missfrizzle
@missfrizzle@discuss.tchncs.de
- Comment on Disney 2025 2 hours ago:
wtf? didn’t Scrooge McDuck get drafted into the US Navy?
- Comment on Based and Red Pilled Gigachad, many such cases 😔 1 day ago:
my sibling in Christ, Reps. Mace and Jackson literally shouted the t-slur yesterday and called for all trans people to be forcibly institutionalized. Trump said he “wouldn’t oppose” banning the trans flag when a reporter asked about “transtifa.” Musk retweeted someone who called trans women “perverted, deranged bioweapons” and trans men “osteoporotic, androgynous goblins,” calling us to be contained and forbidden to communicate with each other. along with someone else calling for a total ban on HRT for all ages. we’ve been kicked out of the military, and stripped of security clearances. the DoJ has floated banning us from gun ownership by ruling that we’re “mentally defective.” my passport has an M on it because Trump reverted all the rules on his first day in office. it’s a literal felony for trans women to use the women’s bathroom in Florida, and for trans office workers to use their own pronouns. coverage for trans health has been stripped from nearly every public service. trans protections have recently been eviscerated in Skrmetti.
it’s really not going great.
- Comment on Political discourse 1 day ago:
if you were a centrist before 2020, and you still are in 2025, then you’ve moved Right, since the Overton window shifted Right.
if you kept your principles you’re now Left. that’s how the window works.
- Comment on Based and Red Pilled Gigachad, many such cases 😔 1 day ago:
The US passed laws protecting trans people and many Americans are literally trans or allies. Russia however, is extremely anti-trans.
ahh, to live in 2014 again.
- Comment on He died doing what he loved. 1 week ago:
update from the future: the suspect is Tyler Robinson, a young white Utah man from a Mormon family, with unregistered party affiliation. he confessed to his father, who called a youth pastor to talk him down from suicide, who then called US marshals to take him into custody.
- Comment on Practical Magic 1 week ago:
rule of three is broader than Wicca though. something like it is common in a lot of pagan beliefs.
- Comment on We are helping 1 week ago:
Why do we pipe natural gas into homes?
puts on Technology Connections hat
because heat pumps and green energy weren’t a thing in the US until recently!
heat efficiency is weird. electric heaters are 100% efficient, but 1) they’re only as efficient as the generator, and 2) transmission losses add up. and until recently, most power was generated by coal and natural gas. turning those into electricity is lossy, since lots of energy is lost as waste heat. so why not send the gas you were going to burn for electricity directly to the customer?
heat pumps can be 300-400% efficient, since they move heat - from outdoors, into the home - rather than generating it. they can get >100% efficiency even in cold climates! but stupidly the US never bothered make our air conditioners reversible, or every home would have a heat pump by now.
and with solar/wind (for peak) + nuclear or grid storage (for base) power, we can now get rid of natural gas. …once we give everybody heat pumps. …and shutdown our gas generators. …we should probably get on that.
- Comment on We are helping 1 week ago:
pragmatically I think reducing meat consumption rather than eliminating it is an easier sell. I’ll admit, I’m too weak of will to become a vegetarian. I’ve been inside a chicken plant, I’ve seen the horrid conditions firsthand. I know the climate change impact. I know my diet is hurting animals and the climate. but I crave meat, and none of the delicious vegan food my partner makes hits the spot.
it’s too hard to forswear every future pot roast, chop and drumstick. I can probably get myself to eat less meat though.
- Comment on Peak 2 weeks ago:
they look a lot like old Soviet children’s dolls/characters to me. like Cheburashka and Nevalyashka.
- Comment on Internet discourse is wonderful 2 weeks ago:
thank you for writing this up. ❤ I’m also trans and spent time in that particular community because I have very intense dysphoria/bdd and found other spaces to be toxically positive. it wasn’t a healthy place, and I picked up more brainworms, but I felt like I could vent and not feel so alone.
it’s really easy for people without crippling dysphoria to sit back and judge you for going to /tttt/. it’s unhealthy, I know it’s unhealthy, but sometimes unhealthy outlets are the only way I can make the hurt get better for a while. I can’t just be all uwu skirt go spinny when my body feels like sewage.
- Comment on Just a little bit more 2 weeks ago:
most fascists don’t call themselves fascists. so censoring the word “fascist” tends to muzzle people calling out fascists, not the fascists themselves. it vexes me.
- Comment on Just a little bit more 2 weeks ago:
lemmy.ml (used to?) automatically replace “bitch” with
*removed*. I’d see people call themselves a “basic removed” or say “removed please” and it was very confusing. it applied to every message.“cunt” wasn’t censored, though? or maybe they removed the filter at some point.
I’m not a tankie so I left and never looked back.
- Comment on Ia Ia! 2 weeks ago:
Unnatty Light
- Comment on android 3 weeks ago:
long live GrapheneOS! also congratulations to her!