Triasha
@Triasha@lemmy.world
- Comment on Posting for the "Now guys he was MURDERED! Don't celebrate!" Crowd 5 days 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 6 days 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 6 days 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 3 weeks ago:
Sharks aren’t fish. Humans and all other terrestrial mammals are.
Hank Green explained it.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks 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? 1 month 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 1 month ago:
It’s kinda sad.
- Comment on get sum 1 month 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 month 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? 1 month 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] 2 months ago:
I don’t see anything weird about this. Sounds like parenting.
- Comment on Jarvis, change the scenery from a Jungle to a Desert 2 months 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 2 months 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? 2 months 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 months 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 months 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 months 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 months ago:
Honestly a better convention.
- Comment on Time to redraw America's borders in a way that finally makes sense. 2 months ago:
Smuggling is what it will cause. I’ll risk dying in a hot truck.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months 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] 2 months 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] 3 months ago:
It’s terrifying in many ways.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months 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.😋 3 months ago:
What’s not to respect? Get that bag girl.
- Comment on Number neighbors! 3 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 3 months ago:
Thanks this one could be useful.
- Comment on Let's play this game again 3 months ago:
I can shapeshift.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 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] 4 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] 4 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.