I was going to ignore this but God I really hate the ignorance in this statement. I’m genx. Gambling affects everyone. There are plenty of kids and teenagers and christ that’s who’s being targeted.

It never existed who are you delusional people?! Lol

Hurt people hurt people. One day I hope we get there in our understanding that a lot of Jewish people have not fully healed from The Holocaust.

What they are displaying is a persistent signal that they’re weak.

Do you work with a team/department? Just say let’s go out for dinner/drinks after work. Just like outside work expect maybe 50% to commit.

Same as any relationship you just ask. Make it easy and do a group drinks after work first then if you hit it off plan something.

I swear as someone who overthinks everything it amazes me I don’t with this and other people do lol

World needs more Father Ted

The inconsistent and incorrect capitalization is tweaking me.

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Also they didn’t clap for Jeb Bush 🤣

Yes

I’m in the GTA. Asians here. They fucking love Tesla’s.

It’s interesting because I was talking to my psychologist about this last week.

Mental illness runs in my extended family specifically my best friend is a functional alcoholic. He grew up the son of a functional alcoholic.

We all agree that alcoholism is an addiction, just like gambling, social media, etc.

The problem is that as a society we are addressing the specific addiction. AA for alcoholics. For gambling the government has programs you can admit yourself to.

What I was postulating to my psychologist is the real problem is some people have un underlying susceptibility to addiction. My experience with addicted people is regardless of good or bad if you remove an addiction they will replace with an unhealthy obsession on something else. Alcohol will be replaced with something else because the problem is the person has an imbalance they can’t do something in moderation. I’ve seen this time and time again.

Plus factor in comorbidities like ADHD and you have a stew going.

My point being, yes you’re correct tech is a problem, but it’s 100% the people too in some cases it’s just without the social media their addiction may have been benign so not visible. “Oh look at Mary with her beanie baby collection.” Or “oh look at Jack he really is a go getter running his 10k rain or shine every day.”

Typical Lance ruining it for everyone!

We used to hang out in front of the church on main Street until one Halloween we all saw a crocinole board fly through the air and into the windshield of a passing car. Many of us got to ride in a paddy wagon that night. Fun times.

They don’t have good engineers because Oracle is a law firm pretending to be a tech company.

We call this the IBM business plan.

You know how you stop peeing mid pee? That’s how. Clench. Hold it for a count of 10. Release and repeat. Do it in the morning and evening to start.

Easier said than done sometimes and speaking as a parent we aren’t all perfect and individuals (parents and children) vary.

But think of the memes!

I mean drive through my neighbourhood (Newmarket, Ontario) it’s pretty much little Iran as it is.

Much love to my Iranians my kids are friends with their kids. I love my Iranian peeps.

As do many who come from nothing or have nothing.

I’m thankful as a Canadian I came from meagre beginnings and my dad was a post-war baby in bombed our London. I have first hand experience in knowing what nothing is.

Let it burn.

But will it make things better? Worse?