This story should be a Netflix series.

A lot of people get a lot out of 12 step programs like NA or AA. part of that is the forth step, making amends. This is a process of making a list of the people who you have harmed, and, where possible, and safe, doing what you can to make amends. That might be apologising, that might be returning money that you stole if you did. It might be helping others to make up for the harm you did.

You can't undo the harm you did. But you can make amends. And grieve the shame.

Also I believe that it is important to look at the source of that shame before you were using. A study of iv drug users in Holland many years ago found that 80 percent had been abused as children. So there is a reasonable probability that something happened to you that you were using drugs to mask the shame.

That doesn't excuse any harm that you caused, but that betrayal of trust, if it happened, can also be grieved, in a healthy and supportive way, and healed.

Good luck with your journey. It isn't easy. But I promise that if you keep working, it will get better.

That is a tough one. Good luck with it.

Depends a lot on what you are listening to. I mostly listen to podcasts, so audio quality is not important. So I by cheap headphones that I know will break, because the treatment I give them would break expensive ones too.

Unfortunately, too many people don't do their homework, and so they have been in the past stirred up by the "greenies just want to take our jobs"

As usual the Libs go for the old saw "dem jerbs"

More and more mines are automated these days. How many actual jobs would this mine have created, as opposed to how many people are employed by tourism for the great barrier reef?

Many years ago there was a plan to log the Daintree Forrest, which, at the time was going to bring in 30 million dollars A year. Except that it would create run off that would again destroy the reef and local tourism operators created 120 million dollars of business every year.

Ah, OK. I'm in Australia, they still exist here.

Restaurant supplies, or, even better, find a business that sells second hand restaurant equipment.

But it, unfortunately, ignores the narrative of American exceptionalism. With many American's that amounts to heresy.

Seems like they might be solving the wrong problem. I'm pretty sure that the reason a lot of people are staying away from the military is that they have seen how empty the whole "thank you for your service" bullshit is. If they want to up recruiting, start looking after vets like that phrase had meaning.

When "veteran suicide" And "homeless veterans" are common phrases in society, it doesn't exactly encourage people to sign up.

That is true, but I thought part of the purpose of the break with the Catholic church was to remove the power of the church over the government. So if they were still large landholders, they would still have a lot of power.

But it seems that I remember my of my English history wrongly.

Ah, OK, then I mis- remembered. I thought he took all the Catholic church lands for the crown and did not give them to the Anglican Church.

True, but most of those came after the church had all those lands.

Didn't Henry the 8 take a bunch of the Catholic churches lands in England and make it his own?

Don't forget that the whole chastity came in to prevent senior priests from claiming church lands for children.

The whole "teachings of Jesus being used to amass power and wealth" has some problems that they certainly didn't learn from the Carpenters son.

Beethoven's ninth symphony.

If you ever get a chance to here it with a full chorus, live, do.

A friend who used to do tech for the shows described them as "opera for the common man"

You could perhaps change the taps to "vandal proof taps" they have a separate handle that comes off. Hopefully they are a standard thread. But plumbing fittings tend to be.

That does sound good, I stand corrected.

Maybe your dog doesn't have as oily skin as dogs I've had in the past.

3 dogs are going to destroy any couch. Your only hope is to find the companies that build couches for places like college dorms

Or, you can do what we did when we had teenagers at home. In my city, a couple of times a year we have the "verge side chuck out" my wife would spot a decent looking couch on someone's verge, I would hook up the trailer and go pick it up, then put the old, now clapped out couch on the verge, and bring the "new" one in