Triasha
@Triasha@lemmy.world
- Comment on Anon earns achievements 5 days ago:
It’s kinda sad.
- Comment on get sum 1 week 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 1 week ago:
“It’s not doable”
On that we agree.
- Comment on What would happen to the US if it denaturalised and deported all non-whites? 2 weeks ago:
Economic meltdown, most of the population has no one that would take them so they will end up either in camps in failed/failing countries or inside the US itself.
Also getting the white population to agree to do it would be a big lift. The majority would passively oppose and a minority would go full on underground railroad/insurgency.
Only a minority would be totally on board.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
I don’t see anything weird about this. Sounds like parenting.
- Comment on Jarvis, change the scenery from a Jungle to a Desert 4 weeks ago:
Gen z is left of millennials, at least in the US, but not as far left as millennials were at the same age.
- Comment on Jarvis, change the scenery from a Jungle to a Desert 4 weeks ago:
Millennials are moving right, we are the largest voting gen and trump just won a trifecta.
Not as far right as boomers at the same age, but it happens to us too.
- Comment on 32, f. Are there any dating sites that are actually free and don't suddenly force me to pay to actually use the site? 4 weeks ago:
I met my wife on OK cupid. 8 years ago though.
- Comment on Jarvis, change the scenery from a Jungle to a Desert 5 weeks ago:
The boomers are shit. Because they are old and the elderly are generally shit.
It’s not that they were born shit or taught to be shit, it’s that people with money, greedy, low empathy people, live longer on average.
So the empathetic people doing their thing die off over time and leave the conservative assholes alive and voting.
Also the boomers were exposed to leaded gasoline for the longest period of time.
Gen X wasn’t shit but they are turning to shit because they are getting older and wealthier. Millennials will be the same. There used to be a theory that millennials would break the trend and stay leftists but it was just delayed and as they buy houses and build wealth they are shifting right.
Every generation turns to shit because they get old and the poor die off and the remainder vote to hoard their wealth and fuck the younger generation.
This will keep going until something changes at the level of great. Depression or WW2. A pandemic 20x as bad as COVID might do it. Actual nuclear war. Complete economic breakdown, something that destroys the wealth of everyone and resets the board. Maybe birthrate collapse will do it.
Short of that we will keep having the same fights every decade.
- Comment on Jarvis, change the scenery from a Jungle to a Desert 5 weeks ago:
If PTSD sets in, the teabagging will increase.
- Comment on Time to redraw America's borders in a way that finally makes sense. 5 weeks ago:
Separating Europe and Asia is just racism really.
- Comment on Time to redraw America's borders in a way that finally makes sense. 5 weeks ago:
Honestly a better convention.
- Comment on Time to redraw America's borders in a way that finally makes sense. 5 weeks ago:
Smuggling is what it will cause. I’ll risk dying in a hot truck.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
If you want to kill a whole lot of people, your police will suffer and eventually quit if you just have the execute people en mass. This happened to the Nazis and it’s the prime reason the gas chambers were constructed.
The police need to feel like they are doing the right thing.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
This will be super regional. A lot of the US a trip the the grocery store is a 30 minute drive one way. They make that trip once a month and load up their SUV with all their groceries.
Some people work 3 Jobs and their schedule is super tight, so even a 10 minute trip is a burden they would rather risk porch pirates than deal with.
I believe there are lots of places that porch pirates make delivery to door or mailbox just unrealistic. Personally I have never been a victim of theft to my knowledge. My knee jerk response to mitigation strategies is “why? It’s not a problem for me” and I suspect most of my neighborhood this would be true.
So I suspect Americans reaction will vary dramatically by region. I see the Amazon dropoff locations and the boxes in stores near me and I don’t see anyone use them.
I sometimes wonder if I am ever broke and hungry if I could just grab some food off the pickup shelf in a restraint near me. I won’t, because I am not broke and have never needed to skip meals, because I am fortunate to have friends and family support even when I was broke. But it must not be a huge problem where I am or those shelves would not have food on them.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
It’s terrifying in many ways.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Millennial, briefly experienced a life with limited access to information.
You are capable of more than you think. You wrote phone numbers down and memorized your own. You memorized the ones you used regularly. I had 7-8 friends and family numbers memorized.
You also only needed one phone number per household.
When you needed to know something like how to fix a car or replace a light bulb you asked someone. Often An uncle, aunt, or cousin. If nobody in your friends/family group knew, you went to the library.
Yellow pages and magazines and instruction manuals were constantly floating around with information. I never felt deprived of curiosity. I read a lot.
- Comment on For the second time in my life, I'm going to eat soap.😋 2 months ago:
What’s not to respect? Get that bag girl.
- Comment on Number neighbors! 2 months ago:
Robert Evans, podcaster and Journalist that I have some respect for, concluded that it could be either true suicide which is also criminal negligence or conspiracy coverup, but the negligence/suicide has more evidence. The doctor saying it’s a conspiracy coverup and is a known grifter.
- Comment on Let's play this game again 2 months ago:
Thanks this one could be useful.
- Comment on Let's play this game again 2 months ago:
I can shapeshift.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
This is a no true scottsman on critical thinking.
I’m going to copy my reply to Barney above.
We have all sorts of evidence for conflicting conclusions. Most of us do not have the time or resources get a lock on which evidence is truly trustworthy.
If you talk to a flat earther, or a dedicated follower of the oppossing political team, you will see they understand faulty sources, chains of logic, and deductive reasoning, they just only apply them in support of their position.
You can teach a person about bias in research or media and they will use that knowledge to discredit positions they don’t agree with.
You can say “that’s not critical thinking” and on one hand I agree, but teaching more thourough critical thinking skills won’t have the result we want: for people to make evidence based decisions about their life and society.
In my experience, Getting people to change their minds requires engaging their emotions. Decisions are made on the basis or shame, fear, anger, and more rarely, love, hope, and empathy.
The evidence needs to be there to support the emotion, but nobody ever changes their behavior on the strength of the evidence alone.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
We have all sorts of evidence for conflicting conclusions. Most of us do not have the time or resources get a lock on which evidence is truly trustworthy.
If you talk to a flat earther, or a dedicated follower of the oppossing political team, you will see they understand faulty sources, chains of logic, and deductive reasoning, they just only apply them in support of their position.
You can teach a person about bias in research or media and they will use that knowledge to discredit positions they don’t agree with.
You can say “that’s not critical thinking” and on one hand I agree, but teaching more thourough critical thinking skills won’t have the result we want: for people to make evidence based decisions about their life and society.
In my experience, Getting people to change their minds requires engaging their emotions. Decisions are made on the basis or shame, fear, anger, and more rarely, love, hope, and empathy.
The evidence needs to be there to support the emotion, but nobody ever changes their behavior on the strength of the evidence alone.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
All of that can be done, badly. Which is how people do it. See the discourse around any popular drama, people have the skills, they just use them in service of their own pre conceived notions.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
It’s bleak, but if you want to persuade a large number of people to think differently, you don’t challenge their worldview, you create new biases that they will then defend in their own.
See: trump’s constant repetition of blatant lies.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
The average person has lots of critical thinking.
It’s just not a life hack to truth. You can critical think yourself into any conclusion. The average person uses critical thinking to reinforce their biased instead of challenge them.
- Comment on Transitioning in STEM 3 months ago:
Not in stem but the same thing happened to me. I used to be able to speak to a room and be heard. Now I need to raise my voice, sound a little whiney or bitchy or nobody hears me. Only my closest friend still asks me for advice or to share my knowledge. Used to happen all the time.
At least I pass. I got that going for me.
- Comment on I get that america is failing if it's duty to suppress the rise of fascist but did the rest of the world just put all its eggs in the america basket? 3 months ago:
They have enough on their plate protecting themselves. Effective militaries are not made in a few years. (Not without shifting your whole ass economy at least.)
Africa and South America and Asia better keep their eyes peeled.
- Comment on I get that america is failing if it's duty to suppress the rise of fascist but did the rest of the world just put all its eggs in the america basket? 3 months ago:
Are tankies pro trump? I see the grim irony of trump dismantling America’s empire, (grim for us, and the rest of the world doesn’t seem to be celebrating.)
I suppose I should not be impressed by mental gymnastics.
- Comment on I get that america is failing if it's duty to suppress the rise of fascist but did the rest of the world just put all its eggs in the america basket? 3 months ago:
BRICS represents an aspiration to have an alternative to the dollar.
Even that will get America fucking with you.