PrincessLeiasCat
@PrincessLeiasCat@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Is it weird that I enjoy imagining being a witness/victim of various tragedies? 11 hours ago:
You may enjoy a book that came out a few years ago by Amanda Ripley called “The Unthinkable - Who Survives when Disaster Strikes and Why”.
I can somewhat relate to what you’re describing (though maybe not to that extreme) and found that this book did a good job of helping me to understand the mindset of folks in these situations so as to ponder what I might have done had I been in their place in a somewhat realistic way.
- Comment on At Justice Alito’s House, a ‘Stop the Steal’ Symbol on Display as the Supreme Court was considering an election case. 3 days ago:
While the flag was up, the court was still contending with whether to hear a 2020 election case, with Justice Alito on the losing end of that decision. In coming weeks, the justices will rule on two climactic cases involving the storming of the Capitol on Jan. 6, including whether Mr. Trump has immunity for his actions. Their decisions will shape how accountable he can be held for trying to overturn the last presidential election and his chancesfor re-election in the upcoming one.
“I had no involvement whatsoever in the flying of the flag,” Justice Alito said in an emailed statement to The Times. “It was briefly placed by Mrs. Alito in response to a neighbor’s use of objectionable and personally insulting language on yard signs.”
It’s cool, guys, he had nothing to do with it. /s
- Comment on Will Billionaires Destroy Worker Rights? | Robert Reich 5 days ago:
Always have been.
- Comment on geoengineering 3 weeks ago:
2015:
Like other Republicans, Paul would repeal Obamacare, partially privatize Social Security, move Medicare to a " premium support" system for future retirees, and block-grant Medicaid and food stamps. But he’s also proposed budget cuts of 20 percent or more to NASA, the National Institutes of Health, the FDA, and the EPA — and cuts of 60 percent or more to the National Science Foundation, State Department, and Interior Department, among many others. Plus he’s proposed eliminating the Departments of Energy and Education entirely. “It’s the most detailed expression of what a libertarian approach to budgeting would look like to date,” Matthews writes.
Off to a great start!
- Comment on Is the body of Christ gluten free? Asking for a friend. 4 weeks ago:
Seems like a big risk if they fuck it up.
- Comment on NASA 4 weeks ago:
This is the correct answer.
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- Comment on Why do people around me tend to increase their responsibility load (i.e. have children, become a manager, do charity, etc.) while I (30M) try to avoid it as much as I can? 1 month ago:
I could see the career side for the fulfillment - I left a higher paying job for a lower paying one but work more hours because I’m genuinely more mentally challenged and I find that enjoyable.
I have no desire to go into management however.
- Comment on Eclipse advice for those in their 40s and 50s. 1 month ago:
Don’t forget to bring Saltines to see the shadow through the holes in the cracker!
- Comment on Eclipse advice for those in their 40s and 50s. 1 month ago:
Unrelated, but they used this song to tell us drugs were bad in high school. Had a whole performative dance thing to it where a student smoked weed for the first time and either OD’d or got depressed and unalived themselves because that’s how it works, of course.
Anyway, I was able to be in totality for the 2017 eclipse and I’m hoping to get there again this time. It’s an amazing experience - highly recommend!
- Comment on Smile :) 2 months ago:
To me it says “you’re allergic to me lol”
- Comment on Reminder: Trump’s Last Year in Office Was a National Nightmare 2 months ago:
Just the last one? Really?
- Comment on How is she? 2 months ago:
There was a part of me that feared this reference would be too old, too obscure, too irrelevant for today’s high-paced and high-turnover meme world, but Lemmy did not disappoint.
- Comment on Extremist feminist females are "ugly" cos they didn't use makeup cos "patriarchy thing" or cos they are "ugly" they didn't use makeup and "they are so feminist"? 2 months ago:
Hey thanks for posting that sub! Just subscribed :)
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
Is it company policy to be part of the “hive mind” (your words, not mine)?
Doubtful.
Is there a decent chance that they experience negative things you don’t because of gender?
Highly likely.
- Comment on What's the best way to read a book in a dark room? 4 months ago:
I love my Oasis.
- Comment on Why do we have an internal monologue? 4 months ago:
This describes me 100% and I fucking hate it. And I’m sorry you go through it, too.
- Comment on How do I stop hating children? 4 months ago:
OP, don’t feel alone or hopeless. There are more of us out here who know exactly what you’re describing because we experience it ourselves.
It doesn’t mean you’re a bad person or that it’s your fault for experiencing this - there’s not much you can do to “fix” it, if anything. I’ve been to a therapist and medical professionals, and basically noise cancelling AirPods or ear plugs in public are the only solution. And maybe some medications.
We used to have neighbors with several small children who would - at the same time every day - go play in their backyard. Normal kid thing. But if I was outside, I’d have to go back in. The frequency or pitch or whatever you want to call it of the loud shrieks was literally painful. I would cry.
I see other replies saying it may be a factor of you not being able to express yourself in the same way as a child. I wasn’t either because my mom is terrified of the outside world & it would make her think I was in danger. Whether this played a role or not I have no idea. I don’t want to attribute it to purely psychological reasons when it sounds like there is potentially also an actual physical medical explanation. Maybe it’s a combination, maybe not. Who knows.
It’s a fact of life that IMO you cannot control and will have to have a plan for if and when it occurs. Earplugs, leaving the triggering situation, medication, I hope you find something that works. It is fucking painful. And I can’t control that. And it’s no one’s fault…we just try to avoid situations where young children will be present (which is really fucking hard at times for a woman, btw…baby showers! Parties where the women are expected to be the caretakers because….uterus, I suppose?).
Anyway, best of luck to you, it’s not your fault, and feel free to reach out any time.
- Comment on YouTube comment deletion is out of control, can't say anything anymore even when completely sensible. Is there a text format (alternate characters) that allows you to bypass detection? 5 months ago:
I have no idea what you posted so I cannot help.
- Comment on YouTube comment deletion is out of control, can't say anything anymore even when completely sensible. Is there a text format (alternate characters) that allows you to bypass detection? 5 months ago:
I think you believe that this is a big problem that a large portion of the population here experience, but it’s really not. I have no idea what you’re talking about. Going by some of the replies, lots of other folks don’t either.
We cannot help you if we don’t know what you’re talking about, and we won’t better understand what you’re talking about unless you give us more information. That’s it, really.
- Comment on jordanlund is a power tripping lib ruining lemmy.world c/politics with his hypersensitive rad lib sensibilities 5 months ago:
I’ll leave you to it then. Enjoy.
- Comment on jordanlund is a power tripping lib ruining lemmy.world c/politics with his hypersensitive rad lib sensibilities 5 months ago:
I mean, right now you’re just saying a bunch of pretty wild stuff while you seem pretty angry and telling us we should know what you mean.
But maybe we don’t. And maybe we haven’t experienced whatever may have recently happened to make you feel like this. So you’re gonna need to back up your claims somehow.
- Comment on Is there any christian religions that don't believe in space? 6 months ago:
Wouldn’t have mattered.
- Comment on Is there any christian religions that don't believe in space? 6 months ago:
That’s why I specifically said Evangelicals.
Here is just one example:
Deutsch gained notoriety in late 2005 and early 2006, when it was reported that he had instructed a NASA website designer to add the word “theory” after every occurrence of the phrase Big Bang.[1] In his memo to the website designer, Deutsch wrote that the Big Bang is “not proven fact; it is opinion… It is not NASA’s place, nor should it be to make a declaration such as this about the existence of the universe that discounts intelligent design by a creator… This is more than a science issue, it is a religious issue.” The memo also noted that the AP Stylebook calls for the usage of the phrase “Big Bang theory”.[1]
Prior to the 2004 Bush/Cheney presidential campaign, Deutsch had been a student at Texas A&M University. His NASA résumé falsely asserted that he had a B.A. degree in journalism, but in February 2006 a blogger at The Scientific Activist discovered that he had never graduated.[2] This was subsequently confirmed by Texas A&M, and Deutsch resigned from NASA.[3] Deutsch later returned to Texas A&M and completed his degree that year.[4]
James E. Hansen, the director of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies, and several other career NASA scientists and public affairs officials had been interviewed by The New York Times in January 2006. In these interviews, they complained about “intensifying efforts by political appointees in NASA, including Deutsch, to control more closely” the content of their public statements.[5] Deutsch, speaking to the New York Times, gave his opinion that Hansen had exaggerated the threat of global warming. He denied lying to NASA about his college degree.[5]
- Comment on Is there any christian religions that don't believe in space? 6 months ago:
Like others have said, this is flat earther stuff. A lot of Christian evangelical types question things like the Big Bang and how old the universe/Earth really are, but afaik there isn’t an entire religion with this as a belief.
I used to work at a space museum and we would get Christan folks who would sometimes argue with us over the number that was shown on the sign telling them the age of our Moon rock, but never that the earth was flat. If that is a thing, it must be new.
- Comment on Would eating raw human brains make you high? 6 months ago:
Boofing 2: Brain Boogaloo
- Comment on How do you call someone born in the US besides "American"? 7 months ago:
Not necessarily - there’s also a MLB team with this name, so folks from different regions of the US may get pissed off/confused.
It just sounds weird to me personally, but I know it’s not an uncommon term in places like the UK/EU & I don’t take offense.
Depends on where the person using the term is from I guess?
- Comment on Have you ever had to retake a major course you already passed in order to understand the subject better? 7 months ago:
I had to retake a class twice because I had transferred schools/majors and something in the computer said that was the class I needed to be in at the time. I put this on the university.
Basically they put me in this class but I hadn’t had two of the pre-reqs. This was obviously a problem, so I had to drop it twice in order to take those because I didn’t know what in the hell was going on (engineering). I was getting the runaround from the office and basically nobody knew what I needed to do and the professor wasn’t the best in terms of communication.
So to answer your question, yes. I struggled a lot not knowing the basics.
- Comment on For those with larger phones, how do you handle them without grip accessories? 8 months ago:
Same. Sometimes while laying in bed my cat drapes herself across my arm, and it was impossible to use it with just one hand. I didn’t have the reach.
- Comment on 8 months ago:
Another vote for Refold here!