The melting pot is no longer fashionable idea. You’re a racist if you suggest immigrants should assimilate by today’s standards.

Yeah it was brutal. She was a really good doctor too. But just… had zero perspective on her life and was super bitter than other people had more money than she did.

Some people just have a mentality of pure negativity.

I once dated a doctor, who was a fellow at the best hospital in the world, who had a pretty amazing life, from my perspective. They grew up with wealthy parents, they went to Standford, for free, and had a degree from Harvard Medical school, and they’d completed their residency and had a salary of about 250K at the age of 30.

From their own perspective, they hated their life. Nobody likes them, they were a failure, they were poor and struggling, etc. etc. The same rhetoric you get from so many people here. And I’m sure when I walked away from them because of their extreme self-negativity, they thought I was just also another mean terrible person to them.

Bingo. People here tend to be very extreme in their beliefs and they vastly over generalized their niche interests.

The vast majority of people out there don’t know what Linux is nor will they be ‘liberated’ by it.

But making small talk can also backfire. The idea that you will just chat people up and all will be well with the world is naive. A lot of people only find community and belonging through creation oppositional identity (us vs them).

And sometimes it’s the same person. That’s what people really fail to get. Everyone is capable of good and evil, often at the same time.

5.3 billion in small arms says to civilians.

The small arms market in the USA is so large it would be the 155th largest GDP if it was country.

By what metric? It’s far better trained and equipped than most any other military, especially elite units.

Unless you’re talking about how the Finnish army whooped us in some exercises, on their home turf in winter, at which their entire nation is super-specialized in? I’m sure if you stuck the Finnish army in Florida for an exercise they’d be the ones whooped.

because it’s a condiment in Japanese cuisine, not an ingredient.

Nothing gets better until you make it better.

No they aren’t. They are being eroded in red states, blue starts are expanding them.