WeirdGoesPro
@WeirdGoesPro@lemmy.dbzer0.com
- Comment on Does anyone use a phone without a protective case? 4 days ago:
I never use a case for my phone, and have broken them only twice, which is a better success rate than most people I know. I wouldn’t buy a sports car and cover it up to drive it, so why would I cover my expensive phone to use it? I do get AppleCare though, so I’m not out a full 1k if disaster strikes.
- Comment on Ukraine peace talks: What are Kyiv and Moscow's positions? 5 days ago:
They both have the same position: they want full control of Ukraine.
- Comment on The real one 1 week ago:
Minus 5 points for having the wrong World Trade Center in frame. Plus 69 points for big swangin’ Bills.
- Comment on No looky for you! 1 week ago:
Yeah, the bargain bin whirlpool my apartment grudgingly provides does not perform the same. Convincing them to shell out $800 or even to let me do so would be like convincing DOGE to fund universal healthcare—impossible.
- Comment on Lara Croft games are the nightmare of any real archaeologist, biologist and paleontologist. 1 week ago:
And the asterisk is for what reason, exactly?
- Comment on Eh girl check out my first pressing of Agalloch's The Mantle 2 weeks ago:
TRIPLE SIX FIVE FORKED TONGUE!
- Comment on Don't do Caffeine and Complex Analysis, kids 2 weeks ago:
I would like to offer myself as the spider in that experiment.
- Comment on Comfy cozy 2 weeks ago:
Your information comes from the news, my information comes from personal experience of crossing the border several times per week and seeing it with my own eyes. Which one of us has the primary source?
- Comment on Comfy cozy 2 weeks ago:
I never said the word victim, but since you brought it up, 50% of the US are victims to this. A large number of us were actively fighting against this outcome and lost. We have been deciding what to do next, and many educated people are in the process of leaving the country. Those without that ability are stuck to suffer under the current conditions.
- Comment on Comfy cozy 2 weeks ago:
I’m not even going to address the first and third points because we simply disagree, but you missed what I was describing about the border.
It isn’t more secure, it is less efficient. They aren’t doing a more thorough check, they are checking exactly the same documents twice, and the first time they aren’t even scanning them to see if they are legitimate. They simply stop you and look at them which creates a bottleneck in the line and creates understaffing at the real checkpoint two minutes further down the walkway.
This understaffing has actually caused them to not have enough people in the checkpoint building to man the x-ray machines, so it is arguably less secure than it was before. If I cross at night now, I no longer even get my bag scanned, which used to be standard procedure during the previous administration.
- Comment on Comfy cozy 2 weeks ago:
Not the person you asked, but I have answers.
A friend of mine depends on government assistance to get his psych meds because he is very very crazy, but has been doing well for a decade as long as he gets his pills. The unstable rollout of DOGE created a temporary situation where it seemed like his meds would no longer be paid for, and the stress of it drove him into a delusional episode. That episode cost him his job, which cost him his housing, which has nearly destroyed his life in a matter of months. All that due to piss poor communication and giving huge power to a billionaire who has never worked in government before so he can take a chainsaw to any program he wants—a decision that even the administration seems to realize now was a terrible idea.
I live on the border. I used to be able to cross from Mexico to the US in under 15 minutes on the average day. Customs was well staffed, and the process was orderly. Very soon after Trump was elected, they started spreading out the border patrol staff to have a bunch of them stand directly at the border line and check for passports and/or immigration documents—exactly the same documents they will check for 2 minutes later at customs anyway. This has led to understaffing at the actual customs checkpoint, and now it takes around an hour a lot of the time.
One of my best friends is a trans woman, and now her identity isn’t even acknowledged by the President of the United States—a disrespect towards a citizen that should be unacceptable in a democracy.
I can keep going if you like…
- Comment on Comfy cozy 2 weeks ago:
Username checks out.
- Comment on Comfy cozy 2 weeks ago:
Definitely, but it takes a while to chop through a thick rope like that. If we sink too fast, a lot of other countries are screwed.
- Comment on Most people on the internet are not my people. 2 weeks ago:
Cats are usually cool to me. Strangers too. It’s people you think you know well who can really fuck you up.
- Comment on Comfy cozy 2 weeks ago:
It’s been less than 1/8th of a year. We have 7 more of these and some change to go. Saying it’s not the worst place to live right now is like noticing a little bit of gangrene on your pinkie and thinking “it’s not so bad.”
- Comment on Comfy cozy 2 weeks ago:
There is a rope tied between our currency and the rest of the western world’s ankle. Laughing at our drowning nation is ignoring that you’re running out of rope.
- Comment on Comfy cozy 2 weeks ago:
Like…even right now?
- Comment on What has he seen?? 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Shrimpposters begone! 2 weeks ago:
We will sell no wine before it’s time.
- Comment on It's bad man 2 weeks ago:
How about any 25 year olds who are desperate for a quick buck? /s
- Comment on It's bad man 2 weeks ago:
Do you know a willing 25 year old?
- Comment on It's bad man 2 weeks ago:
I’d literally suck the youth out of 25 year olds like a vampire to be 25 again.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
In my opinion, addiction is a relationship. Sometimes it’s hot, sometimes it’s comfortable, sometimes it’s a nightmare. It all depends on the combination of influences involved.
So, yes, moderation works as long as circumstances allow for it. Depending on the addiction, the bad times can still be pretty manageable. Or not.
In the words of William S. Burroughs, there’s nothing recreational about heroin.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Is it that I’ve never run across you before, or that I’ve never liked it? You’ll never know.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Hi Mr. Shankles, nice to see you again.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Not gonna sugar coat it, you need therapy, bad. Punishing yourself for something that happened when you were 6 is not normal or healthy. You wouldn’t punish another 6 year old today like that, so why do it to your inner child?
I wish you the best and hope you find peace, but get off the internet and go to a professional as soon as possible.
- Comment on In the U.S., are all voting booth areas required to have carbon monoxide detectors? 3 weeks ago:
Basically, yes. Voting happens in churches, schools, and government buildings, which all have standard safety detectors. Furthermore, the fact voting is distributed across so many different kinds of locations means that it would be much harder for there to be a conspiracy to place faulty detectors in polling places.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
I’d say I generally lean the same way, and I consider myself bi.
- Comment on A VPN Company Canceled All Lifetime Subscriptions, Claiming It Didn’t Know About Them 3 weeks ago:
What’s wrong with hookers and coke?
- Comment on Working retail can be embarrassing 3 weeks ago:
Yes, it’s so embarrassing to have an MD and get paid hundreds of thousands of dollars while only working a 9-5 schedule. Gastroenterologists have it hard. /s
