I struggle on two fronts with this - I don't want to "burden" others with how I feel, and fairly often I don't know what I feel.
Grew up in the American Midwest as a preacher's kid. My parents are awesome people, but Dad's job meant our family had to seem close to perfect for small town political reasons - we had their support for any kind of crisis, but we had to keep it inside the house so our single limited income wasn't threatened.
Between that and a family full of neurospiciness, it felt like we were always on the edge of catastrophe. I was generally able to get by day to day, so I just kept quiet so we all had room to deal with whatever else needs handled.
So, I think I got in the habit of bottling things until I couldn't even tell what I was feeling, and also developed an aversion to sharing what I could tell was bothering me. I'm open to the idea of sharing things, I just can't often tell what needs shared until it pops out unexpectedly.
I wonder if the stakes just feel lower here - I've noticed I express myself a lot more readily when I'm not talking to a peer, for a similar reason (lower stakes)
Eh, the passive aggression didn't really come in until her answer was described as hobbies, in what seems like an unflattering manner. There were probably better ways to handle it, but this was more entertaining!
Aim for alliances with at least half the top militaries. If one is going to be gunning for us, I want their peers to have our back.
To that end, pick an island location with a strong command of shipping lanes, both to offer access to allies and to boost our economy. The invincible force field will help enforce this while we get set up. Offer temporarily invincible military bases to our allies - give them more reason to back us up, and hopefully jumpstart our military readiness.
Otherwise I'd go utopian like @Tonava said - entice the best and the brightest, and have them play to their strengths, aiming to have a robust, well-educated populace.
To continue the analogy: He asks her why she fights fires, and in response to her explanation, talks about the benefits of fire-retardant foam over water. She then realizes he smells of gasoline.
The comic is pointing out needlessly divisive behavior on his part - she's already working on one aspect of the class division, and he's pushing for her to spread out and weaken her efforts.
On the contrary, a skilled orator adjusts the message to suit the audience, and a skilled craftsman chooses the tool best suited to the task.
However, your intent here seems to be primarily to offend, rather than to convince or persuade, as evidenced by both your word choice and the direction of your statements - this is your choice of course, and I will similarly choose to ignore it!
It’s unfair to judge a word that has over 500 years of use on the last 70 years of history.
A bridge that has stood for 500 years can be considered unusable today due to recent developments.
The word clearly isn't having the effect you say you want. The solution isn't to bemoan the poor treatment of the word - the solution is to change the word you use.
We’ve seen that happen with using “gay” as an insult - society has shifted over the years, so that being gay is no longer seen as a bad thing
I don't remember that "just happening"... I remember prominent members of the homosexual community deciding to reclaim the word "gay", and then working to bring the more neutral connotations into the mainstream - and that effort is still ongoing.
The people targeted by the slur had to have the resources and ability to change public perception before that could happen, and it took a considerable, concerted effort. It did not just "shift", and that process is not equally available to every target of a slur.
The problems with deciding things are "equal-ish" have already been well addressed, so I just want to point out - just because the billionaire class might use a topic as a wedge issue against us doesn't excuse us from working to fix it.
They might be setting fire to houses as a distraction, but the houses are still on fire. The people inside can't wait for us to find and deal with whoever hired the arsonists.
Nah, Earth's a giant blob of liquid with a thin skim of crust on the outer layer. If you apply a force that slows a portion of that crust, you're not going to affect the spin of the blob - you'll just push that part of the crust around a bit at most.
So apocalyptic earthquakes will shut this down long before you have any real effect on the day's length. (And that's a lot easier to recover from!)
I suspect that before it starts to scale to the whole planet, you'd be stealing angular momentum from the tectonic plate specifically. Picture a sail on an ice floe, you'll mess with the plate long before you have an impact on the vast body of liquid it's sitting on.
So, at worst, lots of earthquakes and the like, not screwing up the day/night cycle.
Property is very taxable!