I would prefer to use Lemmy, but it simply doesn’t have some things that reddit currently has. It could in the future, but it doesn’t have the user base yet.

I basically agree. Those are actually insurance, and serve a purpose. Health “Insurance” isn’t insurance at all really…

Absolutely agree.

If you mean specifically health insurance… yeah this is spot on.

I think it’s more complicated for other kinds of insurance though.

That’s very true. But, it’s something that appears to be way more common that it uses to be.

Crimes are prosecuted by the state. It’s hard if the victim is uncooperative, but not impossible.

That’s… stupid honestly

So … they raped each other? They could both go to jail?

It is the easiest way. It’s also the coward’s way.

I would prefer they did, but it isn’t the most important thing about my phone. My current phone does not, and I really like it.

Honestly, I bet he has the skills, he just didn’t use them because he didn’t care, or is overworked, or for whatever reason.

It’s not forbidden.

Forced relocation of more than 20 miles or so (some reasonable amount that doesn’t require a move) should not allow a company to get out of severance. That should be illegal.

What were the reasons?

Another breakup, she broke up with me because she wasn’t as healed from the trauma from her last relationship as she thought.

I saw it coming. She was honest with me the whole time and I thought handled it as well as could be expected.

I’m not sure I’d call that fixed, for the record.

I don’t think I’m really over it, but I’m over it more than I was.

My ex wife kept cheating on me. That makes it pretty simple really.

As to why she did that. I don’t know. She was going through a bad time, and I think feeling bad about and for herself. She wanted to feel better about herself, and escaping her life made her feel that way. At least, that’s what I think. I’ll never really know I guess.

Why do you put maliciousness in quotes?

Kids absolutely can be malicious. Sure, it’s a small scale but kids can absolutely manipulate. Asking for an apple , if they really just want an apple, is not manipulation because it’s not malicious. Little Susie telling her sister Jess to give her her soda or shell tell their parents about how the window broke is 100% manipulative though.

By my ex wife.

Sure, but usually the term manipulation has a negative connotation.

In a sense, when my kid asks for fruit, they are manipulating me. But that’s not what anyone means. They mean a kind of devious persuasion.