And thank you for the vote of confidence! If this has been able to help even one person put this complex and often emotionally heavy interaction into an understandable framework then I’m happy. ❤️

It all depends on how you say it. Some people just genuinely do need to know someone understands them at face value. Adding your own experiences and using that to validate their feelings rather than overshadow them is an invaluable practiced skill. It also allows you to layer advice into how you convey it, sometimes without them even realizing that’s what you’re doing.

A great way to do this subtly is to ask them questions that help you find VERY close similarities that open the door to a segway into your own experience. Example:

“Oh man, that’s horrible. Hitting a roadblock like that sucks so much. Did you have to deal with [related thing] too?”

“YES and it only piled onto my stress. Ughhhhh.”

“I know all too well. It’s the worst and I wouldn’t wish it on anyone. I’m so sorry. If it helps, I could go through what I did. It’s not exactly the same, but maybe something that helped me will resonate? But I understand if you’d rather just vent. My ear’s always open.”

The trick is usually asking if they want to hear it. Then you know for SURE whether or not to proceed, and you’ve framed it in such a way that is less about you and more about investigating ways the shared experience can inform how they handle the issue themselves, or how the differences can add better insight into their own trouble.

Source: I have severe ADHD that has a side effect of being extremely empathetic due to comorbid RSD. The result being a heightened awareness to how others are feeling, subconsciously taking that onto myself (for better and for worse), and subsequently feeling compelled to do what I can to help resolve it. What I described above is the most graceful way I’ve found to resolve my own quirks while also benefitting those relying on me for comfort and usually advice through this framing.

Even if I took this at face value it only confirms to me even more that for profit insurance is a ghoulish waste of resources. So much pain and suffering just to milk people in need of a pittance of a profit margin (relatively speaking) is atrocious.

If they want to take offense at what is essentially a synonym for “normal, societally accepted brain function” the sure lol

Your description of the tankie position doesn’t explain why they call for Ukraine to surrender like Russia isn’t the aggressor. Leftists in general do realize it’s a proxy war like you said, but we call for the invader to stop invading. Because, you know… The victim of an invasion surrendering doesnt usually lead to good outcomes for the victim.

Why did I laugh at this?? I THOUGHT I HAD STANDARDS!

Now I can tell people I strive to be FOSS rather tham say I’m into bimbofication.

That’s why I specified in the long term. In the end, his atrocities became too untenable and he and his regime were dismantled. I’d consider that a failure in the long term.

I don’t think anyone would consider Hitler successful in the long term.

I think what your missing is that the trolley problem here isn’t an allegory for the US health care system. This trolley problem is entirely unrelated, and the victims are pleading their case for harm mitigation… Until it gets hijacked by a greedy CEO trying to bribe out of it. The self sacrifice the other two on his track is not symbolic of anything other than the generally growing hatred and resentment toward the billionaire class. It could be any CEO there. The health insurance one is just the currently relevant one.

Bigotry of low expectations!

That’s the thing. I didn’t want to use it. The AI’s input was entirely unsolicited and luckily I knew better than to trust it obviously. I doubt the average user is going to care enough to get a second opinion.

The alternative is not failing the logistics skill check you’re ostensibly supposed to be good at as a manager. If you’re in such dire straits as a business that you cannot possibly approve PTO, your problem will not be fixed firing the employee who at least did you the courtesy of warning you that they wouldn’t be available that day.

Your wrote an equal amount of paragraphs defending your take, albeit smaller ones lol.

Just because you haven’t personally gotten an egregiously wrong answer doesn’t meant it won’t give one, which means you have to check anyway. Google’s AI famously recommended adding glue to your pizza to make the cheese more stringy. Just a couple of weeks ago I got blatantly wrong information about quitting SSRIs with its source links directly contradicting it’s confidently stated conclusion. I had to spend EXTRA time researching just to make sure I wasn’t being gaslit.

Shortsighted. The real fear here is that you’ll use it at the wrong time and waste it’s potential, so you save it for the perfect opportunity…

Unfortunately, you never know when you missed it and the potion is never used.

Long term isolation can lead us to amthropomorphising things and sometimes even hallucinating them to be alive. I’m positive this much thought was put into it. Definitely!

I don’t need practice. I can do it fine. I just do not want to.

So, to be clear, are you saying that stealing from a corporation is equally as bad as raping someone?