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I ran out of space to finish the story. At 13 I got into weightlifting to get in shape to play football. I also,grew 6 inches that year, and 4 the next. I still got bullied, especially by older kids plus there was this little weasel kid in my grade who was always backed up by his big brother and the brother's friends. Plus, littler guys just love it when the big kid won't fight them so they can prove their bravery by tormenting him.
At 15 the weather was nice the last week of school, so we got to go outside at lunch. There wasn't enough teacher supervision for such a large group over a large area. There was this special needs kid that was getting kicked around by one of my tormentors and his friends, even as he kept trying to just walk away. Whatever kept me from fighting broke that day, and I shoved the main bully away from the kid. They looked eager for a 3on 1 fight, but apparently the look in my eye said "I don't care how bad I get hurt, I'm going to give as good as I get"

That you know of, or just assume? There's always a group that protests an all-male anything...often the same ones who rationalize the need for all-female something else.

What about people who are mentally impaired? Can they even make that choice? I look at how some people get convinced that they need to buy a car at list price...a combination of salesmanship, urgency, emotion, etc...so some,people could be eager and willing to commit suicide but regret it after a bit, but if it's everyone's right unquestioningly, they won't have a chance to,regret it.

"It's because she's black?" Remember what happened to Michael Phelps? He got excoriated for smoking weed, and lost a ton of money in endorsements as well. But keep believing that it's all racism...that way people don't have to take responsibility for their own actions.

In capitalism, you earn money by creating value that others are willing to exchange money for. A farmer sells feed for more than his cost of producing it, the hog farmer buys feed and raises hogs on it, then sells his grown hogs to a butcher at a profit. The butcher sells bacon and sausage to people who don't want to raise grain and hogs, but are willing to exchange the money they earn from being a mechanic or writing software for the food they eat. The government doesn't set the prices they must charge or pay, but things self-regulate so we get more of what people are willing to pay more for, which draws more people into that field so,prices come down. We have odd situations where sports stars get millions of dollars, but team owners and advertisers believe they're worth that much or they wouldn't pay that kind of money. People choose the kinds of jobs they do based on a combination of ability, monetary compensation, satisfaction and phychic rewards.

Apparently it's racist to say that phrase, but NOT racist to hear a poorly spoken disjointed ungrammatical phrase and assume it must have been uttered by a black person.

I don't know about the churches you're been to, but the ones I've attended ask for money to:
-pay for ongoing expenses like the building, taxes, salaries of staff
-support missions, local and non-local charities (local Rescue Mission that provides food and shelter for homeless, etc.)
If you don't go to church, fine. But if you attend regularly or just want to get married and/or have your kids baptized, you know buildings and utilities aren't free, right? If you or maybe a parent/spouse needs a hospital visit, should only unpaid volunteers be available to visit 24/7?
Also, if you think *they're* greedy for asking for money, what does that say about *you* when you hoard what you have and won't give anything to support the services you're using or think should be at hand in case you need them?
Last year, I and others put in some wheelchair ramps for handicapped and elderly people at no cost to them. We worked for free, but the materials came from our church...so, donations.

If you understand his explanation, it means that you may have been using a phone connected to a 9V battery, but essentially your phone's battery was losing power to it, and it wasn't adding to your phone's charge level.

How does this not have a bunch of likes?

Yeah, cuz white kids are allowed to bring grenades to school. Check your privilege, you white bastards!