It looks like a set up for a “suqma DICK lmao” joke, but it’s actually just a store.

It’s definitely an understandable way to feel after a bad accident. It’s really fortunate nobody was hurt! You’re a young and inexperienced driver, there’s a reason as a group y’all cost more to insure, lol. So it’s definitely something that’s common, and plenty more people (like me) have only avoided similar accidents through dumb luck.

Is giving up a car completely something that’s feasible for your location and lifestyle? Will you be able to get to work, meet with friends, and engage with your hobbies while relying on public transit, a bike, etc? If you can answer yes to all those questions, then giving up driving regularly might be feasible for you. If you can’t, then unfortunately you will have to either drive or rely on other people to drive you.

If it’s not practical to give up driving, I would really encourage you to take a defensive driving class. It will help you internalize the things you can be doing to avoid accidents before they happen. And if you do give up driving, keep your license renewed! It’s a total pain in the ass to get a license a second time, and there are times it’s practical to have one.

What’s the joke about every generation thinking they invented sex? That, but with cum cooking, I guess: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5830947-natural-harvest---a-collection-of-semen-based-recipes

I’m not a psychologist so I can’t tell you anything definitive, but getting very upset over something unexpected happening could be anxiety related. Everyone naturally gets frustrated when things don’t work out, but a lot of mental illnesses are just ‘normal’ things dialed up to 10.

It could also be a lot of stuff other than anxiety! Mental health is super complicated, regardless of what it is (if anything).

Are you in therapy with someone you trust in addition to meds? Because meds helped me a lot, but the therapy was super necessary for me as well.

It also demonstrates how much AI companies mislead the public on what their products can do. If a guy is selling lawnmowers that actually just generate grass clippings without mowing the lawn, you’re not an idiot for thinking it was going to mow grass.

Meds helped me with this a lot. Not the first or even the second medication I tried, maybe the third or fourth? Really good therapy, too. That took maybe another four tries with different therapists for me.

The worst part is being incredibly overwhelmed with anxiety makes it really, really hard to deal with shitty experiences with any of the above. It’s demoralizing when it doesn’t work out and it’s not perfect when it does work out. Still miles better than I was before.

I can’t qwhite put my finger on what the difference is 🤔

California is full of people who are Mexican immigrants and people who have lived here since it was Mexico. ‘Stop waving Mexican flags after Mexican Americans and Latinos in general were kidnapped off the street’ is stupid and every minute spent focusing on making protestors protest in a way which will satisfy everyone—which, what do you know, just happens to be a fool’s errand that will result in support from nobody—is a minute you could have been telling ICE and the LAPD to fuck off instead.

Yeah, you’re not saying it. You just think no Mexican Americans, etc should show up with Mexican flags. Oh, also more American flags. What else to make the protest perfect so that no rightoid can say anything bad about it? Better get it all out here so the people can do everything perfectly to your standards.

Talk is cheap and the criticisms of anyone not at the protests are worthless.

Fascinating you could determine from the picture that all of the thousands of people who showed up only care about deportations.

Thankfully the people of LA are’t stupid enough to fall for this bullshit. We see our neighbors with Mexican flags every day, it doesn’t make them belong here any less.

Through all of these LA protest pictures, I see nothing but the flag of a foreign country…

Babe you already did this. Scroll up and follow the links this time.

I don’t see why someone waving the Mexican flag, would be fighting for American democracy…

Do you actually need me to lead you around by the nose and explain to you that American citizens can hold a Mexican flag in protest?

If you care about America, your country, and fighting Fascism, then you’re flying a US flag, and taking that symbol back.

Then go fucking do it instead of being a keyboard warrior criticizing the people actually doing shit. Jealousy’s an ugly color.

How is protesting for their family and neighbors (weird you left that one out, you don’t have to be related to someone kidnapped to protest) over having their Constitutional rights violated not protecting democracy?

Also, touching a Mexican flag doesn’t actually revoke your citizenship or residency, regardless of what Fox News says.

What’s brain dead is thinking people only have a right to free speech if it fits what you think their optics should be.

Anyone who wouldn’t support the burning of an American flag is an enemy of the US Constitution.

If you weren’t there, what you mean is you haven’t been shown any American flags in the protests.

https://bsky.app/profile/ddayen.bsky.social/post/3lr7cw5wlas2j

https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-lede/immigration-protests-threaten-to-boil-over-in-los-angeles

Anyone who thinks there needs to be more American flags at the protests is welcome to bring them along with themselves. But sitting here criticizing the people actually off their ass and trying to protect democracy and their neighbors is bullshit.

Further, the right is literally never going to see resistance to Trump positively. Anyone who has been on the Fox News drip for the past 20 years is so unhinged that living in California is a crime to them. Asking people whose neighbors and family members have been kidnapped by the federal government to hide their heritage in their protests because it might offend people that already hate them and want them gone is ridiculous. At least if you want to keep those people as allies.

As someone living in LA I’m going fucking insane from people who:

• don’t and have never lived here
• know nothing about California history or politics
• know nothing about the fucking LAPD

that are crying about how everyone protesting is doing it wrong for whatever dumb shit reason they’ve had filtered down to them from Fox News.

Shut the fuck up! There are exactly two steps to take if you feel this way:

1. Get offline
2. Go tell the protestors in person

If you can’t do step 2, you can definitely do step 1.

it’s worse to single out 1/12th the population and say they broke the camel’s back

Abso-fucking-lutely, and I don’t know if it’s just infuriating or alarming that even self proclaimed liberals and leftists are pumping their fist looking for a minority to blame the situation on.