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Part 1

A man is traveling by foot when he sees a party of merchants walking in the opposite direction. With that party is a donkey who is heavily burdened with all the merchandise. The man noticing the donkey ready to collapse, states, "That donkey is carrying too much! Take off some of those things so that he does not die from exhaustion!"

The merchants take a look at the donkey and see that the man is correct. They start to discuss among themselves what they should do.

I have a theory about the supposed increase in autists. The internet is to blame. Not simply because people can look up terms and mis-diagnose themselves (though this is part of it), but rather that the internet has the unfortunate side effect of allowing people to be "terminally online."

When you are doing the vast majority of your communication through text alone, you are missing most of the actual communication you would get in a natural social situation (vocal inflections, emotions)

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For anyone who wants marriage and family in their future, I have some advice:

Don't marry wrong. If that means not marrying at all, so be it.

It is indeed better to not marry at all than to make the wrong choice on who to marry. I will never tell any man that they have an obligation to get married, because in spite of the fact that I am married myself, I understand that my path is not one that can or should be prescribed to all other men.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZrWXOH8NCYI

Having heard the voice of the NPR anchor named here, I am not surprised to find out that he is a homosexual. You can hear it quite clearly in his voice.

Yes he is the member of a certain tribe, but that is a whole different topic (last I recall NPR is disproportionately represented by Jews).

Knowing what I know about political corruption, I can never trust that any report of a politician being arrested for wrongdoing is done out of sincere adherence to the rule of law. Rather, I suspect many politicians only get any punishment by the law when they fall out of favor among the string pullers. They were already known to be guilty long before they were reigned in, but they simply pissed off the wrong people in power or did not have enough favor with the string pullers to be let off.

Every sob story about federal employees I hear is always the same thing.

"I love the work that I do."

"My work is very important and we are fulfilling critical needs."

Of course they are going to say things like this. They really do believe that our country could not possibly function without their oh-so-important jobs. I am quite sure people will find a way to live on without these federal government jobs, though that may not be quite as true for the federal employees themselves.

Fun fact that will rile up anyone who has Trump Derangement Syndrome: Donald Trump had the total votes for him increase in every time he has run for President.

When I used Reddit a while back, I happened upon a sub called ShitLiberalsSay. Little did I know that this was by no means a conservative space, but a full blown commie one. It was then I found out that commies see anyone not far left as a liberal, including both the Repulican voter and typical Democrat voter.

These are the kinds of zealots who think the Democrats are a "Far Right" party. Rich, considering Republicans at best are a moderate right party in practice.

A man has a paintbrush. He is not good at painting and he is approached by another man. He asks the man with the paintbrush if he could borrow his, since he is lacking one. The man with the paintbrush agrees to lend it to this man. This second man was a talented painter, and he created masterpiece painting.

When others see this work of art and are amazed, the first man in his envy states "The artist would have amounted to nothing without me! I gave him the paintbrush!"