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I don't get it. Can someone help a stupid person out?

I'm a short person. I tend to have the seat adjusted nearly all the way up (so I can see enough put the window lol) and nearly all the way forward (so I can reach the pedals lol).

I'm not going to sit here and do a bunch of research for you. Here's one of the first links I found that went in to detail of how much of a disparity black women have in medical care versus white women and occasionally comparing to white men. It also talks a bit about poverty issues: https://www.networkforphl.org/news-insights/racial-disparities-in-womens-health

This is by all means not a comprehensive list of disparities, nor do I have interest in seeking out enough links to write a formal debate paper.

Again, you're really being incredibly unproductive with your shitty "us versus them" mentality. What are you even trying to achieve here? You want everyone to cry for you? Your struggles don't negate everyone else's.

Let me clarify. I wasn't speaking about majority groups (white people). Denying that women of color have significant difficulty is just flat out wrong and not helpful. Do women of color have it way better in the US than in, say, the Democratic Republic of the Congo? Absolutely. Does it mean that they are anywhere even remotely on the level of the majority group (white people)? Absolutely not. Comparing the suffering between various minority groups is not productive or fair, and reads as incredibly dismissive of real issues.

I love this. Amazing concept too lol I would have never thought of it.

Very interesting. I had never really heard of this before. Thanks for the info. I'd try it out, but personally I don't watch much TV anymore tbh. It's all YouTube videos (ad free with ad blockers and modified apps) with very rarely some free streaming platforms thrown in there (PlutoTV, Tubi, etc.).

OP, instead of immediately attacking you, I do kind of get what you're trying to say. Here's the thing though...both have it incredibly shit. It's just that the ways in which it is shit differ a bit between the populace. It's more like comparing apples to oranges imo.

But hypothetically, if you were to sit down and try your hardest to really figure out who has it marginally worse than the other, you're just doing everyone a disservice anyway. Like, just because one person's life might objectively be worse than someone else's doesn't mean that that someone else's suffering is suddenly cancelled out and unimportant.

I'll use some extreme examples. Suppose one person was bullied relentlessly in school. Suppose another person was sexually assaulted. Could we sit here and hem and haw and compare the degree of suffering between the two? Sure. And I'm sure most would say the sexual assault was objectively worse. But we shouldn't use that to cancel out the suffering of the person who was bullied. Both experienced hardship and suffering, even if one seems objectively "worse" than the other.

It's important to recognize the suffering of both individuals. Using an "us versus them" mentality or otherwise trying to compare the two just ends up harming both parties and losing the plot.

I'm glad you're doing better! I can't say I have ever really paid attention to people's usernames on the internet before, but it's good to hear of a positive thing! Life is hard man. It's all about finding the little things that can make you happy. Hope you stick around and have fun.

So a caveat to this is that digital signal is absolutely shit compared to analog. Back when we had rabbit ears, even if the picture was fuzzy/suboptimal, you could watch the show just fine. Nowadays? If you're not getting 100% full strength signal, it is literally unwatchable. The audio and picture freeze every two seconds which makes it literally impossible to understand and follow dialogue. Either I get a crystal clear picture and audio or I get an unwatchable mess. There is no in between anymore with digital signal.

Plus, I only seem to get this crystal clear signal from the top floor in my home and near a window. If you have a lower floor or have the antenna a bit too far away from the window, it also just does not work hardly at all. This was never an issue with analog signal for me.

Idk if it's just me or not. There are a ton more channels overall with the digital signals compared to analog, but it's frustrating that I only seem to be able to watch them if the signal is absolutely perfect.

I mean it sounds interesting but I'm kind of disappointed that the gallery link doesn't seem to work. It would be nice to know even remotely what kind of things are inside these vending machines.

Like are they canvas prints inside? Little postcard sized items? Pottery? Like I just want to know at least very vaguely what kind of content is involved.

Tfw dat rodent got cake 😳😳😳

People on the internet are always so dramatic.

Look, I get it. The political climate right now is frustrating and even outright terrifying. But I've lived for periods of time in incredibly liberal, left leaning states as well as incredibly right winged states. It is often really not that dramatic of a difference for day to day life living in one versus the other.

I will concede that some places actually are more dangerous for people of certain demographics to live versus others.

But like...take Florida for example...a terrifyingly right leaning state. BUT you have plenty of incredibly liberal pockets...like how Orlando is basically a gay haven lol.

Hurricanes are really only a problem for people living in coastal regions which will have "storm surge" flooding (the sea level rises and literally comes into your home). But it's incredibly easy to not live in an area like that lol. It's also a danger to those in trailer homes (no idea why those are allowed in Florida...seems criminal). For everyone else, you could think of hurricanes as similar to "snow days" in the north haha.

Omg this is such an adorable idea!!!

Whoa where did you get this drawing of me?

Actually kind of relevant because I seek out issues from mental health providers that are very intermittent so it's hard to get them to understand what the problem is and how to help me with it. Like they diagnosed me with "depression" because I presented as AAAA but have tried to explain to them that it's intermittent and not the classic incessant low mood and energy.

Anyway...cue the "sir, this is a Wendy's" response to this comment lol!!

Ok I know you are trying to help at all and chronic headaches can occasionally point to something bad about this.

But there is a funny sort of humor that comes from telling an incredibly anxious person that they might have a brain tumor lol.

I really mean no disrespect!

Wow your love went up so dramatically. Mine is the opposite in a way.

Kahn and Minh??? Are they Chinese or Japanese?

Laugh at me all you want but I think having some humor in life is never bad :)

What a coincidence! I respond to "dingus" too!

Yeah...I don't agree with the sentiment of the OP necessarily. What gets me through shit though is knowing not the meaningless and sometimes inaccurate phrase of "it always gets better", but rather that "change is inevitable". Really, the only certainty in life is change. Sometimes it's change for the better, and sometimes it's change for the worse. But things do change...whether we do want them to or whether we don't. It's always that chance of the next change being a bit more positive that keeps me going in life.