Oh this one gets me too… Why not tell me why to trust you? Then I can decide for myself if I should.

An entirely hollow statement, yet somehow ringing with apathy.

Sorry! I didn’t realize that by adding a picture, the original news article link disappears. It’s back on. Here it is: https://www.economist.com/asia/2024/08/05/bangladeshs-dictator-flees-leaving-behind-a-dangerous-vacuum

You’ve seen Death Note right?

Animal Crossing.

This would certainly fit under /ABoringDystopia

Better ketchup to the present.

What counts is not so much how compatible you are but how you deal with incompatibility.

• Leo Tolstoy

Well the context explains the cat’s expression.

In reality, it’s our best guess that a rock accidentally floated by the earth and did the damage as a random act of nature. How could we know if an alien race hurled that rock at Earth on purpose? Or even used a weapon to do it - could we tell something like that just from our geological record/proofs? I imagine we’d still conclude an accidental rock.

Uh oh, did they take it down?

That’s great you can have that dynamic with your family and that it’s healthy for all of you. I feel like it’s healthy for me, but my own fam is in the category of “getting upset for not contacting them frequently enough”. It’s like they take it personally that I can live my life but not need to be up to date on every moment of theirs.

That said, I’ve found that the only progress I’ve made is by beginning to draw boundaries and trying to be consistent at keeping them. It’s not a wonderful dynamic, but more distance has certainly made it healthier for me.