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Tightrope - Thursday, October 10, 2024
(www.britannica.com)
"People who are barely surviving have extremely limited freedom," he writes.
"All their time and energy go into earning enough money to pay for groceries, shelter, and transportation to jobs β¦ a good society would do something about the deprivations, or reductions in freedom, for people with low incomes.
When I was in 8th grade, I ended up separated from most of my elementary friends. I had one friend that I knew, and she had the same problem the previous year, and introduced me to some of her new friends. One was this boy who had a deformed arm. He opened my eyes to a whole new world of interests, musical tastes, style, anime, books (including one of my favorite authors to this day), and just generally made me look at life differently. We talked on the phone every night, to the point where my parents got me a second phone line because I was on the phone so much. He introduced me to his friends, one of which became my first boyfriend. And he was one of the first people Iβd met that was as smart as me and I could have real conversations about the world with. He pretty much changed my outlook on life, and I would say the trajectory too. And he was my best friend.
The next part gets sad, though. I met him the first day of 8th grade. Fast forward to summer break, weβre about to go into high school, and I went on a vacation with my family. My mom gets a call a day before we go back, she is visibly distressed but says itβs nothing. When I get home, three of my friends and my grandma are waiting for us. My grandma breaks the news: my best friend died. He had a heart defect - his heart gave out. I knew him for a year, and I still think about him all the time. Itβs surreal sometimes. I have like two photos of him. I donβt talk to anyone who knew him anymore. It was so long ago and I know Iβve forgotten so much about him, itβs hard to think about sometimes. But none of that takes away the changes he made in my life. Also, ironically, he brought me to Christianity, but I could never forgive god for taking him away.
This is a beautiful sentiment. Shame about that punctuation tho.
She was delighted to put it in for us.
She is paid to be delighted.
Someone on Reddit found the source:
website with write up and graph
And he said, 'No, I ain't scared, but if anything happens to me, it's not suicide.'
He pretty much said βI think something may happen to me and they will make it look like a suicide.β
Unless she's got a recording or document, the article's title could have been, "Family friend tells reporter a story"
Yeah, it wonβt hold up in court, and neither would it if she had recorded this casual, intimate conversation between two old friends.
Maybe, though, itβs enough to get the coroner to take another look at his death.
I'm not any defender of corporations, by any means, but I'm not sure that I'm willing to take the word of a "close family friend" who "needed help one day" any more than some corporate HR;
You sure have a lot more faith in corporations than I doβ¦
I find it funny that the first lemmy meme obsession was beans and now itβs jeans.
Tell them itβs for their own good! They donβt even have an electrical grid that works properly!
Did I miss it? Was there a reason given or is it just the new βconservative coalitionβ doesnβt like it?
I wonder how many MAGA Republicans come to his defense saying, βThe police did not need to kill him, he wasnβt a threat. He was in his own home,β while they never gave two shits about Breonna Taylor, and possibly even said that she deserved it because she was possibly involved in crime. Well, here we are, you feel part of what the Black population felt, and so what can we change? Is it the guns, is it the law enforcement? Or is it the people at the top (same people, for both sides), who made this happen?
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Oh? I didn't realize providing a link to an online resource was considered teaching or had anything to do with race or gender. π€