Triasha
@Triasha@lemmy.world
- Comment on [deleted] 4 days ago:
I don’t see anything weird about this. Sounds like parenting.
- Comment on Jarvis, change the scenery from a Jungle to a Desert 1 week 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 1 week 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? 1 week ago:
I met my wife on OK cupid. 8 years ago though.
- Comment on Jarvis, change the scenery from a Jungle to a Desert 2 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 2 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. 2 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. 2 weeks ago:
Honestly a better convention.
- Comment on Time to redraw America's borders in a way that finally makes sense. 2 weeks ago:
Smuggling is what it will cause. I’ll risk dying in a hot truck.
- Comment on Is there really anything stopping an evil government from just poisoning the water supply to commit a massacre/genocide/ethnic-clensing? 2 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 Bestbuy decided to use fucking **DOORDASH** to deliver my order, I couldn't cancel it. Today I was supposed to get it, and I saw the driver stealing the package after marking it as delivered. 3 weeks 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] 4 weeks ago:
It’s terrifying in many ways.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks 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.😋 1 month ago:
What’s not to respect? Get that bag girl.
- Comment on Number neighbors! 1 month 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 1 month ago:
Thanks this one could be useful.
- Comment on Let's play this game again 1 month 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 2 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? 2 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? 2 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? 2 months ago:
BRICS represents an aspiration to have an alternative to the dollar.
Even that will get America fucking with you.
- Comment on Are most people here left-wing? 3 months ago:
“wider inter-class politics” we call that intersectionality. I support the interests of POC and the disabled and the neurodivergent and the working class because it’s the right thing to do and I hope they will do the same for me. Solidarity.
You have more faith in majorities to do the right thing than I do. My country was founded on genocide and slavery. Some European countries were too but maybe farther back in history.
- Comment on Are most people here left-wing? 3 months ago:
That sounds like you are agreeing with my premise.
When rights were being extended to (sexual) minorities identity politics was not needed. Did progress slow down because of identity politics or did identity politics form because expansion of rights slowed down?
I don’t know your country, and I certainly know less about it’s politics than I do about my own in the US.
- Comment on Are most people here left-wing? 3 months ago:
Minority groups didn’t make up identity politics, majority groups did, when they engaged in oppression of minorities.
Queer people don’t have that much in common. Straight people forced us to band together for our rights.
Gay people don’t have much in common with trans people, but straight people can’t tell us apart/treat us the same so we band together.
Disabled people, people of color, it’s similar stories.
- Comment on What are some of your unpopular opinions, hot takes about shows, streamers, the wider industry etc? 3 months ago:
Atunshei and Contrapoints have a lot going for them.
Checkmate Lincolnites is YouTube gold.