It works until it doesn't. It stopped working for me around when we had kids. The massive reduction in free time made me lose my regeneration patterns.
8 hour gaming or programming sessions are mental health care. Losing that was devastating.
Everyone here is saying "don't be a dick". That is not sufficient. That just makes you middling, not good. To be good, you must also stop people who ARE being dicks.
I got to ask. What is your trauma around tattoos? People don't have such strong opinions about what other people do unless there's some serious weight on their minds.
Target was the hardest one for us. Went from spending hundreds per month (they were also our grocery) to zero. Fuck them for dropping DEI and bending the knee.
Pretty easy. This is part of the problem. The president has too much power, so any idiot that gets voted it can swing things back and forth. It's horrible for stability.
"More queer woke shit." Is exactly how half the country will react. They don't want this fixed. They don't see a problem.
You're right though. 100%