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Can't "heart" this, but thanks for passing the info. WTAF indeed.

@fredhincanada I think you're right, unfortunately 😔

I think it's ego riding on coat tails.  Present day Americans think that they're responsible for the achievements of previous generations, rather than simply being the inheritors.  The US truly has done some remarkable things, pushed humanity forward in many ways.  Like any inheritance, that can be invested or squandered.

A great song choice

I've said this for decades.  Also, tax the churches.

@fredhincanada absolutely!!

I know your pain regarding the teeth thing. I didn't look after my teeth nearly enough when I was younger. About a year ago, I had to have the top three taken out and ended up looking like a hockey player who had taken a puck to the face. I was so insecure anytime I had to speak to someone, and yeah, they noticed. I got a few jibes from workmates, but nine times out of ten, they were still cool. Charm and charisma are not directly related to your teeth, my dude. I hope you get your confidence back and while I'm aware this wasn't exactly the best comment, nor did it really have any good advice, but you have a supporter in me regardless.

I don't know anything about your teeth, but you know how I think of you as a person.  Your story brings to mind someone I met and worked with on a creative project this past year.  Dude is OK looking, smart, talented, worked hard, naturally likable and empathetic in all those little ways that show around the corners.  He was a good hang and a great collaborator and I hope to work with him again.  And he had a MESSED up grill, with some righteous halitosis.  He was clearly aware of these things, and it was hard to say whether he was trying to be contentiously polite, or if he was ashamed.  Maybe a bit of both.  But the better I got to know him the more I just wanted to say "please stop covering your mouth with your hand like a Korean schoolgirl, or hanging waaaay back physically, because I like being with you and am totally certain that it will only be more fun and rewarding if you're not self-conscious around me."  We didn't get close enough that I could say that, but I hope we will in time.

I really loved this album, but a lot of his music is tainted now by his passing.

"As someone who wants to be a therapist this sounds" actually really perceptive, and like exactly the kind of thing therapists should be aware of.  A good therapists knows what issues therapy can address, and what issues it can't.  Therapy doesn't fix life conditions that genuinely suck.  And they shouldn't just be trying to make people happy.  They should seek to help people become self-actualized and well-adjusted.  Often that means plainly facing facts.  Like what sucks.  Facing isn't the same as accepting as right.

@fullfeeling very true, my friend

I would prefer to go back to flip phones or landlines.

I would be angry, but I have an iPhone and have nothing to complain about.  :)