You say you have mental illness. That might be so, I don’t know. But I will say that everybody, even people without mental illness, make mistakes like you described, especially at your age.

Everybody has dark and light inside of them. Being aware of this and being concerned when you make mistakes is usually a good sign that you’re not a bad person. Try not to compare yourself to other people. Compare yourself to your past self. Keep improving and try to make fewer mistakes. But don’t punish yourself too severely for making mistakes. Just keep trying to do better.

Ignoring the text of the comic, these characters look like adult Charlie Brown and Lucy.

I would also like an answer.

The only one I’ve thought of is to change to a constitutional monarchy like the UK and put me in charge. (Obviously, it would be me because I am the one waving the wand.) The king would have absolute power to resolve constitutional crises, and would otherwise just have a ceremonial role.

There’s a Wikipedia article about the proverb.

Speech is silver, silence is golden

Beyond what it says in the article, silence is a popular tactic in negotiations to this day. If you’re negotiating a price, it’s more difficult for the party who mentions a price first. Also, the need to speak during silence often puts the speaker at a disadvantage in negotiations.

Yes, I specifically mentioned that “do right by” was an exception, and was likely what confused his grammar.

The suit stuff aside, what’s with his weird grammar? “You have not done a good job by the people in Greenland.” In this sort of sentence, “for” sounds much more natural than “by”. And I think the common phrase that “Person A hasn’t done right by Person B,” is more of an exception.

But assuming he did mean it that way, then he’s speaking as if the people of Greenland feel wronged by Denmark, but they don’t.

In fact, Americans are much more disappointed with Trump and Vance than Greenlanders are disappointed with Denmark. If disapproval rating was the important thing, then Denmark would be acquiring the United States.

You’re right, but I suspect most people wouldn’t see it that way with regards to Tesla. Depending on the terms of his current compensation package, I suspect it would be better for him financially if he just stepped down and held onto the stock.

But he’s such a narcissist that he’d never do that.

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Tesla could solve most of their problems by firing Musk. Any other public company whose CEO makes a very public Nazi salute would fire that CEO.

Yes, he’d still be a large shareholder, but I think simply getting him out of the company would give a lot of people the sense that he faced some personal consequences for his actions, and that any companies who deal with Musk will also face consequences.