Triasha
@Triasha@lemmy.world
- Comment on 3 days ago:
At this point I doubt Jackboots, swasticas, or gas chambers would make a difference.
Take care of your loved ones.
- Comment on 4 days 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 5 days 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 1 week 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 2 weeks 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 3 weeks ago:
Sharks aren’t fish. Humans and all other terrestrial mammals are.
Hank Green explained it.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 4 weeks ago:
Absolutely.
- Comment on A Tech Rule That Will ‘Future-Proof’ Your Kids 4 weeks 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 4 weeks ago:
Fox happened in the 90’s, boomers were fucking shit up as far back as Reagan.
- Comment on Would we be able to use the measles virus to reset the immune systems of people with autoimmune disorders like MS or rheumatoid arthritis? 5 weeks ago:
Not an expert but I am a patient.
Immune system reset is already a type of therapy for MS. Lemtrada and Mavenclad are two brand name drugs that work on this principle. You don’t take them for life. That’s good because they make you very ill, but after 2 rounds of treatment you can go years without needing any further therapy.
Could the measles virus work better than these drugs? Maybe, but all the reasons at the top of the comments present challenges.
- Comment on YSK: This recent war on adult content was mostly started by a single law in 2018, pushed by a few evangelical groups pretending to fight sexual exploitation 1 month ago:
Some of them wanted it out of government. The fundies of the day we’re willing to go along because their parents and grandparents were chased out of England for being wackados.
- Comment on YSK: This recent war on adult content was mostly started by a single law in 2018, pushed by a few evangelical groups pretending to fight sexual exploitation 1 month ago:
All of the practices in the book are inspired by real history.
- Comment on "Tea cup" app - user database leaked today (incl. drivers license & IDs). Daily reminder not to give your ID to online services [THEY DO NOT PROTECT YOUR INFORMATION] 1 month ago:
If someone doesn’t want to date you because of gossip they read online, then you dodged a bullet. The garbage took itself out.
Do you think X should be shut down because some users use it irresponsibly?
Reddit?
Lemmy?
- Comment on We wouldn’t need the Epstein files to prove DJT’s guilt if society just trusted women in the first place. 1 month ago:
It’s not about fairness for them. It’s just power.
- Comment on We wouldn’t need the Epstein files to prove DJT’s guilt if society just trusted women in the first place. 1 month ago:
Sigh.
- Comment on We wouldn’t need the Epstein files to prove DJT’s guilt if society just trusted women in the first place. 1 month ago:
Let them. Let them lie. They don’t care about truth, evidence, or justice. Why should we care what they lie about?
- Comment on President Trump: It's Not Doable for AI Companies to Pay for All Copyrighted Input * TorrentFreak 1 month ago:
“It’s not doable”
On that we agree.
- Comment on What would happen to the US if it denaturalised and deported all non-whites? 1 month ago:
Economic meltdown, most of the population has no one that would take them so they will end up either in camps in failed/failing countries or inside the US itself.
Also getting the white population to agree to do it would be a big lift. The majority would passively oppose and a minority would go full on underground railroad/insurgency.
Only a minority would be totally on board.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
I don’t see anything weird about this. Sounds like parenting.
- Comment on 32, f. Are there any dating sites that are actually free and don't suddenly force me to pay to actually use the site? 2 months ago:
I met my wife on OK cupid. 8 years ago though.
- Comment on Time to redraw America's borders in a way that finally makes sense. 2 months ago:
Separating Europe and Asia is just racism really.
- Comment on Time to redraw America's borders in a way that finally makes sense. 2 months ago:
Honestly a better convention.
- Comment on Time to redraw America's borders in a way that finally makes sense. 2 months ago:
Smuggling is what it will cause. I’ll risk dying in a hot truck.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
If you want to kill a whole lot of people, your police will suffer and eventually quit if you just have the execute people en mass. This happened to the Nazis and it’s the prime reason the gas chambers were constructed.
The police need to feel like they are doing the right thing.
- Comment on Operation Narnia: Iran’s nuclear scientists reportedly killed simultaneously using special weapon 2 months ago:
You have been playing too much rainbow six. There are no good guys in the halls of power looking after us.
There are only the rich fucks over here and the rich fucks over there pulling the levers of power.
- Comment on Operation Narnia: Iran’s nuclear scientists reportedly killed simultaneously using special weapon 2 months ago:
It’s the only rational course of action we have left for them. They would be insane not to try. I don’t know if they will succeed. Mosad seems all powerful, but they will certainly try.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
It’s terrifying in many ways.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Millennial, briefly experienced a life with limited access to information.
You are capable of more than you think. You wrote phone numbers down and memorized your own. You memorized the ones you used regularly. I had 7-8 friends and family numbers memorized.
You also only needed one phone number per household.
When you needed to know something like how to fix a car or replace a light bulb you asked someone. Often An uncle, aunt, or cousin. If nobody in your friends/family group knew, you went to the library.
Yellow pages and magazines and instruction manuals were constantly floating around with information. I never felt deprived of curiosity. I read a lot.