And what’s the word in German that means everything you just wrote?

Thank you, I’m an outsider and didn’t know the who or why of the question.

I suppose it depends on why they don’t have security clearance. If it’s someone who could never qualify for it, that would need to be announced and explained.

If it’s simply a candidate who doesn’t yet have it, that’s something that should be known for the same reasons. They don’t have all the information other candidates do, but are operating with the information they do have.

This was a surprisingly compelling documentary. Well worth the time.

I’ve done a lot of self-forgiveness in recent years, so a lot of the simpler and sillier ones I don’t think of as embarrassing anymore.

Could be the time I flipped a guy off after he cut me off and I missed a light. He saw me in his mirror and started freaking out and swerving, almost hit a curb.

I didn’t mean to ruin his day. Just letting off steam.

Either that or the time I drove on the shoulder to avoid a car stopped in the middle of the road. When I merged back she had started to move and we collided. Totally my fault.

I only realized later that due to her age, location, and stickers on her car from a nearby Catholic University that I’d probably hit a nun.

Meh. I have mine mostly under control so if they price it out of reach, so be it.

But given that the article says it’s reformulating existing drugs to work here, they may be considerably cheaper than expected.

Big fucking news for the IBS/D crowd, and I’m one of em.

I think it’s because the aroma of coffee is so important to its flavor.

My wife prefers flavored coffees and I shy away from them.

I thought I’d gotten them mixed or there was residue in my coffee maker because my coffee kept tasting sweet and I don’t add sugar or use sweeteners at all.

Across the room was a candle in a jar, lid off, unlit, hazelnut coffee scented.

ACROSS THE ROOM it was enough to make me think my coffee was actually sweet. So yeah, it’s all about the smell.

I know, I was just making a joke. I like my animals being a little wild, but that’s how I train mine. I like when they climb onto my shoulders.

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Where’s the fun in that?!

Amusingly, the phrase Crypto Fascist does and does not apply here.

You are absolutely correct, and my snarky reply leads toward this tendency to call an organization as a monolithic entity that has agendas when the actual issue could be any number of other things, probably all of them, in a quagmire together:

Resistance to change and outside pressure, factionialization within the group that leads to the request being impeded, corruption, organized crime, institutional failure, racism, nationalism, cronyism, outdated training, lack of training in general…

There could be a good number of people trying to comply with the policy and simply failing. We just don’t know the full truth.

But it’s probably all of the above.

Absolutely too easy on the RCMP as it mainly came down to “We don’t want to.”

One could also parse the longer answer as “We don’t do that at all. Well, not very much. And it’s better when we do. But we can’t prove that.”

And they are so damned short sighted.

Trump wants to be Putin.

He wants his half of the US economy. Including half of what they have now.

And they fund him while being obsessed with the pennies he will save them.

Sure, but a corrupt government can fabricate evidence to keep their enemies silenced.

Look at Russia and their treatment of Alexei Navalny.

Actually the thought is if the government can just imprison you to stop your candidacy, they have too much power.

Thus they can continue to run.

You are older than me, I suppose. I was playing it at 11 years old or so. My first CRPG, although my dad had run a D&D game for the family a few years prior so I had a reference point.

I remember my cousin telling us about the Creeping Coins and my imagination went wild, assuming you could loot them and they’d attack you later from your inventory.

Nope. Just normal randomly spawning encounter.

No, I get what you mean. You should at least forgive yourself because you are a better person now.

That others think you still deserve to be punished is enough. You don’t need to add your pain to the mix, but it is easy to do that.

It’s worth pointing out that the act of remembering a moment overwrites the memory with your current memory of that memory.

In essence, by cringing at your own behavior, you place a negative and self-abusive frame upon it.

Try to start practicing self-forgiveness. Laugh at yourself. Smile at your own naive behavior.

It does work, but it takes time, and it’s never too late to start forgiving yourself.