When AI decides to destroy the human virus, it now knows exactly how to create a bug capable of it. Probably more likely than pumping out a bunch of humanoid robots with guns, just create a bug, spread it around, and mess with our ability to communicate in time to stop the spread. BAM. Easy-peasy, humans are now down to a manageable 1 billion or so individuals.

The Body Keeps Score.

Anne Marie is getting all the rest now that she was never able to find after that tragic day.

putting work requirements on healthcare is what damned it.

Right now, Georgia is the only state that imposes a work requirement for Medicaid coverage. But more than a dozen largely Republican-led states already plan to seek approval from the Trump administration to impose work requirements on Medicaid enrollees.

Even moving it to an annual work verification isn’t going to help. People are struggling to find and maintain work, so why apply for something that’s going to be stripped from them in the future, through no fault of their own?

Thousands of others never finished applying, according to the state’s data, as reports of technical glitches mounted. The state also never hired enough people to help residents sign up

the Pathways program has cost federal and state taxpayers more than $86.9 million, three-quarters of which has gone to consultants

The whole thing is a republican boondoggle. They imposed requirements that doomed sign-up, then funneled money to their friends companies, all so they could performatively throw up their hands in despair and say “well, I guess government provided healthcare IS just a waste of tax payer money!” Fucking grifters getting people killed because they’d rather play politics than help people.

They’re eating the cats and dogs

I know they will be there for me when I need it

Here’s the thing, relationships take work. Not just marriages or romantic ones, they all take work. Effort needs to be made by both parties, or else the relationship will die. I had a friend that affectionately called it “friend work,” where they would spend a bit of time each day putting in the effort needed to maintain a healthy friendship, because if she didn’t, then the relationship would suffer for it.

Not wanting to engage in the world right now is very common, and downright reasonable considering the general state of things. If a relationship you have with someone is mentally stressing you, or sapping your energy, consider whether or not that relationship is valuable to you, and act accordingly. If the relationship is important to you, and you want it to continue or grow, then you have to put effort into it. If the relationship is one-sided, and feels draining, and you want it to end, then put forth zero effort into it, and it will naturally go away.

Adding to OPs note:

In Makt Myrkranna, Dracula comes to England not alone, but rather with a deaf-dumb woman who is apparently his slave and together with another beautiful aristocratic female vampire, Josephine, who flaunts her sexuality.[20] Josephine is described as having her “neck and upper chest revealed” while wearing a “necklace of glittering diamonds”, whom Harker finds “something indecent” about, despite his evident attraction to her.

or “doing a US health insurance”