FriendOfDeSoto

You can take your gaslight and shove it up your Baader-Meinhof-Effect!

I say we stop listening to the opinion of people who are heavily invested in this industry for future prognoses.

Somebody took shots from the air of her home. She tried to get them removed from the public sphere. That caused headlines and as a result more people saw them attached to these news stories than ever would have if she hadn't made an issue out of it.

Didn't google, didn't read the other comments.

I can see dead people.

While I think of all non-animated Trek shows, DS9 had the best first season, it still contains a lot of dogs. Move along home, anyone? My point is first seasons are rough. Discovery gets better in S2. I would watch it that far before you start SNW because it's basically the backdoor pilot for that show.

I don't think a mutinous commander is that outrageous a plot line in a universe where Riker once had Q powers, Janeway had warp 10 lizard babies with her pilot, Sisko poisoning a planet's atmosphere on purpose, or where a man like Jonathan Archer was made captain of anything.

Is Disco the best Trek show? I don't think so. I think overall it's better than PIC though. So if you have suffered through that, you stand a good chance of being more delighted by Disco.

I don't think it would be weird. It's up to them if they accept or not. I would just suggest you make parallel plans as well to meet new people. A hobby group, a book club, etc.

I think there are two general (human) media preferences at work: "if it bleeds, it ledes" superceded by which deaths are more extraordinary. So soldiers murdered in peacetime is noteworthy. They could've become accountants but chose a career where there is a real and high risk of death. Btw I fear it's that death math that made medical professionals drop out of noteworthiness post-pandy, i.e. the threat is real but the risk has gone down again. I think children dying generally of tragic circumstances will be noteworthy. Nurses contracting AIDS or non-famous people dying of natural causes become less noteworthy. And I use noteworthy here as what they chose to cover in their newsrooms. They have financial interests to consider as well, which brings us back to "if it bleeds."

The American filter generally erases many "mundane" gun deaths from visibility. Either people are so numb it doesn't register as the tragedy that it is or it doesn't get covered. There are plenty of places on earth where a single gunshot fired in anger that would make headlines.

There is a worldwide blindness to traffic deaths. We have just accepted that this is how many people die. So if something more interesting happens elsewhere, the t-boned accountant on the way to Walmart just gets dropped.

So there are a number of factors that influence what makes the news or not. The list goes on.

I would also say that media coverage is not prescriptive for who you should feel empathy for. We cannot all feel all the tragedies on this planet at once. We'd go mad. You pick and choose as a defense mechanism. So if you don't feel that much empathy for these national guardsmen, I kind of get it. If you don't like how much media coverage it's getting, I can definitely understand that. The problem is just that when you say this out loud you open yourself up to criticism, like: you don't feel for the people who died while sworn to defend your freedom! What about children and nurses? That's just whataboutism! Etc. So I would suggest you follow your own heart and change your media consumption when it bothers you. Or you'll end up in a culture war debate about whose lives matter more.

I understand that within the confines of your life you feel car ownership, even of a vehicle that contains an internal combustion engine, is a necessity. I get that and really don't judge you got that.

What I think you didn't pick up on is the sheer decadence in your post. Your within-the-confines-of-your-life-necessary car is still bad for the environment. SUVs are big and heavy. If you ride it with an empty trunk by yourself half the time or more you bought too big a car. SUVs really are bad for smaller, more vulnerable participants in traffic. And you were praising that the middle console is perfectly designed for the future landfill fill you got your sodas served in. That's a bit like the frog sitting in the pot of water as the temperature increases praising the craft of the pot maker. I found that remarkable enough to comment upon, cynically, with a warning up front and without name calling.

If you feel judged here, consider that there are reasons for it that bother you as well. And you don't have to agree with everything I write here. I'm guessing though honestly you don't disagree with all of it.

You don't show him the stupidity of his ways by sleeping with that lady. You either find a way to confront him about that. Or you unattach yourself from this toxic person by finding other, better friends. Frankly, I would give him a piece of my mind and then find other friends anyway.

Nein. In den Vornamen der Politikerin bitte kurz an sich bietender Stelle mental ein Leerzeichen einfügen und nochmal von vorne. Oder von hinten. Da steck ich nicht drin.