Stands for "Dual Income No Kids".
HeroHelck
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I think they will "obey" but it will cost Trump an enormous amount of political capital. Any trouble at all in a war like that, any serious insurgency or international blowback, will have an outsized effect on public perception. Americans DO NOT like foreign wars, it's weirdly part of what got trump elected, frustration with neo-liberal interventionism is an often overlooked element of his bases sense of grievance.
Realistically, do we believe he'll make a serious attempt at taking control over these by force? Or is this just bluster? I'm starting to believe he may be legitimately intending to make a move for this territory, and frankly, I don't think there are forces that would have the interest, or capability to oppose him. Too much of the global community has been browbeat into aligning with US interests. That for them to make a clean break, or even directly oppose the US is not a realistic expectation. I could easily see them folding to these sorts of demands, and that worries me.
For a LOT of them it's just inertia and a handful of comfort channels. This is the way it is with my parents. They spend 90% of the time watching streaming, BUT, what if they needed to watch something on cable! So the subscription keeps going, even though it's long outlived practicality.
Genuinely? I've reported multiple thefts over the years, never had any of it returned. Had to get a bike that was stolen from me (with my full name engraved) back by literally stealing it back from the person I knew stole it in the first place.
Extremely gross that they're putting this much effort into protecting only the rich, But completely unsurprising. I don't understand why SO MANY Americans are just completely accepting of this obvious favoritism.
The real action is offline. Maybe it’s time to go there.
A lot of people, myself included, REALLY need to pay attention to that line. I think there is real value in online discourse, honestly, but it should come after helping people in a visible and noticeable way. People notice who offers a helping hand and who has nothing to say but scolding remarks, and that cuts both left and right.
They're not gonna stop until well past the point where it stops making sense. That's the nature of this, the higher ups are always slow to react, but determined to chase what they perceive as a trend. Throw money at things in the hope of striking rich like fortnite, (honestly it's little better than gambling) they have no understanding, or will to understand, the reasons why some games take off and others fail. So they mindlessly push thinking that's it purely a matter of luck or timing.
so nobody feels ‘trapped’ in an unfun game.
I think this is an understated problem. It's simply awful to be in a slowly losing multiplayer game that you feel you have no control over, and when you also simultaneously feel that you aren't playing with people you care about. It's pretty easy to start not caring about monitoring your behavior. After all, who cares if everyone in this lobby thinks you're annoying or awful to deal with, you will never see them again, and if you do they won't recognize you, so act out your frustration without fear of real consequences. I also don't think bans for "bad behavior" actually address the reason people behave this way, it just encourages them to hide it in more subtle ways that automated scripts can't detect, or that give them some plausible deniability.
Time to find out if they've learned the right lessons. I won't be holding my breath.
You are not supposed to downvote "unpopular opinions" because you disagree with them folks. That is not how this sub is supposed to work. OP posted a legitimately unpopular opinion, tell him why he's wrong or upvote responses that disagree, don't downvote him.
For my two cents OP, I think you have a point about more time needing to be devoted to child rearing. But I disagree that it needs to be a specific parent. If you reduce both parents workload enough to let them balance life responsibilities that's actually BETTER than letting one parent take up all the slack. We require simply TOO much labor from EVERYONE, it's totally unnecessary and wasteful and it's part of what leads to our culture of burnout.