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Should be a wild four years.

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I think a new requirement for EBT should be cooking classes. Majority of people on EBT have no idea how to cook a meal and rely on expensive processed garbage. $20 of ingredients can make a large dish that can last for several days and is 100% more nutritious. Getting rid of Home EC was a mistake too because it taught people how to 'adult' and taught them basic home skills. Those skills are not getting taught or passed down at all anymore and its crippling peoples ability to run a house and raise a family.
 
I mean with inoperable cancer, I have had family members as well as friends do the "painkillers/fuck it" route. I mean they have to be hospitalized and put into a coma until they die at the very end, which is what they do anyway after you've gone through the expensive radiation chemotherapy route to squeeze out a couple of extra horrible months of pain. Pain which is mainly caused from the chemotherapy and radiation, even though your cancer is terminal.
My Grandma had terminal cancer, and I remember she just came and stayed with us. She didn't even quit smoking, she just did the painkillers and waited to die. She heard that the median survival time with treatment for stage 4 small cell lung cancer is a year to a year and a half. Without treatment it's 6 months. I looked that up to check my work and yeah it's about a 1-1.5 years with treatment vs 6-12 months without.
But you have to look at the side effects of chemotherapy and radiation and weigh whether or not you want to cling to an extra few months or a year or two. I know that sounds easy but you also have to take into account the QUALITY of that life. I'd rather count down the clock living like a normal person popping morphine like they're tic tacs and crossing things off my bucket list then laying in a hospital bed looking like a hairless mummy who is in constant agony from vomiting and the chemo shits.
We weren't made to desperately claw for any little scrap of life we can. When it's our time to go sometimes we just have to go with dignity. It's less of a burden on yourself and it's less of a burden on the healthcare system.
At that point, it comes down to how much time do you want. Some people want the extra 6-12 months if that means suffering through treatment. Doctors are not in a position to tell their patients to die.
 
At that point, it comes down to how much time do you want. Some people want the extra 6-12 months if that means suffering through treatment. Doctors are not in a position to tell their patients to die.
I completely understand if people want to go that route they're going to go that route. It's their right. I'm just saying that the few people that I have known that have had cancer with treatment and without, all of the ones who did the treatment and died anyway told me that they regretted doing the treatment.
Your insurance or your life savings is paying up to six figures for chemotherapy and it just devastates you. Yeah you're probably buying a little bit of time but that time is completely fucked up.
I mean yes doctors are not in a position to tell their patients to die, but they shouldn't be pushing them to get poisoned to the point where they can't get out of bed and end up regretting not taking the 6 normal months. It should be informed consent, and I've actually sat there in the oncologists office and listened to them sell this false hope while completely downplaying the side effects.
If you look it up, it's not uncommon for the side effects of chemotherapy to be MORE PAINFUL THAN CANCER.
I just can't imagine sitting there with constant diarrhea, nausea, fatigue, neuropathy, mouth sores, in constant pain, looking like a balding Indian woman and all the other side effects that come from that garbage and thinking to myself "Well, at least I bought myself an extra couple of months", but that's just me. If I end up getting the big C and it's already spread throughout my I'm just going to live my life while it kills me. I don't need chemotherapy in there helping it.
 

WSJ: U.S. special envoy Steve Witkoff and President Trump’s son-in law, Jared Kushner, delivered a strong message to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in a meeting on Monday: Israel must avoid escalation by ensuring responses to any alleged cease-fire violations by Hamas are proportional.

WSJ: Israel frustrated because it lost its maneuvering space and its ability to be the dominant force in making the decisions in Gaza...the U.S. is now effectively calling the shots in [Gaza]

Trump buck broke Israel and Hamas but you're dooming?
 
I think a new requirement for EBT should be cooking classes. Majority of people on EBT have no idea how to cook a meal and rely on expensive processed garbage. $20 of ingredients can make a large dish that can last for several days and is 100% more nutritious. Getting rid of Home EC was a mistake too because it taught people how to 'adult' and taught them basic home skills. Those skills are not getting taught or passed down at all anymore and its crippling peoples ability to run a house and raise a family.
There needs to be an addition of nutritional education and I guess home economics pushed in schools.

People are fucking retarded when it comes to food. I know someone who thought they were being healthy by eating flavored yogurt that came with fruit in a syrup for lunch. I wanted to just slide them a bowl of sugar and tell them to save a step.
 
I think a new requirement for EBT should be cooking classes. Majority of people on EBT have no idea how to cook a meal and rely on expensive processed garbage. $20 of ingredients can make a large dish that can last for several days and is 100% more nutritious. Getting rid of Home EC was a mistake too because it taught people how to 'adult' and taught them basic home skills. Those skills are not getting taught or passed down at all anymore and its crippling peoples ability to run a house and raise a family.
Are you teaching the White man's cooking? Decolonialize your food and make some authentic dirt cookies.
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I think a new requirement for EBT should be cooking classes. Majority of people on EBT have no idea how to cook a meal and rely on expensive processed garbage. $20 of ingredients can make a large dish that can last for several days and is 100% more nutritious. Getting rid of Home EC was a mistake too because it taught people how to 'adult' and taught them basic home skills. Those skills are not getting taught or passed down at all anymore and its crippling peoples ability to run a house and raise a family.
I swear to Christ folks should be required to take some sort of "How to adult" class before they get a diploma in high school. How to balance a checkbook, how to do your taxes, how to change a flat, how to fix a leaky sink, a constant running toilet, how to make sausage gravy and biscuits, and how to sew up a hole in a pair of pants or a shirt. Wouldn't take more than a semester, and would help so much. maybe even offer a follow up how to grow some veggies, or how eat a balanced diet.
 
Your insurance or your life savings is paying up to six figures for chemotherapy and it just devastates you.
I mean... you can't take it with you.
but they shouldn't be pushing them to get poisoned to the point where they can't get out of bed and end up regretting not taking the 6 normal months.
I think what happens is a lot of people do get warned that the chemo is going to suck ass, go with the chemo anyway, and then regret it because it does, indeed, suck ass. Here I am speaking generally, not in the case of your relatives.
how to change a flat
There are a shocking number of people who cannot do this.
 
If you're on welfare they should make you get your tubes tied after three kids, or they should just cap you at three kids. This perpetual welfare and incentivization of shitting out useless tar babies who will grow up to follow in your monkey paw is fucking ridiculous.
One. The number needs to be capped at one. Sub replacement rates. You want more children, you pay for it out of pocket. Five generations max before the feral nigger problem is no longer a problem.
 
I love Larry Elder. Elder, Thomas, Ben Carson and others.. Wish there were more truly smart negroes out there. ETA: and Thomas Sowell of course.


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They're going to pretend to be completely outraged about this.

Don't forget they let someone who said the US Deserved 9/11 take over GI-Joe, and who promptly race and sex swapped every single character, including turning one into a morbidly obese samoan.
 
I swear to Christ folks should be required to take some sort of "How to adult" class before they get a diploma in high school. How to balance a checkbook, how to do your taxes, how to change a flat, how to fix a leaky sink, a constant running toilet, how to make sausage gravy and biscuits, and how to sew up a hole in a pair of pants or a shirt. Wouldn't take more than a semester, and would help so much. maybe even offer a follow up how to grow some veggies, or how eat a balanced diet.
We used to do that, it was called Home Economics. It used up valuable "Why Whites are the Monsters of History: Why the Holocaust was the only important historical event in every culture everywhere and how you can never do enough to make up for it." time, so it had to go.
 
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I swear to Christ folks should be required to take some sort of "How to adult" class before they get a diploma in high school. How to balance a checkbook, how to do your taxes, how to change a flat, how to fix a leaky sink, a constant running toilet, how to make sausage gravy and biscuits, and how to sew up a hole in a pair of pants or a shirt. Wouldn't take more than a semester, and would help so much. maybe even offer a follow up how to grow some veggies, or how eat a balanced diet.
Lol, to think the people who run our world want people to be independent citizens instead of completely dependent consoooomers. You're not supposed to learn any practical skills, because they want you be endlessly spending more money, getting deeper into debt, and remaining helpless and dependent on the professionals and the authorities. (Remember the line from Brave New World - "Ending is better than mending.")

Cooking healthier, tastier food at a more economical price? How would all the restaurant chains be able to take all your money? How would the medical and pharmaceutical companies be able to keep you constantly unhealthy and spending money on drugs and medical care?
 
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But you have to look at the side effects of chemotherapy and radiation and weigh whether or not you want to cling to an extra few months or a year or two. I know that sounds easy but you also have to take into account the QUALITY of that life. I'd rather count down the clock living like a normal person popping morphine like they're tic tacs and crossing things off my bucket list then laying in a hospital bed looking like a hairless mummy who is in constant agony from vomiting and the chemo shits.
Option A sounds like a good reason for people to not develop an opioid addiction so that in case of terminal cancer the painkillers remain effective longer.
I swear to Christ folks should be required to take some sort of "How to adult" class before they get a diploma in high school. How to balance a checkbook, how to do your taxes, how to change a flat, how to fix a leaky sink, a constant running toilet, how to make sausage gravy and biscuits, and how to sew up a hole in a pair of pants or a shirt. Wouldn't take more than a semester, and would help so much. maybe even offer a follow up how to grow some veggies, or how eat a balanced diet.
Is this before or after we abolish the Department of Education?
 
What debacle, that he properly maintained his lot, and as a result was one of the only surviving homes in that stretch, despite the thermal sensors indicating heat sufficient to be a house fire before going offline?
The blubbering on CNN before realizing his mansion didn’t burn down was kinda pathetic.

At least see the damn thing before reacting all emotional and feminine.

If Kamala had done that you’d laugh at her hysterical ass and rightfully so.
 
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Option A sounds like a good reason for people to not develop an opioid addiction so that in case of terminal cancer the painkillers remain effective longer.
Oh believe me my main man, the stuff they give you at the end would make Kurt Cobain high. When you're at the end of cancer, they give you shit so strong you can overdose an elephant on it. Not only that but they give you way more than you need. My grandma pretty much didn't even have a schedule to take her pills her doctor basically told her to "Take one whenever you're in pain."
Pain management at that late in the game it's basically your doctor telling you "These cancerous cells are eating you alive but don't worry because I'm going to give you enough shit that you're not going to feel anything."
We used to do that, it was called Home Economics. It used up valuable "Why Whites are the Monsters of History: Why the Holocaust was the only important historical event in every culture everywhere and how you can never do enough to make up for it." time, so it had to go.
I took home economics so I can hang out with this girl I liked my freshman year. You actually learn some pretty useful stuff in that class. It was a shame though, because after that year the school phased it out along with shop.
 
I think a new requirement for EBT should be cooking classes. Majority of people on EBT have no idea how to cook a meal and rely on expensive processed garbage. $20 of ingredients can make a large dish that can last for several days and is 100% more nutritious. Getting rid of Home EC was a mistake too because it taught people how to 'adult' and taught them basic home skills. Those skills are not getting taught or passed down at all anymore and its crippling peoples ability to run a house and raise a family.
Out of curiosity, does anyone know a good resource for these types of things if you wanted to learn better house keeping skills?
 
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