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"Obviously it's the checkout supervisor's fault, they're too expensive. Minimum wage for 8 hours with 4 hours unpaid overtime?! How do you expect a corporation to lose that much money to their employees and still fulfill their responsibilities of producing record revenue for their shareholders. Obviously the answer is to let go of the checkout supervisor's at our stores and contract out one checkout supervisor to five stores and have them rotate between them in their own vehicle. It's not like they really do anything anyway, they're just their to make the consumer feel better."

Said a CEO to his board.

It wouldn't matter if they did read it, MAGA doesn't have critical thinking skills. To them, Trump is God and anything that says otherwise is terrorism against the United States. It's that simple. If the Epstein files are only a moderate annoyance to Trump and won't change MAGA's opinions on him literally nothing will. Trump is a president on the child rapist list and that still isn't enough to change MAGA's minds. Nothing will, full stop. It doesn't matter what anyone does at this point, Trump won. He has the executive branch, the legislative branch, the judicial branch, the armed forces, the state governments, all of law enforcement, and financial leaders on his side. What else is there?

The system is flawless and you're all going to The Bad Place. Say hi to Glen for me.

This is why we can't have anything nice.

What if that straight A student from Johns Hopkins develops an opioid addiction and becomes an insufferable asshole but can still manages to oversee the Differential Diagnosis Department?

That's worse than the toolbar hell people installed onto their browsers in the 2000s. I will never forget my great-aunt telling me that her grandkids broke her computer and made the Internet slow but wouldn't uninstall all the toolbars and emoticons she had. Truly a PEBKAC error.

Hell, they connect to hell.

No, boomers don't go to therapy because they believe it's for weak people. Millennials don't go to therapy because they can't afford it. Same result, different approaches.

Okay young one, we have a few things to get through.

First, you should feel whatever you do feel. It's not as embarrassing to have your parents help you than you might think. You're in your early 20s, which means most of your life experience comes from when you were a child and embarrassing parents were a social death sentence. You're an adult now and to a lot of older adults stuff like that becomes insignificant compared to other things. That said if you feel embarrassed, you feel embarrassed, there is no should to feelings.

Two, I suggest you tell your Dad that you appreciate what he's trying to do, and that you'll go on the date (because I think you should). You need to tell him that doing this without keeping you in the loop made you feel uncomfortable. He's trying to help and it comes from a good place but the execution was a little off.

If he doesn't listen or it still feels wrong you have to tell him that too and ask him to stop. Still I suggest you try it out.

Third, go easy on yourself. Finding a partner is not easy, and at your age you're going to make mistakes, big ones but that's okay. That's what living is. Just make sure you don't an STI or you or someone else pregnant. Unless future you is trying to have a kid, in which case good luck!

As a non-American what two cities? I knew of Los Angeles but what's the other one. It doesn't come up in our news.

But if they're not listening, you just gotta call them stupid weirdos and make them feel uncomfortable in public. Make their friends laugh at them, make it seem like your side is having more fun. The fear of being excluded will eventually pull them over, willingly or not.

I'm glad that you're engaging with the topic, but that suggestion won't help. Publicly embarrassing someone who is holding onto an emotional belief like 'I can never trust the companies that make vaccines.' just pushes them to double down. Vaccine hesitancy and how to address it is a well studied topic and any form of attack just pushes the person into defense mode.

The best solution is actually compassion from those the vaccine hesitant most love and trust. Vaccine hesitancy begins with a lack of trust in the medical profession. Which may or may not be well founded, the medical community has some bad people in it.

Regardless, saying to your loved one "Okay you don't trust the scientists, but you do trust me, and I trust the science on this one." Is much more effective than arguing or publicly embarrassing someone.

Maybe we're all too sensitive? Just spit balling here, maybe it's okay to criticize this aspect of Kristy Noam's behavior. It would not be okay to criticize someone who isn't a public figure like her for "this behavior" but she is a public figure and an extremist one.

Treating her the same as other people who get a lot of non-restorative plastic surgery isn't right because she isn't like them. She's a deeply racist public figure who's needlessly killed multiple animals who's also have obviously had a lot of cosmetic surgery. She doesn't represent everyone who's had plastic surgery.