I've given up on having expectations of other people.
I've decided to just be nice to everyone no matter the circumstance or reaction. If you don't want to be nice or polite ... screw you.
If you want to be unkind, negative or rude ... I'm going away from you as fast as possible ... and if I can't avoid you, I'm giving you an earful of how I feel about your stinking guts
When an authoritarian country does it, everyone goes crazy
When a company does it to make more money and take more control, it's just business as usual.
Short trumpet solo
Or if its in your basement on a concrete floor .... the sounds of a drunken brawl happening downstairs.
You also have to consider barometric pressure and humidity. I find even moderate humidity in winter time combined with low pressure makes it feel miserable, damp and cool ... even with a moderate temperature.
20 C in the summer is fine because its moderate humidity, moderate pressure and everything is in equilibrium.
But 20 C in the winter inside a house with a bit high humidity, low pressure makes it feel like the cold is seeping past your skin and into your bones. So the way most people deal with it is to raise the temperature ... but it seldom cures the feeling because temperature / humidity / barometric pressure are still not in equilibrium.
The way my family used to deal with it was to turn the house into a literal sauna and raise the temperature to 30 C ... I'm Indigenous and this was normal life for me but my wife is non-Indigenous and she gets upset with me if it gets too warm in the house at winter time. I remember camping in the winter time with my dad for hunting / trapping trips in the dead of winter. He'd put on a fire and raise the temperature of the tent or hunt camp up to 40 C or more! I remember one night finding a crack in the wall of a hunt cabin to breathe in cool air because it was so freakin hot inside.
Put on more clothes.
As soon as the cold weather starts, I wear long underwear. Yeah, go ahead and call me an old man .... but no one ever sees me expect my wife who constantly complains about it being cold in the house. I tell her to put in more clothes but she says she doesn't want to be an old woman. I keep telling her that I don't care ... as long as you're warm.
And it always confuses me when people make fun of others wearing long underway .... unless someone tells you, you don't notice.
I've been outside in minus 30 degree weather and people around me shivering and asking me how I can stand the cold. I tell them I'm wearing long underwear and they laugh at me.
And the thing is .... you can't tell if someone is wearing long underwear ... it's completely unnoticeable.
I had a dream the other night of being on top of a high rise building ... I looked at the sunset only to realize that a large wall of water was approaching ready to flood the city I was in ... then I woke up.
The strangest part was that this would have normally scared me ... but that in the dream, "I felt like 'meh' so the world's going to end - great ... I felt like I didn't care that things were ending. "
Going to a bar to meet someone was the first problem. It's far better to try to meet people in public places that don't involve alcohol, drugs and loud music.
Sometimes I just respond with .... SPEAK LOUDER INTO THE HORN SON!!!
"I'd like to send this letter to the Prussian Consulate in Siam by aeromail. Am I too late for the 4:30 auto-gyro?"
Beautiful summary of a complex thought ... I'll have to keep this for future reference .. thanks
The stupid one is not Trump ... chances are he knows how dumb this all is.
The stupid ones are the people who designed and organized all this, the American people who just take it as normal and all the supposed professionals everywhere in journalism and news agencies who just report non critically.
He isn't the idiot .... we are.