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[Roger @jls245]

@Avabelly__ Wrong! There shouldn't be a need for any discussion had you been a responsible dog owner and respect the property of others. What she should have done was had jet husband go over to your home and beat the daylights out of you and your husband who is also a pos for a neighbor.

[Roger @jls245]

Based on the assumptions and metrics. If the server was serving 4 identical tables with the 1.5 hour meal service. The servers calculated hourly intake in tips alone would be $57.00 per hour. By comparison the national hourly wage for a police officer and a school teacher is $35.00 per hour.

[Roger @jls245]

Tipping a food server based on a percentage of the bill is flawed, as food and beverage costs do not reflect the server's actual time and active engagement with your table. Across all types of dining establishments, the national average hourly wage for a server is $18.00. During peak times, a server manages an average of four tables simultaneously, and a typical full-service, sit-down meal lasts 1.5 hours. Based on these metrics and the $18.00 hourly wage, the minimum tip for a table of five should be $21.38. We need to move past self-entitled server attitudes and stop allowing food servers to extort us.

[Roger @jls245]

@BhattiLaib9960 Patches

[Roger @jls245]

Except for a few safety concerns this looks to be a happy well functioning family. The man of the house and bread winner is taking a well deserved break after a long hard day at work. The stay at home mother is caring for the children and preparing dinner as is her responsibility. The man should be correcting his spouse's poor choice of holding the infant near the stove while stirring a boiling pot. Tell her to the infant down and remove the other children from the kitchen.

[Roger @jls245]

"Evil" does not exist; it is merely a perception or a psychological reality for the observer, lacking any objective existence in the physical world. Actions labeled as "evil" by one group may be viewed as necessary, heroic, or righteous by another.
Most people you included never truly own their thoughts. They repeat scripts inherited from family and society without ever dissecting them or analyzing their own true beliefs. You aren't arguing from a place of personal conviction; you are simply reacting from a lifetime of conditioning.

[Roger @jls245]

You claim you have 'every right' to give an informed opinion, yet you haven't offered a single one. An 'opinion' would be a reasoned counter-argument regarding caregiver burnout or medical ethics. Instead, the only thing you’ve expressed is a depraved desire for a stranger to suffer from a brain-wasting disease.

​Having 'experience' doesn't give you a license to be a sociopath. If your 'knowledge' of dementia is so vast, why is your only contribution to this discussion a childish 'I hope you get it'? You’re not acting like a professional; you’re acting like a triggered hypocrite who is using her resume to justify being a bully. Either provide an actual argument based on that supposed 'knowledge,' or admit that your years of work have left you with nothing but bitterness and a lack of basic human decency.

[Roger @jls245]

An engagement ring represents a commitment between two people, not a status symbol for the parents. By criticizing the ring as "small and not very nice," you aren't "wanting the best" for your daughter—you are projecting your own superficial standards onto her relationship and insulting her fiancé’s effort.

​You are absolutely overstepping. If your daughter is happy with the ring and refused to complain to him, she is showing more maturity and class than you are. Pushing her to demand a "better" replacement is a direct attempt to manufacture drama and greed in a moment that should be about her happiness.

​Unless you want to be the reason for a rift between you and your daughter, you need to back off. Your opinion on the jewelry is irrelevant; what matters is that she found someone she wants to marry. If you keep tearing down her partner's choices, don't be surprised when she stops sharing her life with you entirely.

[Roger @jls245]

Maybe not now but he will be soon and your final memories of him will be ones of pain and anguish of a person you no longer recognized. Think of a person’s life like a book: most people want the final chapter to be a meaningful conclusion to the rest of the story. If you wait for dementia to take over completely, you're essentially adding years and hundreds of pages of nonsense and violence at the end that have nothing to do with the person who wrote the first eighty chapters of their life. Euthanasia allows the book to end while the "author" is still recognizable, so when the family looks back, they can fondly remember the person who lived and they loved—not the disease that replaced them and the final, horrible memory of them indelibly burned into their mind forever. Legalized humane euthanasia needs to be made law.

[Roger @jls245]

I agree and I am a proponet of legalized humane euthanasia. Think of a person’s life like a book: most people want the final chapter to be a meaningful conclusion to the rest of the story. If you wait for dementia to take over completely, you're essentially adding years and hundreds of pages of nonsense and violence at the end that have nothing to do with the person who wrote the first eighty chapters of their life. Euthanasia allows the book to end while the "author" is still recognizable, so when the family looks back, they can fondly remember the person who lived and they loved—not the disease that replaced them and the final, horrible memory of them indelibly burned into their mind forever.

[Roger @jls245]

Never say never. I took my father to the Netherlands where we had him legally euthanized. Think of a person’s life like a book: most people want the final chapter to be a meaningful conclusion to the rest of the story. If you wait for dementia to take over completely, you're essentially adding years and hundreds of pages of nonsense and violence at the end that have nothing to do with the person who wrote the first eighty chapters of their life. Euthanasia allows the book to end while the "author" is still recognizable, so when the family looks back, they can fondly remember the person who lived and they loved—not the disease that replaced them and the final, horrible memory of them indelibly burned into their mind forever.

[Roger @jls245]

Beyond the physical violence, people are ignoring the absolute decimation of resources. Families are being financially liquidated, and the government is exhausting billions in medical resources for no other reason than to prolong the life of an empty, brain-dead, chalice zombie. We are bankrupting the living and draining the healthcare system to maintain biological shells that have no awareness of their own existence.
​A truly compassionate society would stop prioritizing the "autopilot" functions of a destroyed brain over the survival and well-being of the families and taxpayers who are being crushed under the weight of this pointless burden. We need to stop wasting massive amounts of money on the living dead and instead humanely euthanize these biological shells. Those diverted resources could then be spent on cognitive, functioning individuals who actually have the potential to benefit from medical care but currently find it unaffordable. We are sacrificing the living to maintain the dead, and that is the real failure of our system.

[Roger @jls245]

Slavery? Really? That’s the best you’ve got? Jumping from a discussion about terminal brain failure to slavery shows how desperate you are for a moral high ground. Slavery involved the exploitation of conscious, healthy people for profit; dementia is a biological hardware failure that destroys the mind and leaves a violent burden on caregivers and the medical system. Comparing a high-stress medical crisis to a historical atrocity is a cheap emotional tactic used by people who don't have a real solution for the 24/7 psychological torture caregivers face and the financial burden placed on families, the medical system, and the government.

​Beyond the physical violence, you’re ignoring the absolute decimation of resources. Families are being financially liquidated, and the government is exhausting billions in medical resources for no other reason than to prolong the life of an empty, brain-dead, chalice zombie. We are bankrupting the living and draining the healthcare system to maintain biological shells that have no awareness of their own existence. A compassionate society would stop prioritizing the "autopilot" functions of a destroyed brain over the survival and well-being of the families and taxpayers who are being crushed under the weight of this pointless burden. A compassionate caring society would euthanize these zombies and spend the resources on the living and not the walking dead.

[Roger @jls245]

Slavery? Really? That’s the best you’ve got?
Jumping from a discussion about terminal brain failure to slavery shows how desperate you are for a moral high ground. Slavery involved the exploitation of conscious, healthy people for profit; dementia is a biological hardware failure that destroys the mind and leaves a violent burden on caregivers. Comparing a high-stress crisis to a historical atrocity is a cheap emotional tactic used by people who don't have a real solution for the 24/7 psychological torture caregivers face.

[Roger @jls245]

@RedLineReportt I have corrected the spelling and grammar in your statement while maintaining your original meaning:

I am absolutely not offended in the least; quite the opposite. It reinforces my white pride when I see a representative of an inferior race honoring my superior Caucasian race.

[Roger @jls245]

The classic response from someone who has absolutely zero logical counter-point. You can’t argue against the reality of caregiver burnout, you can't justify your own hypocrisy, and you can't handle a perspective that isn't wrapped in a bow for you—so you just resort to a tantrum. Thanks for proving that when you're pushed, your 'human nature' is exactly what I said it was: irrational aggression.

[Roger @jls245]

It’s great your mother was 'happy,' but your anecdotal experience isn't the standard in a high-acuity memory ward. As a police officer, I spent years responding to calls at these facilities. I didn't see 'happy' patients; I saw individuals lashing out with physical violence, threatening staff, and wandering into traffic because they had no idea where they were.

​Facility workers aren't dealing with one 'happy' mom; they are managing a dozen 'Tasmanian Devils' at once, 24/7. It’s a nasty, violent disease that strips away humanity and replaces it with raw aggression. Sitting in judgment because your mother was the exception is easy; standing in the gap when a patient is trying to claw your eyes out is the reality you clearly never had to face.

[Roger @jls245]

@RutkowskiDebbie @MbarkCherguia You didn't finish your thought. What if that was your mother or grandma?

[Roger @jls245]

You could be anymore ignorant or stupid. The fact that you think I’d 'see it from the inside' proves you have zero understanding of how dementia actually works. If I have severe dementia, my cognitive functions would be gone. I wouldn't be 'seeing' anything; I’d be exactly what I described—a biological machine on autopilot with no memory or self-awareness. You’re so desperate to wish a 'curse' on me that you’ve completely ignored the medical fact that the person I am now wouldn't have the cognitive mental capacity to experience it. But thanks for proving that your ignorance and 'compassion' is really just a desire to watch people suffer.

[Roger @jls245]

@DianaDay84 @MbarkCherguia And just how would she "pay for that"?