This! I love my sweet boy and he's so gentle and kind 99% of the time. But sometimes he choses violence. He is the reason I think all people who keep big cats as pets are not logical.
This, and compliments
This happens at my job too. Overall the benefits of my union far outweigh how shit they are and the union dues. I'd rather have a crappy union than none at all.
I know my company would screw me over much worse than my union and company combined if there was no union.
Rather than paying a living wage, Broward college has decided to distribute food bags to their employees. 50 bags for 500 employees 👍
(They do regularly do this for students too)
I'm not sure but I don't think the point is statistics. I think the point is to treat everyone equally despite the colour of their skin until you know them personally, and their situation.
Some info that I found important that isn't in this article but is in the Wiki:
He spent 18 months in hospital, before going home. He was paralyzed from the neck down. His parents rented a portable generator and a truck to bring him and his iron lung home. Beginning in 1954, with help from the March of Dimes and a physical therapist named Mrs. Sullivan, Alexander taught himself glossopharyngeal breathing which allowed him to leave the iron lung for gradually increasing periods of time.
Alexander died from a COVID-19 infection on March 11, 2024, at the age of 78. He was one of the last two people still using the technology, alongside Martha Lillard, who first entered an iron lung in 1953.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Alexander_(polio_survivor)
(I haven't brought over the sources, they can be found on the Wiki link)
They take quite a lot of money from the British public (taxes, not donations. They = British royal family). Part of the cost of that is being in the public eye. If she really thought royals deserved privacy I'm sure she would have said something when Meghan was being destroyed by the media.
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ellievhall/meghan-markle-kate-middleton-double-standards-royal
Let's escalate everything to death
This sucks. I hope you find your peaceful place on board. If you switch your hours and become night owls for the remaining days that might help. Cruise ships at 4am are different to cruise ships at 4pm.
Your story put me in mind of my MIL and shrimps. She loves shrimps and thinks they're fancy. Anytime she makes them for a family gathering she spends a great deal of time encouraging me to try them, and after the third or forth request I always do, and I always find the texture disgusting, I always say "the seasoning is lovely, I just really hate the texture of shrimp," and she's always so surprised that I don't like her shrimp. Your parents love cruises so much they can't imagine that anyone wouldn't. And I don't know the solution because pretending to be willing to try a sea insect is a much smaller commitment than four days on a boat. However, if they do keep insisting that you repeat this experience see if you can pay the difference and get a balcony. Maybe see if they have this option for the remaining time this cruise.
Both sides are not the same. However, both sides are terrible. One just more so than the other.
Intersectionality
