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Yes I think that is possible. I don't think it is necessary to have any prevailing thought about it. This leads to silence and inner peace. It looks like the most effective way to approach this and extra effort ends up making it harder than it needs to be.

I currently work at a Kroger grocery store. I have worked there for about 3 years. I have been a good employee. I nearly always showed up early and I did very well in nearly every part of the job as a front end associate. The only part I did poorly on was socializing with customers. The managers tell me to step to the side and say "hi thanks for coming in.". If I don't do this, then they might fire me. Sometimes the managers stand behind for five orders straight waiting for me to forget to greet the customer so they can threaten to fire me. I am not going to tolerate this. It is annoying and I am leaving because of this. I think they are focusing on employees who are most likely to fail to greet the customers. I received a significant warning for my actions. I think the company is making a poor policy decision that is making it annoying to work at Kroger. I tried talking to the store management and I called corporate Kroger, but it looks like nothing is going to change. Kroger is over stressing the importance of politeness to the point that it is causing more harm than help. I tried to discuss moving me to a role that would not require as much socializing. This could be linked to autism, but there is nothing Kroger plans to do for any autism program. There is no way for Kroger to nurture any of my abilities and no role they can offer me. I will not be working on customer service because these kinds of relationships with work are not sustainable. I am purchasing a car to help me move to jobs further away. This gives me more options than I previously had. I still have an associate degree in general studies from a community college. This also limits my options. 1. Do you know what kind I would be better suited for? 2. Does what I described qualify as harassment? I am scared to make this call and I don't know what will happen to me if I make this kind of complaint.

I think Richard Nixon had some valuable things to say about environmental protection. Unfortunately he was later impeached for the Watergate scandal. If not for this corruption, Nixon could be a great example healthy conservatism when it comes to responsible use of the environment. Here is the history of the epa. https://www.epa.gov/history/origins-epa

@universe I forgot to add that during this pandemic I learned that most Americans live paycheck to paycheck. I would have to be out of mind to allow this kind of life. I still feel pretty lost sometimes as to what I should be doing on a regular basis.

@universe I would be absolutely miserable working staying in customer service forever until I die. Sometimes I think I should go back to college for a business degree or education degree. The point would be to build a chess school. If not just a chess school, it could include other board games and teach people to master them. I am interested in chess programs that help people born in low income families because I think poverty is a waste of talent. Wasting talent is miserable and customer service is one way to do it. Changing my job is only a temporary stepping stone unless I do something way better than what I am currently doing. How did you discover your talents?

@Danioover9000 I understand that the ideologies you mentioned are problematic, and conservatives can easily be sucked into the dangers of traditionalism. If I were to give a healthy example of conservatism, it would be calling out some of the unsustainable policy changes pushed by the radical left. The problem is that this can easily be used to turn the left into a socialist boogey man. A healthy conservative may improve upon hyper radicalism through demonstrating that slower evolution would be more sustainable. Without fear mongering, conservatives could argue that "no boarders, no wall, no USA at all" is too far. Conservatives could try to give a more accurate picture of how much time we have to stop climate change. There is biased science on both sides, and this would help us to become less paranoid and less absorbed in an environmentalist ideology. Stage blue and orange don't usually take environmental concerns seriously, so this could be hard to come by.

I am looking for other places to get a job. I found some better jobs that offer 18-20 dollars an hour, but are still customer service jobs. This would be better than Kroger paying me 13 dollars an hour, but it would not be a job I'm happy with. One of my biggest problems with working with Kroger is that it is unable to use my strengths to the fullest. The default is that my weaknesses come up time and time again, leading to long term misery. I would like to work somewhere that uses my strengths. My strengths come out best when I am in a state of flow. This can happen during chess tournaments and I had success with teaching chess in the past. This is a narrow interest, and I need to find out what are my key strengths. Would the life purpose course help?

I should probably do that. I like having my thought process formalized so I can make my best thinking system habitual. By offering my best to the people learning from me it pushes me to improve myself enough to compete with very strong players.

@integral I have been getting advice from other chess coaches. They said that I could make a pay pal account and I could use some kind of video chat to teach individual students. I can ask coaches in chess.com for more information. This will be a great way to get me more experience in what I want to do. One challenge is that I am not clear that I will make enough money and I may need another job.

@integral my online rating on license is about 2200. My peak rating was 2264 in classic. In rapid I am currently 2130. In blitz I am rated 2006. It took me many games, but I eventually managed to break the 2000 barrier in blitz. At one point I was in the top 200 players on lichess. I defeated 3 players rated higher than 2300 in classic time controls. They are very difficult opponents for me and I lost many games against these tough players. I won many tournaments and I trained the walnut hills chess team well enough to place second in the queen city classic. It was because of the fact that I was the first student in walnut hills history to win the scholastic tournament series. Chess club became much more crowded after my victories were announced as I represented the school well.

Update This started off as politics, but now it is getting very personal and serious. My manager told me that she was going to fire me. I have talents that this company is not properly tapping into. I want to demonstrate my demonstrate my talents by giving Kroger says to improve customer satisfaction. When I call Kroger I will need to tell them three things. 1. The plastic bags I mentioned before. 2. Placing rubber bands over the flimsy blueberry containers to prevent them from spilling open so easily and causing messes. 3. The reason why I might have to quit. The Kroger managers want me to step to the side, make eye contact, and say "hi thanks for coming in.". I fail to do this for every single customer. I am one of the few employees who struggle with this. It could be linked to autism which can create awkward social interactions. This is bad if I work on the front end with many customers all the time. Other than socializing with customers I am exceptional when it comes to bagging efficiently and getting carts. I constantly find ways to stay busy, and I show up to work early nearly every single day. I worked for nearly 3 years, including the entirety of this pandemic. I received a hero bonus for two of the months in which I risked my life for this hazard. I need a role that will properly nurture my talents, or I can't stay at Kroger over something petty after everything I have been through. I am not valued in the way I should be.

I am a bag boy at Kroger, and I am heading talk about banning plastic bags by 2025, others tell me it is 2030. I have found some conflicting information in the disposable vs. Reusable debate that I need help with before I call Kroger. My argument is that Kroger should advertise reusable bags as more environmentally friendly while adding a recycling symbol on the reusable bags. It is meant to be more profitable to be environmentally friendly. Kroger could cut the production of paper bags as well with this approach to reusable bags. This is similar to replacing disposable States with washable straws. Is my argument a good argument? I did not call corporate Kroger yet because I found some information that shook my confidence in this decision. I want to make sure this is a good idea. Here a few sites. https://plastic.education/reusable-grocery-bags-good-or-bad-for-the-environment/ https://www.investors.com The counter argument from investors.com is that some reusable bags would have to be used 2000 times to make up for one disposable bag. My response is that many more plastic bags are used in a single trip compared to reusable bags. Secondly, typical fold-up bags and reusable bags made of recycled plastics, are much better than cotton bags. Should Kroger faze out both plastic and paper bags with reusable bags to be environmentally friendly? Am I making a good argument?

This is an extremely difficult issue to tackle. Mental health has a huge role to play in this. 62% of gun deaths in the United States are suicides. Public shootings are more common in the United States than most countries and there are many factors that play into this. There was a ted talk with a man who was about to attack a school, but he no longer had the desire to such a thing after his brain damage was corrected. There are many things that could cause mental health issues. 1. The American standard diet can contribute to mental health issues by damaging the normal development of the brain. If harmful ingredients like excessive sugar and others were removed, it may lead to fewer cases of depression. The American standard diet is associated with worsening cases of depression. This can lead people to getting fed up with life to the point that they kill people. https://www.uab.edu 2. Dispersing the target and reduce the number of people killed in the event of a shooting. For example, if classroom sizes were reduced, it would minimize casualties while making schools less of a target. The problem is that there are still massive public gatherings like the one in L.A. The bigger the target, the more people killed if there is an attack. 3. The Pentagon recently reported that it has a problem with white supremacist ideology. There are people who get sucked into toxic ideologies who then seek military training so they can use what they learn to kill people, by shooting up synagogues for instance. There are military stories of a sniper who sat on top of a college tower and then changed his location constantly so the police could not find him as he kept killing people. There are also many mental health issues for those returning from military service. If they are not properly treated, they might do something like this. 4. The black market is responsible for many of these shootings as well, and adding background checks to the NRA is necessary, but it would not be enough. The black market is also responsible for drug dealing. Drug dealing can cause mental health issues that could cause somebody shoot people during withdrawal symptoms from heroin. Alternative medicine like ibogain could be used to treat alcohol and heroin addictions that would lead people to becoming mass shooters. If the American medical industry were more open to psychedelics, it would make the illegal drug market less profitable while preventing people from suffering withdrawal symptoms that could cause shootings. LSD, psilocybin, DMT, and marijuana could all be removed from the illegal drug trade while maximizing medical benefits to treat mental disorders and make people loving to the point that they can't shoot people. 5. COVID rules have worsened anxiety and there are many people talking to online therapists. I am talking to one and others could benefit from doing the same. As for this particular case, it could be a combination of mental health and COVID rules, although there were many shootings before COVID. I would attribute this mainly to mental health because of all the shootings the same before it. COVID rules are an additional layer added to mental health and anxiety.

@Tammy Montevideo thank you for your support. I often feel frustrated with politics because I am trying to find ways in which I can take action, but it is very difficult. I can mention that plastic bags can be recycled into benches as well as other reusable bags. As it stands, Kroger recycles plastic bags to make more plastic bags.

@Heinrich Faust I noticed that. They both centralize a person's culture above the rest of the world. The dangers of ideologies that we resonate is that it turns off our scepticism because of our biases. It makes us defensive and can make us live in denial of what our cause is doing wrong. It is very easy to criticize people you disagree with because of how their biases are seen through. The people we agree with are the most dangerous, and we may need to deliberately step up our skepticism to counterbalance this phenomenon. That is not to say we should be cynical, but that we should really compare the claims of ideologies with our experiences to see if they are true for us. If they are not, then they must be maintained through unconsciousness.

I just watched a video that helped me to confront some of my deep fears regarding religion. I have grown by watching this 30 minute documentary. Self reflection I tried to figure out why I was so scared of religion. I considered the possibility that I was projecting and I was in denial of the similarities I have with the people in this video. When visiting a variety of spiritual schools in the past, I recognized that I resonated with values such as truth or God. I still did not want to join any religion and this led to inner confusion and conflict. I paid attention to how spiritual truths could easily be used to manipulate people. These deeper truths are very effective at getting people radicalized because it can easily be mixed with falsehood in order to deceive people. While watching the people in this video, I saw how delusional people became. They became sucked into white nationalism. I realized that I could be slowly indoctrinated into a toxic ideology so long as it mixed deeper truths with it. I am now oddly peaceful because I recognize that I am susceptible ideological corruptions. I could be one of the people in this video. I could be extremist who becomes a suicide bomber. My fear is reduced and I have become more capable of love. Politics This video can be used to understand what we are up against in the United States. Some people will never be convinced that Trump lost the election. At least not easily. Trump ran on anti corruption. This is one of the few spots in which Trump supporters could be worked with. These people may support term limits, anti gerrymandering, potentially anti lobbying, and other anti corruption efforts. These Windows of opportunity could be used to slowly reprogram some people. If they are not reprogrammed completely, at least it would steer them away from the most toxic ideologies. If this fails, then we will need to wait for toxic worldviews to die off, allowing evolution to progress. Religion do you think there is anything that could be done to work with the dangerous religious ideologies? If they had the chance they would put the bible in every public school. I can't see any window of opportunity that would pull these people away from this. So far Satanists are keeping them back by arguing that their religion should be taught in public schools as well.

I found another site on anti slavery. https://www.freedomunited.org There are a lot of petitions on this site as well. I signed the one on antislavery.org. I hope this helps to raise awareness of this unknown issue. Do you think petitions like these should be spread? I am considering adding these sorts of things to facebook. I am trying to be careful not to do unconscious politics and turn this into a crusade. This makes me very unsure of myself because I don't know how else to approach this issue. I think I'm doing a good thing and I don't think there is harm in trying to free the slaves.

I have been doing a lot of research on modern slavery lately. It is not a well know issue. I think this is by design because of mankind were more conscious of how we are benefiting from people exploited for slave labor, then we would not be able to maintain our current way of life. Shining a light on this issue is consciousness healing. Slavery can only be maintained through unconsciousness. There are estimated to be as many as 40 million slaves around the world. 400,000 of them are victims of human trafficking in the United States. 80% of slaves in the U.S. are women and children and are most often used for sexual exploitation. This is hurt by the backwards laws and failures of the criminal justice system. Because police officers in many countries are not properly trained to deal with the mentally ill, victims of slavery often end up being punished instead of helped. Escaped slaves are deeply traumatized by what happened to them, and they often can't speak the language of the law enforcement. This is because human traffickers target people who can't report them. Human traffickers in the United States for example, use the fear of deportation on illegal immigrants in order to keep them from fleeing or talking to the police. This is why the United States can help the issue of slavery through several policy changes. The following site has recommendations. For example, child marriage is still legal in the United States, and it creates an environment for sexual abuse. The site recommends raising the minimum age of marriage to 18. https://www.globalslaveryindex.org/2018/findings/country-studies/united-states/ I found another site from an international abolitionist movement. They have a petition to help get victims of slavery sufficient recovery from their abuse. This petition is in the UK, so I am not sure if it would take my name. Do you think we should sign petitions like these? https://www.antislavery.org/take-action/campaigns/protect-not-neglect/ Why I thought of this issue I am attempting to recapture the spirit of the original Republican party. The Republican party was originally formed to abolish slavery. I have been following the news and I have seen how corrupt the Republican party is. This party has degraded into the party of lawlessness and does not resemble the original Republican party at all. Republicans used to be radical leftists for trying to free the slaves. If the first republicans knew about modern slavery, they would be making posts like these. The United States benefits by importing electronics and clothing made from slave labor. I learned about a riot in an Apple factory located in India. The riot happened because workers were not being properly paid. Some people split hairs over wage theft vs. Slavery. In either case, the United States still benefits from importing goods created through exploitation. This riot is one thing that made me think of this. I am not sure about when people should try to address this less well known issue. There is currently a massive health pandemic and the vaccines have yet to be distributed. When do you think this issue should addressed?

I made a forum post about this in the government and politics section of you want to learn more.

I would like to add that nationalism can be used to deceive people. If you romanticize your own nation, this can be used to justify great evils as well. This is similar to religion because of the many falsehoods you could easily convince people of if you mix it with deeper truths. This is how appealing to a person's values may be more effective than actually making a logic argument. It demonstrates how deeply emotional the human psyche is, and it can easily be used to make us overlook toxic lies and hurt people. This is an interesting connection.

This makes a little bit more sense now. I found that to be a confusing analogy. I will attempt to put it in my own words. Shapiro attempted to use money to change the behavior of AOC. By doing this, it attempts to make AOC look like a sellout who can be bought. This is like soliciting prostitution because if a woman is desperate for money, she might be a whore for money. AOC is not a whore for money, so she compared the money offer to cat calling. Alternatively she could have compared it to soliciting prostitution, lobbying, or bribery. AOC was not referring to the challenge to a debate, it was the money offer. I didn't immediately make this connection. The sexist component of the analogy threw me off because sometimes terms like "mansplaining" are thrown around at inappropriate times. Shapiro would probably do this to men as well because of how normal he felt it was to offer money. I hope you don't feel like this was a waste of time, but I do better understand the situation now.

@Leo Gura AOC did. She likened his challenge to debate her to cat calling. Now when people call Shapiro a cat caller I am not sure if they are serious or not. There are several sites online about Ben Shapiro cat calling. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/10/nyregion/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-debate-catcalling-ben-shapiro.html

One argument I have against this is calling Shapiro a cat caller. I don't think he is a cat caller, and this gets thrown around a lot with little scrutiny. I recognize that he is very misleading, but I don't think of him as somebody saying "hey girl.". Shapiro is proud of himself for remaining a virgin until marriage. Have you checked this particular criticism of Shapiro?

@ilja I did finish the documentary. I found it very educational. This is an easily ignored issue because humans feel deeply ashamed when thinking about the cruelty toward animals. Humans feel happier avoiding the issue possibly thinking of it as a necessary evil. This is how people felt about slavery when they were in denial of how cruel the actions were.

@ilja If I were considering and random context, I would save the adult. The reasoning is that the adult should be more useful for survival. For example, a man is stronger than a boy. This is the same logic I use for saving a human instead of an ant. The ant is not useful for me, but the human is. Saving the human's life is good for my social survival. The human is not actually more valuable than the ant. In the event of child or adult, there is an interesting scenario. I would choose to kill the adult if he raped or murdered children. That would be considered justice. The problem is that he could have murdered a child because the adult was more useful for his survival. I can't really kill adults for child abuse anymore because the utilitarian argument for saving the adult demonstrates my hypocrisy. I can't really choose what being should live or die without a bias. This bias is used to assign values which are fundamentally false. The ant is not really less valuable than the human unless you are biased toward a specific quality or only considering human survival. These biases come out in the form of sadism in slaughter houses.