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I was thinking of the Home Alone movie as well, they made that fake movie just for the movie.

It’s not accurate to say Afghanistan had nothing to do with it. The Taliban government were directly helping to hide Bin Laden after the fact, and obviously it was not going to do anything to stop violent extremism, rather it was going to reward and encourage it.

I didn’t support it when it started, and I certainly didn’t support all twenty of the years we spent there, but I believe now that the decision to overthrow the Taliban at least initially was the right one. Maybe some people in Washington pushed and went along with it as a handout to the oil and defense industries, but I think most of the legislators went with it because they truly believed, as I do, that overthrowing the Taliban and helping the people build a new state, with real institutions, was a path towards securing lasting human rights to millions of people. No religious dictatorship can grant human rights, it’s not theirs to give.

I’m sure there is much more evidence that this is not the case. You were probably raised in an environment with lots of shame and blame, I suspect, and so it’s hard to give yourself credit for the many, many things you have been successful.

Also, reframe your negative evidence. You’re not the same person anymore, for sure. Everyone makes mistakes and that’s how we learn, and it’s supposed to be uncomfortable. It also helps to remember that you are likely the only person thinking about this past evidence, and it’s okay for you to let it go, release it from your body and mind, and move on from it too.

When you feel yourself thinking negatively, go stand in front of a mirror, up on your toes, arms up high over head, bear your teeth, and growl at the mirror. You are a large and powerful predator, and seeing yourself as such will make it true.

Another good tip, when you’re feeling discomfort with memories, pause, and look around the room making sure to look over your shoulders, behind you on both sides. This is a trick to calm your brain down, take you out of fight or flight. You’re not in danger and the feelings of danger may have been helpful as a child, but you don’t need them anymore. You are a large and powerful predator now.

Master your inner dialogue and emotions.

Practice speaking positively and rationally to yourself. Use affirmations, mantras, or visualisations for confidence, for forgiveness of yourself and others, relaxation, motivation.

If you ever feel like crying, it is important to cry hard and deep, and then it’s important to recover after with some kind of happy celebration, whether it’s playing or a treat, just something nice to help your body learn to get happy after being sad, angry, or scared.

Stop reaching for distractions when powerful emotions come on. Face the emotion. Study it with curiosity. Feel it fully. And comfort yourself positively until it passes.

Start down this road now. You don’t want to end up 40, done with school, done with your parents, done with your first couple of real jobs, and have no idea how to control yourself throughout the day.

Men and men aren’t physically equal. Maybe basketball should have a rule that everyone in the team has to be the same height. Can’t have anyone with a physical advantage over anyone else.

I am the higher authority.

This is a question of noun phrase agreement and diction. If you use the wrong word you create a disagreement error. Period. Maybe whatever poser dictionary you use has a new form of less or fewer but mine doesn’t.

Yeah no doubt, I will wait till they update the definition of the words in the dictionary though. Until then, less and fewer are not interchangeable as they mean different things.

When they update the dictionary, they don’t look to how English is spoken by momos on the internet. They look to distinguished authors and writers.

Like I’m a little confused. The correctness of it is dictated by the definition.

Well no one way is correct and one way is not, regardless of what this particularly shitty Wikipedia article says.

The comparative less is used with both countable and uncountable nouns in some informal discourse environments and in most dialects of English.[citation needed] In other informal discourse however, the use of fewer could be considered natural.

“in some informal discourse environments?” Does that mean environments in which writing goes unedited and mistakes don’t matter?

Just because some people somewhere do a thing doesn’t mean it’s right. To people with formal writing experience, or people that are just well read, the agreement errors are obvious and revealing.

This is a question of diction not style. Check the dictionary. Less and fewer have different meanings. One of them affirmatively describes something uncountable.

Talking “refried beans” as a noun phrase, not beans.

Refried beans does not have a plural noun form. You have to give it a unit. “twenty plates of refried beans,” “pounds of refried beans,” etc.

It like oil. You don’t say “top up my car with oils.” If you add more than you’re supposed to, you put in too much, not too many.

Beans are countable. We’re talking about refried beans though. It’s a paste. You cant count paste.

It’s like saying “oil.”

You have to give a unit.

But you can count how many pairs of jeans someone has.

You would use too much, since refried beans is an uncountable noun. You have to add a unit to it to make it countable.

You would say “there’s too much refried beans on my plate, and too many cans of refried beans in the pantry.”

By adding “cans” to the noun phrase, you’ve made the refried beans countable, you may now use “too many.”

Nah, hot day? It’ll show up same day.

Just practice reading and writing more and it will take less effort. I can spot the agreement error immediately when someone uses the wrong form. Check the dictionary. They have different meanings and are not interchangeable.

Could be all sorts of things. Loggers. Taco Bell employees. Law firm.

Do not want.

It was super cool for like three weeks. Now it’s the gambler’s fallacy they’re hanging on to.