Seconding this advice.

I think also for me it helped to think of it as a long term effort. Trying to get into a relationship as fast as possible isn’t really realistic or healthy. Once I stopped trying to hard to pull everyone I was interested in, I felt a lot more comfortable being myself and just shooting my shot, if it didn’t hit or we didn’t vibe it was ok.

Definitely agree that it’s a skill, and the more you do it the more comfortable you’ll be. You’ve got this!

Imagine not leaving enough room to respond. You do this to another car (rear end) and you are automatically at fault. What’s different in this scenario?

The name of the guy? Albert Einstein.

Also, I think phone screenshots with low battery is kind of a meme of its own, so maybe they immediately looked there to check lol

dang, this uncovered a memory I didn’t know I had anymore

There’s a great book “The Mathematician’s Lament” that talks about how math teaching is almost guaranteed to make people hate it, but it’s maybe not a conspiracy. Or is it!?

Gotcha, your issue is it straight up says “raise taxes for white neighborhoods” without the needed context of “current tax law has advantaged predominantly white areas, and so this bringing their tax responsibility to a value that more fairly represents their usage”