DigitalTraveler42

I think the best way to do that is to remember that if the relationship is important to you then it’s your responsibility to be the one who tries, but you have to understand, some people just are hard to get along with, and others are just boring, but if you love or care for them you just accept that and find a way to bridge the gap between you and them. Understand that you may just have to give up, it is what it is, but making the effort absolves yourself of the guilt, you tried, it’s all any of us can do.

I find taking interest on what they’re interested in really helps, sometimes it will surprise you that their interests can become a shared interest. My kids and I can talk for hours about their stuff, and I’m just happy to participate.

Also, be a good listener, anyone can talk and be the life of the party and show off the charisma, but listening takes patience, understanding, empathy and compassion.

Best of luck to you.

I would say I completely agree, but during the Mongols and Huns time causing headaches for Russia they were mostly city-states, rather than an actual nation state yet. So Tsar-ist is as far back as you can really say and have it mean collective Russia as a whole. Gotta remember Kyiv predates all of Russia by a couple of hundred years, Rus the original city-state was a colony of Kyiv.

As far as China goes, I’m no expert either, but their history is full of hundreds of thousands or millions being killed off somehow, usually driven by man’s own actions, even now men are dying lonely due to their dumb ass birthing policies. Life is meaningless to them, and women’s lives are worth even less.

The good old /s would have helped, but yeah I know I’m already high strung, I’m just used to people around me pulling me back to normalcy, but man some of these people seem to want to fight over dumb shit, no different at all from Reddit or worse, but I’m not here too often, although more often now with all of the enshittification, but it’s like “damn I definitely do not want to check my inbox” lol.

Also I’ve been banned from Reddit for years and have been generally glad to not be able to participate in the comments, so maybe I’m just not used to handling modern Internet discourse anymore.

They just have a similar value on life as China has, none, and this isn’t something new, this all goes back to Tsar-ist times, but may be getting a bit worse as Russia gets more desperate to fulfill the current strong man in power’s wishes.

John McCain described Russia as a Mafia owned Gas Station and when you think of Russia from that perspective everything else kind of starts to make sense.

Russians are brainwashed and tightly controlled, and they’ve been in this state of being basically since Tsar-ist times, you don’t just shake off generations of manipulation and conditioning, they’re going to be a problem until they choose to solve it or somebody chooses to solve them.

One story stands out to me about the Soichi Olympics, where the visiting athletes were basically warned about all of the spy devices by very scared staff, in mother Russia Big Brother is always watching (just like America these days).

Sure let’s be pendantic about my obvious point

Taking people against their will should imply everything you felt you had to add, without having to say it.

Also why is everyone on this app so fn high strung, like 75% of replies seem to be people trying to pick fights, some of y’all just seem addicted to ragebait, and FOR REAL take that shit to Facebook or Xitter.

I dunno, guess you shouldn’t go over to your neighbors and start invading their lands, taking their women and children, and household appliances, or something… Maybe Russia should leave…

My wife and I have been trying to move back for years now, NYC Metro is way too expensive for us, my family comes from Queens and mostly lives on LI, it’s been difficult because of costs, but also because every time we think we’ve got a house we want another buyer swoops in with cash or way more than we can match.

My wife’s family is from the Buffalo Metro area and I’m trying to sell her on moving to Michigan or Canada and just cutting across to see her fam when we need to, I spent a couple of years living in the Detroit Metro area and loved it, and it’s much more affordable.

Overall I’m sure you could find a job, part time or otherwise there’s always work in the city, but you probably wouldn’t be able to afford to live in the city without public assistance or living in public housing, or having a shit load of roommates. The best thing to do is finish school and find a job there that pays well, then move, but even then probably should consider moving to an area that is an easy commute into the city instead.

Could be worse OP, could be a movie about the North Koreans successfully invading America, you know, North Korea, a country that barely has a navy and who’s Air Force is mostly old Migs from several decades ago, a country who starts threatening their neighbors whenever their food supply runs low because their chubby leader eats too much while the rest of the country is at famine levels of hunger.

At least the original version of the movie was against the Russians while they were a super power.