Posts by steellynx91

When I watch this footage of Ivana Španović, all I can see is that her final mark probably isn't from her takeoff point; it looks more like she hit the board with her back after landing...

And honestly, the media keeps acting like she’s some kind of beauty icon... come on, people, just look at that Russian athlete🎉 🎉 😍

The solution is straightforward:
1. A full purge and restructuring of the intelligence agencies to ensure they actually serve the interests of America.
2. Drastic budget cuts targeting unnecessary expenditures—things like legacy veteran pensions, the former president's office, various special interest groups, and parasitic organizations like the Chamber of Commerce.
3. Territorial reorganization to reduce the number of local government units...
4. Implementing much stricter hiring criteria for public service positions and state-owned enterprises.

I’ve been using Thunderbird, but honestly, I’m becoming increasingly frustrated and am starting to look for an alternative. Everything was running smoothly until about a year ago, when it practically nudged me into performing an update.🙂
It went ahead and changed my settings regarding how long emails stay on the server after being downloaded locally. I managed to switch it back, but once those few days passed, the program started deleting all my previous emails from the inbox instead.🙂 It took quite a bit of digging and a lot of searching online to finally figure out where to disable that feature, since the menu layout had shifted completely compared to the previous version. That was roughly a year ago.
Now, it’s started aggressively badgering me with these "threatening" pop-up messages, again pushing for an upload—even though I already disabled the option to be prompted for uploads—this time citing security reasons. On top of that, I wrote a very important email yesterday and sent it; there were no errors, and I saw it sitting right there in my "Sent" folder. I even reread it twice. Then, suddenly, the email just vanished. It’s nowhere to be found—not in any folder, and not even in the trash, just in case I had accidentally deleted it. I have no idea if it actually went through or not, and the recipient hasn't responded yet...
😢

Alex Thomas27 said:I’m curious to get a psychological perspective on this.

This topic falls under the discipline known as transactional analysis. Eric Berne explored this concept in one of his books regarding life scripts—I can't recall the exact title since I read it quite a long time ago, though he is widely recognized for "Games People Play." Essentially, according to Eric Berne, a name can be part of a script, meaning it might be tied to an individual's overarching life scenario. However, there is still the question of cause and effect here; parents assign a name and then raise the child in a specific way, making it difficult to determine how much influence the name itself actually holds. In this light, a name could also be something a child faces through teasing from peers. There is also the matter of nicknames. For instance, someone might be named Thomas, but his parents might call him Tom, or perhaps they insist on using his full name, which COULD (though certainly doesn't have to) suggest a certain rigidity that they then expect from their son...

Michelle Ramirez2 said:Steve represents a country living in the future, while Kamala's idol is the Financial Times—basically someone stuck in the 17th century...

Steve was a tech guy—he dealt in scientific facts. Kamala's crowd lives without any sense of cause and effect; everything just happens by "divine will" for them. If things go south—like the economy or national spending—they claim they had no idea...

Steve Jobs paid for his own mistakes—but Kamala's party leaves, and the debt stays behind.

Steve R. I. P.

The FT has finally broken ties with America. Unfortunately, they haven't broken with communism. Kamala Harris can't seem to break ties with anything at all.
But what we really ought to be questioning is why our own version of a Steve Jobs can't succeed here. The issue lies within our social structure, which remains fundamentally outdated—a sort of half-reformed socialism. We are dealing with a massive layer of parasitic bureaucracy, various "activists" and self-proclaimed fighters, and the cleanest money in this system is the kind that is evaded, embezzled, or simply stolen.

Steven Allen9 said:Poor Apple, sitting on a $350 billion valuation... Steve was a total jerk, but man, did he have vision. Talk about capitalism!

A total jerk? Maybe, because he pushed his employees to pull 90-hour weeks? Perhaps, but at least a lot of people and their families can actually make a living from that company today.
Compare that to our local oligarchs. They push people to their absolute breaking point just for $1000 or less, embezzle funds, and then run the whole company straight into bankruptcy. Everything they ever achieve in life is just finding new ways to steal money and dodge taxes...

Last night, and even today, I’ve been scrolling through the news on PBS. They aren't mentioning it at all—at least not in the headlines—that Steve Jobs has passed away. Meanwhile, NBC and FOX were all over it. Instead, those channels are filled with nothing but every possible piece of nonsense from our political world.

Are we really such a shallow society that we prioritize every trivial thing Hillary blabs about over the fact that the world's greatest innovator is gone? Sure, most of us can't afford his products (we settle for their successors, which includes the computer we're using right now), but our political elite and the rest of the "upper crust" just love to pose with them. Yet, his creator clearly isn't worth a single mention to them.

So, Steve, R. I. P., and may Hillary and everyone just like her disappear forever!

Constant swearing is really just a sign of a primitive mindset, a type of mental coarseness that I find hard to respect.
I honestly think we should tax people like that. Imagine if there was a fine for every single profanity uttered—basically, you'd have to pay $33 for every slip of the tongue. Seems fair, doesn't it?

Someone once remarked that building wealth is a lot like riding a bicycle—you have to keep moving forward, otherwise you’re going to fall... or rather, you'll just get eaten alive by the sharks in your own backyard.

I wouldn't necessarily go as far as saying coffee is inherently healthy, other than being a stimulant that helps people shake off the morning fog. The fact that regular coffee drinkers tend to have longer life expectancies might actually be linked to other factors:

- Coffee consumption is quite common among office workers and those in various white-collar professions. My guess is that these individuals, beyond just drinking more coffee, generally prioritize their health more than manual laborers, who might lean more toward beer.

So, I suspect the demographic groups expected to live longer are simply the ones more inclined toward coffee rather than other habits. That doesn't mean they’re living longer specifically because of the caffeine, though...

So, to wrap this up: this questionnaire is essentially just one of the tactics being used to pave the way for the commercialization of blood donations. The whole point seems to be driving away as many voluntary donors as possible, creating an artificial shortage that forces us toward a paid model. And, naturally, once you turn a necessity into a business, it’s all about lining someone's pockets...

Anthony Kim18 said:I believe certain high-risk groups shouldn't be allowed to donate blood at all.
The risk would just be too high.
Especially since we know an HIV test is actually looking for antibodies,
which don't even show up until some time after the initial infection!

Sure, but is that mindless questionnaire really what protects people from spreading infections?

We need to distinguish a few things here:
- Someone coming in to donate blood is performing a selfless act with no real benefit to themselves; I think that fact alone acts as a barrier against irresponsible people engaging in risky behavior.
- If someone knows they are infected and specifically wants to spread the virus by donating blood, that clumsy, insulting questionnaire isn't going to stop them. Even if they get caught later, they can simply claim they didn't know they were positive—which is almost certainly the truth, given that if their blood is still passing tests, they wouldn't have a reliable way of knowing their status either...

So, this highly offensive screening process doesn't actually accomplish anything in terms of preventing infection. It makes you wonder what its actual purpose is. Is it just so medical professionals can wash their hands of the situation if an infection occurs? Or perhaps there's a racial bias at play, suggesting that among us "demigods" who hold donation records, there isn't room for people of color? If we keep going down this path, blood donation will become limited to the same small circle of donors, which won't be enough—it might not even be enough right now. Eventually, the only way to maintain supplies would be to pay for donations. As far as I know, that's already been the norm in many places for a long time. In that scenario, the right to donate blood could truly become a privilege reserved for a select few, while everyone else is pushed away by any means necessary...🙄

I’ve donated blood maybe seven or eight times in total, but I have to say, I felt genuinely insulted by the way things were handled during my last donation about two years ago. It went something like this: first, there was all this massive media hype about a critical blood shortage. So, I headed out in my city to find the local blood center, which was a struggle in itself because they had moved since my last visit and hadn't posted any signs anywhere. To make matters worse, I got caught in a downpour on the way. Once I finally arrived, I sat there waiting quite a while before anyone even showed up—where was all that "emergency" urgency they were talking about? When someone did appear, they just gave me a grumpy direction on where to go. I handed over my donor card and made sure to mention that they hadn't recorded my last three donations, which they really should have done. The doctor checked their database and promised she would update it. She took a finger prick test, and then handed me that infamous questionnaire—the one filled with those overly intimate questions asking if I'm gay or if I have multiple partners, and so on. Honestly, it feels so pointless; if someone actually intended to pass on an infection, a set of intrusive questions isn't going to stop them... 🙄 It wasn't always like this. Moving on. In an atmosphere of general laziness—where it felt like I was interrupting their coffee break or whatever else they were idling through (despite the supposed "crisis")—I finally sat down in the donor chair and let the blood flow into the bag. By some strange coincidence, there was another donor there who seemed much more interesting to the nurse, as she spent the whole time chatting with him. She probably should have been keeping an eye on the process instead... instead, she just looked at me once and told me I looked pale! Well, of course I looked pale; I was soaked from the rain and frustrated with the whole ordeal! How ridiculous. She ought to look in a mirror herself... 😠
When I was leaving, my donor card was waiting for me at the exit. And wouldn't you know it, they still hadn't recorded the donation, let alone the previous ones. The doctor had vanished, of course, leaving nothing but a janitor standing there.

And now, the epilogue.
Since then, they have called my cell phone at least ten times—they obviously grabbed my number during that last visit—telling me there's a massive crisis, that they are desperately short of my specific blood type, and that I absolutely MUST come in urgently to donate. I usually tell them I'll be there, but then I simply don't show up. The whole way they handle things feels disrespectful. There was a time when blood donors were treated with actual dignity, and I used to walk away feeling good, knowing I had truly done something meaningful...