andros_rex
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- Comment on Michigan GOP Lawmakers Propose Total Ban on Porn 9 hours ago:
Eight states have ID verification laws.
Oklahoma has tried several times to make viewing porn a felony.
Everyone laughing this off as impossible is not taking this seriously enough.
- Comment on Anti-Trans Rhetoric is a form of Violence Given High Rates of Trans Suicides 2 days ago:
I got my dream job offer rescinded two weeks ago BECAUSE I AM TRANS.
I have experienced sexual violence BECAUSE I AM TRANS.
I am terrified of being pulled over by a cop and institutionalized or incarcerated because the government says that my license is wrong now.
The problem is not my mental state. The problem is the discrimination.
- Comment on Give a lil, get a lil 5 days ago:
There have always been /leftypol/ threads.
Also, it’s anonymous and anyone can post. You can go there right now.
- Comment on Ditto 1 week ago:
- Comment on Like a heart 1 week ago:
There’s variation between people on how much they menstruate. Some people have very light flows, some people have very heavy flows. It also changes a bit over the course of the period - you might start out with a lighter flow, have a heavier flow in the middle, and then end with a lighter flow. You generally want to go with the lightest one you can for comfort reasons.
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- Comment on YSK that hand sewing is a stupid cheap hobby to get into and reduces your impact on the environment 1 week ago:
I paid about $2 for this stack of 10 t-shirts. (Avoid goodwill, go to the mom and pop places). None of these shirts were ever going to be used again. No one wants the t-shirt of a random church or police department, or a stained white t-shirt, or a high school football team.
Instead of buying fabric - buying something new which would encourage a retailer to buy something to replace it - I am repurposing these shirts into yarn (which I knit into rugs), patches for other clothing (which would otherwise need to be thrown away), reusable bags, or scrap quilts (which will mean that I can keep my thermostat lower in the winter).
These shirts are the kinds of things that would otherwise end up as textile waste, a pile of useless clothing in Ghana. “Reuse” in the second R in importance in “reduce, reuse, recycle.”
I think also that the ability to repair clothes instead of throwing them away is a huge part of the equation. I had an ex that would throw clothes away for missing a button. That is not particularly uncommon.
- Comment on YSK that hand sewing is a stupid cheap hobby to get into and reduces your impact on the environment 2 weeks ago:
You can cut decals out of t-shirts and use them for appliqué!
- Comment on YSK that hand sewing is a stupid cheap hobby to get into and reduces your impact on the environment 2 weeks ago:
There are, but if you get the little plastic thing of assorted needles you’ll be fine. Maybe $1 from Walmart.
I’d grab black cotton thread to start out with. For mending, it’s usually either about hiding your stitches so they aren’t seen at all, and it doesn’t matter, or picking something that matches what you’re fixing.
The thread that comes with kits is usually crappy polyester that will break if you look at it funny - it’s only really useful for “basting” (sewing something together temporarily to hold it in place while you do the more permanent sewing.) The other things in kits (pins, seam rippers, tiny scissors) are usually okay though.
Fixing buttons is a good project to practice on IMHO. Lots of clothes hide an extra button somewhere on a tag inside, but you can also get a nice plastic jar of mixed buttons at the dollar store usually.
Really, don’t overthink it. Even ugly stitches will hold stuff together if you put enough of them on.
- Comment on YSK that hand sewing is a stupid cheap hobby to get into and reduces your impact on the environment 2 weeks ago:
Turning the gusset is actual witchcraft. I’ve made a cardigan, but never a sock.
- Comment on YSK that hand sewing is a stupid cheap hobby to get into and reduces your impact on the environment 2 weeks ago:
A good trick is to thrift “by touch” - feeling for cotton or heavier materials. There are a lot of quality cotton XXL blood drive/college or work event t-shirts that no one will ever want. I’ve volunteered doing some sorting through donations for a homeless shelter before, and they weren’t lacking for those at all. It was more a lack of dress pants for job interviews that were needed.
Resellers are usually going for names and not necessarily quality from what I’ve noticed.
- Submitted 2 weeks ago to youshouldknow@lemmy.world | 108 comments
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
988 = 911
- Comment on Teen killed himself after ‘months of encouragement from ChatGPT’, lawsuit claims 2 weeks ago:
The real issue is that mental health in the United States is an absolute fucking shitshow.
988 is a bandaid. It’s an attempt to pretend someone is doing anything. Really a front for 911.
Even when I had insurance, it was hundreds a month to see a therapist. Most therapists are also trained on CBT and CBT only because it’s a symptoms focused approach that gets you “well” enough to work.
There really are so few options for help.
- Comment on paz 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, I can’t be friends with people who vote for people who don’t want me to exist.
- Comment on Trump is building ‘one interface to rule them all.’ It’s terrifying. 3 weeks ago:
Revelation 13:16-17
You’d think the crowd that avoided barcodes at grocery stores and had meltdowns over “microchips” supposedly in the COVID vaccine would be foaming over this.
- Comment on 4chan refuses to pay UK Online Safety Act fines, asks Trump admin to intervene 3 weeks ago:
They do pedo AI threads.
- Comment on 4chan refuses to pay UK Online Safety Act fines, asks Trump admin to intervene 3 weeks ago:
4chan has been mostly dead as a place of creativity for years. /b/ is mostly creepshots, AI generated porn, and a guy who has been spamming a picture inviting you to eat Andy Sixx’s shit for like 5 years now. /pol/ is basically Stormfront lite.
/lit/ and /mu/ were some of the best parts of 4chan but are shells of their former selves, some of the sfw boards sometimes have things of value but it’s time to move on.
- Submitted 3 weeks ago to history@lemmy.world | 0 comments
- Comment on Bethesda's re-releases and remasters are getting outta control. 3 weeks ago:
I have zero interest in them remastering the older games. I 100% do not want an unreal engine Morrowind remaster. I want Morrowind to be a buggy exploitable mess where I can buff my intelligence and speed into 5 digit numbers.
- Comment on Bethesda's re-releases and remasters are getting outta control. 3 weeks ago:
The Onion started publishing in 1988, and was online by 1996.
Landover Baptist has been on the net since 1998. I stumbled on it as kid, back when the family computer was for playing Neopets.
There’s been an increase in satire websites for sure, largely driven by the popularity of the Onion, and it does cause problems. There are conservative outlets which 100% put out complete and utter bullshit under the guise of “satire,” knowing that their audience has the gullibility of a five year old, and that’ll end up on garbage Facebook pages as unironic.
It’s not “conspiracy” but more - the Onion is very popular, popular things get knock offs, and opportunists saw a way to inject lies into the public discourse, while claiming they’re “satire.” (Similar to how CinemaSins on YouTube uses the term, “we were wrong about a basic thing in the movie? psych! the jokes on you for taking it seriously!)
I really miss that brief time that the Babylon Bee was good.
- Comment on Anyone remember this famous press conference and how it ended? 3 weeks ago:
Warmlines are usually a better alternative.
They’re not as well funded as 988, sometimes it’s hard to get someone on the other line. Which sucks. But when it comes to suicidality, the system is very deeply fucked. If you say the wrong thing, you can end up in a mandatory hold and sent out in much worse shape than you were.
This is a problem that needs to be recognized by mental health care professionals and policy makers, but is not, because it’s assumed that if you experience a mental health crisis you can not be trusted to understand what is happening. There’s an assumption that being suicidal = being insane, thus meaning that you are a voice that does not need to be listened to.
- Comment on Anyone remember this famous press conference and how it ended? 3 weeks ago:
Depending on where you live, all 988 does is forward your information to the police. When I’ve called it, basically a bunch of questions to try to get you to trip that line, then nothing but “I’m sorry to hear that :(“
There’s no requirement that the volunteer have clinical experience. I’ve heard horror stories of people being hung up or mocked. The company that runs it (and subcontracts it to several companies that they hide, it can be very difficult to figure out who is actually taking your call) is opaque and does not listen to complaints.
988 is mostly a fancy ad campaign.
- Comment on Has cancel culture gone too far? 4 weeks ago:
I checked out Naked Lunch from my high schools library when I was a junior. Read the entire thing. Not big on controlling what kids read, but someone probably should have said something…
- Comment on Has cancel culture gone too far? 4 weeks ago:
My favorite version is from a book with a talking gorilla. Although if you prefer talking asses, you can find it in another book too.
- Comment on Has cancel culture gone too far? 4 weeks ago:
Even God didn’t want people to cancel him, anyone who sent him to the Afterlife would get avenged sevenfold. Weird that he was concerned when he had just killed the only other living person on earth other than his parents. It must have been a Nightmare knowing that he wouldn’t get A Little Piece of Heaven. Perhaps if he hadn’t made that Unholy Confession, God wouldn’t have noticed and he wouldn’t have ended up in Bat Country.
- Comment on Has cancel culture gone too far? 4 weeks ago:
It’s “do not interact.” It’s really common on tumblr. Sometimes it’s reasonable “this is a porn blog, DNI if you are a minor” but sometimes it’s a comedically long list of political positions that they want you to agree with.
- Submitted 4 weeks ago to [deleted] | 43 comments
- Comment on playlist for one of those days 4 weeks ago:
Dead Nazi by the Side of the Road
It’s uhhh, rather graphic and gruesome. Don’t listen in a place where someone will mind necrophilic beastiality.
- Comment on Honor student truth 4 weeks ago:
Yeah, I “put myself there” because I got fired from gig work for being a tranny and needed to eat. The dudes who pressured me not to use condoms or fucking stealthed me were just normal guys.
Eat a bag of dicks.
