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[–] protist@mander.xyz 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (8 children)

I don't know if I was insinuating that your experience here is your fault as much as I was giving explicit reasons why it's probably your fault.

I'm sure if I told him I won't move, I would be labelled as aggressive, uncooperative and problem creating.

Labelled by who? The stranger who wants your table? And then what? And why do you care? This is all you, trying to people please and avoid conflict. Assertiveness is a skill you can learn and would go a long way toward helping you with the problem you're describing.

[–] protist@mander.xyz 15 points 6 months ago (17 children)

Based on your comments here, and your post history, it sounds like you may live somewhere with an awful culture. It also sounds like you're really negative and disdainful of others, and also pretty passive, being willing to move twice for strangers who wanted your table. All this sets you up for a bad time.

The way to not be bullied is to not let yourself be bullied. Don't give someone else the power to decide how you feel. Laugh at them or ignore them and move on instead of dwelling in anger or resentment.

I live in the US, and while bullying does happen, it's far outside the norm. I've never experienced it in my professional life, and instances even when I worked retail and grocery when I was younger were always addressed. Bullying is something children do, and adults with personality problems.

[–] protist@mander.xyz 7 points 6 months ago (4 children)

How much hexane do you think is in oil you buy off the shelf

[–] protist@mander.xyz 38 points 6 months ago

Well fuck these doctors for trying to help, I guess

[–] protist@mander.xyz 18 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Toblerone is owned by US-based Kraft but only produced in the EU, similar to how Ben and Jerry's ice cream is made in the US but is owned by the London-based Unilever. With international conglomerates, national lines are very blurred

[–] protist@mander.xyz 2 points 6 months ago

I was going to say, this is a list of things I don't buy already (am American). Every now and then I buy a box of triscuits I guess

[–] protist@mander.xyz 10 points 6 months ago

That's not at all what it sounds like. I'm reading:

The original agreement between Canada and the United States regarding construction of the highway stipulated that its Canadian portion be turned over to Canada six months after the end of the war. In the postwar settlement, Canada did not pay for the highway itself, but assumed responsibility for its ongoing maintenance; furthermore, Canada compensated the United States for associated airfields, telephone lines, and other assets. The handover took place on April 1, 1946, when the U.S. Army transferred control of the road through Yukon and British Columbia to the Canadian Army, Northwest Highway System.

Canada and the US signed an agreement to make this happen. It also sounds like the road was virtually unusable during WWII

[–] protist@mander.xyz 14 points 6 months ago

RFK, his father, absolutely would have had his children vaccinated

[–] protist@mander.xyz 44 points 6 months ago (2 children)

What company is ok with their COO saying shit like this next to their name?

[–] protist@mander.xyz 11 points 6 months ago

The Texas Senate passes all sorts of crazy. We're fortunate the Texas House, while still well to the right of most sane policy decisions, has enough business Republicans left to sometimes temper this evangelical shit.

[–] protist@mander.xyz 24 points 6 months ago (1 children)

The primaries happened my dude. He won them

[–] protist@mander.xyz 0 points 6 months ago

The debt issue depends heavily on which school, which program, and your anticipated wages thereafter

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