Restricting free speech and lining their pockets, while taking away from our children, veterans, and retirees has been their game since time immemorial.

The Fox “News” pipeline seems to make people forget that Grandma can’t get her medications anymore and Uncle Billy who served in Iraq is denied his education because of these pricks.

Careful, South Dakota can put you in prison for that now.

Limited mobility due to living in a city without a car -> maybe look at the correlation between car-centric city planning vs. pedestrian-centric + increased reliable public transport and satisfaction instead.

Ars Technica comment sections do not disappoint

My sleep is boooorked lately but I’m strangely okay with it. Maybe because it’s summer where I am.

Also I’ve been getting super into my modded 3DS lately to the point I’ve put down my switch, mostly for being able to make it do things like stream Portal 2 via Moonlight lol. (I’m always thinking “can it run DOOM?” But for Moonlight/Sunshine streaming, I may one day try it on the dryer). I also want to figure out Tailscale better so I can stream when I’m outside the house. I think it miiiight tie in to my Linux obsession, maybe. FOSS all day every day 😎

As always thanks for making an infodump-friendly space! It’s nice to have an outlet with like-minded folks.

Are you okay, friend?

The thing about Lemmy is there are different instances/(websites), each with different rules. I think there’s an ask community on .world as well if you’re not comfortable with this one.

All websites open to the clearnet are potentially vulnerable to DDoS and other attacks, that’s just part of being on the network and cybersecurity is a thing for a reason. Likewise you can get a sunburn or rained on when you go outside, which is why we have sunscreen and umbrellas.

I’ve been dealing with stress from living in this seemingly uncaring, all-seeing world too, if it helps you feel less alone. Best we can do is be there for each other as humans when we can in the meantime.

TL:DR; do what works for you and don’t judge others for their connection choices, either.

For about the last ~6mos Lemmy has been my only social media, and for about 2 years before that it was Reddit. I didn’t get off Facebook and Instagram to feel superior, I did it because my mental health was spiraling downward like a bent Slinky on old stairs. I was chronically online since my early teens, so it wasn’t an easy pull either.

I don’t judge my loved ones for still being on those sites because it works for them, and I get my pop culture from them so it’s a win-win for us.

I’m still an online weirdo since I’m here on Lemmy, and I still fill the rest of my screen time with tech projects and video games. I’m no better than my peers, just different hobbies on occasion.

Finding your balance takes time, and it won’t always look the same depending on where you are in life. That’s okay! We’re messy, complicated things and trying to be “perfect” only adds stress.

Don’t be afraid to experiment in the meantime to find what feels “right” for you in your gut and mental well-being. You got this 🌼

Come back at it in a different mood, time, setting, etc. and run it against multiple people who you know won’t just coddle you about it if you’re really concerned.

Part of human psychology is coping with the world around us, not just learning about it. Our individual natures, moods and pasts will always color our experiences and that’s not necessarily a bad thing; the sooner you accept it’s okay to be human, the more authentically you can work with the quirks that come with it.

I do know personally I can be prone to overthinking and getting fuzzier in my logic when I’m tired, hungry, or overwhelmed. I also know it’s fixable.

On the flip side, I also have a history of trusting/getting anxious about bigger picture things based on precedent rather than imagined ideas (new things don’t bother me, but having to face certain known patterns stresses me to a very bad point).

I factor both of these things in when I get to an almost-crisis point. But at the end of the day, the human perspective is like a prism in water: multifaceted, fluid, and dependent on environment but also sometimes beautiful. :)

Min. 3 hours a day just to not trigger my chronic migraines. More so a sensory than a social thing, but I run a much later schedule than most because of it.

I would have been a lawyer if I hated myself more lmao

Edit: also engineers/IT workers

It’s literally in the name, to harass “evangelize.”

Catholics already did the institutional takeovers and the crusades.

Still violent, still oppressive but not in the same, individual, in-your-face way that American Evangelicals are. May be partly bias but the latter freak me out way more than the former, especially where they take over politics so aggressively.

They think covering up the fact that the first brick was thrown by a black, bisexual trans woman is going to make history un-happen.

They’re still afraid. Use it.

“Drinks are only allowed in [insert room here] in screw-cap bottles, and caps must be used to close said bottles when not being actively drank from to prevent spills”

Would be pretty straightforward I think

If democrats are successful and get consistently elected, then that means they have to actually do something and run on a platform beyond “I’m not Republican” to not get primaried.

Establishment Dems hate success and progress. Progressives are doing good.

TL:DR; People are waiting until at least their 30s for marriage/kids because of high financial and cultural barriers.

Losing your job to have a kid doesn’t math - shocker /s

Can’t spell anarchy without arch 🏴

The cult of…origami?

This is why I pretty much make the bed on top of mine. She doesn’t want to move at first but she either gets annoyed or turns it into a game so it’s a win-win even if it takes about 15 mins when it should be 5.

Seeing peanut butter and fluff on a rice cake has quite possibly ruined my night

Every price gouging landlord should face prison time, and every blackrock/insert-housegrabbing-corpo-here board member doubly so.

Billionaires should have their excess wealth redistributed and any remainder meted out to a median quality of life yearly subsidy they earn by doing community service as a full time occupation as a means of parole.

Trickle-up parasites must be corrected into decent human beings if they wish to remain in society.