Lazylazycat
@Lazylazycat@lemmy.world
- Comment on So close! 2 months ago:
Yeah my parents have decided oil is the root of all evil and cook everything in water now lol. They love their soggy food.
- Comment on Drought conditions already hitting UK crop production, farmers say 2 months ago:
Ok, I see the angle you’re coming from but I disagree. I think it will be a slow, drawn out but painful decline.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Just existing as a woman or trans person isn’t political. No one ever says this about existing as a man.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Thanks for this, joined! :)
- Comment on Drought conditions already hitting UK crop production, farmers say 2 months ago:
I don’t think we can predict it because no scientist has been able to accurately give a timescale yet. I’ve been a buyer for 10 years and the frequency and scale of crop shortages has grown in that time, so based on that I believe the decline will happen in our lifetimes.
- Comment on Drought conditions already hitting UK crop production, farmers say 2 months ago:
None of us can predict that, but I import food for a living so I see us regularly losing out to EU countries who don’t have the same barriers to trade (e.g. The olive and sunflower shortages in the last couple of years that have made prices skyrocket here, but not in mainland Europe). It will be gradual, and we will suffer a painful decline long before other countries in mainland Europe (it’s already happening, but is only really noticeable to regular folks in terms of pricing at the moment).
It will be slow enough that we will see our country decline and suffer shortages whilst other countries are still prospering, and it will be in our lifetimes.
- Comment on Drought conditions already hitting UK crop production, farmers say 2 months ago:
As we get more and more crop shortages, the UK will be (because it already is) the last on the list of countries that other states in the EU want to export to, due to the additonal time and cost of exporting to us. When we’re facing food shortages around the world, the UK will suffer before others.
- Comment on Drought conditions already hitting UK crop production, farmers say 2 months ago:
It’s already happening, it will be gradual rather than instantaneous, and we will be the first to suffer.
- Comment on Drought conditions already hitting UK crop production, farmers say 2 months ago:
It makes us the least appealing country to export food to, when countries can sell to their neighbours more cheaply and quickly due to zero customs fees or procedures.
- Comment on Anyone? 2 months ago:
Compulsive skin picking. I wish I could stop, but I can’t.
- Comment on Anti-Trans Ruling in UK Strips Protections From Trans Women 3 months ago:
A dark day for us all, solidarity with anyone feeling more scared or unsafe after this ruling ❤️
- Comment on Why do we even do mens vs womens sizes for clothes? 4 months ago:
It isn’t about style. Women’s sizes (e.g. 8, 10, 12) originally came from codes based on the variations between hip, waist and bust measurements.
- Comment on Why do we even do mens vs womens sizes for clothes? 4 months ago:
Generally, women are going to have boobs and wider hips and men generally have bigger feet. Obviously there’s a massive spectrum of human body shapes, but this is the big differentiation.
If I wear my (male) partner’s t-shirts, they’re just straight with no space for boobs and they don’t come in at the waist. Same with trousers, there’s a massive pouch in the crotch, too narrow on my hips and to loose at the waist. People like to wear things that best fit their bodies.
- Comment on Why aren't there mass protests in the USA? 4 months ago:
Thanks, I’m not from the US so have only seen little snippets.
- Comment on Why aren't there mass protests in the USA? 4 months ago:
People need to be sharing info here and through other channels. Pictures, videos, links to organised groups.
- Comment on Redditors told me to go to the therapist but I can’t afford one nor pick one from thousands available. What now? 4 months ago:
Yeah you shouldn’t have to, none of us should have to face prejudice. But talking to someone could help you learn how to deal with difficult situations, or manage your emotional reaction when something bad happens (I’m not trying to invalidate how you feel, feeling rage is justified, but finding more productive outlets for anger can be really helpful, I’ve found this for myself personally), or they can just be someone you can vent all these thoughts to about wanting to burn them all to the ground. They could also help you consider other practical/logistical solutions to problems you’re facing.
- Comment on Redditors told me to go to the therapist but I can’t afford one nor pick one from thousands available. What now? 4 months ago:
Well that’s a really good starting place :) If you did want to try therapy, being able to go in saying “I have these issues and I need to learn how to cope them” then you’ve got something to work on.
It would be helpful to find a therapist who is a specialist in trans issues, and hopefully they can help you work through what you’re struggling with. They can help you reflect on why you feel a certain way, or why certain things make you feel uncomfortable or how to cope with everyday things you have to face from other people. Sorry if I’m making any assumptions about what you need, but hopefully you get the gist of what I’m saying.
- Comment on Redditors told me to go to the therapist but I can’t afford one nor pick one from thousands available. What now? 4 months ago:
I wouldn’t say it’s essential, more one option out of a whole bunch you could use to improve yourself (though we pay for many essential things like housing, water, food… Welcome to life as we know it).
Therapy isn’t going to “fix” anything. It’s a way of helping you reflect on yourself, see where your problems are, give you some perspective and start to see things differently. It can help you understand why you have certain behaviours and traits and work on unpicking them or unlearning them. But like I said, lots of other things can help you get there too, like meeting new people and having good chats, taking drugs that change your perspective, travelling, reading books. All of the above combined.
- Comment on Redditors told me to go to the therapist but I can’t afford one nor pick one from thousands available. What now? 4 months ago:
Therapy is one tool that can assist personal growth. You could also try reading into Stoicism or make friends you can talk to candidly or take some acid.
- Comment on Cause-effect was always a broken narrative. Twice-broken when you attach a pricetag. 4 months ago:
If you’d explained things more articulately to begin with it would have saved you a lot of time!
Ok, you’re not dismissing cause and effect as a whole (i.e. You believe if I pushed a domino over and it fell, I caused it to fall) but don’t believe cause and effect necessarily applies when the effect is the result of a transaction. There are often circumstances where multiple causes result in an effect. e.g. I hadn’t been sleeping well, hadn’t been eating properly and caught a cold, with the effect of failing an exam.
- Comment on Cause-effect was always a broken narrative. Twice-broken when you attach a pricetag. 4 months ago:
If you don’t want to engage in discourse, why even start a thread?
But ok, you think that events don’t happen because they’re instigated by something else. If I push a domino over, it falls. If I didn’t cause it, what do you think did?
- Comment on Cause-effect was always a broken narrative. Twice-broken when you attach a pricetag. 4 months ago:
Maybe expand on your point if you want some discussion, your statement doesn’t really make any sense.
- Comment on Our workless young: a scandal we cannot ignore 5 months ago:
Yeah, it has been at least since I was that age and I’m in my late 30s now. Basically, if you don’t have wealthy parents (or at the very least, parents you can share a house with), you’re fucked.
- Comment on Our workless young: a scandal we cannot ignore 5 months ago:
I mean, the current minimum wage for 18-21s is £8.60 an hour. I wouldn’t work for that either, it’s not like you could support yourself on that wage. If I had kids that age, obviously I’d want them to get an education but I also wouldn’t force them to work for a pittance.
- Comment on GoneWild was once about people feeling wild and posting pictures of it. Now it's just OnlyFans sale 5 months ago:
Actually, when GW was formed, one of the rules was that you HAD to include your face. Different times though, I’m glad that obviously isn’t the case now.