zenforyen
@zenforyen@feddit.org
- Comment on Why am I seeing political ads for Donald Trump in April of the year of his second inauguration? 1 day ago:
I’m in multiple ways part of minorities, but luckily invisibly so, so I perfectly understand what you are saying with being “white” helping.
This year I started to learn some self defense, together with my wife. My gut feeling says we need to toughen up for whatever times are coming up, because in any case they won’t be good, that is for sure. I must say, no idea how much it would help in practice, and I hope to never find out, but it at least does help psychologically.
Having to watch all this insanity unfold at one one hand slow motion (compared to movies) and on ultra high speed (objectively) and seeing where this is going without any ability to stop it leaves one feeling pretty helpless. Enact change… But how? Ultimately even hundreds of thousands protests do not change a thing. We saw the same thing with climate change. Everybody knows what’s going on, nobody is really doing anything. Sadly, not only for such abstract threats but also very concrete and personified evils.
I think all we can do is try staying calm (but prepared) and remain decent human beings. I hope when the time comes I will have the courage and trust to help people who need and deserve it. Decent people helping each other could at some point be the only thing that remains, when all institutions have crumbed or gone rogue, and it’s crucial. Little actions by regular people can mean life or death. We cannot stop the storm, but we gotta try what we can in whatever sphere of personal influence we have. That’s all we can do and the best we can hope for. Everybody with a mind and heart keeping going and trying to do the right thing.
I wish you the best of luck to get through all this. Stay safe, stay sane.
- Comment on If I snapped you back in time 650 years right this very second, how would you use your current knowledge to succeed? 1 day ago:
Good one. I am the frame of reference myself… And we rewind time around me, kind of.
Okay, that at least does not sound so wrong like the “teleportation-style” approach!
What you say is like the extreme form of how time travel worked in Primer (the movie), which in fact is an interesting variation.
- Comment on Why am I seeing political ads for Donald Trump in April of the year of his second inauguration? 1 day ago:
My condolences from Europe. Most likely we will follow into the abyss like lemmings as usual, with a few years delay. US was always setting the trends for Europe, and I already worry about what happens in the old world pretty soonish as well.
German chancellor announced his crew. Blackrock and the gang. They will already start to strip social systems down, and the openly fascist party will use the growing discontent to seize power next time. Then fascists and oligarchs will finally kiss and unite, like in the US.
The whole “Western world” has this Virus right now, there is literally no escape. Because rest of the world has it even worse.
What a disappointing timeline to live in.
- Comment on Why am I seeing political ads for Donald Trump in April of the year of his second inauguration? 1 day ago:
It’s the saddest part. He always said exactly what he was going to do. And Thiels plans were also known for years, in the open in obscure edgelord blogs. They all never made a secret out of their plans.
I wonder what else from the “crazy stuff he says” he will actually going to do, like the famous “shooting some random person on the street” without consequences or something. Maybe in 2028.
- Comment on Why am I seeing political ads for Donald Trump in April of the year of his second inauguration? 1 day ago:
I like github.com/TeamNewPipe/NewPipe
Is ReVanced having any features I’m missing out on with NewPipe? (Serious question, never bothered trying ReVanced)
- Comment on If I snapped you back in time 650 years right this very second, how would you use your current knowledge to succeed? 1 day ago:
Absolutely. In these times it is probably the only way to survive and stay sane. Being terminally online and informed is just leading to overdose of the shittiness of like everything. Create a soft bubble of bliss and steer away from noise and trouble. I always thought that escapism is despicable and but it feels increasingly like I’m not strong enough mentally to look in the face of reality at prolonged times these days. It’s like staring into the sun, it burns you.
- Comment on If I snapped you back in time 650 years right this very second, how would you use your current knowledge to succeed? 1 day ago:
This. Once you understand enough about the universe how all coordinates are relative and everything is moving relative to everything else… Like, how the fuck is time travel supposed to work it it was anywhere like this naive movie idea of it? Time travel Hollywood style is literally not a continuous operation and as such absolutely unphysical.
- Comment on How do people develop feelings for someone? 2 weeks ago:
A beautiful answer, our trajectory was pretty similar, only that we were together and building it for over 10 years before we finally got married last year :)
My wife is my home, my constant, my safe harbor, the anchor of my sanity and peace of mind.
Two planets orbiting each other - I could not have said it better. We’re a unit that is greater than it’s sum and we grew and continue to grow together as individuals and into each other.
- Comment on Anon is worried about men 3 weeks ago:
That’s exactly it. Help each other heal and grow.
Just need to find the puzzle piece that fits, and then two half broken pieces can grow into a strong unit.
Just needs empathy, respect and good communication. It’s work, but it’s possible if both sides are genuinely interested in making it work. Just do not be a self-centered asshole and don’t have such a person as a partner.
It seems like so many relationships these days are shallow decoration. If you can’t talk to your partner about everything and you are not at least best friends, why the fuck even bother ? If it’s not the person you can trust your life with, it’s not your partner, but a fuck buddy. Some people seem to have some misunderstanding here what a serious relationship is, or so not even want such a thing.