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  • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.worldtoWorld News@lemmy.world•Study Shows Trump's Tightened Embargo on Cuba 'Has Killed a Lot of Babies' | Common DreamsEnglish
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    1 day ago

    That sounds exactly like what I’d expect from him. And I’m guessing the reason he did nothing is because it would involve effort and empathy from him.

    Being alive in this time period makes me want to take a Bic pen, and just…violently jam it into my eye socket, until the tip punctures my brain. Then just swirl it around for a bit until I lose all senses and ability to process thoughts. Or I might die. At this point in the timeline, that’s fine. I really don’t have the mental strength to deal with 20 years of fascism. Because I know eventually the fascism will end. But it won’t be a quick thing. And that means I’ll be into my 60s as the country regains it’s ability to not be a massive dumpster fire. Which some would argue we always have been.

    So to all of the young people reading this…I want you to know that it’s easy to just accept things as they are, as they always have been as just being how things work. When I was a kid/teenager, every year my dad got a free turkey from his work at Thanksgiving. Big 50lbs turkeys. Company with over 2000 employees. Every single employee got a turkey. So growing up, I thought that’s what adulthood was. New Years day is Jan 1st, Last day of the year is Dec 31st. You work for 8 hours a day Monday-Friday, and get the weekend off. Oh, and at Thanksgiving you get a turkey, and in December you get a bonus based on how long you’ve been with the company. This was just what all adults had. Except then I find out as an adult, no, that’s NOT normal. My dad had amazing Christmas’s, and he would give the turkey to his mother to feed a thanksgiving meal of about 20 people. Thats how big this bird was. And there were leftovers. I thought it was normal and everyones parents had this.

    So I know it’s easy to accept things as normal, because it’s the only way you’ve ever been raised in. So I want you to know, THIS is not normal. The idea of a secret police running around the country kidnapping legal citizens in unmarked cars is NOT FUCKING NORMAL!!! If you feel angry at these things, THAT ACTUALLY IS NORMAL. I would argue that if you read the news, and see what’s going on in this country, the healthy reaction IS anger. Everything with ICE. Everything I’m reading regarding the FCC shutting down broadcast television. Everything regarding the CONSTANT tracking and monitoring of your every move. None of this is normal. We are at a point where it’s OK to cheer the assassins, because they’re the ones standing up to tyranny and injustice. So yes, I applaud Luigi. I applaud the would be trump assassins.

    And if you need a frame of reference, there was once a guy who tried planting a bomb in the same bunker as Hitler. The plan would have worked, except last minute unknown to anyone they changed the meeting room. The old meeting room had concrete walls. Meaning the blast from the explosion would be mostly self contained, and the blast becomes more powerful inside that room. They changed the meeting to a log cabin with windows. This is important because the wood absorbed a great deal of the explosion. As well as the windows blowing out, and the bomb is no longer self contained. Now outside is part of the blast radius. So Hitler survived. But we don’t look back at the assassin as some evil person. He was trying to do the right thing. This is where we are.

    So I need you to understand, no matter how used to it you are, NONE of this past 10 years has been normal, and I really wish you could have grown up experiencing a normal world without orange faced pedophile rapist terrorists being a constant presence in our daily lives. I miss when politics were boring.

  • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.worldtoRetroGaming@lemmy.world•I Bought a “Junk” PSP From Japan: Here’s How It WentEnglish
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    2 days ago

    …I feel sad. I never had a PSP. To me, the PSP feels like “That new Sony handheld”. Then I hear it was released like 25 years ago, and that can’t be true.

    So I go look in the mirror, and expect to see my own young babyface. You know people are always saying I look way younger than I am. Constantly getting carded to buy alcohol…they always think I’m 15!

    But as I look in the mirror, I no longer see the youthful face that would get carded. Instead the old man in the mirror looks more like my father…if my father had any balls to grow his hair out like a rockstar. But still…it has gone grey. The hairline a slight bit receeded.

    This can’t be MY face! Who is this stranger? And then I remember. Years spent wasting my time in a relationship that didn’t love me. Years spent in a house filled with rats which I didn’t have the authority to exterminate. Years dealing with cancer from living in a rat infested hellhole. Somewhere in all that covid was a thing until it wasn’t.

    And now, this face looks back at me, still thinking of the PSP as new, and I only have one question…

    “What the hell is a Vita???”

  • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.worldtoTechnology@lemmy.world•I Bought Friendster for $30k — Here’s What I’m Doing With ItEnglish
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    3 days ago

    About 10 years ago there was an ASL search greasemonkey script as a browser extention.

    Funny thing about that is, it was made by a gay guy who disabled the ability to search for women. And when people asked him about it, he said some things that I will not repeat here, but just know it was like if toxic masculenity also took on the form of abusive and hateful commentary.

    Within a week somebody released an alternate version of that script with modified code that let you search for anyone. And as Fetlife is a very all inclusive site, the revised script also had options for numerous variations of trans. Basically every gender identity you can think of was included in the updated script.

    Fetlife couldn’t control use of the script, but they could detect it. Which they then banned users for using it. Since that time the script no longer works. Fetlife did something behind the scenes to disable it.

  • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.worldtoTechnology@lemmy.world•I Bought Friendster for $30k — Here’s What I’m Doing With ItEnglish
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    3 days ago

    It reminds me of Fetlife.

    If you’ve never heard of Fetlife, it’s a fetish social network. At least that’s what it markets itself as. In reality, everyone on fetlife knows what it is.

    It’s a fetish dating site. And also a fetish hookup site.

    But the thing is, lets say I’m a male between the ages of 18 and 65. And I want to find a woman, in my city, who is single, and into monogamy…and also a whole list of fucked up fetishes. Don’t worry, these women would ALSO list these fetishes as interests so it’s consentual.

    As a fetlife user you can’t do that. You can’t search by gender. You can’t filter by age. You CAN see who’s available by city, but you literally get EVERYBODY in that city. It’s more like getting a whole phone book, rather than a filtered search list.

    So it just ends up being way harder to use than it should be. They claim it’s to “protect women”, but that’s bullshit. Women are not these defenseless creatures who need you to break your whole search system to shield them from the world. Also, there’s an easy fix for that. You add search opt out in your own personal settings. They already have the ability to limit who can message you, it would not be hard to add a checkbox that says “remove my profile from search”.

    I’d be good with that. I just want to search women in my area, who share my interests, are single and monogamous, and want to be messaged. The system they have makes that SUUUUUUPER hard.