KelvarCherry
@KelvarCherry@lemmy.blahaj.zone
- Comment on I am so scared of nuclear war, how do I cope with it? 3 days ago:
I looked up the advice I had blindly followed and apparently milk jugs are biodegradable. That’s good for the environmentalists, but not for water storage. That said, stored water won’t “go bad”. It won’t even acidize like a glass of water on your countertop.
- Comment on I am so scared of nuclear war, how do I cope with it? 3 days ago:
Nuclear War in films, like most aspects of life, is extremely over-dramatized. IF, and that’s a big If, a country launched a nuke at another, it would not mean an end to the world, or the nations involved.
Nukes are not reality-destroying devices. They will destroy a part of a city. They would destabilize life in that area, but one bomb is far from a global crisis. Your life would remain the same unless you are near the impact site.
Here is one key disaster preparation step you can take, relevant in a nuclear attack as well as storms and civil unrest: Stock up on water. Keep a few milk jugs, clean them out well, and fill them with tap water; Then shut them and put them somewhere cool and out of the way. That’s the most essential disaster prep step you can do.
- Comment on What's it going to take to truly stop the US? 4 days ago:
This is the sad truth. MAGA is the revolution against Neoliberalism, combined with the economic transition from Late-Stage capitalism to Techno-Feudalism.
- Comment on What's it going to take to truly stop the US? 4 days ago:
It’s good to hear from someone who understands the bigger problem. Trump isn’t a one-off outsider - he’s what the Republican Party has been transitioning to. The attacks on Venezuela, while outrageous on a global scale, is actually more in-line with prior Republican presidents than most of this first year of Trump-2.
Bush Sr. did the same in deploying in the Middle East against Sadam Hussein, which Bernie Sanders notably called out. This was in 1991.
For decades the USA has been transitioning to fascism. Our schools teach obedience and have been cutting back civics courses and high-level analysis. Our workers are exhausted and struggling to make ends meet, many now working several jobs (normalized via the term “side hustle”). The media landscape has been bought by billionaires and oligarchs. Our culture of consumerism keeps us pacified.
I hate to be a doomer, which is all I’ve been for the last half-year, but time after time USAmericans have cobbled together sizable movements despite our disadvantages. Occupy Wall Street. The strong anti-war movement. Now the “No King’s Protests”. It’s not working and I don’t see how it will ever work. We have had massive protests, and our leaders laugh at us spit in our faces. They do not care. No amount of signaling our desires will make them care.
Call me "radical or “accelerationist”
- Comment on What's it going to take to truly stop the US? 4 days ago:
USAmericans have shown a complete inability to rise up against their government. This is not surprising given our crushing economic system, the fragility of our lives, and cultural landscape of the USA. At this point I believe Resistance has to come from outside the USA. This is unlikely due to the USA’s extensive nuclear arsenal.
I foresee the USA going the way of China and Russia, steadily oppressing its people, enriching its oligarchs, and occasionally creating problems for the world. Greenland may very well be the USA’s version of China constantly threatening to seize Taiwan.
- Comment on Journalists convinced a AI Vending Machine Things to give them free stuff like a PS5 3 weeks ago:
Even if you wanted the AI to have a conversation with the user, like in sci-fi visions of the future, why does that affect the output of the machine? If you really wanted to make an AI grift version of a vending machine, just graft a chatbot on a screen stop the section where you make selections and pay. This whole bubble is absurd.
- Comment on Chasing the Elephant 5 weeks ago:
*watch my bitch wife with TV
- Comment on Chasing the Elephant 5 weeks ago:
it’s the faces, the character shapes, but really that yellow hue across the image. Perhaps someone with some color theory knowledge could explain why ChatGPT generates images like that.
- Comment on Why do some Americans "feel ashamed" for being American even when it's not their fault? 5 weeks ago:
Living in the USA myself, I feel shame at how I normalized and rationalized the horrible aspects of this country. I’d already been a minimalist and was anti-consumerism from before I was an adult; but I had downplayed the severity of our systemic violence until it hit me personally. Above all I wish I was doing more to fight this system, like the people you described.
For as long as I am alive I will stay in the USA. I’m not going to give up on holding out here, as miserable as I’ve felt this last year. I’d like to believe something I do may someday inspire others who are braver and have more resources to do something more concrete.
- Comment on Why do some Americans "feel ashamed" for being American even when it's not their fault? 5 weeks ago:
Not the pendulum. The gunfire.
- Comment on FACTS 1 month ago:
- Comment on FACTS 1 month ago:
So plenty of people have pointed out this tweet is satire, but similar sentiment has been shared by Andrew Tate, Nick Fuentes, and other “manosphere”/alt-right grifters.
I just want to put out clearly what these men mean, and what the dog-whistle here is: They are not saying a man with a penis fucking a woman’s pussy is gay. They are saying that a man following all the acts of affection and consideration to the physical and emotional wants and needs of your partner is effeminate, inferior, non-masculine, and therefore “gay”. This is what incels argue when they complain about “modern women” and divorce and “gold diggers”. Being anything less than an egotist, entitle, aggressive prick is “gay”, and they know as well as their critics that few women would take a relationship like that.
The Turning Point USA/Heritage Foundation evangelical-type want women as second-class citizens. The manosphere/incel type want women as property – sold from father to husband property. (Well, that’s the vision they sell. The grifters want men single and alone; shut-in and consuming their content.)
- Comment on After Today's meeting where Trump fell in love with Mamdani, this is MAGA tomorrow morning. 1 month ago:
I was not expecting Mamdani to meet with Trump, but looking back it makes sense. Butter him up, and he’ll support anyone. If Elon Musk and JD Vance could get Trump’s support by glazing him, anyone can.
Trump has flip-flopped on positions repeatedly. Gun control, LGBTQ+ rights. It’s all ego for him. Always has been. I guess all you need to do is sweet talk him the right way.
- Comment on Is it gay to have pleasurable sex with your wife? 1 month ago:
(to title) I mean, if you’re a woman, yeah :p
- Comment on Annoying dark pattern where no means maybe later 1 month ago:
Silicon Valley has always been run by rapists, so that checks out :)
- Comment on It's Fun For The Whole Family 1 month ago:
- Comment on Why isn't the rest of the world doing anything about the USA? 2 months ago:
Also the USA has nukes. No one’s going to invade us, because doing so would be a destructive act, and the final order of any armed state is to nuke its attackers. This is the same reason North Korea gets to remain its defiant self when their army could be obliterated in a few bombing runs. This isn’t even counting all the non-nuclear weaponry we have. Think of that annual budget of hundreds of billions of dollars in military spending that keeps getting raised every year…
- Comment on The oldest Minecraft server, MinecraftOnline, is being shut down by Microsoft 2 months ago:
Microsoft can revoke service for any reason, so it’s legal. Yes, this is exactly how it is done internally. The only way to bypass Mojang’s blocking is to run a “Cracked” server, where accounts are never checked, but in that system anyone can log on as any name.)
- Comment on The oldest Minecraft server, MinecraftOnline, is being shut down by Microsoft 2 months ago:
The chat message verification is the Chat Reporting system, which can be required on servers. That’s a whole rabbit hole to go down. TL;DR you can get banned from Minecraft if your messages get reported. (Use the NoChatReports mod like everyone does)
- Comment on The oldest Minecraft server, MinecraftOnline, is being shut down by Microsoft 2 months ago:
I’ve seen peaceful protestors in the USA, UK and Germany get charged as rioters and terrorists for opposing the Israeli genocide against Palestinians. Also, the media lost its shit at criticism of Charlie Kirk. cronenthal’s argument absolutely holds water.
- Comment on The oldest Minecraft server, MinecraftOnline, is being shut down by Microsoft 2 months ago:
- reveal the names of ICE agents
- denounce the Confederacy
- support Palestine
- Comment on The oldest Minecraft server, MinecraftOnline, is being shut down by Microsoft 2 months ago:
No, but, we’re not in control of the standards here. This is how every censorship process goes. It’s “For the Children” or it’s about stopping Nazis, and then when the system’s established and normalized, they creep it towards oppression and suppression. How people are supporting this with everything else we see in 2025 is beyond me. Palestine Action. Kimmel. Kirk.
Reminder: The UK implemented Real ID-verification as a requirement to see porn. On Day 2, it was blocking the Russian-Ukraine war and Israeli genocide in Palestine – two topics I’d say UK leadership is on the wrong side of. Just last September, Microsoft figurehead Bill Gates was singing praises to Donald Trump and Gates owns stake in companies executing Trump’s deportations.
- Comment on The oldest Minecraft server, MinecraftOnline, is being shut down by Microsoft 2 months ago:
I’m glad someone else sees it. I’m very unsettled by the widespread support for corporation-determined censorship on servers Microsoft doesn’t even pay for. Did we forget Jimmy Kimmel? Do you not know of the “Chat Reports” feature??
- Comment on The oldest Minecraft server, MinecraftOnline, is being shut down by Microsoft 2 months ago:
but do we? Microsoft is absolutely a mega-corp and would not hesitate to screw over people for money. If you’re anti-bigoty, don’t assume they’re your friend. Maybe someone “insulted” Charlie Kirk, or said that ICE are Nazis. Remember Jimmy Kimmel? I get your sarcasm in your original post, but I think you’re making an assumption that corporations are in the right when they take down speech, when they’d just as quickly shut down a trans-supportive group as they would a transphobic group.
- Comment on The oldest Minecraft server, MinecraftOnline, is being shut down by Microsoft 2 months ago:
Minecraft servers are a unique case because they are hosted by the owners. Microsoft/Mojang does not host online servers; they just host the authentication server that the client pings to check the connecting account UUID (and pull the skin file). The whole way Mojang “bans” servers is by marking certain IPs to always be told the connecting account is invalid. Either way, server costs are paid by the owner. I recommend you look into Minecraft specifically because the model has its quirks.
Personally I agree with the MC servers here purely because of that fact. Also, Mojang/Microsoft should be seen as an enemy of the common people for many reasons - including their Copilot AI. If the Chat Reports feature (where purchased accounts are neutered because of automated chat reports) isn’t reason enough to dislike Microsoft, consider the following: The enemy of my enemy is my friend.
- Comment on Get over yourself 2 months ago:
“You’re not homophobic. You’re homochondriac”
I recall reading that in a meme on Lemmy.
- Comment on We gotta be more encouraging 2 months ago:
1705542 is a prime number. How can I get my proof published?
- Comment on Albania what are you doing? I thought you just made peace with Aberbaijan??? 2 months ago:
Can we talk about the second half where the guy’s proclaiming the benefit that when legislators miss sessions, the AI can tell them what they missed, and how they should respond??? Sounds wonderful. Let’s have our legislators getting orders from miss Edi Rama’s 83 slop-goblins.
- Comment on Albania what are you doing? I thought you just made peace with Aberbaijan??? 2 months ago:
One minute ago I was mourning and feeling lost about the world. I open Lemmy and: 83 AI kids. This has been the entire last year: bouncing between feeling lost in life and feeling baffled by the stupidity of life. Our government AI minister is pregnant with 83 kids.
- Comment on I'm so goddamn sick of this fat, orange, narcissistic asshole and I will celebrate when he dies 2 months ago:
“Isn’t running America” jfc millions of dollars was spent for a sick slow-rolling display of his delusions of prowess in Kennywood. He got his own prime-time TV show. His fame and existence is a testament to the gullibility of the USA population.