Finding balance in routine and falling into the steps of adulthood is tricky! I share a chunk of my experience here in my new post.
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I don't know who needs to hear this, but EVERY FUCKING RETAILER needs to show the tariffs next to the price -- not just Amazon.
Walmart, Target (where I do not shop), ALL OF THEM. It's a fucking tax, why shouldn't we see it?
I want to know exactly how much trump's tariffs are jacking my prices up. DON'T YOU?
@Steve: racists exist and are real and the only reason for not calling someone a racist is to avoid a fight. I will walk away from them, though. One time at Microsoft I was in a new office and the other person in there managed in less than ten minutes after meeting to tell me that black people were responsible for all crime in America. I am not making this up. All.
I didn't call him any names. I simply excused myself, went to my manager and told him I did not want to share an office with th…
"but suppose there are? Can we live with that?"
That is what makes it a 3rd rail issue. A presumption of truth of that has historically been a bad road.
I frequently include "where does that lead?" to decision making (akin to what could go wrong?). Your stated tendency to walk away from some fights is likely an understanding that the price of victory could be too high. The punchline from the movie "War Games" comes to mind. "The only way you win is to not play."
Do we really want an answer to that question? Where might that lead if the answer was yes? We look to history for that answer. Given that, what would be useful about such a discovery? I can think of nothing.
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