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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.

A man has to work considerably less hard and less rigourously to provide for only himself versus a whole family. This may be true for cooking and cleaning, but to far less of an extent.

The reactions from both sides of the aisle regarding Fauci tells us something very important. That is that hardly anyone has changed their opinion on him. Shills on the left still praise him while everyone on the right was already against him. No one who already knew of his bullshit has found out anything new, and those who praise him as a saint have no idea what people against him state as their reasons.

In the end, I see no evidence of "the people are waking up."

@Tfmonkey Anecdotal report on farming situation in my neck of the woods. Did a small road trip recently and in my area (where farming most certainly makes up most of the land use), and I did see almost every field having crops growing.

Not saying you are wrong about many farms not having planted crops, and maybe the effects you are describing will be delayed later. But at the very least, the fertilizer issues have not become much of a factor yet in my area.

Back to the left, I understand that there are factions who despise the establishment Democrats because they think they don't go far enough left or simply think they are just right-wing lite. Funny how that happens for many on the right with Republicans doing the inverse of that.

I just want to know how much awareness others have, regardless of their politics. Having awareness will at least tell me if you do any thinking, even if I see your thinking as moronic.

I myself would not consider myself gleeful at his death, but I am also not sad about it either. I despise the world police foreign policy for the United States, and Donald Trump doing the bidding of Israel in his waste of an effort in Iran is unhelpful in almost every way for anyone here on the right (save for maybe the quicker trajectory of collapse by those in the accelerationist camp). So one less supporter of that policy is for the better.

I would not be shocked if many on the left are gleeful about the death of Lindsey Graham. But I have to wonder how many of these same people are aware of many on the right who also are gleeful about his death. The reasons for each would differ wildly, but it serves as a test for the left if they can understand that the right is just as fractured and cobbled together as the left is and that not every right winger is all about supporting spending trillions on foreign wars.