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Spitting on someone, aside from being freaking nasty, mean, and frequently motivated by some type of bigotry

It's a figure of speech. This is just pedanticism that completely avoids the actual point I made.

Also, why do you- or whoever- get to have their feelings considered, but not OP’s? why do you feel like you- or whoever- is so entitled to another person’s likeness that they should just “Suck it up”?

Because it's the OP asking for advice on what to do in a certain situation. If it were someone else asking me what to do in the situation where they want to take a picture with someone that doesn't want their picture taken, I would tell them to suck it up and go home without the picture.

This is ignoring the simple reality that sometimes, that photo going up on the internet puts the person who didn’t want it up in direct, literal, harm. maybe their profession has some religious prohibition that there’s violation. Maybe there’s a stalker ex. Maybe they’re in some type of witness protection or secret agent.

Except they gave us a reason: "I'm a private person." Almost the first line of their post. The situation we were presented isn't some case where it's dangerous for them to have their picture taken. They just don't want it. If it is risky for them, absolutely just decline.

People should be respected when they say “no, I don’t want my picture taken.”

Absolutely. But he didn't say this, and explicitly said he doesn't want to explain himself. So I responded to their actual request.

It’s best to simply be candid and decline.

I disagree. I get not wanting to give your number out to a patient or see one outside of work, and in that case you decline. I think most would understand this and not be offended.

But this person just wants a picture with them, baring some ridiculously rare shit that they made implicitly clear is not the case, it's a simple, virtually riskless request and it's best to just make another person happy and take a picture with them.

It's shocking how many people are suggesting lying in a way that's so easy to get caught. "Weird I just took a picture with the nurses and the other doctor." That's going to make it even more awkward.

If I were you, just suck it up and take the picture, and then say you dont hand out your private number to patients and like to keep the relationships professional. This is presumably honest.

Not taking the picture is really spitting in the guys face. It's so quick and it goes a long way to making them feel good, and feel good about you. It's one of those things I would explain to my kid that you just do it and get it out of the way even if you don't like it.

Not giving our your number is entirely reasonable, and I suspect is also honest.

This is my wife. We're a mixed race couple, I'm white. She's always talking about diversity. At some point, when she didn't want to send our kids to a public elementary school in a very diverse area despite it being very well rated, it occurred to me she was talking about racial diversity of rich people, not socioeconomic diversity.

One of the primary arguments against doing anything is that it might hurt the economy. If you can counter that claim, by pointing out that it will actually help the economy, then you've removed an argument against doing anything.

Oh man that's a good paradox.

I should have seen this level of discussion coming.

The economy cant get to somewhere better without going in the right direction. Right now it's doing that, and that's what Biden has been saying. As I said, and he has said, we have along way to go. By no stretch am I, or anyone really I've seen, saying anything is close to perfect.

I'm not dancing around the core point, it's just that you can't see past your own nose.

Wage growth has been outpacing inflation for a while now. And this is what Bidens pointing out: we're going in the right direction. As I said, we have a lot of work to do, I realize that people are struggling.

But if people are like "in struggling so the economy is shit" well, then, I stand by my point that they are confusing their personal experience with the economy as a whole...

Over the past few years my wife switched jobs and works fully remote, making about the same amount of money. I got a 30% raise by switching jobs, and it has way better perks. My investments have gone crazy. I noticed things are more expensive, but day to say it hasn't been much of a concern at all. Financially speaking , it's been arguably the best few years of our life.

The difference between me and these people who "do basic math" is that I'm smart enough to realize that my personal experience is not the economy.

Nothing in your quote says if you can't afford a home is just "vibration."

What he said is accurate: wage growth has been out pacing inflation, especially among low wage workers, and unemployment is low. We've got a lot of catching up to do because of inflation over the past few years, but what you quote barely resembles what he has been saying.

Emergency? I do that anytime it's not more convenient to pee inside.

An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.