There’s too much money in politics, except for my candidate. They need that money in order to win.

This is easy. Thank him for his advice that helped you get “a big raise,” then work him.

Your coworker is an ass.

Moreover, contrary to popular belief, unenforced regulations are worse than nothing and should be repealed by any responsible governance, because they effectively institutionalize the abuse they claim to prevent by concealing the abuse and increasing the competitive advantage the abuse offers. This is why indexes often use them as a proxy gauging regulatory capture.

Agreed, and these might be expressions of kindness, respect, and other genuine virtues.

For example, prudence can mean wisdom, care warranted and given, or simply an instance of thoughtful behavior.

Likewise decorum can refer to respectful behavior, honor deserved and given, even a gesture of good faith participation in what others value simply because you recognize it its important to them, part of them, and you want them to know they’re accepted.

But just speaking directly, I’m not sure OP was demonstrating a lack of any of the above simply by the mildly lewd joke. Even of her grandmother was scandalized (pretty sure she wasn’t) it’d only be indecorous/unthoughful/unseemly/unkind if that was her intent.

Given that perspective, and noting your authoritative grasp of normal family and interpersonal relationships, I figured you were lamenting that kids these days fail to accommodate the conservative mores of their elders with the level of dedication and precision that we achieved at their age. Forgive my misunderstanding.

To know whether any act of prudence or decorum is a feather in one’s cap is first to answer to what end and on whose behalf.

Anyway I used to think similarly. What disabused me of my regard for such ideals was living among those who prudence and decorum never served.

Classic anecdote of the missing proof for Shizuo Kakutani’s lemma.

Wouldn’t be at all surprised if Meta did this, but just a heads up: any general strike with a scheduled end date has already failed. Also a general strike proposed just two weeks in advance can’t be serious, because that’s not enough time to gather an adequate number of participants, and not time to organize support networks for them either. Also any that were to participate in that failed general strike would likely be too burned to participate in any future general strikes, which would mean this (already-failed) general strike is worse than waiting for another.

OK I chuckled but real talk: knee trouble in your 30s isn’t normal and shouldn’t be treated as normal

Just a tip: if you must use consumer editions of Windows regularly, consider adding an automatic provisioning tool like AME to your workflow.

The example above uses customizable “playbooks” to provision a system the way docker compose would a container image, so it can fill the role of a VM snapshot or PXE in non-virtualized local-only scenarios.

The most popular playbooks strip out AI components and services (there are many more than just Recall) but also disable all telemetry and cloud-based features, replace MS bloatware with preferred OSS, curtail a truckload of annoying Windows behaviors, setup more sensible group policies than the defaults, and so forth.

I have a few custom playbooks for recurring use cases so that, when one presents, I can spin up an instance quickly without the usual hassle and risk.

And then what happened?
That must be really hard for you.
Wow. You don’t deserve that.
How do you feel about it now?
Ugh. That sounds awful.
You’re handling this better than I would.
How do you even respond to that?
Tell me about it.
What can I do to help?
You’ve got this, but I’m here.

Edit: I wrote the above to illustrate how many options there are in the parlance of active listening. The formula is simple: imagine how they feel and join their side or, if you can’t yet imagine, ask questions until you can. That’s it.

Their genetics have sacrificed nearly every aspect of basic resiliency for maximum speed on the plains. Most of the work caring for horses is keeping them from accidentally killing themselves. Full disclosure: I worked as a stable hand as a child in exchange for riding lessons. Will never ever own a horse.

The API for the PayPal checkout workflow is too complicated for us, but one of us knows how to manually type in the order details to send you an invoice.