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- Comment on Grok 3 roasts Lemmy 38 minutes ago:
I only have one Linux shirt - the awesome upside down command line guide XKCD one. My beard has grown in since, and I have not needed Randall Munroe’s help to navigate my system for many years, but it’s a fun shirt.
- Comment on What Did William Burrito Mean by This? 1 day ago:
Nothing wrong with Doctorow - I just think that his techno dystopias are very prescient.
- Comment on What Did William Burrito Mean by This? 1 day ago:
Yeah - they’re teaming up with the Christofascists. Accelerationists - smash the United States into a wall, so various parties can pick up the pieces. It’ll be Gilead where I live - Cory Doctorow elsewhere.
- Comment on What Did William Burrito Mean by This? 1 day ago:
Racists see the world as zero sum.
Privately, they believe that the Other (Mexicans, trans people, Muslims) holds the same views that they do. Some people do not mature/develop a theory of mind beyond a vague sense of tribalism.
Because given power, they would eliminate people unlike them, they assume that the Other would do the same.
Look into racist spirituality, ie White Identity - a common belief is something like racial “oversouls” which are naturally opposed to each other. Anything that benefits Black or Mexican folks are overt moves by those oversouls - affirmative action as a covert move to drive white men out.
The majority of these people don’t get into it/think about it enough to engage with the “oversouls” but I think it does align with their behavior. The internet has also unfortunately gotten things like Blavatsky and Evola into to the mainstream - dollars to donuts that the DOGE boys were introduced to those names on /pol/
- Comment on [deleted] 3 days ago:
The thing is - no one skips right to surgery.
I don’t want to minimize the experience of detransitioners, but they’re extremely rare. They just get platformed more, it’s a narrative that the media wants (especially the “Irreversible Damage” narrative - that trans men are little lost girls mutilating ourselves in response to misogyny). The vast vast majority of people who detransition/regret usually do so because of societal factors - eg, that transitioning can often cost you your job, social support network, put you in danger…
I’m entering middle age and have been on testosterone my entire life. I have still had doctors try to talk me into going off. Heck - to even get started, I had to lie about my sexual orientation - no one was giving me shit if I didn’t start off with “when I was four years old I threw a fit every time they made me wear dresses and only ever play with GI Joes.”
- Comment on The Oklahoma Coaches Hall of Fame has a pedophile that they refuse to remove 6 days ago:
Fun fact - in the 1920’s, 1 in 3 white people in Indiana were members of the KKK. It was as about a mainstream a thing as being a rotary club member - they even had charity matches against the Knight of Columbus.
- Comment on The Oklahoma Coaches Hall of Fame has a pedophile that they refuse to remove 6 days ago:
Republican Governor Kevin Stitt plays golf with the Ringaling superintendent. I think the state superintendent does as well, it’s a pretty incestous lot.
- Comment on The Oklahoma Coaches Hall of Fame has a pedophile that they refuse to remove 6 days ago:
In rural Oklahoma - high schools exist to field football teams. You drive into a town and the water tower will say “State Champions ‘92” - their quarterback was on the team, owns the car dealership and consequently owns the town. It’s not about religion necessarily - it’s more that Oklahoma is a set of petty fiefdoms run by terrible men who are okay with anything as long as they can watch the game at a brand new stadium built with bond money.
- Comment on The Oklahoma Coaches Hall of Fame has a pedophile that they refuse to remove 6 days ago:
There are also a couple of interesting names on there if you do some googling. Happy hunting.
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- Comment on Might be fun idk 1 week ago:
Also how it’s a cult in southern states.
Our high school state association/hall of fame has several coaches on it who have sexually abused their players. If it becomes too much of a problem, they move on to the next small town, but a lot of them will play golf/go hunting with their superintendents (very small districts = a grift for lots of “admin” positions)
Being a football player is a free pass for all kinds of behavior, at all levels. Think of how regularly we learn that a professional player is a batterer - but in Ringaling or Waco - no one is going to care if the quarterback rapes a cheerleader.
It’s also funded disproportionately. It pissed me off looking over at a brand new football stadium and shiny new uniforms and cleats - while I was spending my own cash on vinegar and baking soda so I could have some semblance of “lab” (my sink also didn’t work lol)
But they also shaft girls athletics - that’s a big part of title 9’s sports regulations. School districts will simply pump all of their funds/attention into boys football and to a lesser extent boys basketball program. They have to be forced to allow girls chances to play.
I have no problem with people being passionate about a team, enjoying watching games, enjoying football. There’s just an extremely disturbing culture of tribalism that spills over into harmful social dynamics.
- Comment on Can you eat soap for acid reflux? 1 week ago:
Only works if you take it in advance. There’s not really anything that helps when you wake up at 3 am and think you are dying - other than puking, which makes the problem worse long term.
- Comment on Doordash deserves it's fate 1 week ago:
Doordash fucks over its drivers. The gig economy shifts the responsibility for wear and tear on the vehicle, insurance… It’s also algorithmically driven to fuck them over, to offer them as little pay as they think will get them to take the deal (eg, we know Uber profiles people - people who are poor and desperate get the worse jobs) If you’re going to use the service, tip well. It’s not the drivers fault that it’s expensive.
- Comment on embroidery 1 week ago:
Yeah - and a whip stitch would be more for holding two pieces of fabric flat on top of each other + edging. This is more like you are connecting two panels with a kind of lace that you want to be fairly visible.
The book’s author (this is Book of Colonial Needlwork by Elizabeth Musheno) points out that most American colonial women were kind making it up as they went along and got their decorative motifs from every day life - so it would make sense that they would think of bundles of firewood.
- Comment on embroidery 1 week ago:
It’s a form of “insertion work.” Artistic knots and such to connect two panels. In this dress, it’s those lines down the front of the shirt and skirt. The name refers to the “bundles” you make of knotted thread.
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- Comment on A bit rubbery... 2 weeks ago:
There are a bunch of fake meat products intended for vegans. Fake steaks, fake thanksgiving turkeys. Usually made out of seitan (gluten), tofu, or mung bean proteins. I don’t think any of them resemble fleshlights…
My local pan Asian has had “vegan pork uterus” for ages.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
Also - why advertise for free?
- Comment on Eat that ramen 2 weeks ago:
There was hope then at least - eating ramen and working three jobs because the degree and the work was supposed to make things better. But then hitting your twenties and realizing that the mistake you made wasn’t being born wealthy.
- Comment on EA releases another shameless IP flip with Sims 1/2 Legacy 2 weeks ago:
Funnily enough, the Sims 2 shipped with SecureROM which really pissed the community off then. A literal root kit which could interfere with legitimate software. I get a desire for anti piracy measures - but the game was offered for free officially for like 5+ years.
I distantly remember a guy who was dying of cancer, but kept up an absolute tirade against EA. There was so much ill will then, it would be funny if they made the same mistake.
The Sims series is itself a story of how fucking shit EA is. Killing Maxis, driving off the original creators… even in Sims 2 days you had the IKEA and H&M expansion packs - ads that you paid for (even if tbh the furniture and clothes are good). Sims 3 had features stripped and added back in expansion packs. Getting all of the expansions is ridiculously expensive and running all of them at the same time will wreck your game. Sims 3 also started putting micro transaction ads into your fucking build/buy mode.
Sims 4 shipped without toddlers and every expansion pack seems to have made the game actively worse. The base game is so bare that it isn’t worth playing, but the expansions and stuff are often released entirely broken, and then never fixed. “Wedding Stories” was so disastrous even the Pollyanna YouTubers were pissed.
And now - folks realizing that there is nothing to be had in the new garbage game, that the Sims 5/Project Renee is never going to come out (or be some kind of mobile shit) - they try an easy cash grab of rereleasing two games with zero improvements and even more broken. When the Sims 2 had been legally available for free for the better part of a decade and you could download and install a Sims 1 iso in less time than I’ve spent writing this comment.
- Comment on EA releases another shameless IP flip with Sims 1/2 Legacy 2 weeks ago:
The release is broken. There are several complaints that folks aren’t even able to get the game to launch. Considering that it isn’t a remaster or remake, just the same game with a copyright update, that’s ridiculous.
The Sims 2 + all expansions was available for free on Origin for years until it was removed. Most fans already have that version, and most modding guides are going to assume that version. One wonders if the community launcher will even work with the new releases - or mod compatibility. The Sims 1 has been considered abandonware for a while and I imagine most who want to play it already acquired a copy online.
- Comment on Electoral politics doesn't get the job done 2 weeks ago:
A gun is going to be at least what - $500?
If I had $500 lying around, that’d be a down payment on an apartment in a place where they can’t fire you for being a tranny.
- Comment on Pills here! 2 weeks ago:
I’ve know some low level elected officials, and I think an aspect there might (especially w/r/t mental health) be how crushing taking your role seriously can be. Most campaigns I volunteered on lost, and those that made it burnt out pretty quickly. It’s easier to do nothing and not care, and financially beneficial to do evil.
One campaign we lost because the candidate got outed as a lesbian. Any form of queer identity guarantees that you can only run for one party, and that party just doesn’t win.
- Comment on Pills here! 2 weeks ago:
I wrote that comment on 50 lol.
Best paper I’ve ever written was done over 36 hours on a couple of addy, three pink Monsters, several shots of rotgut vodka, and 200 mg THC spread over the course of it.
500 mg is where I get fucked up. I did 1000 mg once and experienced the Christian hell. 50 mg is like being a normal human being.
- Comment on Pills here! 2 weeks ago:
The problem is that those it doesn’t work for just get told to keep trying. Just keep throwing money at something that doesn’t work. “Try therapy” is almost a thought terminating response to any problem.
It’s wonderful that medication and CBT work for some. They do not work for me, and that’s something I know because I’ve tried and tried and tried. But the only response I’ve gotten when seeking support is the “try therapy and meds!”
There’s also a substantially amount of privilege in being able to access therapy and medications. They are not universally accessible. If you are LGBT in a rural area, the “problem” that they will try to fix and medicate you for will be that you are LGBT. Most therapists in my area do not take insurance because getting it covered is complicated and my state is attempting to get therapists notes entered into a publicly accessible database. I’m losing insurance this month, but even with insurance before $500 or so a month to try to get my brain working, especially when it hasn’t been fucking working because my problems are external - like what’s the fucking point?
- Comment on Pills here! 3 weeks ago:
This has been so much of my problem with therapy. It’s the shit situation that needs to be fixed. If I was currently in a home that belonged to me, knew that I would have food next month, and wasn’t terrified of being arrested for now carrying “wrong” documentation… I don’t think I’d need therapy. I’ve got a fuck load of coping mechanisms, but journaling and art don’t beat hunger and fascism.
Weed just seems better than anything else I’ve tried. It makes various physical pains go away. It makes food palatable. It makes sex better. It makes every film high cinema. It unlocks creative freedom. Video games are like stepping into a new world.
I don’t understand why replacing 50 mg of THC with whatever mg of Wellbutrin or Lexapro or whatever is the “better” solution. I don’t understand why CBT is pushed as the “gold standard” to the point where practitioners will lie on intake and say they don’t push it.
And as someone who has taught research design and statistics, taken graduate courses in social science research… so much of the base frameworks in psychology have very little evidence. Things like the Stanford Prison Experiment and Milgram just were not good (or ethical) research. Freud was so full of shit it’s funny that his name is a letter away from Fraud - look into how he treated the victims of sexual assault. A lot of surveys and instruments have questionable validity (cough, cough IQ)
Fuck, I was helping a girl work through a psychology textbook, and it basically claimed that girls didn’t get autism because they are naturally more empathic.
In southern states too - the bulk of providers are the Dr. Phil type. “Tough love,” hypocrisy, and dubious sexual ethics. Institutions are prisons. Most mental health crises end in jail.
Mental health care is seriously fucked and maybe that’s why the situation is so shit.
- Comment on (They're not allowed to legally anymore) 3 weeks ago:
Kansas currently has an outbreak of drug resistant TB.
There’s also the possibility of pulling coverage of PREP/doxy/other medications designed to prevent STIs from insurance coverage. This would devastate the gay community, which is why they would do it.
- Comment on Putting the die in diet 3 weeks ago:
I feel like one would lose their mind looking at the toilet afterwards. I imagine it looks like you shit out blood clots
- Comment on I am in the US and its gotten very political but as pretty much a peon do I just tune the stuff out thinking its fear mongering? Or should I closely pay attention to it? 3 weeks ago:
Part of it is a war on information and memory, so it is important to stay aware. With the American Civil War, almost immediately after it was over they began rewriting history (the Lost Cause).
There’s a historical debate about the extent of which German civilians were aware of the Holocaust. I found Hitler’s Willing Executioners convincing myself. I think people knew what was happening in the camps, but allowed themselves an out - plausible deniability. (And again, the war on memory - that the deaths were all typhus, or the numbers were exaggerated)
I’ve already been living as an oppressed minority in a state that had already started implementing Project 2025 before Trump was even elected. The one thing that’s hardest to deal with is the gaslighting. I’ve just wanted to be seen.
I don’t think they’ll put trans people in death camps, but I believe they are planning on weaponizing the mental health system against trans people. Forcible institutionalization for most AFAB at least. Trans women they might declare sex criminals and use the increased powers of capital punishment on - we’ve seen moves towards this in Florida. I think it’d be like Nazi’s and the original eugenics program - some trans people do have families who might protest if a bunch of us disappear.
I do believe they will start killing immigrants. Texas has volunteered land for this purpose, and if they are already placing barbed wire along the Rio Grande, they are willing to kill.
So how does this knowledge help? What is the point of keeping up with the fear and terror?
Perhaps to try to help the lesson stick this time. To keep screaming that this is not normal. To ensure that when it is all over, there won’t be “it was all about states rights!” That we saw this coming, that we kept saying it was coming, but America was too scared of a black woman in power and too obsessed with trans women’s penises to say “no” to Stupid Hitler.
You can stay aware to know where small places of action are - can you print out cards with information on what to do when ICE arrives and leave them in places? You can stock up on mifepristone or estrogen if you have friends who might need it. Find local mutual aid networks and pitch in. Provide emotional support to your queer/immigrant/woman friends. Tell children that this is not normal, this is not the America we grew up in.
Action is how to combat trauma. It’s the feeling of helplessness that “causes” PTSD - a situation where you know that nothing you do has an impact on the outcome. Mental health under fascism is learning what you can do, and focusing on that.
- Comment on Punk circa 1200 AD 3 weeks ago:
Look into Liberation Theology. South American Catholic priests were some of the best anti fascists there have ever been - and many laid down their lives opposing Pinochet. There are lessons to be learned from them in community organizing.
