this news understand that too.

The effort and cost of government is for our collective benefit, because the world is rough, and by working and sacrificing together we can make it easier if we choose to.

This article adds to the story and make you think about the decisions you and your community are making.

Its been a while since ive been ratio’d so hard - but no I’m not a professional or a shill. I support Mamdani, donate monthly to all my local progressives and prominent ones afar such as Sanders and AOC, and volunteer and participate in my local politics such as yimby and stronger town initiatives when my schedule allows. I put my money and my actions behind my thoughts, not just my words.

My criticism is based on principle and made in the hopes of improving his message.

My point is not that the policy is bad, I think it’d be good if he removed the language targetting a race of people, but that his targeting parameters are racist, and in my book, a person who creates racist policy is a racist, a person who thinks race is a valid way to determine people and policy, and I oppose that. I oppose racists.

What I am saying is that, if the same neighborhood is targeted, because it is rich and under-enforced compared to other neighborhoods - that is fine by me.

But if the neighborhood is targeted not only because it is rich, but because it has a predominantly white community, that is not fine by me.

Its a “nitpicker” nuance, I get it, but one is racist policy, and one is not.

I want to end racism, not continue to allow the pendulum to swing in a never ending tit for tat that reaffirms the racist core of our society.

Justice can be achieved without racism.

I do fear he is a racist however. in his published policy memo “Supporting homeowners and ending deed theft” at https://www.zohranfornyc.com/platform

He says in a headline in the linked policy memo document:

Shift the tax burden from overtaxed homeowners in the outer boroughs to more expensive homes in richer and whiter neighborhoods

I support the rich paying their share, and most of his other policies, if anything because is moves the city in the correct direction in my opinion; but I do take issue with him not just targeting a neighborhood because its richer, but because it is also whiter.

That is an explicitly racist policy, and on principle it should be opposed.

I do not understand why he is injecting race war into what could and should be a class war and it feels like a significant misstep. I’ve emailed his campaign about it days ago, but there has been no response or update so far unfortunately.

As long as they dont shove it down our throats, and then expand and expand and expand the features that are in their paid tier, and make you feel lesser for choosing their local only unpaid mode, and dont make the unpaid mode inconvenient with dark patterns.

Its happened too much, I’ve asked my friends to hop through so many different platforms over the years and decades

It always starts with something thats reasonable, and every time thus far, it expands into something I hate.

Fly by wire is not the same as IFR flight.

And being an engineer has nothing to do with being a pilot, I’m an engineer too, nobody needs your irrelevant pretentious credentials.