Triasha
@Triasha@lemmy.world
- Comment on What's it going to take to truly stop the US? 1 week ago:
World leaders are doing things. Europe has committed large sums of money to building out their defense industries, China has been building out it’s military capabilities for decades, Canada has used tarrifs to strategically punish the US for it’s tarrifs on Canadian goods and joined the European defense partnership, presumably to gain access to the aforementioned defense industry build out in Europe. Japan is increasing it’s military spending and moving to amend it’s constitution to remove the restrictions on military force.
Sanctions against the US like those on Iran are possible, but for a country as large and wealthy as the US with such a diversified economy, even if the entire world sanctioned the US it would plunge them into desperate poverty.
It would wreck the US economy, no doubt, but most world leaders are not willing to even suggest their people should endure that level of hardship over Nicolas Maduro. And the US would still have most of the world ability to project military power, so driving us into a corner like that would be incredibly dangerous.
Make no mistake, every world leader and especially every head of state in Latin America is considering the chance that delta Force could pull them out of bed at 3 AM, I imagine Sheinbaum in Mexico, Lula in Brazil, have a few new grey hairs and especially Cubas head of state is sweating bullets. They don’t have the power to prevent it.
I am personally reviewing my options for how to protest this action.
- Comment on I am so scared of nuclear war, how do I cope with it? 1 week ago:
Yeah, Israel was able to launch a shit ton of Missiles into Iran, and some of the Iranian Missiles hit Israel, even through the Iron dome, the tightest missile defense system in the world.
- Comment on If AI replaces workers, should it also pay taxes? 4 weeks ago:
AI. Is huge capital investments. Just tax the wealth. Any fortune over 10 million has to pay 4% of the gross total per year.
- Comment on It's quite impressive that most English speakers across the world understand each other, despite variations in accents/dialects 4 weeks ago:
That’s definitely where my mind goes.
- Comment on It's quite impressive that most English speakers across the world understand each other, despite variations in accents/dialects 4 weeks ago:
I thought it was native to wealthy families from Jersey/Virginia/Maryland. People that grew up in Martha’s vineyard.
- Comment on I dunno 1 month ago:
If you don’t remember pemdas, you can use the longer P.lease E.xcuse M.y D.ear A.unt S.ally.
- Comment on I dunno 1 month ago:
Pemdas, parenthesis first, for a total of 3. Then multiplication, 15, then addition. 17. What’s hard about this?
- Comment on Not to get all religous but was not Jesus pissed for people making money in churches? Didn't he flip tables and everything? Then how do churches nowadays explain the collection plate? 1 month ago:
If you think your church is doing good work, you give.
The church I grew up in closed for lack of funds. The preacher never lived large, they weren’t taking more than people wanted to give.
I would never give money to a mega church, but I have donated to UU churches as an adult.
- Comment on How are these ICE agents allowed to fire on protestors like this 2 months ago:
This is the answer. ICE is operating by the same rules the Ferguson police were during the 2014 riots, and the George Floyd protests in 2020. They can do whatever the my want up to and including break your door down in the middle of the night and shoot you while you sleep like they did to Breyonna Taylor.
- Comment on THE CRAZY PILLS 2 months ago:
The founders tried that and look where it got us.
I remind myself all the time that as mad as I may feel, as righteous and justified and endangered, that violence on the level that might change things will fuck up my life and the life of everyone I care about and a whole lot of people I don’t know but don’t deserve it. Are the Cubans better off after the cuban revolution? Maybe, hard to say. Were the Soviets better off after the Russian revolution? Again, hard to say. The French are better off today than they were before the French revolution, but they also got Napoleon right after that.
Things will get worse before they get better.
- Comment on The Great Software Quality Collapse: How We Normalized Catastrophe 3 months ago:
Getting 2 is generous sometimes.
- Comment on I can't find a single decent bedtime story online. 90% of the articles are AI slop. 3 months ago:
Nebula has some cozy bedtime stories at I’m pretty sure are not AI.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
The Constitution is clear, the house votes to impeach, the Senate votes to convict and needs a supermajority.
Nixon resigned because it was a done deal that he would be convicted. Trump remained and his party did a little jury nullification and voted not guilty regardless of the evidence.
The SC didn’t need to do anything to stop impeachment (and doesn’t have the legal authority to do anything about it regardless)
- Comment on How do I stop sleeping through everything? 3 months ago:
See a doctor and ask for a sleep study. You might have sleep apnea, or some other condition.
- Comment on Should you copy a person's accent when pronouncing their name? 3 months ago:
I grew up here, being white doesn’t mean it’s not my culture. I don’t know jack about Mexican cuisine, but Tex Mex is my culture.
- Comment on Should you copy a person's accent when pronouncing their name? 3 months ago:
I will attempt to say a person’s name how they say it. If they say “call me [simple anglicized name]” then I will do that.
Most people seem to appreciate the effort. I’m sure my American vocals butcher some pronouciations, but I don’t make a big deal out of it and my work gives me a lot of chances to practice. I will always make a good faith attempt at last names.
I live in Texas and will pronounce food names of Mexican origin with a Mexican accent. Burrito, taco, chalupa.
- Comment on Americans have 400 days to save their democracy 3 months ago:
In my county we get paid 35 dollars per day for jury duty.
- Comment on Americans have 400 days to save their democracy 3 months ago:
Blue wave in the midterms is just one sandbag in the wall that would need to be built to stop the flood of fascism.
- Comment on Americans have 400 days to save their democracy 3 months ago:
You get paid about 3.50 and hour in my state.
- Comment on 4 months ago:
At this point I doubt Jackboots, swasticas, or gas chambers would make a difference.
Take care of your loved ones.
- Comment on 4 months ago:
And if wishes were fishes there would be no room in the ocean for water.
You aren’t wrong, but “could” is doing some heavy lifting.
- Comment on 4 months ago:
Back during Trump’s first term I would hear people saying “this country is going to fall into civil war” and I told my friends “we are nowhere near a civil war.” Because the conditions were not there. It takes a huge buildup to move people to organized violence. You have to have thousands and in the US case millions or at least 100s of thousands of people willing to kill and die for a cause and we didn’t have that, and still don’t.
But the pandemic came and we saw half the country couldn’t be bothered to wear a mask or get a vaccine to protect their neighbors and the other half saw that outpouring of collective psychopathy and realized that their neighbors were willing to risk their lives and the lives of their family and community to “own the libs” and we moved a step closer.
But you can’t have a civil war like the 1800’s today, there aren’t bright geographical lines of loyalty. I predicted in the Biden administration that we would see a period of rising violence scattered across the country, like bleeding Kansas, but spread all over.
And that is exactly what we are seeing.
We still aren’t at the point where we could fall into civil war, but we are closer every year. Trump is doing his damndest to create the conditions.
I pray we never get that far. Civil wars are the worst short of full on genocide, and they make the big G a whole lot more likely.
- Comment on Gen Z are dipping into their retirements, skipping meals and selling their belongings just to get by, new reports find 4 months ago:
I’ve pulled loans from retirement twice, and thank God I was able to pay them back. I dunno what I will do without my widele 401k.
- Comment on OpenAI Says It's Scanning Users' ChatGPT Conversations and Reporting Content to the Police 4 months ago:
If nothing else the fall in birth rates world-wide will lead to political instability.
If they can maintain the infrastructure of wealth without workers they won’t care what people do, and if they can’t then the surveillance will collapse with the supply chains.
Either way there is an other side to this dark tunnel, not without suffering and death, but there is still hope for resistance to the new racism.
- Comment on 4 months ago:
Sharks aren’t fish. Humans and all other terrestrial mammals are.
Hank Green explained it.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 months ago:
Honestly, once I was on HRT for a while, just tuck everything away works even in a bikini. I have never done a proper tuck with a gaff because before HRT I used specific clothing styles that didn’t need it, and after it just hasn’t been necessary.
- Comment on A Tech Rule That Will ‘Future-Proof’ Your Kids 5 months ago:
Genz is 13 to 29 nowadays. Kids that age today are alpha.
Also kids that age in the photo unsupervised today can get their parents arrested.
- Comment on A Tech Rule That Will ‘Future-Proof’ Your Kids 5 months ago:
Absolutely.
- Comment on A Tech Rule That Will ‘Future-Proof’ Your Kids 5 months ago:
When you were growing up there were places you could go to be social without phones. Those don’t exist anymore. You can’t go to the mall and meet strangers, that would be weird and creepy. If you turn 21, bars do not have young people in them, they are for older people.
There is nowhere gen z people can go to meet other gen z people except online.
I know there is an exception somewhere but for the vast majority of young people today that’s the truth.
- Comment on A Tech Rule That Will ‘Future-Proof’ Your Kids 5 months ago:
Fox happened in the 90’s, boomers were fucking shit up as far back as Reagan.