AcidiclyBasicGlitch
@AcidiclyBasicGlitch@sh.itjust.works
Researcher in the U.S. trying to stay informed and help others stay informed. I write a blog that focuses on public information, public health, and policy: pimento-mori.ghost.io
I only recently began using ghost, and am slowly figuring things out. Apologies for any formatting issues.
- Comment on Rage for the machine? 21 hours ago:
Here is something you can’t understand No consequences when I, kill a man
Yo, probably nothing to see in the Epstein file My pendejos know Donny can’t be a pedophile DHS army of pigs coming to kidnap your child They’ll try to put you in a box, feddy fascist style Lights on, corporate radio
- Comment on BASED? 5 days ago:
TLDR: Because I added citations after the TLDR at the end of the unedited post and included the word Edit: to indicate it was added afterwards
- Comment on We really need to bring back the 70s conversation pits 6 days ago:
Good point, i’m pretty sure it was assuming slab foundation. I kinda remember it being specific to ranch style homes in a part of the country where the land was completely flat
- Comment on BASED? 6 days ago:
I agree it’s hard to know what’s part of divide and conquer political psyops and whether that was the intention or not of the person that created it.
I personally scrolled by this and read it as a debate about feminism in its most basic sense (equality for all) vs traditionalism and patriarchy (heirarchy based control). Not as an attack on men or meaning to exclude anyone who doesn’t fall into the heteronormative categories which exist as a consequence of the heirarchies demanded by traditionalism and patriarchy.
Like the propaganda behind conservative traditionalism has always relied on convincing people of the idea that all of modern society’s problems are simply due to moving further away from the traditional values of the past. It’s somewhat circular logic that offers easy and appealing solutions to those being targeted, while relying on supporters to either remain unaware of or intentionally ignore some of the very obvious problems caused by the conservative heirarchies the traditionalist movement hopes to preserve and strengthen.
For example, addressing the declining standard of living with each successive generation, lack of affordable housing, affordable education, and job opportunities in the United States. Traditional conservativism often targets young men by offering them easy solutions to these issues by claiming they were caused by the feminist and civil rights movements moving American society away from the traditional values (heirarchies) that were already in place. DEI practices that arose from those movements mean that the resources previously available for young men to build the American dream, are now unavailable because they’re being handed to women and minorities while young men have been forgotten. Essentially, these movements have upset the natural order of things, and until that order is restored, there will be no way to fix the problems.
It’s true that opportunity, housing, affordability, and standard of living have all noticably declined in the U.S over the last 50 years. The argument that the lack of available resources in the U.S. in 2026 is due to the most salient social movements of the 60’s and 70’s is an easy conclusion to make, but it requires you to ignore what was simultaneously happening in the background of those movements.
While blaming equality movements and toppling of established heirarchies, it ignores the fact that since the 1970’s wealth has become increasingly concentrated in the hands of the 1%. It ignores the fact that the 70’s also marks the establishment of the first conservative think tanks (Heritage Foundation), which were funded by billionaires, and created in direct response to the civil rights movement, in order to establish influence and promote conservative economic and social policies.
Tldr: To restore and preserve the conservative natural order and heirarchy, the policies promoted are always backed by traditional values that require division by default.
The traditionalist movement argues a woman’s place is in the home, supported by a hardworking man. While equality based movements would argue a woman’s place, (like any autonomous human being, regardless of class or identity male, female, cis, trans, NB), is wherever they want it to be, whether that’s at home, working, single, married, straight, queer etc. The entire point is there are no pre established roles set out for her or anybody else. Opportunities and resources are available to everyone, rather than kept locked away under the control of a small but heavily insulated and protected 1%, who then decide how to divide up whatever resources they’re willing to allow the other 99% to share.
- Comment on We really need to bring back the 70s conversation pits 1 week ago:
I feel like I remember somebody saying they tend to cause flooding or water damage? Like I guess the foundation can separate and water seeps in? I could be completely misremembering that though.
- Comment on We really need to bring back the 70s conversation pits 1 week ago:
I can definitely see why people dislike the colors but there’s something about the 70s (I prefer to think of it as avocado) green paired with wooden mid century mod decor
- Comment on We really need to bring back the 70s conversation pits 1 week ago:
- Comment on How do you fight doomerism/pessimism in these trying times? 3 weeks ago:
Whatever makes you happy. It can be helpful to mix it up to with things that provide you a creative outlet, so if you like making music, then try to always set aside dedicated time to do that.
Learn to identify what the doom feels like. Take the time to write down how it feels so you recognize it when it starts to set in. How do you feel emotionally? Physically? How does it feel in the beginning vs once it’s really taken hold?
Write that down somewhere just for you. You can even just delete it once you write it down if you think you can remember it. It’s really just an exercise to help you identify it when it starts to happen. When you feel the doom setting in, consider that a signal from your body telling you to take a step back and take a little break. Give yourself a set amount of time to focus on that instead. If music isn’t helpful try video games for 10-20 mins, just be sure not to let it suck you in and become a new substitute that keeps you checked out.
If that’s not helpful, maybe try a new hobby out even if you’re not good at it. Mindfulness practices can even be something you think of like an exercise where you start with dedicating 1 minute then gradually increase to 5 minutes whenever your body is signaling it feels overwhelmed.
- Comment on How do you fight doomerism/pessimism in these trying times? 3 weeks ago:
Allow yourself escapism and breaks where you get lost in the things you enjoy even if you feel guilty. It will keep you from burning out
- Comment on who's gonna tell him? 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on Why does every commercial depiction of honey involve one of this things? Literally nobody has ever seen one of these in real life 2 months ago:
I have a honey pot with one of those that somebody gave me as a gift.
I tried to use it one time to be fancy when I made biscuits, and put it in the middle of the table during dinner. At first people tried to use it, but it was such a fucking pain in the ass, eventually they just stopped trying to be nice about it used a spoon to get the honey bc wtf is the point?
- Comment on Are you sure about that? 2 months ago:
Then there’s this episode where she finally gets physical evidence of the paranormal. So she contacts a bunch of prominent scientists and arranges for them all to come to the autopsy bay, to reveal this invisible man.
She gets so fucking pumped and excited, but then when she pulls out the table his body as gone and she has nothing!
And she just kind of stammers “Well, he is invisible…” then unsuccessfully gropes around for him while they silently judge her and she dies a little inside.
- Comment on I just learned 37% of Americans fear vaccinating their dog will cause the dog to develop autism. 😐 2 months ago:
It’s not safe to give dogs Tylenol, but if it was I would say you should go ahead and corner the market.
- Comment on I just learned 37% of Americans fear vaccinating their dog will cause the dog to develop autism. 😐 2 months ago:
Rabies is in my top three fears, maybe even number one.
Same. I went on a road trip one summer a few years ago, and we decided to take a long detour through the Appalachian trail for part of the drive.
We had all the windows down and the sunroof open everywhere else outside of the mountains. Anyway, we were going down this really narrow back road, seeing like 1 or 2 other cars every 45 mins to an hour, and eventually got to a point where we had to drive through a really old tunnel.
My first thought was, what if a bat flies in the car lmao. I demanded we roll up all the windows and shut the sunroof before we go through. My husband made fun of me and said I was being ridiculous. I probably was, but there’s way too many documented cases about people who were out in the wilderness, got a tiny bat scratch, didn’t even realize it or think twice about it, then weeks or months later died a slow horrible death. Even if you spend your last days in a hospital there’s nothing they can do except try to make you comfortable (which seems pretty impossible unless they just place you into a medically induced coma).
I also worked with a girl that grew up in Vietnam and said there were multiple times she got bit by stray dogs and had to get rabies shots when she was a kid. I grew up in the sticks always playing with stray cats and dogs, and never thought twice about it back then. Definitely wouldn’t be taking the risk now.
Anyway, tldr, some people seem to be under the impression a fear of encountering rabies is like a fear of someday encountering quicksand. I’ll take my chances being ridiculous, especially after reading the article and learning we’ve now got a fucking rabies outbreak to worry about on top of everything else in the U.S.
- Comment on I just learned 37% of Americans fear vaccinating their dog will cause the dog to develop autism. 😐 2 months ago:
I think it’s that attitude with any neurodivergence or mental health related issue. You know, all the things that
doctors didn’t know about diagnosing“just didn’t exist” in the past.Like we saw the consequences of people struggling through life, not getting a diagnosis, and not understanding why life was so challenging. For example, my dad was dyslexic and my mom very likely had ADHD, but neither was ever diagnosed.
They just struggled constantly through school, had terrible self esteem, and when somebody told them to just give up and choose a different career path they just said ok, guess I’m just not cut out for this.
Then I got both, and my parents were ok with acknowledging the dyslexia bc it was pretty easy to diagnose.
The ADHD was a whole other story, and I was told by my own parents (who used the excuse of being not wanting me to end up like them) and teachers I was just careless and lazy over and over. I started hating school when I was like 8 and barely finished high school. When I got to college by the skin of my teeth, I found stuff that interested me, but I still struggled so much through college and grad school. Then for a very long time I believed the reason everything was so so much harder for me than my peers was bc I was just dumb.
I had to wait until I was in my 30s and had my own real job and insurance to even attempt to seek help get with ADHD, and even then it took a very long time, but I’m so glad I did.
Maybe if we can stop society from devolving, in a few generations we can also stop pretending that acknowledging neurodivergence and mental health in kids means you have to accept some kind of dangerous magical sorcery, instead of just understanding that people often thrive when you allow them to just be themselves, and treat them like individuals with their own individual strengths, weaknesses, and unique skills.
- Comment on I just learned 37% of Americans fear vaccinating their dog will cause the dog to develop autism. 😐 2 months ago:
And it’s what makes them so fucking awesome.
No judgment. No bullshit. Just our best friend, here for a good time, but unfortunately not a long time. We could learn a lot from them.
- Comment on I just learned 37% of Americans fear vaccinating their dog will cause the dog to develop autism. 😐 2 months ago:
My fellow Americans, your government has let you down. They’ve let us all down. So please allow me to address something they somehow repeatedly fail to address.
I understand your hesitation to trust the American healthcare system. God knows it would be an absolute lie to say your health is always being prioritized before profits. However, this is a fault of the system itself, not the science behind the medicine.
Everyone deserves to be healthy and deserves access to the medical care that they need. I can’t fix a broken system, but I can swear to you on a stack of bibles, vaccines will not give you, your children, or your dog autism. Please vaccinate and help stop the spread of preventable diseases. God bless you and God bless the United States of America. ❤️
- Comment on I just learned 37% of Americans fear vaccinating their dog will cause the dog to develop autism. 😐 2 months ago:
Listen Doc, yesterday I tried to get my dog to drink some whiskey and get on the roof with an aluminum baseball bat during a lightening storm, so we could go Back to the Future, but he just kept running away. Clearly, whatever was in that vaccine you gave him has made him autistic.
- Comment on I just learned 37% of Americans fear vaccinating their dog will cause the dog to develop autism. 😐 2 months ago:
I just want to know what they put in the water in America to make everyone fight eachother
It’s a healthy dose of 1:1 lead (Pb) and misinformation. We call it fight water™️
- Comment on I just learned 37% of Americans fear vaccinating their dog will cause the dog to develop autism. 😐 2 months ago:
There times when I see obvious disinformation attacking America, and I will immediate stand up for my country and call out the bullshit.
Then I see something like this, and it leaves me feeling like I stood up for a family member being unfairly picked on who in response immediately decided to shit his pants and light a cigarette while filling his car with gas.
- I just learned 37% of Americans fear vaccinating their dog will cause the dog to develop autism. 😐sh.itjust.works ↗Submitted 2 months ago to mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world | 188 comments
- Comment on Women would rather do drugs than go to therapy 2 months ago:
Well tbf, I did read the tweet and immediately upvote in solidarity with her
- Comment on Women would rather do drugs than go to therapy 2 months ago:
It’s really sad but also kinda fascinating that there are definitely people who could read this and believe it’s evidence of the downfall of modern society caused by equal rights, instead of realizing that this bitch was just understandably tired and making a humor joke in an attempt to lighten the burden of having to face another day trying to roll the boulder back up the bullshit mountain created by the people who want to take away her (and everyone else’s) rights, dismantle society, and cause it to collapse.
- Comment on Fresh dystopian hell from Samsung fridges with ads. 2 months ago:
I’m like 3 episodes in so far and have had a hard time not binging it all at once.
- Comment on Rate my Grandma's setup 2 months ago:
It depends. Does your grandma use uranium glass for backlighting or just plain Jane LEDs?
- Comment on We've done it, boys 2 months ago:
“Product hoarding” conflicts with wealth hoarding. The only logical solution is to make less durable products that quickly wear out with frequent use.
That way consumers are forced to spend more and contribute more to the hoarded wealth of individuals who know very well they won’t be able to spend their fortunes before they die. However their desire for more and more wealth to hoard is limitless because it acts as s useless status symbol amongst other wealth hoarders.
When consumers become concerned about skyrocketing cost of living and wealth inequality, the wealth hoarders will remind them they’re lazy and greedy. If they didn’t want to be poor they should have worked harder (like them) or been more careful not to spend all their money on “frivolous purchases.”
However if consumers don’t spend enough money on frivolous purchases, they’re not being smart, they’re “product hoarding.” When consumers don’t have money to spend, but the wealth hoarders continue to churn out shitty products that they know nobody will buy, the economy will collapse.
The wealth hoarders could afford to take the hit. It might even help them understand cause and effect, so they don’t just keep making the same mistakes in the future. They could even use some of their hoarded wealth to get themselves out of the hole they dug by just giving it to the consumers to spend on their own products. But instead, they’re usually just given a bailout because they’re too big to fail.
After all, the economy would collapse without them…
- Comment on After Today's meeting where Trump fell in love with Mamdani, this is MAGA tomorrow morning. 2 months ago:
I’m very relieved that he didn’t try to detain and deport Mamdani (after publicly threatening to do so), but I’m also definitely not convinced anything be said was genuine. Especially coming on the heels of vaguely threatening to murder Democrats.
Idk if it was a genuine attempt to ingratiate himself with the left before the Epstein files are released, or some other kind of misdirection. Either way, I think anyone opposed to fascism who can remember further back than a goldfish, should know not to let their guard down.
- Comment on Is it gay to have pleasurable sex with your wife? 2 months ago:
“I can’t figure out what this button does, so I refuse to use it >:(”
- Comment on Is it gay to have pleasurable sex with your wife? 2 months ago:
Exactly! Ugh, if these miserable, global extremists, sacks of dog shit hate freedom so much, why won’t they all just go build a man made floating island somewhere in the middle of the ocean and leave the rest of the world alone, instead of dragging us all into fucking holy war just to force us to be miserable too?
Answer: A. They aren’t actually capable of creating/building anything on their own, and are completely reliant on exploiting others because they’re a bunch of talentless cocksuckers. B. They thrive on the attention/theatrics of it all and need a captive audience. C. Even if they suddenly woke up to a world where every need was met and everyone was exactly like them, they would be even more miserable nobody was paying attention to them, and still find excuses to go to war with each other. D. All of the above is
- Comment on New Orleans ballot for clerk of criminal court runoff election today. Large boxes are city propositions. Tiny box in the top left corner is for the actual runoff...🔎 2 months ago:
It’s the size of the box not the fact that there’s no information about the candidates jfc
