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An afterlife. Might be nice.

But that already happened? Oh, that's the joke.

We can't show you any evidence, but here is why you shouldn't stop investing in us and by the way all these graphic cards are totally necessary after all and whoever claims they don't need them obviously stole from us (still can't show any evidence).

I didn't, but it could be pirated online. For example on xoxocomic dot com. Use an ad blocker.

Yes, obviously.

Yes, Egyptians eat it with a spoon. When I was there we used bread because we shared this and other stuff and I enjoyed adding more carbs, because I was very hungry.

I always liked how Koshary has all kinds of carbs: rice, pasta, lentils and you even eat it with bread (and your hands). It tastes great and with the typicall serving size, it's impossible to be hungry afterwards.

You're out of touch with reality with this idealist conception of wages as a result of knowledge. The value of labor is the cost of its reproduction. Capitalists pay workers exactly as much as they need to for them to turn up again the next morning. Knowledge does not directly factor into their calculation. Don't expect to be rewarded for the work you put into your education - the system isn't fair and doesn't work like that.

Instead, wages are the result of a collective power struggle between labor and capital. High wages occur either when labor is strong and capital weak or when you betray other workers and aid capital in their exploitation.

Now expert knowledge is one of many things that might help by increasing bargaining power in the struggle with capital, but it's neither necessary nor sufficient. For example an automotive engineer might have just as much knowledge as a chemical engineer, but where I live, chemistry earns you about 50% more, because the chemistry union is stronger.

So union power, strikes and social movements are a big factor. Others are location, the average rent, international competition, the reserve army of labor. At any specific time, the boom and bust cycle of periodic crisis strongly effects wages.

The organic composition of capital plays an indirect role: If the degree of automation suddenly rises, this will lower workers bargaining power short term and lower profits long term which increases pressure on wages.

So if you want a career with stable, high wages but don't want to help exploit others, look for sectors with a long-term chance of a strong bargaining position for labor.

Twain also wrote often about meeting annoying US tourists on his travels and going out of his way to avoid them. For example in "A Tramp Abroad", after describing a particular annoying interaction with one he writes:

And away he went. He went uninjured, too—I had the murderous impulse to harpoon him in the back with my alpenstock, but as I raised the weapon the disposition left me; I found I hadn’t the heart to kill him, he was such a joyous, innocent, good-natured numbskull.

Many plastics (thermoplastics) would actually be recyclable, if they didn't put so many additives in, like for UV resistance. But then the color would get a slightly yellow tint after some years of exposure to sunlight. And who would want that? /s

So much self-reflection, that's impressive! I'm not a parent, but I feel like I get a lot of this, because it's articulated so well. Also sounds, like you really intend to do your best!

The goal when communicating is to remove "you" from the message. As a small example, "You need to clean up your plate and fork!" could become "I see a plate and fork still in the table!"

That's like classic non-violent communication by Marshall Rosenberg. There is more to it and it helps with adults too, not just with children.

So yeah. Its a struggle. It's exhausting. Being exhausted makes everything harder.

Maybe forgiveness might help with the exhaustion. For the mistakes of your own caretakers, for yourself, for your children. Most importantly for yourself. You can more easily try your best every day, if blame for not getting it perfect all the time doesn't become so strong, that it gets in the way. Not sure, if this applies at all to your case.

It's cool, that they are so well adapted to live at the ocean, even though their feathers aren't even fully waterproof and have to be dried all the time. If they were fully waterproof, they would be probably be too buoyant to dive as well as they do.

It's like they took a risk and threw out the one feature every aquatic bird was supposed to have and it paid off.