Triasha
@Triasha@lemmy.world
- Comment on Wokeness ended, check mate leftists 3 days ago:
Both. Definitely both. Our minds can experience two emotions at once.
- Comment on At this point, what should we do about the ICE raids? If an ICE agent breaks in without a warrant or holds you at gunpoint, what do you do? 5 days ago:
That’s a calculation each of us has to make personally. If you are white, a citizen, have people that rely on you, and are wealthy enough that they can fight a legal battle for you, maybe don’t resist and hope for the best. If you are none of those, and you think you might get sent to a concentration camp or Africa, maybe defend yourself as best you can.
Good luck to everyone.
- Comment on Anon thinks about wheat 2 weeks ago:
Wheat is a bit of a weed so it’s grown on more marginal land while more profitable (finicky) plants are grown in the better land.
This weirdly makes wheat more vulnerable to climate change.
- Comment on What's it going to take to truly stop the US? 2 weeks ago:
World leaders are doing things. Europe has committed large sums of money to building out their defense industries, China has been building out it’s military capabilities for decades, Canada has used tarrifs to strategically punish the US for it’s tarrifs on Canadian goods and joined the European defense partnership, presumably to gain access to the aforementioned defense industry build out in Europe. Japan is increasing it’s military spending and moving to amend it’s constitution to remove the restrictions on military force.
Sanctions against the US like those on Iran are possible, but for a country as large and wealthy as the US with such a diversified economy, even if the entire world sanctioned the US it would plunge them into desperate poverty.
It would wreck the US economy, no doubt, but most world leaders are not willing to even suggest their people should endure that level of hardship over Nicolas Maduro. And the US would still have most of the world ability to project military power, so driving us into a corner like that would be incredibly dangerous.
Make no mistake, every world leader and especially every head of state in Latin America is considering the chance that delta Force could pull them out of bed at 3 AM, I imagine Sheinbaum in Mexico, Lula in Brazil, have a few new grey hairs and especially Cubas head of state is sweating bullets. They don’t have the power to prevent it.
I am personally reviewing my options for how to protest this action.
- Comment on I am so scared of nuclear war, how do I cope with it? 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, Israel was able to launch a shit ton of Missiles into Iran, and some of the Iranian Missiles hit Israel, even through the Iron dome, the tightest missile defense system in the world.
- Comment on I am definitely a bird me personally 2 weeks ago:
This is the real reason. They want us confined to basements, closets, or graves.
- Comment on Anon tries to understand credit scores 3 weeks ago:
Credit scores should not matter to housing.
- Comment on Anon tries to understand credit scores 3 weeks ago:
Housing should be free. If you want something nicer then you can pay for luxury.
- Comment on Anon tries to understand credit scores 3 weeks ago:
Then borrowing money is something you should, in fact, consider carefully.
- Comment on Anon tries to understand credit scores 3 weeks ago:
Paying other people money on a predictable schedule raises your score.
Did what I do, pay your bills and don’t think about it.
- Comment on Makes sense 3 weeks ago:
My employer had fheir last Christmas party the year I started working there in November. I wasn’t comfortable going to a company party 3 weeks in still in training. Little did I know I would never have another chance.
- Comment on I dunno 4 weeks ago:
Guess I’ve been trolled.
- Comment on I dunno 5 weeks ago:
And what do you do with and and the b and then the a and the c? If you want to simplify the equation?
- Comment on I dunno 5 weeks ago:
And what do you do with the number inside the when you want to get rid of it?
- Comment on I dunno 1 month ago:
If you don’t remember pemdas, you can use the longer P.lease E.xcuse M.y D.ear A.unt S.ally.
- Comment on I dunno 1 month ago:
Pemdas, parenthesis first, for a total of 3. Then multiplication, 15, then addition. 17. What’s hard about this?
- Comment on Not to get all religous but was not Jesus pissed for people making money in churches? Didn't he flip tables and everything? Then how do churches nowadays explain the collection plate? 1 month ago:
If you think your church is doing good work, you give.
The church I grew up in closed for lack of funds. The preacher never lived large, they weren’t taking more than people wanted to give.
I would never give money to a mega church, but I have donated to UU churches as an adult.
- Comment on How are these ICE agents allowed to fire on protestors like this 2 months ago:
This is the answer. ICE is operating by the same rules the Ferguson police were during the 2014 riots, and the George Floyd protests in 2020. They can do whatever the my want up to and including break your door down in the middle of the night and shoot you while you sleep like they did to Breyonna Taylor.
- Comment on THE CRAZY PILLS 3 months ago:
The founders tried that and look where it got us.
I remind myself all the time that as mad as I may feel, as righteous and justified and endangered, that violence on the level that might change things will fuck up my life and the life of everyone I care about and a whole lot of people I don’t know but don’t deserve it. Are the Cubans better off after the cuban revolution? Maybe, hard to say. Were the Soviets better off after the Russian revolution? Again, hard to say. The French are better off today than they were before the French revolution, but they also got Napoleon right after that.
Things will get worse before they get better.
- Comment on I can't find a single decent bedtime story online. 90% of the articles are AI slop. 3 months ago:
Nebula has some cozy bedtime stories at I’m pretty sure are not AI.
- Comment on How do I stop sleeping through everything? 3 months ago:
See a doctor and ask for a sleep study. You might have sleep apnea, or some other condition.
- Comment on Posting for the "Now guys he was MURDERED! Don't celebrate!" Crowd 4 months ago:
At this point I doubt Jackboots, swasticas, or gas chambers would make a difference.
Take care of your loved ones.
- Comment on Posting for the "Now guys he was MURDERED! Don't celebrate!" Crowd 4 months ago:
And if wishes were fishes there would be no room in the ocean for water.
You aren’t wrong, but “could” is doing some heavy lifting.
- Comment on Posting for the "Now guys he was MURDERED! Don't celebrate!" Crowd 4 months ago:
Back during Trump’s first term I would hear people saying “this country is going to fall into civil war” and I told my friends “we are nowhere near a civil war.” Because the conditions were not there. It takes a huge buildup to move people to organized violence. You have to have thousands and in the US case millions or at least 100s of thousands of people willing to kill and die for a cause and we didn’t have that, and still don’t.
But the pandemic came and we saw half the country couldn’t be bothered to wear a mask or get a vaccine to protect their neighbors and the other half saw that outpouring of collective psychopathy and realized that their neighbors were willing to risk their lives and the lives of their family and community to “own the libs” and we moved a step closer.
But you can’t have a civil war like the 1800’s today, there aren’t bright geographical lines of loyalty. I predicted in the Biden administration that we would see a period of rising violence scattered across the country, like bleeding Kansas, but spread all over.
And that is exactly what we are seeing.
We still aren’t at the point where we could fall into civil war, but we are closer every year. Trump is doing his damndest to create the conditions.
I pray we never get that far. Civil wars are the worst short of full on genocide, and they make the big G a whole lot more likely.
- Comment on 4 months ago:
Sharks aren’t fish. Humans and all other terrestrial mammals are.
Hank Green explained it.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 months ago:
Honestly, once I was on HRT for a while, just tuck everything away works even in a bikini. I have never done a proper tuck with a gaff because before HRT I used specific clothing styles that didn’t need it, and after it just hasn’t been necessary.
- Comment on Would we be able to use the measles virus to reset the immune systems of people with autoimmune disorders like MS or rheumatoid arthritis? 5 months ago:
Not an expert but I am a patient.
Immune system reset is already a type of therapy for MS. Lemtrada and Mavenclad are two brand name drugs that work on this principle. You don’t take them for life. That’s good because they make you very ill, but after 2 rounds of treatment you can go years without needing any further therapy.
Could the measles virus work better than these drugs? Maybe, but all the reasons at the top of the comments present challenges.
- Comment on Anon earns achievements 5 months ago:
It’s kinda sad.
- Comment on get sum 5 months ago:
About the dating apps. Craig’s list took the connections section down because escorts were using it and they couldn’t fight the legal battle.
My wife and I met on OK cupid, and we feel like we got the last train out of dodge.
- Comment on President Trump: It's Not Doable for AI Companies to Pay for All Copyrighted Input * TorrentFreak 5 months ago:
“It’s not doable”
On that we agree.