Greater level of comfort in retirement. This isn't necessarily selfish. It might mean the difference between living a frugal life choosing to forgo a lot of fun outings, hobbies, etc vs getting to do most or all of them.
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I've already accepted that I'm going to rent and work until I die. It's the sacrifice I've chosen to live where I want to live (Bay Area). A friend moved to New Mexico to be able to afford to buy a house. Not me. Accepting the grim reality of our terrible world is sort of liberating.
Sounds like you also have a choice. I genuinely wish you the best and hope whatever you choose makes you happy. Best of luck!
I may be an atheist who hates organized religion, but I also read a lot about the early church because I'm a history nerd. If there ever was a historical Jesus who preached anything approaching the message he's purported to have taught in the christian bible, it was a new covenant and a lot of the old rules were judged unnecessary.
That said, the old testament is a hate book. Modern christianity (especially in the USA) is a hate cult. Organized religion is a cancer.
No. We're just so broken as a society that we allow rich assholes to destroy markets for regular people by betting on overhyped bullshit.
The first person you meet with might not be a match. Don't get discouraged. You might have to meet multiple people. You'll know when you feel ok with someone's personality.
Multiple decades, geographies, and the retirement of a therapist as experience speaking.
The best part was when he cried like a baby.
Where's my tiny violin?
This isn't new. If you're using a company-device, they can read everything you do on it. This has been true for many years. Clickbait headline.
Don't use your company computer / phone / email / whatever to say anything you wouldn't want your boss / HR / other to read.
He made acknowledgment that he saw it,” Carson told NonDoc. “And I said, ‘Turn it off. Now.’ And he was like, ‘What is this? What is this?’ So he acknowledged it was inappropriate just by those words. And he was like, ‘I can’t get it to turn off. I can’t figure out how to turn it off.’ And I said, ‘Get it turned off.’ So he finally got it turned off, and that was the end of it.”
The state’s head of education doesn’t know how to turn off or unplug a television? Explains a lot.
Edit: I forgot that I'd already commented on this and came to promote the Friendly Atheist newsletter and podcast (which is a recap of the newsletter but with one host explaining the stories to the other). They cover this bozo a lot because he's generally terrible. Check it out if you're interested in such subjects as creeping Christian Nationalism and other right-wing bullshit. It's sometimes pretty entertaining, so long as you're resigned to accepting that we live in hell.
I wouldn't count on much. I think it was Jordan that signed an agreement on water rights and now Israel is refusing to honor the agreement? Either way, they are just like the USA admin. They'll promise things and reneg on the agreement when it suits them.