Ouch

Wow. That really hit home for me. I feel ya brother.

Most of those boats have a full crew.

Specifically, the remove the clitoris. In some practices they also sew the labia closed so no only is sex not especially good, it’s downright painful. Oh and they wait until the girl is 13, so she’s fully aware of the horror.

There’s some study that suggests that folks who develop PTSD have a deficiency in the chemical process that promotes homeostasis in the brain. during a traumatic event the brain creates a number of chemicals to get you through the event, and then when the stress is over, it produces chemicals to help return to homeostasis. So, some folks have difficulty (chemically speaking) returning to homeostasis, thus their brain is still in a traumatic state much longer cause a greater stress response.

Yep. That ^

Gremlins

Do you know that having an MBA earns the same relative pay today as a BA in the 90s?
So people who went to college in the 80/90s paid a lot less for school and earned a lot more money at the jobs they got with that education.
To be clear, I went to college in the 90s and again recently. The education I got in my second degree was not 10 times the value of the one I got in the 90s. The teachers aren’t earning 10 (or even 5) times what they were 20 years ago and the pay a degree holder earns isn’t that much better either.
I’m not a kid just out of school, I have a lot of work experience and measurable results in my work history.
I’m not saying kids these days aren’t fortunate that they are protected by labor laws, but they are affected by different pressures. Just because they don’t have walk to school in the snow, uphill (both ways) like you did, doesn’t mean that they aren’t faced with challenges that you don’t understand.

Humans can contract the disease if the eat the sick animal.

They’ve been calling Chronic Wasting Disease the zombie disease lately. It’s related to mad cow (and is also a prion), but different. It has been discovered in a growing population of deer and elk in mid west and southern US. It attacks the brain and spine. It causes the animal to drool and stumble. And it can be transferred to humans. While it can cause muscle atrophy and fur loss, I don’t believe it can cause the mess in that photo.

Sure, Walmart is intentionally disruptive. It’s not an uncommon model. In fact, I used to work for an organization that was pretty affronted when Walmart and Amazon sold the product for LESS than they purchased it for. But this tactic is so common it has a term: Loss leader. You sell an item or selection of items at a loss to get people into your marketplace where they buy other things. Keep up or fall behind. If you fall behind, you risk collapsing.

Netflix was a market condition that blockbuster didn’t respond to until it was too late. Their hubris shut them down.