Olimpia

Healthcare marketer & business owner • Former molecular biologist • In my best wife era • Adoptive mom of 1 & stepmom of 2 • Conservative Española in Colorado

[Olimpia @loligrantham]

It's not fun, it's just true. Most people know teachers and have formed their opinions based on experience. I can count on one hand how many truly talented teachers I had in grade school, the rest were mediocre at best. So of course there are some good ones, but the majority don't seem to be, and we've made it so the mediocre ones never get fired.

[Olimpia @loligrantham]

@DolceVenezia74 C’est une tragédie. Ces gens sont des barbares.

[Olimpia @loligrantham]

We recieved some good news and my heart is so full of gratitude. We're not through it yet but sometimes you pray for something for what feels like a long time and when an answer finally comes, all you can do is thank God for hearing you. Feels like validation that we're doing the right thing.

If anyone has something on their heart that they'd like prayers for, please let me know. I'll be keeping you in mind during my rosary today.

[Olimpia @loligrantham]

Would you really care that much though if you saw someone else getting flowers? And would that make you a sociopath?

Also she didn't (and neither did I) that getting or wanting the flowers/prom proposal is stupid. She said it was a stupid way to be asked to prom. Then realized it was a gesture from her boyfriend and clearly felt badly about it.

I don't mean this as an insult but you sound very young, as though you don't have the life experience to really comment on this topic because you're making really disproportionate inferences. You just chastized someone else for assuming to know how she felt and here you are essentially projecting resentment or sociopathy into her thought process.

Not going to comment again but thanks for your thoughts.

[Olimpia @loligrantham]

That does not make her a sociopath lmao That doesn't follow at all. I would find it very romantic if my husband brought me flowers but I would not find it romantic if a meth head at the gas station brought me flowers. You are allowed to feel different things depending on context. That does not make someone a sociopath and it's odd that that's immediately what you jump to.

[Olimpia @loligrantham]

@wr0ngwh0le @resisfertile I certainly said no such thing

[Olimpia @loligrantham]

@TheMatHatterz @lawsonatlas It's just not though, sorry. It's interesting that you're getting this defensive about it though, it's almost like you know it's true, fCkN rEtARd.

[Olimpia @loligrantham]

@wr0ngwh0le @resisfertile To be fair, she didn't realize it was a romantic gesture for HER. I watched a friends' proposal at Seaworld using dolphins that I thought was a little cringe, but had it been me I would have been in tears (like I was when I was proposed to... which was not at Sea World.)

[Mack @kenzietuff]

Most of the issues within modern marriages stem from viewing the individuals within one still as two complete separate entities. There is a reason “two become one” is supposed to be reality. No competing for interests, no resentment, you’re one thing now. Serve one, serve both.

[Olimpia @loligrantham]

@wylfcen Flittermouse is beautiful, I love that

[Olimpia @loligrantham]

People don't believe me now when I tell them that 10 years ago I was so well-respected as a biologist and chameleon-keeper that I'm cited in a couple books on their care and that I was sponsored to go to Madagascar to see them in the wild.

Totally different lifetime ago!

[Olimpia @loligrantham]

I haven't really run into any at work, thankfully, but I did have a pretty wild experience with a girl I befriended many years ago.

When we met, she was going through some “bad luck” and was between jobs with a young son, but I didn't think much of it. The economy was tough at the time.

One night, we met a small group of guys while out, and the same guy caught both our eyes. Except he and I immediately hit it off and started dating (we ended up together for 3 years). Almost immediately afterwards, she started doing some very strange things, like driving to my house, drunk as a skunk, just to berate me for dating him because he'd essentially rejected her (by ignoring?)

When I tried to end the friendship, she tried to hold all the things I'd lent her (a coat, some books, etc.) for ransom, demanding a $500 “friendship fee” to get them back Lol. I let her keep everything. I wasn't about to pay someone to return my own things.

After I realized she was genuinely unwell, I looked her up online and discovered she'd lost her job at a children's nonprofit after being arrested for child endangerment. Apparently, she'd been arrested evading authorities while running on foot across I-75 in Florida with her toddler in her arms.

Probably the first person I met that really, truly, needed to be on some sort of medication.

[Bridget Phetasy @BridgetPhetasy]

Just because I can understand why my toddler gets mad, it doesn’t mean she’s right and it doesn’t mean I allow her to destroy the house.

We are either a civilized society or we are not.

[Mark Taylor @Mark___Taylor]

They aren’t burning historic buildings because of economic reasons, they’re burning them because they are important to the French, they hate the French, and they are not French.

People keep acting like their targets are random.

[Olimpia @loligrantham]

Officially on matching warm slipper season

[Olimpia @loligrantham]

Color me absolutely shocked.

The party of "empathy" is so nearsighted they can't even imagine how a pretty moderate conservative with hundreds of hours of his actual thoughts on video thinks or feels.

You have no theory of mind for us. Charlie was none of those things; he debated ideas you do not like with patience and good-faith, collaborated with people of all races, faiths, and creeds, and was smeared by the people that can't stand disagreement.

You think that he was motivated by bigotry and malice, like racism or sexism, because you can't imagine any alternative thought-process. To someone like you, his (and our) motivations cannot possibly be rooted in compassion because you have no ability to step into our minds. No curiosity to try.

We on the other hand recognize that you mean well, even if your well-intentioned but misguided policies all lead to worse 2nd and 3rd order consequences. That in an attempt to show compassion to the career criminal, you put innocent people in mortal danger, for example, or that in an attempt to make things more "fair" you create policies of active discrimination, lower standards of qualification, and higher human error. We get what you're TRYING to do, we actually do empathize with what you feel, we just think you're wrong.

Disagree with our solutions and strategies if you want, that's fair game for a debate (like Charlie wanted), but stop pretending that you have an acute sense of empathy when you illustrated immediately that you can't even come close to what someone like Charlie thought and believed.

[🦝trash panda🏳️‍⚧️ @TrashPandaGirll]

@SmithWinstonIng Empathy is one's ability to mentally place themselves in another person's shoes.

When I put myself in Kirk's shoes, I find that he was a bigoted podcaster that pushed racism and bigotry to a largely Christian audience to fuel fascism and Christian Nationalism.

So...

[Olimpia @loligrantham]

Eh I agree with you in principle but I don't love that she chose to see if she could slip in a dinner instead. I think if a drink date is going well you'll end up getting food anyway, but it's the trying to override his plan that feels a little cringe. Perhaps asking differently would have been better received.

But yes, in principle I agree with you. With cocktails at ~$15 a pop, what are you really saving if you have 2-3 drinks each vs a couple entrees.