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- Comment on I am an American. I used to be proud of my country. Now it feels like a turd circling the drain. Is there anything going on behind the scene that America is actually doing good in? 2 months ago:
Is America fundamentally different today than in the past? Like others have pointed out, it’s not like we’ve got no skeletons in our collective past. Ask any indigenous person, a large percentage of black folk, or anyone who’s ever been considered “a foreigner.” The only major difference is that the same people who have always been assholes are feeling like they can operate out in the open.
But at the same time, the good that has always been true is still here. We’re a beautiful country, with so many ecosystems and climates, two beautiful oceans, amazing natural resources, and we’ve been pretty safe from wars due to our geography and having two pretty good neighbors.
Those being selfishly rich or power hungry have very loud voices these days instead of doing the same things while acting like so-called gentlemen, but they’re still a minority. Most people are just keeping their heads down and earning an honest living. Many are still doing great things like working on medicine, trying to repair our environment, raising and teaching our children, helping those in need, whatever you can name.
Maybe those that want to do evil in America want honest people to feel hopeless and to abandon holding on to what we have. That will leave it all to them after all. But I still love my home and my friends. I love our mountains, beaches, and wildlife. I love my America as much as ever, since I want this country to be the best it can be. But those who go around doing wrong in the name of this country, I want them to see justice more than ever too. We’ve survived the tyrants of America’s past for over 400 years, and one way or another, we can only move forward and hopefully learn from our mistakes.
We can be embarrassed or angry for how our country is being represented and managed, but barring a literal apocalypse, there’s still a ton of good left to find here between the land and the actual people who live here and cash this place home.
- Comment on What should we actually turn our aggression towards? 2 months ago:
Who let a sensible reply in here? 🤪
Before I got my depression treated, I was angry all the time, and like you said, it was physically and mentally taxing to be angry all the time.
I wish a lot of folks here would take the doomscrolling energy and devote it to some direct action. You will actually help those in need, work out a good chunk of your frustration, and you’ll meet awesome, like-minded people. Best thing I’ve ever done in my life.
- Comment on Sale of rat poisons could be restricted to protect Australian wildlife 2 months ago:
I saw this, and am very happy for the Australians that have bushed for this for so long and hope more and more places follow in kind!
A few weeks ago, I had shared some data from the US, where SGARs are fairly unregulated, and multiple studies show 80-100% of different raptor species that have been tested show some level of secondary poisoning.
For those not in the know, old rodent poison would metabolize in 1-4 weeks, and unless a bird was really unlucky, they wouldn’t likely get dangerous levels of poison from eating poisoned rodents. Modern poisons are much higher in toxicity, killing many rodents within hours of eating poisoned bait, making each rodent much more dangerous to hungry birds, and additionally it can take a year+ to break down in the body, so higher levels of poison are ingested each time and it accumulates in their bodies if the first dose doesn’t kill them as it is.
Poisoning is an ugly and painful way to die. Seeing these animals go through this is terrible for those of us that try and save them. These birds don’t reproduce in great numbers, they unknowingly eat these poisons themselves, and they bring them home to feed their nestlings. Raptors fill crucial roles in our environments, and they need to be protected.
- Comment on What Lemmy/Piefed communities are YOUR personal favourites? 3 months ago:
Make sure you see today’s Pygmy Owl with eyes in the back of its head!
- Comment on What Lemmy/Piefed communities are YOUR personal favourites? 3 months ago:
I also recommend this particular community! 😇
- Comment on I sometimes worry that most of my posts from lemmy.dbzer0.com have been sorta doomeristic. Does anyone have any good Lemmy communities that would act as palate cleansers? 3 months ago:
Thankfully the owls provide an endless stream of great content. I’m glad you all enjoy it so much.
- Comment on 3 months ago:
I don’t even know if I can say what it is, but Frieren justs hits differently than near anything else I can think of. It just yanks you from sweet and peaceful to dark and intense and back like it’s no thing.
The biggest thing I could say, is that by following Freiren’s perspective, you see what it would be like to be someone near immortal who sees that as normal, and how she starts to understand the timescale of humanity like we’re funny little mayflies with lifespans like a flash in the pan. But as she takes the time to actually get to know humans, she learns that our short lives give us a strengths that elves and demons will never be able to grasp.
It’s a slice of life and a fighting show in one. Characters and the world get really fleshed out, and they feel a lot more like real people. It’s a good balance been cute and fun and some killer battles or competitions. I’d think most people would get hooked right from the first episode, but it really gets to full awesomeness during Ep 3.
- Comment on An Intact 1,400-Year-Old Zapotec Tomb Discovered in Oaxaca 4 months ago:
The photos make it look like a movie set. It doesn’t look anywhere near 1400 years old. They must have been so excited to find a place like this.
- Comment on An Intact 1,400-Year-Old Zapotec Tomb Discovered in Oaxaca 4 months ago:
That is amazing! Can’t wait to get some more photos of that. Thank you so much for tagging me.
In the meanwhile, there’s someone here that may enjoy this even more than me!
@MisterNeon@lemmy.world
- Comment on we need more users 4 months ago:
I get bummed that the political stuff has really taken over. I find myself spending more and more time just working on my own content and answering people’s comments than browsing the other communities. It’s draining scrolling past so much stuff to find the fun bits, but I don’t want to just block it and not see how our platform is developing as a whole.
A lot of communities have rules that posts need to be titled the same as the source article, which, while it prevents editorializing, it also brings all those ragebait headlines here. Plus I’d like to see Lemmy users’ opinions moreso than an article I could just read myself. I’d probably prefer more of the political post to be thoughts/feelings and then discussion is backed up by decent articles rather than an article being the post and comments are just all steered back to a single, often inflammatory article.
If half our content is just reposted mainstream media, why would one expect our comment sections to look any different than the comment sections of those mainstream sites?
- Comment on Everything is awful because the people who went to business school figured out how to fuck us over as hard as possible. 5 months ago:
I was in college in the late 90s and remember being in Intro to Business. One of the exercises we had was something about looking at a list of applicants and choosing who to hire. The teacher had looked over everything and got disgusted and read a bunch of replies in front of the class. The answers were basically all about who seemed to be the most exploitable at the advantage of the fictional company, ie who would work overtime they didn’t want to but they had family to support, etc. He couldn’t believe that people were looking at business that heartlessly.
It really gave me a bit to think about, and I remember that more than anything else from that class, but it seems a lot of others really felt they were on to something, since that seems to be how things played out. Maybe my teacher was too idealistic or this was still just Reagan era economic policy kicking in, but it does feel like this is the kind of business world we’ve built since then.
